Eriisa: Geeeezzzz ya could of send me more hot air than you did.

Eriisa: mmmmmmm...can't wait for weather hot enough to take a cold shower! =)

(and i'm glad You could help too, Lady. :)

Eriisa:You're so lucky to have it that warm, better than the cold we're getting.

ugh, its now 85 inside.

I am NOT turning on the a/c!!! <repeating over and over>
I am NOT turning on the a/c!!! <repeating over and over>
I am NOT turning on the a/c!!! <repeating over and over>
I am NOT turning on the a/c!!! <repeating over and over>
I am NOT turning on the a/c!!! <repeating over and over>

that's it. A cold shower is coming! (and not for the usual reasons!)


Glad I could help, plaintiger!

Eriisa: wheee! what fun!

i use Macs, and our special characters are different from Windows ones and often don't translate from one platform to the other. but now i know a new character! woohoo! thank You, Ms. E., to the Nth °!

ummm, I do believe that is a degree sign. LOL!!!!

okay, i'm jealous of people's ability to make a degree sign. does this (°) look like a degree sign to everyone, or just to me?

Dolittle: 85 F outside, 83 F inside.

I am NOT turning on the a/c!!! <repeating over and over>



ROFL

Dolittle: Tell 'riisa to keep blowing it up north!! -13C windchill right about now.. Im not amused

Eriisa: Boy, you got lungs girl...it made it to OK..is 90° now!!

Eriisa: lol! i do believe it's working! it's 38 degrees here on long island today, which is warmer than it has been!

*blowing north VERY hard*

Eriisa: Ok send me some of that 80 degree weather.

I'm in the mood. Its just getting the time!

Eriisa: Run on up and trim mine while you are in the mood!

Its going to be in the 80's today. I got a couple of spikey rose bushes to trim!!!!

Doris: It is pretty and yes i'm staying warm,we all are.

Foxy Lady: The day after a big snow is so pretty....needless to say, just stay warm..:}

Doris: Were having a winter storm Lake Effect snow.It means heavy and lots of i

yeah, the delicate things always turn out to be tougher than people give 'em credit for. right, Ms. Fox?

Foxy Lady: In Georgia. We had snow today and it is sleeting outside now. Supposed to get down to 29....but by the end of the week we will be back up to 60. This same thing happened last year and I was sure the daffodils and daylilies would freeze...but they made it just fine.

Foxy Lady: wowie! what a cool tip! thank You, Ma'am! =)

plaintiger: Thats how i bought mine,than i put it in some topsoil and fed it deleuted coffee and whamo it took off = growing.It's doing real good and loves the sun,when we have some.

Foxy Lady: ohhh, interesting! i didn't know that either. i think this bamboo i have is just planted in a bunch of stones and drinking pure water. huh...

ScarletRose: Yes rotating the veggie plants we also do,never plant the same thing every year in the same spot.Now i'd love to have my Bamboo outside but like my banana tree it is indoors.Winters are too harsh here in CNY except this year its been very unusually warm.

Eriisa: Ahhhhh Roses now that depends where you live.My area we prune them in the fall.We haven't had good luck with them,alot of little green wormies.yukky......

My blueberry bush does well with the coffee ground method.We put used grounds around the bushes and water them.Our soil here is very clay like concrete.You could have your soil tested.

Eriisa: I know roses love to be pruned every spring.. did you try some Miracle grow to help them..

As far as acidic soils go.. can't you plant like Tomatoes next to the area you are wanting to grow the bamboo..?? I know that most gardeners rotate certain veggies due to balancing out the levels over the years..

I have so many plans for the yard now that I'm working at home.

I think I'm going out this weekend to cut back the roses etc etc. Do ya'll think I should do the coffee ground thing in Dallas (zone 8) or should the soil be ok? When I met Jim 2 years ago, they were blooming like crazy! But I didn't notice a lot last year.

I think I'm also going to take a small plot and plant some veggies. I'm just dying for some collard greens!

plaintiger: I did find out that bamboo needs acidic soil.I been feeding mine with coffee watered down.I have alot of new leaves on it.

skipinnz: aha - thank you! i didn't even know there were different kinds of bamboo. *duh*...

i don't know what kind this is. i'll have to research it.

plaintiger: I think you first have to identify which type of bamboo you might. It's a grass so most soils will be ok. It can be very invasive. Though there are some that don't sucker.

Doris: Where do you live? We still got about 2 months of Winter but our weather has been crazy this year.

Daffodils are coming up and some have little bulbs on them ready to open

Foxy Lady: we've had rain all day too. and our snow is all gone because we haven't had any in weeks.

plaintiger: I don't think Bamboo will do ok in our weather.I have a bamboo plant that i just repot.

nobleheart: We've had rain all day and our snow is almost gone.

anybody know anything about transplanting bamboo from indoors to out? we have one of those pretty china pots from the grocery store with three stalks of bamboo in it and i've been thinking about putting them in the ground and letting them spread out (as i know bamboo does under the right conditions) and form a natural privacy thingy between our property and the neighbors'...but i don't know what kind of soil conditions or anything bamboo likes. i could just look online, i know, but i figured i'd start here in case anybody has any first-hand experience.

nobleheart:

only a trace of snow here miss Foxy..but it has been BITTER cold..hands up all those ready for a little outdoor warmth.

their are a patch of Snowdrops (Galanthus)in the cemetery near here:

Snowdrops

that come up ..often thro the last snow..as soon as the ground starts to thaw.
it is one of the early signs of winter.I will take a piccie & share..as soon as I see this early sign of spring.

* * * edited by plaintiger to make the link work right, which it wasn't for me before i jumped all over it and fixed it. * * *

plaintiger:

Foxy Lady: yeep. i bet.

yeah, i think about the duration of winter differently down here too. You think about having Feb, March, and April yet to go; i think about having February yet to go.

plaintiger: Were usually got about a foot of snow and below zero.This really has been crazy for us,but we got Feb,March,and April yet.

Foxy Lady: not sure what we got up to today, but it's about 48 out there now, at 8:25...so it was probably 55 or so earlier. and not even February yet. i can imagine what the weather must be like for You during a *real* winter!

plaintiger: Wow we hit 48 again today,all the snow is turning to slush.

Foxy Lady: yes Ma'am. got it.

plaintiger: i sent you a PM.

Foxy Lady: i'm sorry, Lady, i don't understand: "There are no nutz on BK and such posts will be deleted"

Post jokes on the Joke Board.There are no nutz on BK and such posts will be deleted.

nobleheart: LOL we had temps in the 50's highest was Friday it hit 57.Woke up to SNOW this morning.Go figure that out,crazy weather this year.