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#178111 - 03/25/09 12:56 PM
Re: Summers coming!
[Re: chatty lady]
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Registered: 09/26/04
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Loc: Alabama
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Chatty have you seen the upside-down tomato planters? I think they would be easy to make without buying them. You could also try pot/bucket planting.
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#178234 - 03/26/09 12:37 AM
Re: Summers coming!
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Registered: 11/15/05
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Loc: NM, transplant from NJ
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We can't "spring clean" because Spring brings WIND. LOVERLY! We often say our seasons are Winter, Wind and WAY TOO HOT! That's it!
Gardening: DH has the two gardens ready for planting about Mid-April, when we are clear of frost. It's loaded with local cow manure and our own compost.
The peach tree is LOADED with pea-sized peaches. UGH! WE canned over 100 jars in '07 and are NOT thrilled about maybe doing them again. We'll sell them at the market too, if need be since we still have jars left over.
I help DH...not a gardener at heart. But LOVE the harvest. He wants to do Yellow Watermelon, tomatoes, squash and cantelope. That's all I know for now. We LIVE on the melons all summer.
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#178235 - 03/26/09 12:58 AM
Re: Summers coming!
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Registered: 01/21/07
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Loc: British Columbia, Canada
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we still have jars left over.
I help DH...not a gardener at heart. But LOVE the harvest. He wants to do Yellow Watermelon, tomatoes, squash and cantelope. That's all I know for now. We LIVE on the melons all summer. Love melons. Admittedly we don't do much differently in terms of household chores. Let's see here: Open our balcony door and windows...we live in a highrise condo. It doesn't have air-conditioning. But no need, our summers never get real super hot like southern Ontario or prairies. He likes to buy some potted herbs and he tends to be the one watering, etc. Not alot of effort. Sit out on our balcony early morning and evenings to eat and see sun go up and down. We better clean our balcony door. But our windows are washed by the contract service that the strat/condo building pays for.Happens twice per year. Life is not that complicated in condo living.
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#178240 - 03/26/09 02:26 AM
Re: Summers coming!
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Registered: 11/15/05
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Loc: NM, transplant from NJ
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Oh how I'd LOVE living w/out air conditioning. Thankfully this time of year requires no heat or a/c. Just wind!! But cheap utility bills!
Condo living sounds fab. We have thought about that but we are both so creative it'd be hard to "sit still".
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#178587 - 03/29/09 01:06 AM
Re: Summers coming!
[Re: chatty lady]
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Registered: 01/21/07
Posts: 3675
Loc: British Columbia, Canada
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Louisa - you'll see later, once your appliance and plumbing is fixed..you and hubby will be glad to have do maintenance on hand, especially physical stuff.
I'm not surprised about the piping..that has to go through condo strata.
Di- if your hubby does woodworking and hobbies like that you want to ensure in future he has on-site facilities for that. I did in my previous condo building.
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#178992 - 04/02/09 04:37 AM
Re: Summers coming!
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Registered: 06/27/05
Posts: 2561
Loc: Alabama
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Summers are brutal in the Gulf Coast part of the south...humidity that will soak you to the bone after ten seconds of walking outside. Then there's the flies...deer fly, yellow fly and another one I can't think of at the moment...but, it also bites the heck out of you. I swear one year I took netting and attached it to a straw hat and draped it all the way down my body to keep the flies away from me so I could walk down to the mail box and back without getting eaten alive...it's miserable...so, once it gets to this point I just stay indoors and watch the electric meter spin like crazy. Spring is the best time where I live...summer's suck! Then there's the hurricane season...June through Nov 15th...during the storms, the electric meter is given a break and nothing electrical works so Larry will crank up the generator and as the little window AC unit brought in from the garage does its thing, I sit with my face smack in front of it trying to keep cool. Okay...someone please explain to me why the heck I live down here? Sheesh!
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#179040 - 04/02/09 03:19 PM
Re: Summers coming!
[Re: Dee]
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Registered: 02/17/05
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Loc: New York State
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I spring/fall clean some; stuff I don't use, I give to the Good Will. WB already replaced seven house windows and has six more to replace. He shampoos the rugs throughout, too. I take my time cleaning closets and dressers, etc. We have air conditioning in our bedroom only. I ask myself, in the wintertime, why I live here. Otherwise I love it. There isn't much WB can't repair, and I'm thankful. Never heard of upside down plant holders. I've heard of upside down trees, but that's all. Actually, now that I think about it, I don't like housework. Don't do any canning, anymore. Did once. No more.
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#179847 - 04/10/09 02:15 PM
Re: Summers coming!
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chatty, I recall reading something about you following your Dad around while he worked outside. What was that? It was good.
Ross fixes what he can and hires people to do what he can't, or doesn't have time to do. It works. In fact, right now, the contractor's here for the kitchen, the plumber is hooking up the sink, garbage disposal, and dishwasher, and the yard clean-up crew is here getting ready to mulch.
We've always done our yard clean-up and mulching until two years ago when both of us threw our backs out and landed in the chiropractors office for weeks. Ross did his shoveling and I did mine lifting boxes and shifting stuff around. I've decided it was a good thing. I love working outside, but hey, they can do the big clean-up and I'm totally cool with it.
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#180404 - 04/17/09 03:49 PM
Re: Summers coming!
[Re: jabber]
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Registered: 01/21/07
Posts: 3675
Loc: British Columbia, Canada
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All the more reason why I've chosen to live in condos over past few decades...I'm not really keen on hrs. and hrs. of outdoor work. I'm also not a gardener/shrub pruner at all. Though I did latter when I was a teenager for my parents.
He is abit mechanically inclined for simple stuff. Once upon a time, he did build his own farmhouse. The most interesting part is that he likes to wear the lab latex gloves when doing super greasy/gucky stuff involving his fingers. I think his obsession with keeping his hands clean (he never gets dirt stuck permanently in his nails) is from his childhood illnesses/sicknesses. (tuberculosis, ringworm, etc.)
I'm not mechanically inclined....but I personally know women who take apart an entire bike and put it back together again. One good friend who is single, childless and owns her own house, LOVES going to Home Depot on her own to get building supplies for her next mini renovation project. She managed to transfer a 5ft x 10 ft patch of flat backyard in a huge, thick lovely garden oasis which includes several bushes and trees over 10 ft. tall. It is incredibly impressive work when sitting around having a barbecue with the shade of this oasis jungle with her. (She is a boomer at 52.)
Many younger women than I, are comfortable doing basic computer hardware replacements...ie. motherboard cards, DVD drive swaps, etc.
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