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March 28th 2008 Yeahhh Friday!!
Mar 28, 2008 | 10:24 AM PST

Today is Friday and I am feeling alot better!!   Just have a slight cough from sinus yuck you didn't need that much info I'm sure LOL but being as how I am a singer it is important LOL I need to practice my songs  I am singing tonight usually 3 or 4 will get me through doing some country swing and also some bluegrass country yes I can twang with the best of them. We have to go the American Legion early as I have some older friends who don't stay for the karaoke so I go in early just to talk with them. Older people have so much to offer and are so overlooked. I love to sing the old songs for them, I do a pretty mean Carole King One Fine Day!!!

 I went downstairs and checked my potted up plants and the C.Alba has some growth starting but the c.purple is still not showing any signs hope they start showing some life here soon... I got some adlumia fungosa seed aka fumitory vine seeds thank you so much you know who you are but it will take 2 years before I see any action out of that beautiful vine.. but I have patience when it comes to vines and plants just not with my every day life.

It rained last night, then snowed, then drizzled then snowed again we still have snow on the ground right now so I couldn't go out yesterday to plant my fumitory seeds around the base of my maple tree in the backyard!!  but I will on saturday as they need cold to germinate and yep I can do that here in Indiana..I have crocus up and blooming and the daffodils are showing their little green heads!! Not long now, Spring will pop fast up here.

Next saturday we are doing the nasty!!!  Yup Changing the kitchen sink completely!! had you going didn't I hehehe!  it needs to be done NOW so will get the son in law and grandson and my husband and let'em go to town on it. has to be completely ripped out and replumbed.. so wish us luck!!

talk later got to go sing tonight!

hugs

Carol

 

March 25th My First Day Of Spring!!
Mar 25, 2008 | 6:22 PM PST

I got up this morning feeling blahhh! Joints hurting, and needed my fix of Coffee. So I went to the kitchen sink to get water and what do you think I saw, hopping around on the ground ?? Nope not a bunny rabbit!!  I saw Two Robins just acting like it was spring!!   My day got better when I saw that, cause it means

Robins =s - Spring here in Indiana. So I wanted to tell the world of my discovery but I could not. I was grounded. NO INTERNET.

 I could not connect to the internet with AOL or DSL. So what canya do besides call those Techy people.. were pretty computer efficient here in our house. I have helped to rebuild and refurbish computers we actually built the one I use right now but we were stuck!!!  So got out the phone bill looked up Internet services and they helped us to get connected to our server but we only use that for my husbands computer game. But the answer was that Internet Explorer had crashed. We had to go through Bio's and connection settings and it took along time to get that back. So now we had to get AOL as our direct homepage back. I use that for everything and it would not connect at all. So with AOL Techy's after 4 and 1/2 hours we are finally back in the saddle again and posting and trading and emailing.. That just added to my frustration of having the flu and also my daughter has it too. I am feeling better today but she is still feeling a bit rough around the gills but hopefully she will feel better tomorrow...maybe the Robins will come back?

Also a much added surprise!! a pure Bluebird at my feeder!! I know!!!  I am so excited the first one I have ever seen in my life!!  Maybe it will come back?   Hope so!!!

Got some seedlings coming up so the day was not all bad!!

hugs and blessings to all

Carol

Potting up and getting Dirty!!
Mar 18, 2008 | 2:52 PM PST

Hey Everybody don't you just love that feeling ?  Your hands in the dirt and planting your most

desired seed that you traded for or bought!!  Well my goal was to grow Clitoria's this year and

I will be doing just that. Thanks to folks on here and other lists and also I had to pay actual

big bucks for some seeds too.. So I soaked them and me and Casey planted them today  had to

buy some bamboo poles 4 in each pot then we tied them off at the top now just waiting for

something good to happen!!  Planted some Milkweed seeds the upright kinds the red the yellow

and the mixed kinds a very nice person sent them to me and Casey.. I had been searching for this

vine and found it and then the lady who was sending it to me had to move to another state.. So I can't get

my vine seeds it was for the Adlumia fungosa

Common Name: Allegheny Fleece Vine or Climbing Fumitory or Climbing Bleeding Hearts Vine.

Oh how sad I was when I heard that news today. I posted everywhere so we shall see!!

I saw this in a catalog now I am drooling the  Egret Flower-Habenaria radiata

the flowers really look like white birds in flight!!

And the mouse plant - arisarum proboscideum .

So if anyone grows this you know what to do LOL

 

thanks
Carol

Vine Lovers Unite and Let's Talk Vines
Mar 6, 2008 | 6:42 PM PST
Tag: vines

Now what do I do. I wanted to get a Vine section going on here as I love vines because as a Disabled person and also having a mentally challenged daughter with joint problems and learning problems they are just so darn easy to grow. You can fit them anywhere, in the little corner of the yard where nothiing grows. Or you can put them in a container of anything buckets, barrels, baskets, and even old coffee cans!!  I have alot of Morning glories I start on my chain link fencing, I have Wisteria on a huge Pergola my husband built just for me and you can even sit under it.

I have Perennial vines, annual vines, tropical vines, hard to find vines and one day I will be the Climbing Milkweed Queen of Indiana there thats my goal in life LOL. Now if  you love vines of any kind just let me know I guess.

This is new for me too!

hugs and blessings in your gardens!

Carol