Posted on 12/20/2013 10:03:22 AM PST by greeneyes
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/johnny
When do you start basil seed if you grow that.
Basil likes the heat, plus the more you cut it, the bushier, and happier it gets. Ive always direct sown mine (because I didn't have my fabulous Marcella suggested grow lamp yet) in late April or May..
You're a little warmer down there, so you could probably start it in March, and transplant it late april.
Thanks, I’ll go for first few days of March.
OK, might as well as I’m putting other seeds under grow lamp.
Merry Christmas FRiends!
We have had warmer than normal temperatures so the pansies are blooming like no tomorrow. Merry Christmas!
Decided I needed some diamonds so I would have a Christmas present to myself (and make my back feel better - diamonds do that you know - they are medicinal, yes, they are). Ordered a pendant with rows of the new chocolate diamonds and rows of regular diamonds in between the chocolate rows, and ring to match. More than half price off on both and gold, platinum, diamonds and gemstones will likely be worth more than worthless paper if TSHTF. I have a lot of gold, platinum, diamond and precious gemstones jewelry. They are large pieces.
When I married my husband, I had one ring I got in Mexico. He said that would not do, and through the years, he wanted me to have more, so I got more. Most pieces were bought to commemorate some event in our lives. Never once did I think this country would go down the drain and gold, platinum, and diamonds, etc., would be more important than a stack of paper money.
Gold price has gone out of sight the past couple of years, and all the gold jewelry I have was bought years ago when prices were much less. I have a solid gold bracelet (solid - not two pieces with nothing in between, it's a solid piece and thick and fairly wide), I had made in Hong Kong when I was there and since it's solid, I can't imagine the price that gold would be today.
Back is better, think more Amaretto would be good. Where are the envelopes of pepper seed????
Hang on to your jewelry, it could be sold for income some day.
And another thing - somehow my computer guts put UTube in a slot that didn’t allow it to work. It took me hours today to find out what had happened that no UTube link on FR or anywhere else would work. I clicked every setting that had to do with the internet and finally found the right place to get it to open. Today just wasn’t my day, but I have a Christmas present coming to me from me.
Merry Christmas.
Funny you mention that, I have some bling myself that I just never wear, don’t even know why I have it anymore. Hubby always wanted to indulge me. I have one ring that I have to have checked every 6 months for the diamond warranty to stay in effect and it just goes back in the safe. Crazy.
PS - My principal’s name in grammar school was Sr. Mary Marcella.
“and it just goes back in the safe”
If the safe you speak of is in the bank, I’d get the ring out. Hopefully, you have it at home. It is a valuable piece of gold and diamond. When my new pieces get here, I’ll wear them here at home every day.
My husband and I stopped at a gas station one time and I gave him my credit card to take in to pay for gas. In a bit, the woman clerk came running out to my car window and she is very excited. She came from Greece and one of the Greek Islands is named Saint Marcella. This woman was so excited by my name, she thought I was named for that saint. The lady Marcella lived on that island and she was considered a saintly woman and there is a statue of her on that island. I have been to one of the Greek Islands but not that one. I don’t know why my mother picked Marcella as there is no one in the family on either side named that.
Sounds like your principal was a nun so I wonder if she took that name when she became a nun.
She was in an Order - the Servites so I assume the name was given to her. Nothings at the bank. I can’t wear any of it around here, always doing something messy and I don’t want to damage anything or lose a stone.
I bought it from her so she could give the money to the kids and the watch wouldn't go to some stranger. It was platinum and solid diamonds, the entire band was solid diamonds and all around the face of the watch solid diamonds and the face was tiny. Had to look closely to see the time.
Any real jewelry will be valuable if TSHTF. We might get to the point we melt the gold and the stones be separate and use both for money.
In a long term emergency, fresh food and food seed will be King. If people can see you have food growing, they will want it. If they have no money, they still want it. I don't know how one would protect a garden that can be seen, from being stripped of food. If one believes that can never happen, then there isn't a problem.
I have never heard of grapes being toxic to dogs. Our dogs have consumed everything that “they” say is toxic, so I guess in moderation, non of it is.
Wishing you a Merry Christmas from my family to yours. This is my favorite place on the internet, because we are all like family here and ya’ll are loved immensely.
We had our Christmas gift giving Sat night after the gang from Ms. has a chance to settle in a day or so. Sunday we spent the day wandering around Old Town Spring, an 1880’s Texas town that has been turned into a tourist trap, full of small shops and eateries. There must have been 50,000- 100,000 people there gawking and spending money. All in all, it has been a good Christmas for us since we haven’t seen the Ms. bunch in a year.
I hope so.
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