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Mon, 08 February 2010 20:07

b_twin_1
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Pink etc

I've got a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel ~ Blackadder

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Mon, 08 February 2010 20:15

b_twin_1
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Pink roses! *happy sigh*
Hyacinths! Very Happy

Creative use of stacks = genius. Very Happy

I've got a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel ~ Blackadder

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Mon, 08 February 2010 20:37

Julia
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Beautiful flowers. Floral extravaganza, verily!
Echoing b_twin's happy sigh.
Smile

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Re: Pink etc [message #26011 is a reply to message #26008 ]

Mon, 08 February 2010 20:52

Vikkik
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Registered: October 2008
Location: Near Windsor

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Gorgeous flowers Smile

I can just imagine whichever of the mods rang up to order them - "Just make sure there's plenty of PINK, and roses! Yes pink roses are great, and anything else you have as well, but just make sure it's pink......"

And fridge magnets are great - I love reading other people's fridge magnets, so any time you want to get a few of yours in the background of a photo is fine by me (as long as it's possible to enlarge it to read Wink

)

Or you could do a photo post of your magnets? (if you're ever short of an idea...)

Don't worry about the dust bunnies, they're just here to guard the treasure.....

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Mon, 08 February 2010 21:01

Melissa Mead
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Those flowers are gorgeous! And hyacinths...mmmm. Is that a yellow hyacinth, or a white one?

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Mon, 08 February 2010 21:46

Black Bear
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Vikkik wrote on Mon, 08 February 2010 20:52

I believe that's exactly how it happened, actually. Smile

_{Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.}

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Tue, 09 February 2010 03:33

Diane in MN
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Meanwhile . . . it’s snowing. It’s not snowing like it’s snowing in Virginia, for which I am deeply thankful, but it’s still snowing.

YES. It's snowing here, too. Started Sunday afternoon--and if it had started the same way a day earlier, I would have missed my opera, so I am grateful for that anyway--and it has snowed all night and all day and is supposed to stop Tuesday for a while before it starts up again. It's not coming down hard, but we got a good 8 inches (not counting drifts) here. This has pleased the snowmobile riders, but even more has pleased my dog, who is crazed with snow. Don't we love an El Nino year!

They lied. Hard work has killed lots of people.

Work like moving snow. . .

_{"The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough . . . " Louise Erdrich}

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Tue, 09 February 2010 07:48

AJLR
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I also want to slap a green roof on Third House

Very nice too! I think green roofs are wonderful, a great way of increasing the plant area/wildlife habitat with all attendant ecological benefits and cost savings once up and running.

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I’ve decided I want a conservatory.

I'd love to have a large enough conservatory that one could sleep in, occasionally, preferably with a roof window that could be opened on warm nights, so enabling one to lie there and watch the night sky. Pity I've spent all my pocket money this week (month, year, decade...). Smile

Yes, will definitely buy multiple copies of PEGASUS.

_{"Never let a computer know you're in a hurry."}

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Tue, 09 February 2010 08:34

NHInsider
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Love the flowers, thanks for the glimpse of color in the dark of February!!

Definitely go for the conservatory. But maybe you need to start the paperwork now?

Sally W

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Tue, 09 February 2010 11:17

southdowner
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Pink is always good Smile

Thank you for sharing the gorgeous pinkness & floweriness, and hoping that you have had some sunshine today.

May the snow/sleety stuff vanish "Kerpffft!!" Just like that!

Someone says "pie" and we all go on alert, like meercats. "Pie? Where?" - Blackbear

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Tue, 09 February 2010 16:20

Aaron
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Melissa Mead wrote on Mon, 08 February 2010 18:01

Those flowers are gorgeous! And hyacinths...mmmm. Is that a yellow hyacinth, or a white one?

If of thy mortal goods thou art bereft,
And from thy slender store two loaves alone to thee are left,
Sell one, and with the dole
Buy hyacinths to feed thy soul.
Moslih Eddin (Muslih-un-Din) Saadi (Sadi),
Gulistan (Garden of Roses)

[Updated on: Tue, 09 February 2010 16:23]

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Tue, 09 February 2010 17:55

Ithilien
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Conservatories are fabulous. My parents' house has a conservatory that wraps around the back half, and it's the one thing that I truly covet about bigger blocks of land. (We have a little half-block and we were lucky to manage that. Definitely no space for a conservatory.) My bedroom opened out into it, so that in summer I could sneak out into the conservatory and read. We also used to eat out there, plant millions of seeds and cuttings, keep fish (in multiple aquaria) and quail and baby birds and... you get the idea.

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Tue, 09 February 2010 19:43

Robin
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Yes, I keep thinking I'll do a fridge magnet post some day. I'm afraid a few of them won't make it on a family blog however. :)

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Tue, 09 February 2010 19:43

Robin
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Yellow! Kind of primrose, but definitely yellow in person.

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Tue, 09 February 2010 19:44

Robin
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What did you see? Was it good?

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Tue, 09 February 2010 19:47

Robin
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Yes, here's a quote somewhere that with a green roof your house becomes *part* of the natural world rather than some kind of built human thing. :) (The writer said it better . . . )

Oooh. A multiple copy buyer. OOOH. :)

Of course you'll have to buy the American edition since UK publishers still believe that nobody reads me in this country. ARRRRGH.

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Tue, 09 February 2010 19:49

Robin
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Oh. Wow. Don't know this. Black Bear, this one's for you. Hyacinths!

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Tue, 09 February 2010 19:50

Robin
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Oh . . . my. Well, that's a lot more conservatory than I'm going to manage--Third House's garden is not that large!!--but still. A conservatory. It's on the list.

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Tue, 09 February 2010 20:32

Black Bear
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Yes, that was lovely, Aaron! Hyacinths are indeed food for the soul.

I didn't plant any bulbs at all this past fall, and I know this spring I'm going to regret it; my program to fill all the corners of my yard with hyacinths is getting behind schedule. Smile

_{Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.}

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Tue, 09 February 2010 20:59

Melissa Mead
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Robin wrote on Tue, 09 February 2010 19:43

Yellow! Kind of primrose, but definitely yellow in person.

I don't think I've ever seen a yellow one before.

Member of Carpe Libris: http://carpelibris.wordpress.com/

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Tue, 09 February 2010 23:53

katinseattle
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AJLR wrote on Tue, 09 February 2010 04:48

Quote:

I also want to slap a green roof on Third House

Very nice too! I think green roofs are wonderful, a great way of increasing the plant area/wildlife habitat with all attendant ecological benefits and cost savings once up and running.

They also do green walls. The Tacoma Goodwill is supposed to have a beautiful one. I couldn't find a picture, but here's a description: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/pacificnw/2010642515_p acificplife10.html?cmpid=2628

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Wed, 10 February 2010 00:52

Diane in MN
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Robin wrote on Tue, 09 February 2010 18:44

What did you see? Was it good?

We had Donizetti's Roberto Devereux with Brenda Harris doing a splendid Queen Elizabeth. All four of the principals were terrific, actually; the tenor sang even though ill, and he did such a fine job that I'd like to hear him when he's well. The plot, of course, is a complete farrago of nonsense. One wonders what impression Italians of the early nineteenth century had of English history on a diet of operas based on Scott, Schiller, and forgotten French playwrights.

_{"The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough . . . " Louise Erdrich}

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Wed, 10 February 2010 07:28

Mrs Redboots
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I hadn't thought of grandchild-safe fridge magnets... hmmm... oh, I think mine will do. Most of them date from when the daughter lived here, anyway.

Go for the conservatory! My parents installed one after my grandmother died (using some of the money she'd left them), and it has been such a huge success; not only the plants (you should see how my mother's 40-year-old begonia flourishes - and as for the grape-vine, I'm quite sure they only have to sit underneath it with their mouths open for grapes to drop in!) but also as an extra dining-room and sitting-room. They live in it when it isn't quite this cold!

Mrs Redboots
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Wed, 10 February 2010 16:28

prairiehil
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I agree -- having a green roof would be almost as great as a hobbit hole, I imagine. The Ann Arbor District Library has some wonderful branches built with sustainable design. One of them has a green roof. And there's another that was built using ash trees that were killed when the emerald ash bore came through town about 5 years ago. They harvested the logs from the woods on the property and used less modern forms of transportation to get them out without tearing up the area.

:sigh: I love green design. And I have always wanted a conservatory. Even one of those glass box windows would be wonderful.

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Wed, 10 February 2010 22:19

Ithilien
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Well, it was quite a cluttered conservatory. And we did all those things over about 20 years, so it's not as bad as it sounds. Smile

Good luck with the application. I've just talked to the council about doing ANYTHING to our house, and apparently it all involves masses and masses of paperwork.

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Thu, 11 February 2010 01:22

Diane in MN
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Ithilien wrote on Wed, 10 February 2010 21:19

Good luck with the application. I've just talked to the council about doing ANYTHING to our house, and apparently it all involves masses and masses of paperwork.

This all reminds me of a conversation I had with the owner of a B&B we once stayed at in Massachusetts. The house dated from the early or mid 18th century and was on the historic register. The owners could do normal maintenance like painting--I don't know if the colors had to be historically accurate--but they could not alter its basic appearance. So this meant no storm doors or windows in winter, and--what was noticeable to us, in early July--no air conditioners and no window screens. It was very hot, very humid, and VERY BUGGY. One of the things that occurred to me while I was awake and swatting at bugs was how much eighteenth-century New Englanders would have loved window screens.

_{"The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough . . . " Louise Erdrich}

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Thu, 11 February 2010 09:49

Robin
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(*&^%$£"!"!!!!! This is SUCH a sore point! We have a sliding scale over here; the 'conservation area' is the SHALLOW end. Gods help you if you own an actual listed house. I completely sympathise with wanting to keep some of the lovely old historical buildings--but ordinary people have been literally bankrupt by those stupid laws. It's the law! Shut up! (Our old house narrowly missed being listed--the people who looked at it *wanted* to list it and then decided it was too much of a hodgepodge, except that they were making an argument that its hodgepodgeness was also, I don't know, representative or some damn thing.) --But this entire TOWN (well the old part) is a conservation area and there are ENDLESS wrangles about, for example, what colours you can paint your house and periodically somebody runs afoul of this and then there's a huge uproar. (And then there are TV aerials and chimney pots . . . ) And my situation at Third House is ridiculous--the tree is a *Leylandii*, for godssake, it's four hundred feet tall, potentially VERY DANGEROUS in a big wind or storm, it's a total EYESORE and doesn't contribute anything to the amenity level except 'ewwww' . . . but I can't take it down. SIGH. It's still on the list--I have GOT to find a bureaucrat whose blood on her altar will make the goddess listen to me--but I keep not getting around to it (again, having failed once).

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Sat, 13 February 2010 16:52

Ithilien
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Yes, luckily our house is only about 15 years old. But I despaired when I realised that replacing the fence (with the exact same fence, only without rotting bits) would require about 30 pages of paperwork.

So we're just going to replace the rotting bits. And build a gate that's just under the trigger height for the planning regulations, even though it would look better at the higher height. Because that doesn't trigger the paperwork.

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It's the law! Shut up!

Ah, yes. If there weren't so many STUPID laws, there might be more respect for law.

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Sat, 13 February 2010 19:20

Robin
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Yes. Sigh. Now let me tell you about the way that everybody parks on the DOUBLE YELLOW NO PARKING LINE on the main road that my little cul de sac drops into, so that YOU CAN'T SEE when you're trying to turn out.

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Sun, 14 February 2010 01:45

Diane in MN
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Robin wrote on Sat, 13 February 2010 18:20

Obviously some of the zealots in the planning department need to be transferred over to traffic patrol!

_{"The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough . . . " Louise Erdrich}

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Mon, 15 February 2010 01:57

Fake Frenchie
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SPeaking of pink, maybe you would want to trade Wolfgang for one of these Challengers!
http://www.boston.com/cars/newsandreviews/overdrive/2010/02/ dodge_challenger_tries_on_pink.html

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