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Cacti and doodles [message #44621]

Thu, 01 September 2011 22:23

b_twin_1
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Cacti and doodles

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

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Re: Cacti and doodles [message #44622 is a reply to message #44621 ]

Thu, 01 September 2011 23:05

hearthrose
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Registered: September 2009
Location: SoCal

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I am not sure if you want to know this or not, having passed your Angry Birds phase, but Angry Birds themed t-shirts are all the rage with the 5th grade boys (10-11yo) this year. None of the boys, to my knowledge, have *played* Angry Birds... which just makes it weirder.

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Fri, 02 September 2011 02:45

Diane in MN
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Location: Twin Cities, MN, USA

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I want to sing the Messiah. I know it’s a low taste. I DON’T CARE.

Who says it's a low taste? I love Messiah and always sing along when I hear it (although I need Anna Russell's knack for being a quartet during the choruses). And I like Puccini too. Nyah nyah nyah. Smile

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

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Re: Cacti and doodles [message #44631 is a reply to message #44621 ]

Fri, 02 September 2011 05:38

Alicia
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Location: UK

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I’ve even got a new little fleck of alchemilla mollis at the cottage—gods know where it came from: some daring raid over the wall some night when I had a pillow over my head—which I got all soppy over and allowed to live. I had sworn undying vengeance on alchemilla mollis at the old house.

Aaiiieeee!! Remind me to come and dig you out from what you already know will be a billowing carpet of the stuff next year. Smile

It always amuses me, the way the it pops up in so many lists of 'plants that can cope with anything', ie rabbits, shade, slugs, etc, and usually has something about 'seeds freely' as well. Yes, folks, Lady's Mantle will take over your life, your garden, your neighbourhood... Smile

I'm not saying it isn't useful, and reasonably attractive, in its place. It's just that it doesn't stay in its place...

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Re: Cacti and doodles [message #44635 is a reply to message #44621 ]

Fri, 02 September 2011 07:25

AJLR
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Location: England, UK

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You hoick up several green-gardening-bags-full and next year . . . there they are again, creeping round the corners and trying to look placatory.

Yes, I do draw the line at G. Phaeum. It's a total menace and keeps popping up in places where I really don't want it.

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I have just sufficient self-control not to poke around any farther and see if there’s a prospective release date yet. Stop looking at me like that.

Believe me, any look I might be casting in your direction is the sympathetic look of one addict to another. Smile

One of the disadvantages I've found re games on the iPad is that the stabbing fingers are hitting a fixed surface, unlike the normal keyboard where there's the 'give' of the keys. If I play for more than about 30 minutes at a time I really feel the impact in my (impaired by 30 years of computer use) finger joints. *sigh* Some bits about getting older suck.

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

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Fri, 02 September 2011 09:28

Birdreader
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Location: Chicago

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The other plants that I know that take over are violets and lily of the valley. both are shade loving but will happily spread. Having the ability to kill all plants in my care I have a lovely selection of silk one. (You just have to dust them every once in a while.)

Nina

Birdreader

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Re: Cacti and doodles [message #44639 is a reply to message #44621 ]

Fri, 02 September 2011 09:36

Robyn Sue
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Location: Texas

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I want to sing the Messiah.

I want to play the Messiah overture for string orchestra again.* I loved playing it. grave, piano, quater notes, eighth notes, half notes. Oh how I miss them. Maybe by Christmas I'll have money for strings and a tuner... I love playing Christmas music.
*I played the second violin part.

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Anybody want a Christmas cactus?

I do; even if Texas is in a drought. I can always keep it in doors. 95F is chilly compaired to 107F. But I don't think you can ship plants, can you?

Am I crazy if listen to the voices in my little world? :D

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Fri, 02 September 2011 09:41

equus_peduus
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Robyn Sue wrote on Fri, 02 September 2011 06:36

Maybe by Christmas I'll have money for strings and a tuner... I love playing Christmas music.

Can't help you with the strings part, but if you have a smartphone, there are tuner apps out there, and if you don't, at one point I downloaded a 440 A to play through my favorite computer audio program (don't think *that* particular 440 A still exists online, but I wouldn't be surprised if there's others). Or you could get a tuning fork. Smile

There may well be computer-based tuning programs as well, if you have a microphone.

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Fri, 02 September 2011 09:49

Robyn Sue
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equus_peduus wrote on Fri, 02 September 2011 08:41

Robyn Sue wrote on Fri, 02 September 2011 06:36

Maybe by Christmas I'll have money for strings and a tuner... I love playing Christmas music.

There may well be computer-based tuning programs as well, if you have a microphone.

I'm going to community college* and plan to transfer to Houston Baptist University** next year and I don't work***. In other words, I'm poor. Very Happy

But thanks for the idea. I can't match the pitch with a tuning fork. And the dog and cats might not like it. Very Happy

*I'm taking four classes that comes out to thirteen hours. Tuition was about $782.00.
**HBU is a private university and tuition is over $13,000 a semester. Plus, I plan to live in the dorms. Gotta get away from home for a while. Smile

***I'm PRN and it's contract.

Am I crazy if listen to the voices in my little world? :D

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Re: Cacti and doodles [message #44646 is a reply to message #44621 ]

Fri, 02 September 2011 12:39

shalea
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Something to do with either critters or books, I think. They haven’t started teaching Seeing Eye dogs to read aloud, have they?

Not that I'm aware of, but there are groups like this (though this one at least doesn't seem to be the sort of group which requests donations).

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Fri, 02 September 2011 13:47

anne_d
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Location: Orange County, California

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The local big chain grocery store had a big pile of Angry Birds plushies up front - I only knew they were Angry Birds because of the sign; at first I thought they were Pokemon.

"The creative urge can come out in any form: in embroidery, in... cooking, in painting, drawing and sculpture, in composing music, as well as in writing books and stories... the artist's inner satisfaction was probably much the same." ~ Agatha Christie

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Fri, 02 September 2011 13:50

anne_d
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Location: Orange County, California

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Clearly, Fast is the one without a hellcat (Narknon) lolling at his feet.

I'm putting in a vote for a Narknon doodle, please please please! [big pleading eyes] As a fellow HellGoddess, I would love a hellcat! Not that the two Resident Felines don't qualify...

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Fri, 02 September 2011 14:15

Corellia
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Registered: June 2010
Location: Norway

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I want a Christmas cactus... And a geranium, or two, or four....

What a pity you can't mail them...

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Sat, 03 September 2011 09:31

blondviolinist
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Putting in my $.02: it's not low taste to love Handel's Messiah! It's still gorgeous music, even if it's been way over-performed in the UK and the States. The Messiah was definitely on my list of "things I must play before I die" list. (I've played it a number of times by now, of course, but I wouldn't mind playing it again.) Beethoven 9 is also on that list. Technically, I've played it before, but it was under very un-fun circumstances, and I'd like to have another chance.

"Purity of heart is to will one thing." Kirkegaard

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Thu, 08 September 2011 13:23

GreenstoneEQ
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While I agree with you about '10' ruining Ravel's Bolero - for me it was another film that brought it to life :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tzzug1HLYQg&feature=grec_ index

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Thu, 08 September 2011 14:55

CathyR
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Beautiful dancing, thanks for this.

Had to google Jorge Donn to discover what it was all about. The film sounds wonderful too.

Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.

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Sun, 11 September 2011 09:46

MiladyGreenEyes
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Location: Davenport, IA

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I love Bolero. When I taught Exploratory French, we did a unit on French composers and my kids loved listening to it, especially because I would turn it up really loud at the end. I like this "flash mob" of sorts on YouTube.

Also, you have an orchid that you CAN'T kill? I have killed two so far. (And my visiting mother has killed the third, I think - she overwatered and it's very soggy.) I think I need to switch to a fake ficus or something, because my ongoing attempt at a transformation into domestic goddess has not included a green thumb so far. *sigh* Any tips on orchids would be appreciated.

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Sun, 11 September 2011 11:57

jaccairn
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Location: Kent

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Bolero always brings to mind Torville and Dean's Ice Dancing routine from 1984. (Was it really that long ago!)

[Updated on: Sun, 11 September 2011 11:57]

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Thu, 15 September 2011 19:58

Aaron
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Location: California

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GreenstoneEQ wrote on Thu, 08 September 2011 10:23

While I agree with you about '10' ruining Ravel's Bolero - for me it was another film that brought it to life :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tzzug1HLYQg&feature=grec_ index

I saw Sylvie Guillem dance Maurice Béjart's Boléro* once in Brussels. I have never seen the Blake Edwards film so I can't say for sure but I would be hard put to imagine something that would have kept the experience from being positive. Of course I have never seen or read A Clockwork Orange so my imagination with respect to inhibitory conditioning my be a bit under developed.
*to the music in question

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Thu, 15 September 2011 20:19

Aaron
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jaccairn wrote on Sun, 11 September 2011 08:57

Bolero always brings to mind Torville and Dean's Ice Dancing routine from 1984. (Was it really that long ago!)

Which leads to thoughts of their work with Yo Yo Ma on his Inspired by Bach project*, which leads to thoughts having seen Mark Morris's contribution to the project: Falling Down Stairs** which gets me back to dance***. This chain of thought may have something to do with my plans to see performances by both Morris and Ma this weekend. Morris will be conducting rather than dancing, you don't suppose he might suffer from the same excess of enthusiasm for new forms of expression as a certain unnamed author?
*Which I only saw on video
**Which we saw live at Zellerbach Hall in Berkeley. The only seats we could get were on the far left very far forward, which are not at all good for watching choreography; but which, as it happens, were just behind Mr. Ma.
***See my previous post.

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