What do you come here for?

[Ten Packs]

Re: RE: What do you come here for?

As a 4-year retiree (though not 55 yet)...

I may be mistaken, but I think I read somewhere that you're FIFTY-FOUR YEARS OLD.

Or am I thinking of someone else?

I will be 54 in August - I may have been "embellishing"....

 

[Ten Packs]

I originally came here because I heard there wasn't the hypocracy of gripe...... I see now that CC is falling into the same hypocritical trap that gripe fell into.

Ya wanna troll? - get a boat, Gerry.....

 

[galianomama]

hey dex....just read your posts. yeah, we would get along just fine, thank you very much....i have everything coming up really well in the greenhouse, tomato plants - 3 varieties - my beans, sweet peas i have planted out now, huge sunflowers (which i am saving for a garden sale) hands off pea, trying to grow rosemary. you would probably have much better luck with it where there is snow. it likes to start off slow and cold. hmmm, kinda like a beer 8O ha!

yeah, if you and yours ever mosey thru this way, we will show you a good time, just ask emma......emma where are you? maybe we scared her off! :wink:

as far as the food critique - i loves me food! not too keen on the ol' pickled herring that pea keeps trying to fry up after a goony night out. she just can't seem to remember to leave it cold. still, those little bones drive me nuts. other than that, throw it at me.

i love coming to this board just because of all the great people i have had the opportunity to meet. and agrue with. honest 8O

 

[peapod]

Blah!!!!! I cannot even look at pickled herring 8O Mr and Mrs dibbs are still in vancouver, they do not fly home until saturday, if you had remained sober during their visit you would have remembered that
Also I do not need your sunflowers I have my own...but ehm...I have eaten half the sprouted ones...yummy sunflower sprouts are good 8) they taste peppery....yes its so hard to grow something in a greenhouse :roll:...

PS....I looked at your pond...there is no water in it...you are going to kill your pond plants. :twisted: yes the pond goes to hell, but you got sunflowers

 

[peapod]

What do you come from? and why are you not here! I excepted to read more of your garden journal Dex
Myself, I really tried to get something done in my garden this evening. Blah! I cannot wait for the brew haha of spring to finally stop. It started off alright, just me and the weeds, than I hear my neighbours lawn mower. I stay low, hoping he will not see me. Drats! no such luck. Not that he is not a good neighbour, but once he starts talking there is no escape. 8O So we spend the next half hour discussing his wisteria. Its always about his wisteria :roll: He does not seem to mind that it appears to be ripping the roof off his house, his roof looks like it has a purple boa feather wrapped around it. The boa continues down the side of house, down the entire fence line of the driveway. It is now starting to climb the huge fir tree in his yard. We then move on to hostas

Finally I get back to my own garden, but hammie shows up with bucket and wants some of my riches, I still don't know why she was wearing blue jeans coveralls, I thought maybe she wanted to work or something. No such luck, we had to do a walkabout and discuss every plants merit and bad points. I finally managed to get her over to my clematis and help me tie it up to the fence. Pffft... it has the wisteria all beat to hell, and my blooms are pink :twisted:

Just when I think okay now I can get something done, Another gardener!!!! This one at least brought me some garlic to plant, and than two more...I will be glad when spring awakening is over and I can get my garden done :wink:

 

[Dexter Sinister]

What do you come from?

You mean where? Regina. As for what, I guess that'd be my parents...

and why are you not here!

I was out in my garden, of course, where else would I be if I weren't here? :wink:

Conventional wisdom around here is that you can't plant anything until the May 24th long weekend, when the odds are good that all danger of frost is past, and the soil's tolerably warm. Root crops like potatoes can safely go in a couple of weeks earlier, but any earlier risks a killing frost. It was, for instance, -2 when I got up this morning. Even that long weekend is no guarantee, we've had overnight freezing in every month of the year, more than once, during my life as a gardener.

Now I'm ready, all I can do is wait for the weather to catch up with me, and envy you folks in warmer climes. But my tulips are coming up, and some of the perennials are greening up and sending out new growth, so at least there's something to look at and think positively about. And weeds, as usual, are exceptionally hardy... :evil:

 

[peapod]

HA! weeds are very clever dex...have you noticed how they can even make themselves look like other plants in the garden...they defiantely intend on surviving on the planet. :wink:

 

[no1important]

RE: What do you come here

I come here to read the articles and editorials. Which are always pretty good. This site actually has a lot of real good links and resources in addition to these boards.

 

[peapod]

thats true important, and here is something I learned this weekend which I feel is important, so I will share with you, important :lol: :lol:

The physics of beauty requires math. The sunflower has spirals of 12, 34, 55, and 89 and in very large sunflowers 144 seeds 8O. Each number is the sum of the two preceding numbers. This pattern is everywhere, pine needles and mollusk shells and even in a parrot beak and spirial galaxies. After the 14th number, every number divided by the next highest number results in the sum that is the length-to-width ratio of what we call the golden mean. In our own spiral-shaped inner ear's cochlea, musical notes vibrate at a similar ratio. The patterns of beauty repeat themselves over and over again.

All that in a sunflower 8)

 

[p106_peppy]

I wanted to discus Martins address to teh nation, but no one on totse had any idea what I was alking about. I then earched google for "canadian politics forum".

 

[Canucklehead]

RE: What do you come here

I first happened by the boards while searching the net for a list of "Canadianisms" after a discussion with a friend. Can't remember what the search was but CC came up /shrug

I stay because the discussion is a hell of a lot more level headed than I am used to. (anyone whose visited GUTalk-International knows what I mean).

I don't post a whole lot because I am not a confrontational person and don't have page upon page of links supporting my views, not to mention truly unbiased links are few and far between no matter whose posting them.

 

[Diamond Sun]

I breeze in and out when I'm looking for some procrastination time. I am often up for a good debate, but have to find just that perfect thread to throw in my two cents.

Mostly, I like to lurk because I like watching people. Ha. That sounds creepy doesn't it.

Seriously though, I was looking for something better than the local crappy forum, and stumbled onto this.

 

[peapod]

I wish you would come more often diamond, you are missed around here. Blah! enough of the mushy stuff :wink:

 

[Dexter Sinister]

The physics of beauty requires math. ... Each number is the sum of the two preceding numbers. This pattern is everywhere

Good one pea, nice little tidbit of information there, and the mathematician in me is pleased to see a non-mathematician reporting it. It's called the Fibonacci series, after the 13th century Italian mathematician who discovered it. No doubt there are those (in other threads... :wink who would take this as evidence of design, when in fact it's just a description. Almost anywhere a spiral occurs in nature, the Fibonacci series is involved in its mathematical description.

And it's also true that as you go farther along the series, the ratio of adjacent numbers approaches what's variously called the Golden Section, the Golden Mean, the Golden Ratio, etc. It appears that a rectangle whose short and long sides bear that ratio to each other is uniquely aesthetically pleasing to the human eye, so it also shows up in architectural designs (the face of the Parthenon in Athens is that kind of rectangle), and right down to such mundane things as the dimensions of furniture. The ancient Greeks knew it well, and it appears to have been a major motivator in their discovery of irrational numbers, because it is itself an irrational number (that's a number that can't be expressed exactly as a ratio of two integers). It's a nice example of what science often refers to as "elegance," which might be defined as the unity and consistency of patterns we see in nature.

There's another reason to come here: this place is full of little gems of information like that. Unfortunately, nobody with a real life can read all the threads and posts to get them all...

 

[peapod]

:lol: :lol: A little time in the garden and a few good botany books. The greatest pleasure comes from the observation :wink: