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Heirloomgardens
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| | Posted on Friday, January 25, 2008 - 09:20 am EST : |   |
LOL! Even more incentive to get them. 
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- Massachusetts,
Zone "5b"
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Seil
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| | Posted on Friday, January 25, 2008 - 11:36 am EST : | |
I like the pink flowered wellies but I've never been able to wear them. Too hot! I got a pair of purple crocs and I've only worn them a couple of times because they drive me nuts. I'm a bare footer. Bad, I know, and I've paid the price a time or two but I can't help it. It's how I'm most comfortable and feel the most stable climbing around my raised beds. Worst time was when I stepped on a bee in the clover in the lawn. He got squashed, poor devil, but not before he got me so he got his revenge.
Yes DJ, the orange ones are definitely YOU! The trash cans are a bit much I think. Maybe just a simple daisy or two would work though.
Seil
- Michigan,
Zone "6"
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Growit
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| | Posted on Friday, January 25, 2008 - 12:40 pm EST : | |
Fantastic DJ and with my own welly bag to match. I think it would 'ave to be pink wiv 'andles. I would look the biz!
The orange lace ups are so you! I can see you strutting with the chickens in those LOL!
Lots of people around here have the bin sticky stuff. Looks better in the pictures than on the bin. I don't think they are that easy to apply. Personally it would have to be the pink roses for me ;)
Me too but only at home. Too many dogs in the gardens I work in...Ughhh!
So did I! A bumble bee in my case and it got me right in the soft bit between my heel and pad.
Growit
- Hampshire,
Zone "8/9"
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Gardenbug
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| | Posted on Friday, January 25, 2008 - 01:00 pm EST : | |
I got an old rusty nail...right through my running shoe. Tetnus shot after that... :(
Gardenbug
- Ontario,
Zone "4/5"
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Heirloomgardens
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| | Posted on Friday, January 25, 2008 - 01:43 pm EST : | |
I learned the hard way not to do that. Not just courtesy of bees, either. Ended up having laser surgery on my foot. I even wear shoes (or at least socks or slippers) in the house all of the time now. LOL.
I suppose I should wear shoes on my hands. I was wearing roller skates one time, and running up a grassy hill in them (I know - recipe for disaster!), and my feet rolled out from me and my HAND came down on a bee. LOL!
I was thinking something more completely out of place, like palm trees, blue sea, and white sandy beaches. Haha! Especially for right in the middle of winter. But I suppose I should maybe stick with an obnoxious pumpkin motif.
Haha! They are rather chicken-leggy!
Ooooo! Ow! I stepped on a big copper box staple once and ended up getting a tetanus shot. They said I should have gotten stitches, but they made me wait in the emergency room so long that they didn't think it was a good idea to sew it up in case of infection. (And I sat that wondering, so why are you telling me THAT? Haha!) I guess more bizarre than that, though, was the time I was wearing some dressy flats and a piece of lead from a mechanical pencil went through the heel of my shoe and into my own heel. I never in a million years would have thought one of those flimsy things could go through a shoe.
Heirloomgardens
- Massachusetts,
Zone "5b"
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Heirloomgardens
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| | Posted on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 10:39 am EST : | |
Okay, Moira, up and at 'em! (LOL! I figure you've been up forever already and if anything, you're thinking about going to bed. LOL!) Now, stop scratching your face and think ponds. Which of these do you most want yours to grow up to be? (Once you enter the site, be sure to click their link to "PHOTOS". They have all sorts of water pics.)
http://www.easypropondproducts.com/
Heirloomgardens
- Massachusetts,
Zone "5b"
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Growit
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| | Posted on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 01:09 pm EST : | |
been up and at 'em. Came back home about an hour ago.
Do you know how hard it is not to!!! I am so desperate to...just a little bit....jeez!!
Ok if I have to ;)
Wouldn't that be wonderful? Wake up and find it had matured into this.
Growit
- Hampshire,
Zone "8/9"
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Heirloomgardens
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| | Posted on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 03:03 pm EST : | |
I can't even imagine. Do you have the room? LOL! If not, I think we should pull up your gardens and suspend them from the walls and bridges to make room. The Hanging Gardens of Moira.
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- Massachusetts,
Zone "5b"
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Growit
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| | Posted on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 03:37 pm EST : | |
ROFL!!!!!! Has a certain ring to it don't you think?
Growit
- Hampshire,
Zone "8/9"
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Heirloomgardens
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| | Posted on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 04:42 pm EST : | |
Most definitely. So when do we start? LOL! We could use clear polytube like they use for fishtanks (notice how I slipped that in there - LOL!) to siphon water out of the water feature and up into your hanging gardens. LOL! Or maybe every once in a while, the water feature could just shoot water out all over the place, synchronized to music and lights (for your night-viewing pleasure ), to water everything and everyone. Haha!
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- Massachusetts,
Zone "5b"
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Seil
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| | Posted on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 06:45 pm EST : | |
What grand ideas we have here. What I want to know is who's gonna build it and who's gonna pay for it all?!
Seil
- Michigan,
Zone "6"
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Heirloomgardens
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| | Posted on Wednesday, January 30, 2008 - 07:04 am EST : | |
I know a great source of free rocks. LOL!
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- Massachusetts,
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Flowerfreak
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| | Posted on Wednesday, January 30, 2008 - 10:15 am EST : | |
And you doing this because...???!!!! LOL
That does have a nice ring to it...
Flowerfreak
- Ky,
Zone "6a"
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Heirloomgardens
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| | Posted on Wednesday, January 30, 2008 - 11:12 am EST : | |
Is this like, "Why did the chicken cross the road?" Haha! I wanted to get to the top of the hill - LOL! The only other choice was to use the concrete stairs - although I could have taken my skates off, I suppose, but I probably would have stepped on the bee! I'm sure that no matter what I did, that bee was destined to sting me. LOL. I am a bee magnet. I have been stung on the lip TWICE, each time for no reason. I have been barefoot and stepped on a couple of bees. I've been stung on the arms a couple of times, for no reason, and once on the hand for the same lack of reason. In all instances (except for stepping on them, obviously), I was just standing there minding my own business and the bees came out of nowhere. My husband didn't believe me when I told him that I get stung for no reason. Then one time when we were hiking along a trail in the woods, a bee flew PAST me and stung him on the back of his knee. LOL!! Once when we were hiking in the hills in California, we topped a ridge and could see the ocean. I was standing there, minding my own business, enjoying the scenery. Sounds like the perfect time to get stung by a bee, right? Well, better than that... I heard some sort of rumbling and it kept getting louder. That part of the trail was actually a dirt road and I thought maybe the park rangers were heading our way in a Rover. Something started bumping against me from behind. It was annoying, and without thinking, I swung my hand and arm out to shoo it away. I felt all sorts of things bumping against my arm when I did that, and when I turned to see what it was, I almost died on the spot. It was a swarm of bees and I was just on the outer edge of the swarm with the main brunt of the pack headed my way. I turned to start running and I saw my husband was already a good 20 or 30 ft down the trail telling me to run. Thanks for staying to help me, since I'm the allergic one, Pal! Anyway, I took off running, then took a side trail because it was all downhill from there and I figured that was the only way I'd outrun them. I ran and ran until I got to a dip in the trail and just hit the ground flat and stayed there until my husband came to get me. I didn't get one sting! So, like tornadoes sound like freight trains, a swarm of bees sounds like a Land Rover. LOL!
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Growit
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| | Posted on Wednesday, January 30, 2008 - 12:50 pm EST : | |
errr...No!
ROFL!!! DJ are you on something? If so sharesies!
I can dream can't I? In my dream I have won the lottery and hired several muscley workmen stripped to the waist who are labouring in my garden. Their bodies are glistening with sweat from the exertion of their toils....I think I need to go and lie down. I seem to have come over all peculiar!!
LOL! What about shipping costs hmmm? Carbon footprint hmmm? Any more bright ideas for my 'pie in the sky' water feature?
 SCARY!!
Men! Bloody typical. 
I know. My FIL keeps bees. I was in his garden when one started to swarm. I ran, twisted my ankle, fell over, stood up and fell over again. I busted my ankle!! Dangerous things bees.
Growit
- Hampshire,
Zone "8/9"
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Heirloomgardens
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| | Posted on Wednesday, January 30, 2008 - 01:19 pm EST : | |
Ummm, bagels and tea, anyone? LOL!
Aaahhh, nice. Don't forget a pool boy for your water feature. Haha!
OMG! Ouch! That is just too frightening to think about. You didn't get stung? If I had done that, I really would have died. That swarming incident is the only time I've really come close to being stung since the last time when the nurse told me that if I got stung again I could die unless I have an EpiPen with me. Don't think an Epi would have saved me in that case. LOL!
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Growit
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| | Posted on Wednesday, January 30, 2008 - 02:49 pm EST : | |
Sounds lovely. One sugar please and easy on the milk.
As long as it is not one of those weeing boys.
No managed to crawl indoors before they noticed me.
I do hope you have one now and carry it all through the season. I never realised you could build up an allergy to their stings but last year I got stung twice by wasps in the space of two weeks on the same arm and after the second sting my arm blew up like popeyes. I was pretty scared after that. Avoided anything with a hum for the rest of the season.
Growit
- Hampshire,
Zone "8/9"
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Heirloomgardens
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| | Posted on Wednesday, January 30, 2008 - 04:36 pm EST : | |
Will you settle for soy milk? I am fresh out of cow juice.
Hahahaha!
Whew! I could feel my skin crawling as I was getting ready to read your response. Eek!
Nope. I bought a kit with something to remove a stinger (not just a pair of tweezers, but some sort of plunger thing), stored it in the cabinet, and forgot all about it. I discovered it within the last year, maybe because of what the deer fly did to me, and saw that the meds in the kit have long since expired. I am a sitting duck. I'd laugh about it, but I know those stinging things would come and get me if I laugh. (You should see the look I get from doctors and nurses when they ask what I am allergic to - bee/wasp stings, ant bites, latex - and then ask what my line of work is - farmer. I think they must think I'm joking because they stare at me for a really long time before they say anything.)
Maybe you should get a kit or an Epi. Or maybe an allergy test... you'd either know you're doomed or put your mind at ease.
Heirloomgardens
- Massachusetts,
Zone "5b"
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