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  • Loveroflife
    Loveroflife Member Posts: 5,563
    edited April 2015

    Wow Mag, love the roses especially the delicate fragrant one.

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  • Spookiesmom
    Spookiesmom Member Posts: 9,568
    edited April 2015

    Love roses, I've tried, but just don't do well here.

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  • Loveroflife
    Loveroflife Member Posts: 5,563
    edited April 2015

    imageMy Double Delight. Lovely fragrance

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  • Rosevalley
    Rosevalley Member Posts: 3,061
    edited April 2015

    Mags- gorgeous roses! I have not seen that one, I'll look for it. I have the peach colored one with the rose colored edges and it smells wonderfully good - huge flower production, big healthy tall bush. For a while we had a very nice smelling peace rose, white but it croaked.Gardinas are heavenly and so delicatly pure white against those waxy deep green leaves - nice photo spookie. Jazzy- lovely rock garden!

    Smarty so glad things went well and you are home and resting. All I have done all day is sleep, can't seem to stay awake. My Bp was very low today for me 99/66 heart rate 87 (just about never see 80 anything, always over 90-110) guess it's the pain meds? Lots of rib pain today. I hit any kind of surface and I'm toast.. fast asleep. I guess I need it. i might be here all night since I have slept all day.

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  • Chevyboy
    Chevyboy Member Posts: 10,786
    edited April 2015

    I've been looking online for Mr. Lincoln Pink Rose bushes.... Not havng any luck finding pink.... I think I'll have my Daughters' get one for me for Mother's Day? And then it would be our 3 generation rose bush.... !

    They always get me flower plants, but a Rose Bush would be better! My Mom and Dad had beautiful Roses... Dad was a Florist...just like Janie.... AND my Brother... They showed me how to angle/trim the rose bushes, to guide where you wanted the next stem to come in... Dad even had those grafted rose bushes.... A bush with different color roses...

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    Eddie's funeral is next Wednesday, at a Church close to here... Their old neighborhood, and Theresa's church. He is one of the few survivors of Pearl Harbor... He was there that day... his story was featured in our local paper, on Pearl Harbor Day.... so it will be a beautiful funeral, and then a military service at Ft. Logan.... Not many of those old guys left.... He was 94! Theresa is 92.....

    All the rose pictures are beautiful! AND your YARD!

    Ohhhhhhh.... Look at this one!

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  • Chevyboy
    Chevyboy Member Posts: 10,786
    edited April 2015

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    They would slice the bark from the host "tree" and then attach a stem from another color, and then tie it all back together...until it takes hold.... A real conversation piece, a "rose-tree."

    I still like the all-one-color trees....

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  • dutchiris
    dutchiris Member Posts: 855
    edited April 2015

    This is a frame I am making for a photo of my niece that my sister took. I started painting it tonight. imageimage

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  • dutchiris
    dutchiris Member Posts: 855
    edited April 2015

    This is a frame I am making for the mirror that was once in my bathroom. The tiles need trimming to fit properly.image

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  • Wren44
    Wren44 Member Posts: 8,585
    edited April 2015

    For beautiful roses, check out Heirloom Roses in Oregon. We have bought several there and stopped to see their gardens on the way back to Seattle from the Oregon coast. They have a lot of old fashioned roses and all are grown on their own rootstock rather than grafted.

    Chevy, We had a pear tree that had 5 varieties grafted on to the trunk. The dog destroyed it and we ended up with 3 varieties but never knew which was which. Maybe they were all rootstock in the end.

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  • Loveroflife
    Loveroflife Member Posts: 5,563
    edited April 2015

    Jazzy, nice water-smart garden. Thinking about changing our front lawn to maybe rock garden with drought tolerance plants.

    Dutch, very handy...nice frame.

    Ms Sas, had to figure out who Felix Unger was. So he is a character in The Odd Couple show from the early 70's ( thanks to Google). This is before I came to the States. Sounds like an interesting show.I need to see if it's available on Netflix.

    Mel, such a blessing to have friends from childhood

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  • magdalene51
    magdalene51 Member Posts: 2,214
    edited April 2015

    LMG, the climbing Tiffany was at our first house in OKC, and it grew up to our second story window, very prolific. As long as it gets sufficient water, west exposure should be good.

    Loverly, Double Delight is also one of my very favorites! Very fragrant!

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  • Chevyboy
    Chevyboy Member Posts: 10,786
    edited April 2015

    Spookie made me do this....... But I would have posted it anyway....

    http://www.onlyinyourstate.com/florida/spot-a-floridian/

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  • Chevyboy
    Chevyboy Member Posts: 10,786
    edited April 2015

    http://www.heirloomroses.com/comte-de-chambord.html

    Okay.... I just ordered an Heirloom Rose...! Thanks for all the suggestions, about fragrance, climbing, etc! PERFECT! I love the color... There was another "new" rose, honoring Breast Cancer, but I like the fullness of the one I ordered! Besides, I like to just remember my Mom, and the rose bush my Daughter's had given me... So I done DID it...

    Wren... I ordered it from Oregon...! The most fragrant one I could find....

    Mags, I'm planting some Morning Glory seeds by our front porch/fence! I saved the seed from the dried vines I had planted last year in another spot.

    Morning Loverly! Yes, the Odd Couple! That was the funniest show... ALSO The Honeymooners! Did you gals watch the Dancing With The Stars 10th Anniversay special last night? We REALLY enjoyed it... And Patty Labelle and Lil Kim really belted out that song! I can't remember that other gals name... but it was so fun to watch and listen to!

    Dutchess, take a picture when you are finished... I love when you gals post pictures of your "stuff" .... makes me want to do things too!

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  • M0mmyof3
    M0mmyof3 Member Posts: 9,696
    edited April 2015

    Welcome Trinity,

    I'm the baby of the bunch here.... I think!

    Anywho....went to the PS for my post-op check-up and everything looks good. She told me that they did a bit of revision on the right one, my "good girl" aka the one where there was no cancer... so its still a bit swollen but both are healing nicely. So unless something starts acting up, I won't see her for a month. She gave me a good sized order for Avon from her and the staff. Not a bad day, getting good news on my healing process and an order for my business.

    Had a bad bit of news over the weekend though. An uncle of my hubby's died. Tonight is the wake and tomorrow is the funeral. Even though I do feel up to going and got clearance from the PS, hubby doesn't want to subject me to a long day since I'm still healing from the surgery, so we probably won't go to the wake or the funeral but we are sending a card to his aunt.

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  • Chevyboy
    Chevyboy Member Posts: 10,786
    edited April 2015

    Oh sorry Mom2... But glad that surgery is all behind you....! Old Eddie's (our neighbor) funeral is next Wednesday... I know it's respectful and all that, but sometimes a card is just as nice as showing up...

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  • M0mmyof3
    M0mmyof3 Member Posts: 9,696
    edited April 2015

    Yep. Plus I won't have to deal with my MIL & FIL, I'd have to hurt myself by "Gibbs-slapping" them. For those that don't get the "Gibbs-slapping" bit, it comes from the show NCIS and happens when Mark Harmon's character smacks someone on the team for saying something stupid or doing something stupid. Happens at least every show!

    here's a link to see what a "Gibbs-slap" is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boY7i11aYRA

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  • Chevyboy
    Chevyboy Member Posts: 10,786
    edited April 2015

    Hah-Haaaaaaaaaah! I LOVE that show! Amd I loved Zeba and Tony together.... That show is just plain good!

    Yes, we need to Gibbs-slap more people.... straighten them right up! That clip was great..... !

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  • M0mmyof3
    M0mmyof3 Member Posts: 9,696
    edited April 2015

    I am an NCIS addict. I agree more people need to be Gibbs-slapped!


     

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  • sas-schatzi
    sas-schatzi Member Posts: 19,603
    edited April 2015

    Good afternoon, Dutchy prttey impressive wood working project. All the proper tools and a proper work bench.

    Mommy, great report on the foobies. Sorry about your UIL. I love Gibbs too. I wish Ziva hadn't left. The new girl is sweet, but she is Ziva or Kate. Gibbs slap, always wondered if anyone tried it in the workplace, using the excuse that Gibbs does it.

    Chevy, Eddie's a WW11, Pearl Harbor Vet. WOW.......Not many left.

    Computer has to go in for repair back to HP. I will only have Kindle for that time. Kind of scary. I will feel cut off from the world.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited April 2015

    I made it home!!  My kidlet drove back with me.  He's cooking right now.  YUM. 

    I got home and my purple irises are blooming and the yellow ones are about to.  The lilacs are in full bloom also.  I'm SO glad to be home. I was gone 9 months for treatment.

    Someone asked me about the type of radiation I got.  I had to look it up to get it right.  The clinical trial uses IMRT:

    Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT): A type of 3-dimensional conformal radiotherapy that focuses multiple radiation beams directly on the tumor itself. Beam intensities vary, so that the highest possible doses can be used to destroy cancerous tissue. Proper positioning of the patient is crucial to the success of IMRT. Radiation oncologists use special planning software to determine the most accurate treatment.

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  • Spookiesmom
    Spookiesmom Member Posts: 9,568
    edited April 2015

    Oh Phyllo, that has to be THE best feeling!!!! I'm happy for you!! Ahhhhhh

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  • Loveroflife
    Loveroflife Member Posts: 5,563
    edited April 2015

    Ms Spookie, you always took the words from my mouth. I meant my fingers. It's kind of scary.

    Phyllis, it must be heaven to be back home. I can't imagine being away from home for 9 months for treatment. Hopefully, now you can rest and let your body heal.

    Mommy, great news on your post-op appointment. How is the exchange compared to MX and to TE placement for you

    Ms. Chevy, I sent the Know Your State link to my little Sis, who moved to Florida last year, and her response was LOL to the #8 & 16. I guess she relates.

    Ms. Sas, hope you get your laptop back soon. Yikes

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  • Chevyboy
    Chevyboy Member Posts: 10,786
    edited April 2015

    This is Eddie, on Pearl Harbor Day... They came to interview him about the attack... His memory was sooooo good! He was 94 when he passed away Saturday morning.....

    http://www.9news.com/story/news/local/2014/12/07/c...

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  • Loveroflife
    Loveroflife Member Posts: 5,563
    edited April 2015

    Thank you Ms. Chevy for sharing the video. Mr. Eddie seemed like a sweet man. How are you doing?

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  • M0mmyof3
    M0mmyof3 Member Posts: 9,696
    edited April 2015

    Lot less pain, but its taking some time to get back to seeping on my right side because of all the weight in the chest area

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  • Jazzygirl
    Jazzygirl Member Posts: 12,533
    edited April 2015

    Mommy- glad you are feeling better.

    Blondie- where art thou?

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  • M0mmyof3
    M0mmyof3 Member Posts: 9,696
    edited April 2015

    Finally had a decent night's sleep.

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  • Chevyboy
    Chevyboy Member Posts: 10,786
    edited April 2015

    Morning gals! Hi Loverly..... I was looking on Google snoring, and found this!

    I was finally alone with Henry Cavill, and he was confessing his undying love for me... Then my husband started snoring and woke me up.

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  • Chevyboy
    Chevyboy Member Posts: 10,786
    edited April 2015

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  • Jazzygirl
    Jazzygirl Member Posts: 12,533
    edited April 2015

    MammaRay- I would not be comfortable either. I have been very private about my dx. It is a kind thing to have friends want to help us, and your friends are coming from the right place. Hopefully they will respect your wishes and just not do this.

    And you are not a bad person either for expression your wishes for what you are comfortable around. They are not the ones with the disease, you are. Hugs sister, I hope every day get a bit better for you.

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