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Growit
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| | Posted on Thursday, January 03, 2008 - 04:23 pm EST : |   |
Seil your feeder and tree are beautiful!
Growit
- Hampshire,
Zone "8/9"
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Gardenbug
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| | Posted on Thursday, January 03, 2008 - 04:24 pm EST : | |
Rod Serling checking in here....
Most of my wishes came true...and more. The trip to DD's for Christmas, hugging the two grandsons and goofing with DD and DSIL were perfect.
Having an unexpected litter of puppies, one of which will be ours, is a real delight! Two litters failed before this one materialized.
Today we fly home, so we'll see how the kitties and plants are doing soon. BUT I'll miss the little guys so much!!!
Gardenbug
- Ontario,
Zone "4/5"
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Heirloomgardens
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| | Posted on Thursday, January 03, 2008 - 04:32 pm EST : | |
Hahaha! You are too smart. No wonder you haven't tripped up and joined the [OoGBoO].
Heirloomgardens
- Massachusetts,
Zone "5b"
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Heirloomgardens
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| | Posted on Thursday, January 03, 2008 - 04:56 pm EST : | |
Ready or not...
Heirloomgardens
- Massachusetts,
Zone "5b"
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Growit
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| | Posted on Thursday, January 03, 2008 - 05:15 pm EST : | |
EEUUUGGHH!!! How disgustingly, supperatingly sore does that look?! Lovely! Looks more like severe burns than plant damage. So glad we don't have PI here. Does it hurt when it is like that DJ or is it just itchingly, uncomfortable?
Gardenbug it sounds like such a bitter sweet choice for you. How far away from you does your daughter live and when do you get the puppy?
PS who is Rod Serling?
Growit
- Hampshire,
Zone "8/9"
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Heirloomgardens
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| | Posted on Thursday, January 03, 2008 - 06:07 pm EST : | |
Yes. LOL! The second pic was taken about 1 week after the first. I'm not sure how long I'd had it when I took the first pic. So, as you can see, it gets worse before it gets better. In scene one, it is deathly itchy and oozy. I slept with a paper towel on my arm, changing it every 15 minutes as it would become so sopping wet that the dripping and trickling would awaken me. In scene two, you have the cracking, stretching, and aching. My husband and I both thought it looked like a burn, and it's a miracle to me that I do not have any scars from it. It was horrid.
He's the one who created The Twilight Zone.
Heirloomgardens
- Massachusetts,
Zone "5b"
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Seil
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| | Posted on Thursday, January 03, 2008 - 07:50 pm EST : | |
DJ, I am an [0oGBo0} after all. You can't expect too much from me. Thanks, the night pics are so much easier with my new camera. It has a night mode so I can take pictures with out the flash which makes them look much more natural. I should use a tripod when I do them but if I'm really good and hold my breath I can get one that isn't too blurry.
Eeeew ick, those are disgusting pictures, DJ. I've never had PI (knock wood three times here) and hope I never get it either.
Sounds like you had a wonderful Christmas, Gardenbug. Post a pic of the new puppy when it comes.
Thanks, Moira, credit for the tree lights has to go to my brother.
Seil
- Michigan,
Zone "6"
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Loretta
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| | Posted on Thursday, January 03, 2008 - 10:18 pm EST : | |
Sharon, the feeder looks great! I really like it.
OMG DJ! That looks like torture! You look like one of those pictures on Google when I try to figure out what kind of rash my kid has. Did you take any medication for that?
Loretta
- NJ,
Zone "6"
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Heirloomgardens
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| | Posted on Friday, January 04, 2008 - 08:12 am EST : | |
Cool! Is that the Fuji FinePix listed on your profile page?
Sounds like what I do, but you'd think I consumed caffeine morning, noon, and night for all the good it does me. LOL.
Fascinating, isn't it? I didn't used to react to PI, or even to stinging nettles for that matter, but when I was pregnant with my son, I got PI all over my body. Not like that, though; more like chicken pox. I couldn't sleep and ended up getting out of bed in the middle of the night to take a shower and scrub the tops off every little lump with a super scratchy Luffa sponge. LOL. That actually helped and they quit itching and went away, without scarring. I am not a scratcher, either, so that tells you just how bad it was. Actually, I'll scratch around the perimeter of something, but not right on it. When that batch of PI in the pics started, I'd wake myself up and catch myself in the act of scratching around the perimeter. LOL!
As a funny and dreadful side story, I was not a treat to look at when I had that stuff, so I'd wear long sleeves when I went out. We went to the video store one night and my sleeve had ridden up my arm. I pulled it down, but the girl working the register caught sight of my arm and said she wanted to see. She knew right off that it was PI because she said one year she had gotten really bad PI on her legs. She quit shaving because the rash was so bad, but then her boyfriend wanted to take her out someplace. She decided that since she couldn't shave, she'd use something like Nair to remove the hair. She said she really did end up with burns that looked like my arm. On the bright side, she said there were spots on her legs that she no longer has to shave. HAHAHA! UGH!!
I did use some sort of topical stuff at first to help relieve the itch, but it didn't help and I wasn't about to put anything on it once it started to bubble up like that. You can sort of see the pink ointment left around the edges of that mess in the first pic. I couldn't clean it off because it hurt so bad and made it itch more. My husband's mother gets some sort of shot when she gets PI, but I just tough it out.
Heirloomgardens
- Massachusetts,
Zone "5b"
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Heirloomgardens
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| | Posted on Friday, January 04, 2008 - 08:18 am EST : | |
Want some more gory pics? Two weeks before that first PI pic was taken, I was just getting over a deer fly bite. 2006 was the year from Hell. LOL.
Heirloomgardens
- Massachusetts,
Zone "5b"
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Growit
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| | Posted on Friday, January 04, 2008 - 10:05 am EST : | |
Yuk! I think I prefer your pictures to your descriptions.
Ohhh right, silly me. Why did I not know that?
I know I am going to regret asking this as you may very well have mentioned it right at the beginning of this thread...Did you get a new camera for Christmas Seil?
Haha! I thought I was the only person who did that. Now I know at least 2 other people who do LOL!!
UGH! Thats just far too much information!
NO! Thats just so silly. Who would damage themselves and then do something that stupid!
Oh go on then, force me to look!
Growit
- Hampshire,
Zone "8/9"
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Seil
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| | Posted on Friday, January 04, 2008 - 11:40 am EST : | |
No I didn't get the camera for Christmas, Moira, I got it just last spring when my old camera died on me. I couldn't go all summer without taking pictures of my roses! Yes it's the Fuji FinePix S700 in my profile. It's a really nice small camera with 7MP and a 10X zoom. I've been really happy with both of the Fuji cameras I've had.
Seil
- Michigan,
Zone "6"
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Heirloomgardens
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| | Posted on Friday, January 04, 2008 - 03:07 pm EST : | |
That's what she said she had wondered after the fact. LOL!
I shall return...
Heirloomgardens
- Massachusetts,
Zone "5b"
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Heirloomgardens
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| | Posted on Friday, January 04, 2008 - 03:37 pm EST : | |
Hmm, I discovered that this occurred earlier than I thought. I waited about a week before going in to see the doctor. I hate doctors, but I finally just couldn't take it anymore and knew I had to go. It was actually much darker in real life. Rather black, actually. The doctor said it was necrotic (and there I just thought that my foot was going to have to be amputated - LOL). The pen marks are where the doctor circled it so that we could monitor whether or not it was spreading. My foot was so swollen there for a while that I couldn't even see my ankle bone. It was, by far, the most excruciatingly painful thing I have ever felt. Worse than having a baby. Here it is over a year later and I still have an unattractive blotch on my foot. So, my advice: Never ever swat a deer fly while it is sitting on your foot. LOL.
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Heirloomgardens
- Massachusetts,
Zone "5b"
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Growit
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| | Posted on Sunday, January 06, 2008 - 09:17 am EST : | |
Its official DJ. You are going mouldy. I don't know why but my lunch is now very unappealing.
Growit
- Hampshire,
Zone "8/9"
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Gardenbug
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| | Posted on Sunday, January 06, 2008 - 03:34 pm EST : | |
OK DJ, I'm going to try to perk things up around here!
This is what I received in the mail yesterday, taken Saturday morning. This is one of the seven puppies at a little over 2 weeks of age, eyes beginning to open. The eyes will end up chocolate brown. We will only get our pup in February.
Gardenbug
- Ontario,
Zone "4/5"
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Loretta
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| | Posted on Sunday, January 06, 2008 - 06:19 pm EST : | |
Ohh!!! So Cute! For a minute there, GB, I was sitting in shock here, thinking they mailed you the puppy but you mean the picture, right? I feel some cute puppy and baby shots coming soon.
Wow, DJ. Who has pictures of their gore? Lol! I can't believe you got that from swatting a deer fly. I think Moira is right, you are going moldy.
Loretta
- NJ,
Zone "6"
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Flowerfreak
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| | Posted on Monday, January 07, 2008 - 07:37 am EST : | |
Ok DJ, your PI goes well beyond the extent I've ever had of it. Mine usually is a spot here, a spot there (except when about 2yrs ago I had it on my face for the first time. It looked like someone beat my face up)! That was the only time I was desperate enough to go to the Dr. & get something for it. It wasn't so much for the itch, but the swelling of my face was making my face hurt & it had swollen one of my eyes shut! on PI? For me, that takes away the itch for a little while & the heat feels good. When I would wake up in the middle of the night itching & realize I had PI, I'd get up & run scalding(!) hot water over it.
Glad you cleared this up for me Loretta....it took me a minute too! I thought I was having a blonde moment ;-)
Flowerfreak
- Ky,
Zone "6a"
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Heirloomgardens
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| | Posted on Monday, January 07, 2008 - 08:08 am EST : | |
That's like this guy we know. He said that when he got PI all over, he'd hold a hairdryer just barely above the rash until it started to bubble from the heat, then it would just scab over and go away without much itching. Ick. He didn't have any scars, but it's still not something I'd want to try. He also said that Indians used to chew on the leaves of PI to make themselves immune to it. That's something else that I am entirely unwilling to try.
Heirloomgardens
- Massachusetts,
Zone "5b"
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Gardenbug
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| | Posted on Monday, January 07, 2008 - 08:26 am EST : | |
MIL was immune to PI...for her first few decades. Then gradually she would get affected by it, then infected...then ugh! So it does get worse each time you are exposed.
Oh dear! NO! No puppy by mail for me! We'll visit once, then go collect our fur ball in mid February, when it is 8 weeks old.
Gardenbug
- Ontario,
Zone "4/5"
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