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Post by bjd on Apr 7, 2024 17:52:08 GMT
Mad Magazine used to call her Annette Funny Jello. Ann Sothern American actress for about 60 years
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Post by bjd on Apr 6, 2024 16:19:20 GMT
You would need something to hold it as it grows, Tod. Wisteria can be really big and needs a support. This google maps is a street in our town and, although it's the wrong season, what you see along that wall is wisteria. wisteria on wall
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Post by bjd on Apr 5, 2024 18:54:38 GMT
Bixa, I think the non-performing redbud would die if I cut it right back. It's a young tree bought in October 2023 at a local nursery. It's a multi-trunk and one thin branch broke off with strong wind (or the kid next door's ball!). It was alive and had leaves when we bought and planted it so I don't know what it's doing. In any case, it's too late in the season to plant anything else now so we'll wait and see what it does.
I did put compost, mulch and even threw on some fertilizer. The very tips of some of the branches looked completely dry so I cut them off. We'll see. Patience is the hardest part of gardening for me.
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Post by bjd on Apr 5, 2024 18:08:47 GMT
Perth Cities in Scotland, Australia, Canada and other places Scots emigrated to
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Post by bjd on Apr 5, 2024 18:07:12 GMT
Sharon Stone American actress who has given up acting for painting
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Post by bjd on Apr 5, 2024 18:04:58 GMT
I am seeing an increase in nose rings and I am not pleased. Probably not a good idea as hay fever season is coming.
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Post by bjd on Apr 5, 2024 15:42:39 GMT
That bed is really filling out, Except for that redbud right at the front. The two other trees we planted in October are doing well, this one just isn't doing anything. I scratched the bark a bit and it seems alive but it has no leaf buds nor blooms. And I have to finish pulling out those weeds on the right hand side. Your cedar/oak is amazing. How can two such different trees grow so closely? I assume my plane tree is partly hollow for the wisteria to have found a place inside.
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Post by bjd on Apr 5, 2024 9:10:14 GMT
Wisteria blooming in the garden
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Post by bjd on Apr 5, 2024 9:05:21 GMT
A wisteria growing inside a plane tree And the garden bed I dug out last October
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Post by bjd on Apr 5, 2024 8:59:12 GMT
It was already 19° at 6 am today, we should get another 10° under a hazy sky.
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Post by bjd on Apr 5, 2024 4:48:17 GMT
It looks and sounds like a great holiday. Too bad the weather appears rather gray and drizzly much of the time, but then I guess this was in March?
I find it interesting that people whose houses back onto the canal seem to have reclaimed the land all the way to the water. Would this be private land, or does it belong to the state or whoever maintains the canals?
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Post by bjd on Apr 4, 2024 15:19:20 GMT
River Thames River that flows through London, England
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Post by bjd on Apr 4, 2024 15:17:35 GMT
Leonard Nimoy American actor who played the Vulcan Mr Spock in Star Trek
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Post by bjd on Apr 4, 2024 15:14:55 GMT
Weird weather here. Sunny/hazy and 25°C at 5pm. Forecast is for about 29° tomorrow and Saturday, then the high for Tuesday is 13°.
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Post by bjd on Apr 3, 2024 19:41:15 GMT
Thanks Bixa. I am not sure what laurel is ? Bay leaves maybe ? Yes. Bay leaves.
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Post by bjd on Apr 3, 2024 18:12:01 GMT
I was surprised how quickly worms arrrived in the part of the garden I dug out last October. From none to lots every time I go to pull weeds. Excellent news indeed.
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Post by bjd on Apr 3, 2024 17:56:55 GMT
Your bird is a gallinule or moorhen.
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Post by bjd on Apr 2, 2024 15:40:45 GMT
Land's End Town in Cornwall at the extreme southwestern point of the country. It has equivalents in Spain - Finisterra and France, Finisterre
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Post by bjd on Apr 2, 2024 15:37:32 GMT
Roy Rogers American TV cowboy
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Post by bjd on Apr 2, 2024 15:07:49 GMT
Since young people are back to buying vinyl records, the comment about sounding like a broken one might mean something to them one of these days.
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Post by bjd on Apr 2, 2024 6:52:38 GMT
That definitely looks like a pleasant holiday. The rental houseboats on the Canal du Midi are wider and more modern-looking than your narrow boat and are also popular in the summer. I think some of the major locks have full-time lock-keepers, at least during the busy season. The Canal du Midi page exists in English but the photos are better on the French page.
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Post by bjd on Mar 30, 2024 20:07:30 GMT
It was sunny and windy today but clouded over progressively. As we headed home from the park with our grandchildren about 5:30 we got caught in a downpour.
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Post by bjd on Mar 30, 2024 20:05:45 GMT
When we moved here I bought a compost bin at Lidl and have been using it as well as the contents of a big heap of garden waste beside it. Then about 2 weeks ago I learned that if I go to the local dump with proof of living here, I can get a free compost bin.
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Post by bjd on Mar 30, 2024 20:00:14 GMT
hey must have been really devoted to that barge to go to all that trouble. Not that devoted after all. They totally renovated the thing, then decided to move back to England so that their daughter could go to an English university.
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Post by bjd on Mar 30, 2024 6:36:42 GMT
You can still rent boats to sail along canals in France. It's very popular on the Canal du Midi in summer.
Last weekend in Toulouse, I noticed a lot of permanently-moored barges on the canal near where I stayed. Many more than a few years ago. Several had taken over the shore beside their mooring, put up a fence and seats or planted flowers. I'm not sure that is legal since it's municipal property but several had done so.
I used to know some Brits who lived in a barge on that canal. They had bought a sea-going barge in La Rochelle or somewhere but it had to be cut into 3, the centre removed and the front and back soldered together in order to fit under bridges and along curves of the canal.
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Post by bjd on Mar 29, 2024 7:59:29 GMT
It started to rain yesterday late afternoon and has been doing so ever since. Not heavy, no wind but it is supposed to continue all day. 13° this morning.
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Post by bjd on Mar 28, 2024 20:13:16 GMT
Seven years already??
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Post by bjd on Mar 28, 2024 15:38:18 GMT
I'm happy to see what a narrow boat actually looks like. I have a book called "Narrow Boat to Carcassonne" about an English couple who took their narrow boat across the Channel and then sailed through canals to Carcassonne in southern France.
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Post by bjd on Mar 28, 2024 12:07:23 GMT
17°, very windy, mostly sunny.
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Post by bjd on Mar 28, 2024 8:03:27 GMT
Back at home after being in Toulouse for 5 days. The garden looks about the same other than the wisteria has flowered and there are a few more tulips, some of the recently planted gladioli are pointing their heads out of the ground. A mix of not too hot weather and some rain obviously. New weeds, of course.
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