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@Sage04 wrote:

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@Love my grandkids wrote:

@kivah Oh that sounds wonderful, I'd love to watch it.

All my life I longed to go to NYC for a couple of weeks but at 73 it's not gonna happen. I wanted to visit a city where I could get Chinese or pizza at 1 a.m. or go to an all night movie!

@Love my grandkids  come on, you can still do it. Age has nothing to do with it. New York has the best chinese food and pizza (not trying to start a little war) but it's true. It's the City that never sleeps.

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@Sage04, @Love my grandkids, I've been lucky to visit NYC many times and always glad I did.    We had some wonderful adventures and I hold those memories close.😊

[Nonametoday]

@stevieb @Kachina624 

There are also about a half-dozen, maybe fewer, posters here who are the devil's advocates and stalk posters in order to disagree and write snark about their posts.  I gave up for months and each time I post, they seem to single me out for any disagreement.  They don't like me because I don't bow to their buddies and because I don't think Sparkle Markle was crucified on the cross and arose from the dead as a heavenly body.

[Nonametoday]

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@on the bay wrote:

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@qvcfreak wrote:

Thank you @on the bay   This was before the freeze

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Oh wow! I guess that is a good idea to put in pots isn't it?

I remember when we had a townhouse always wondering when the flowers would be ok to plant or be safe from a freeze. Sometimes I would even see not til May!

Sometimes there would be snow in April! So hard to wait and to know.

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@on the bay 

My grandmother always said not to plant your flowers until the Monday after Easter.  I have tried to follow her advice and have found that works great for me.  When I was butt-headed and did not pay attention to her, I lost a load of roses, about $300 in young roses.  I lost other plants as well but that was when I could buy roses for $25.

[Nonametoday]

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@Sage04 wrote:

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@chessylady wrote:

We got up to low 70s here in Northern California.I laid chicken manure in my two square foot garden boxes. I am excited because I got drip irrigation in the boxes along with complete repairs of my irrigation system. No dragging hoses this summer. I also put my lovely new Hollyhock rug on my deck.

@chessylady  I've never heard of chicken manure but I think I've figured it out. So would this make your flowers or whatever is in the garden boxes grow?

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@Sage04   Chicken manure is very hot, like rabbit manure so be careful not to burn the plants if you are not accustomed to using it before.

[Johnnyeager]

I'd say it's time to put a lid on it when a fight begins over a glazed donut.

[Nonametoday]

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@chessylady wrote:

@Sage04 Yes, you can use steer manure or chicken manure as a natural fertilizer. It is organic as is my garden. I will let it sit for a few days and then add my organic raised bed soil. I enjoy having a vegetable garden every year and what I don't grow, I get at the farmer's market.

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@chessylady @Sage04

That is what I do when I use chicken or rabbit manure, let it cool down for a few days before applying it to the garden.  The people that I get cow and horse manure from have spread it out and cooled it down and the odor is gone by the time I get it, it's good and dry and cooled down.  I pay them in food for their cows and horses.  They need to be rid of the manure.  I am actually doing them a favor and they are doing me a favor.

[Desertdi]

@Kachina624    I'm packing away my wool socks, long underwear, and fur-lined mocs tonight (!!!!)

[Lilysmom1]

@Desertdi @Kachina624  Waiting for the weather to warm up here.  Today high winds, rain, freezing rain.  Everything is brown but beginning to wake up.  In a week or two I will be full on back in the garden.

This winter, for the first time in years, I did not do a quilt.  I think we are all Covid weary.  Although the cases here in Nova Scotia are continuing to be the lowest in the country, the travel restrictions are a PIA.  My brother in British Columbia is trying to plan a trip home this summer.  I miss my road trips to East Coast US.  I have the feeling when we go the retail landscape will be quite different.

The real estate market here is crazy hot.  Many people from big centres in Ontario (Toronto) and many from the west coast are buying property here, many of them sight unseen.  Bidding wars, etc.  Waterfront properties are scare and prized.  They are looking for larger suburban properties and love Nova Scotia because the Covid numbers are so low.  Many ex pat Nova Scotians are retiring here as well.  My city is experiencing record immigration.  S

[FrostyBabe1]

After a year of lecturing, scolding and name calling by a small group of posters who are obssesed with a particular subject, and who have sadly been allowed to get away with virtually taking over the boards,  I'm surprised that there is even the amount of participation here that there is. I suppose that they've done many like me a favor though. We've moved on to other more fulfilling, interesting and intellectually stimulating pursuits.

[Nancy Drew]

For me the issue is the topics that I am really, really interested in we can't talk about. So I  go elsewhere for that. I totally get why QVC prohibits certain topics. Instagram, YouTube is where I spend most of my social media time.