Posted on 07/18/2007 5:22:46 PM PDT by charming_harmonica
No gym for home, work out floor with 30, but is it for 20 like 30 lb when you no lift it to be for men, for 30 lbs instead? or half is 10 for 20 pounds?
I had to plant all the roses in peat moss for moisture as we have clay as dirt. And our odd cold-warm-cold-warm weather only killed one roes last winter. Of course it had to be Glamis Castle. :(
I don’t have any plants of any kind, now. I had about a dozen roses when we lived in the San Francisco Bay area, but that was so long ago that I’ve forgotten what we had.
We had a hugh back yard surrounded by wooden fencing and we redid the fence so it was solid instead of staggered, giving us much more privacy.
We then put down sod, and stepping stones with scottish moss between them on the way to the back gate. Just before the fence by the gate, I put up white picket fences and had five or six rose bushes on each side.
It was really nice. It was the nicest back yard in the complex. And that’s the last time I’ve grown anything. Now, of course, I’m a serial plant killer.
Helps to prove the point. Men talk to communicate information, women talk just to be talking. It’s a physiological/chemistry thing with them. Thus, way, way back when, women sitting together, cuddling their babies, started the first telephone conversation as a soothing brain chemistry process when the male hunters were out in the forest, still grunting to each other with hand gestures as an additional communication process.
It is said that there are 3 types of male archetypes : hunter, farmer, shepherd. Do men whisper to their horses, plants, sheep? Meanwhilst, back home, what do women do, just sit around like rag dolls? The guy out on the job is focussed on that JOB, but the woman at home, for her activity outlet TALKS.
In egypt hand/body language is a vital part of the whole communication process, whereas an american woman can spend HOURS on the phone talking about nothing at all. I’m no clinical psychiatrist but in that question : who invented language, my $2 is on women. Talking is MORE than simple communication to the fairer sex.
Roses are my passion/obsession. Hubby tries to keep me away from anywhere that sells them. Even WalMart isn't safe.LOL But this year Hubby got into it too. He found 2 Gene Boerner roses for $5 at Loews. He said we had to take them as they were killing them. Then he found 3 more roses they were "trying to kill". They had blackspot (yellow leaves) so I brought them all home, spayed them with Immunox, and they're in full bloom.
Er...I ARE the fairer sex, and I still don’t understand the feminine fascination for phones. They are tools, period. But then, overall, I don’t understand women, either.
My daughter can function without her cellphone. She has it attached to her ear from the moment she leaves the house in the morning till she comes home at night. Idiocy.
Uh oh. Do tell!
Don't use the house phone either. And it will be DAYS before TV is turned on. FR, books and my garden are my pastimes.
I think it took us the better part of a month to do all the stuff we wanted to the back yard. I did most of the work on it because I was a stay-at-home mom.
That included tearing down the existing fencing, putting it back up, and staining it with redwood stain. But it was a nice place to sit in the afternoons, once we were done. We were going to put up an awning, but Igor got transferred to Saudi Arabia, so we had to leave it all behind. *sigh*
About the only rose I remember is the lavender one. I had a pale orange one, too. Don’t recall the names.
And yes, I remember Darks and his boulder removal!
I can sit here for days on end and no one will call. Mostly I use the phone for business. Unless my kids call, of course. Once in a while, one of my brothers will call, but that’s almost as rare as hen’s teeth. I’m still the “little sister.”
Yeah, sure we do.
Especially you. What with your nanny and all. </ sarc >
And my cleaning service, and my laundress, and my grocery delivery, and my chauffeur ...
I’m with you on the phone - haven’t wanted to spend any time on it since my teens.
My mom just called to say they’re leaving in the morning to visit my brother; we talked 90 seconds before the first kid turned up at my elbow bellowing! I’d have gone outside if it weren’t so hot, but then they’d beat their heads on the glass, howling at me :-).
I don’t see my brother very often either, but he’s the only family I have any contact with.
Was your lavender rose Blue Girl?
I LIKE the days no one calls. I talk to Hubby more than anyone else. After 37 years, he still misses me when he goes to work.
We didn’t spend much time on the phone when we were teens. We had too much to do, between housework and being outside whenever we could.
Back then, of course, phones were a little heavier than they are now. LOL!
I have three sisters and two brothers, and I never hear from the oldest sister, seldom hear from the other two, but I can count on my brothers calling once or twice a year. Maybe.
I think it was called a Sterling. It was lavender on the gray side. Really very pretty.
LOL!
That’s so cool! Kudos to you for having such a great guy!
Good Morning!
Morning/afternoon, RD.
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