Foxy Lady: i know my job, Ma'am!

plaintiger:

nobleheart: good lad, veering back on-topic so quickly.

ajtgirl:
http://www.littlefunny.com/Images/Cartoons/107.jpg
PS
this also is off topic,but some really incredible photos:
http://www.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=lightning
ok,back on topic:
http://www.leespencerphoto.com/graphics/nature/flower%20in%20rain.jpg
http://photoblog.jonread.com/images/flower.jpg
http://www.talkingtree.com/gallery/USA/Massachusetts/Lincoln/20051009/codman_community_garden001_purple.jpg

ajtgirl: we've got a nice steady rain falling on long island right now. lighter than it was an hour or two ago, and the thunder and lightning seem to have abated. but our lawn and planty-plant-plants can sure use the rain.

ajtgirl: You can say that again it's rained since last nite.Right now it's stopped but expecting thunderstorms during the nite.

We've been expecting a fairly large storm that may last through Saturday.

It shouldn't be a problem to any of the gardens unless we get hail, which is not unusual for this time of year. Hail can rip through everything like a machete and plants cannot recover from that damage.

GL to all in the northeast tonight.

There's heavy thunder and lightening at my house right now.

nobleheart:

Wherever there are flowers there is romance.
Thanks for the pic of the cute parrots
Reminds me of my grandparents

ok enough rain here..maybe I should be planting wild rice & lotus.

Eriisa: well i'm glad You asked, Ma'am, because i've long wondered myself but i guess i wasn't quite curious enough to actually go look it up. now i have.

evidently the simplest way to describe sprinkler system winterization is to say it's the process of removing all the water from the system's pipes so that the water doesn't freeze, expand, and crack them. and evidently there are three ways to do it, which are described in detail here.

i hope this answers Your question, Lady. it answered it better than *my* curiosity demanded it be answered...

plaintiger: help out a Florida girl here. What's done to winterize a sprinkler system?

Foxy Lady: yes Ma'am! forgive me??

plaintiger: ok but were getting

Foxy Lady: i'm sorry, Ma'am - i *did* put "de-" in front of it!

plaintiger: Did ya have to mention Winter.Were just starting to warm up so we could plant.

Foxy Lady: yes Ma'am. that's great. :)

i only just called to have the sprinkler company come and de-winterize our sprinkler system for the season. they're probably going to be working in the rain!

plaintiger: Well i'm glad we got the garden in perfect timing.

Foxy Lady: not here yet, Ma'am. but it's lovely out there. beautiful temperature, and almost completely still...the breeze, if you can call it that, is so slight that i wouldn't know it was there if i didn't see leaves and the clapper thingy on the wind chimes moving just the teensiest bit.

it's weather that portends rain, alright.

Foxy Lady: yes Ma'am. understood.

i shall go look now.

plaintiger: Where i live anyways.

Foxy Lady: is it! i shall have to go see that myself. i love rain. :)

plaintiger: It's raining now

Foxy Lady:

skipinnz: well then you're that far ahead of me!

Foxy Lady: You go, Ma'am!

hoo boy...rain scheduled for the third too...and i'm supposed to go shooting with one of my photography groups that day!

plaintiger: I don't

plaintiger: Actually all of it but I was able to identify a lot of the plants.

skipinnz: what part of "ƒJƒj ‚Ì ’Ü ‚̂悤‚È Œ` ‚ð
‚µ‚½ A•¨B ƒnƒƒC ‚Å‚Í ‚¢‚ë‚¢‚ë ‚È ƒnƒŒƒRƒjƒA ‚ª ‚ ‚éB" don't you understand?

We finally got our garden all in,just in time for rain tonite and tomorrow.

But I wonder what else is there in this jungle.

I am a simple grower of annuals and perennials.
That type of flora bogles my mind

nobleheart:The last site was hard to read but some terriffic plants. :o)

ajtgirl:
http://www.zadorspain.org/Ingles/Excursion_to_Elche_organised_by_Zador_Alicante_School_of_Spanish.html
http://www.zadorspain.org/images/Excursiones/Excursiones-22.gif
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http://natureproducts.net/Forest_Products/Palms/Caryota_gigas.html
http://natureproducts.net/Forest_Products/Palms/Caryota_gigas_habitat.jpg
http://natureproducts.net/Forest_Products/Palms/Caryota_gigas_trees.jpg
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http://www.megahawaii.com/HIKING%20HAWAII%20&%20NATURE%20EXPERIENCE%20-%20J.htm

spicieangel: wow - that *does* sound lovely! =)

Eriisa: Were going into the high 80's tomorrow,bout time.

plaintiger: its 11:27 pm here in Virginia and its 71 f after a lovely day for my moms 60th b day surrounded by my gorgeous flowers

Eriisa: lol...i might hate You if it wasn't 74°F here at 10:36 pm...super-ultra-comfy!

I just thought I'd point out that in Dallas at 9:32 p.m., it is 89 F outside!!!!!

nobleheart: I couldn't get the pics but i know you only post great stuff.:)

nobleheart:

Great pics
Thanks for that
Duck weed is usually a drain clogger in agricultural areas but I am sure it is essential in the forests where great palms grow.

tree ferns:
http://www.physics.muni.cz/~tomtyc/au/o2-31a.jpg
http://jrscience.wcp.muohio.edu/photos/TreeFernMonteverde00.jpg
smallest flower:
http://www.mobot.org/jwcross/duckweed/duckpix.htm

Foxy Lady: nice. 77 is the highest high i see forecast for our area through sunday. it's supposed to mostly top out around 71-73. and that sounds heavenly, actually. like perfect weather. mmm. :)

plaintiger: Were suppose to start warming up this week,in the 80's by the week end.I sure hope so i wanna start my garden.

Foxy Lady: absolutely wacky, Ma'am.

it wasn't any 30 here, but it was very cool yesterday (or was it day before?), and very windy; i was driving and saw a yellow leaf float down from above and thought, "great. it's autumn." and i'm still waiting to see whether i was kidding or correct.

Were in the 30's can you believe this is the middle of May.

CleverHunk:

Some of those blooms are hard to believe!

I noticed that the 2nd and 3rd were taken in Hanalei, on Kauai
I was just there in April, but it rained alot :(

There are beautiful orchids and palms of many different varieties growing in peoples yards. I was ablt to get a private tour at the Na Aina Botanical Garden outside of Princeville, but it was raining there too. It was a private garden at one time, now open for tours
Thanks for the cool pics.

CleverHunk: yeah, pretty amazing. kind of scary à la Little Shop of Horrors, too!

Foxy Lady: yes Ma'am. thank You for letting me know it's not just me.

CleverHunk: Ohhhhhhhh wow

plaintiger: It's doing the same to me Tripod does that sometimes.

nobleheart: hmm...that link isn't working for me - it's doing exactly what the Fox's strutting Fox was doing when She first posted it - redirecting me to something that just says "image hosted by tripod" or whatever it says. maybe it'll magically start working later like the Fox's Fox did. :)