I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

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  • suzieq60
    suzieq60 Member Posts: 6,059
    edited December 2013

    Bren - I'm still cute

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  • Bren-2007
    Bren-2007 Member Posts: 6,241
    edited December 2013


    Suzie ... looking for the "like" button ... you crack me up! And yes, you're still really cute.


    hugs,


    Bren

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited December 2013

    Figures he'd have to be from Illinois.  http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/12/11/3049681/shimkus-north-korea-sebelius/  It seems it is really hard for a lot of people to think before they speak. 

    Jackie

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited December 2013


    Kay -


    Blue Himalayan Poppies, are they the same as Icelandic Poppies? Love them. Probably cold enuf here - 2 degrees in the sunshine today! but too hot in the summers. I find something so exotic about blue flowers, purple too. Friends around me grow delphiniums as if they were nasturtiums! Not me...I did manage to get a hollyhock a friend gave me to grow, but turned out to be yellow, and the japanese beetles, which just TOOK OVER here last year, ate it to a piece of lace.


    Bren - love the pics...

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  • kayfh
    kayfh Member Posts: 790
    edited December 2013


    Meconopsis are native to Tibet. They sort of look like Icelandic Poppies but aren't. A while ago I saw some plants at a local nursery, they were marked sold. I was admiring them when the purchaser came to get them. He said, quite adamantly, "they're mine!" Somehow that rankled with me. My response? "Oh yeah? Well I am going to get some, grow them on, and then plant seeds in all of the ditches from here to Toronto. They will become as ubiquitous as day lilies!" Apparently when I am confronted with competitive gardeners, I become even more competitive. Alas. I did get some plants, which struggled for a year or two then expired. My plan for plant world domination was foiled by climate. Or microclimate. Blue flowers are my favourite. At least at this moment, when I look out and see only sleeping flower beds.

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  • RetiredLibby
    RetiredLibby Member Posts: 1,992
    edited December 2013

    In the "War on the Holidays" spirit, happy "Virgin of Guadalupe" day - the patron saint of Mexico.  http://www.npr.org/2013/12/12/250260398/mexicos-patron-saint-is-also-its-hello-kitty?utm_content=socialflow&utm_campaign=nprfacebook&utm_source=npr&utm_medium=facebook

    You see, every day has some kind of holiday, so saying "Happy Holidays" is merely polite.  Of course, people who claim that there is a "War on Christmas" and a "War on Christianity" are not polite people.  Or rational, come to that.

    Heh. 

    On poppies - they grow poppies in the medians on the interstates in Virginia.  They look so pretty, but they are the red kind.  Not the opium kind, I expect!  I have a black thumb.  I can manage to mow the yard and use the string trimmer, but that's about it.  Oh, and grow grape hyacinths, because they are bulbs and grow and propagate themselves with no help from me.


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  • kayfh
    kayfh Member Posts: 790
    edited December 2013


    But, you see, I don't have a lawn except a patch for sitting on with little kids, or a glass of wine and a book. I don't think I have the skill or patience for a really lush lawn. I have an urban garden, steal land (well borrow it) from the road right of way from adjacent to my yard and plant perennials and bushes and grasses as if I really did have a larger yard.

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  • RetiredLibby
    RetiredLibby Member Posts: 1,992
    edited December 2013


    Heh.

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  • bluedahlia
    bluedahlia Member Posts: 6,944
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  • QuinnCat
    QuinnCat Member Posts: 3,456
    edited December 2013


    Blue - love all of your recent pictures including cats!


    Kayfh - OMG, your post cracked me up. Are gardeners really that competitive? Certainly, all of my BC trips to Portland, OR (a gardening mecca) has made me aware of this gardening passion, so I suppose passion can give way to compeition - lol. I'd love to ask you a question about foxgloves.

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  • crazy4carrots
    crazy4carrots Member Posts: 5,324
    edited December 2013


    Kay, my favourite colour for flowers is blue, too! Hyacinths, iris, delphiniums, asters, grape hyacinths, clematis. Now, if only they could come up with a blue rose, I'd be totally happy!

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  • kayfh
    kayfh Member Posts: 790
    edited December 2013


    Every blue flower except the electric blue phalaenopsis that someone decided to provide to our local Home Depot. What is up with that?


    Edited to say which electric blue flower I was not wild about.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited December 2013


    kay - giggled reading your post. I lived in London for years, and just loved visiting gardens open to the public. M HEROS were and are, Vita Sakville-West who created Sissinghurst, and Gertrude Jekyll who created Hidcote Manor, and Munstead. Extravagant, exuberant LUSH gardens, and of course, the perfect weather for it. Lots of rain, some sun, when there was a very sunny day, we used to joke and say "that was summer" - of course not as true today.


    Once while visiting a garden, I asked a very elderly woman standing near me if she knew what a plant I was looking at was, and she easily reeled off this l-o-n-g Latin name. Duh. I was stunned, she was being kind, and started telling me what many plants were, I couldn't even SPELL what she was saying, to write it down. Still makes me smile, many not competitive, but so, so, so learned.

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited December 2013

    RL.....I wondered the same thing.  All the warm heartfelt words and adulation for Madela  ( which is fine with me because he richly deserves it ) but then scorn and derision here.  Sigh !!!!

    Jackie

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
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    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
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  • kayfh
    kayfh Member Posts: 790
    edited December 2013


    Good one IllinoisLady

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    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
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  • Chickadee
    Chickadee Member Posts: 4,467
    edited December 2013


    Some Santa fun.


    When four of Santa's elves got sick, the trainee elves did not produce

    toys as fast as the regular ones, and Santa began to feel the

    Pre-Christmas pressure. Then Mrs. Claus told Santa her Mother was

    coming to visit, which stressed Santa even more.


    When he went to harness the reindeer, he found that three of them were

    about to give birth and two others had jumped the fence and were out,

    Heaven knows where.


    Then, when he began to load the sleigh, one of the floorboards

    cracked, the toy bag fell to the ground and all the toys were

    scattered.


    Frustrated, Santa went into the house for a cup of apple cider and a

    shot of rum. When he went to the cupboard, he discovered the elves

    had drunk all the cider and hidden the liquor. In his frustration, he

    accidentally dropped the cider jug, and it broke into hundreds of

    little glass pieces all over the kitchen floor. He went to get the

    broom and found the mice had eaten all the straw off the end of the

    broom.


    Just then the doorbell rang, and an irritated Santa marched to the

    door, yanked it open, and there stood a little angel with a great big

    Christmas tree.


    The angel said very cheerfully, 'Merry Christmas, Santa. Isn't this a

    lovely day? I have a beautiful tree for you. Where would you like me

    to stick it?'


    And so began the tradition of the little angel on top of the Christmas tree.


    Not a lot of people know this.

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  • kayfh
    kayfh Member Posts: 790
    edited December 2013


    snicker. snicker. I am going to try to copy that to send it to a few people.

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  • Bren-2007
    Bren-2007 Member Posts: 6,241
    edited December 2013


    Blue ... the pic with the horse and cat reminded me of Sampson when we visited Suz this past summer. Suz was holding the barn kitty standing next to Sampson ... and Sampson kept trying to brush the cat off Suz' shoulder. It was hilarious! I'll see if I can find a picture.


    hugs,


    Bren



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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited December 2013


    love it bren, he was JEALOUS...


    RL - great Santa story

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  • Belinda44
    Belinda44 Member Posts: 718
    edited December 2013


    Quick pop in. Hello to all. Haven't been here in ages....catching up a bit, reading some of the threads. Love this gorgeous pic of our President and First Lady. It's from the Kennedy Center Honors which will be broadcast later this month.


    image

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  • Belinda44
    Belinda44 Member Posts: 718
    edited December 2013


    Good article (I agree with the Salon writer's comment about the TROLLS):


    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/12/obama-selfie-michelle-angry-black-woman_n_4434456.html


    ".....Unless you live under a rock, we're sure you came across the series of photos of President Obama snapping selfies with fellow world leaders at Nelson Mandela's memorial service on Tuesday.


    .......But one critique that piqued our interest was that of the first lady's response to her husband's behavior. Of course, out of context, the images made it seem like Michelle Obama wasn't very happy with POTUS.......


    ........In response, Salon writer Elias Isquith condemned social media trolls for their sexist and racist assumptions of FLOTUS' real response, perpetuating the "angry black woman" stereotype......


    .......Still others brushed the responses off as ignorant and nothing more than the Internet topic of the day. Of course, the photographer who actually snapped the series of images eventually revealed that everyone read the whole incident wrong (surprise, surprise), and that Michelle was in fact joining in on the fun too, although it wasn't caught on camera."

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  • Belinda44
    Belinda44 Member Posts: 718
    edited December 2013


    image


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  • Belinda44
    Belinda44 Member Posts: 718
    edited December 2013


    It's about time......


    "Boehner Blasts Tea Party Groups Over Budget Deal Criticism"


    "Some moments feel like turning points. Speaker John Boehner's rhetorical takedown of his party's Tea Party faction seems like one such moment.


    For two days running, Boehner, R-Ohio, has made clear that he's heard just about enough from conservative advocacy groups such as the Heritage Foundation, Americans for Prosperity and Freedomworks.


    On Wednesday, he called them "ridiculous." On Thursday, he said "they've lost all credibility."


    Full article:


    http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2013/12/12/250555582/boehner-blisters-tea-party-groups-over-budget-deal-criticism

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited December 2013


    Belinda - fabulous pictures. I laugh when I read the cynics picking at what ever they can to demean the stature of the President and First Lady. Expect they laugh too. I LOVE seeing them, and just ignore the cynics. Thanks for the great pic of the Kennedy honors night.


    ANOTHER LAUGH - happy to hear the news Arimidex being used to PREVENT bc in high risk women, but laughing at the comments re: "it has no significant side effects." MUST, MUST, MUST have been written by a man who has never taken it. LOL!!!!


    Boehner seems to be waking up....welcome to the real world mr. mantan, or mr tangcolour makeup, whichever ;-)))

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