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flirtyNow Playing: Some collectoin of hippy music from ABSM.hippy music
Topic: The weekly flower report!
Every one is either at school or at work, and in half an hour I will also be busy. This morning I found my e-mail inbox jammed with almost one hundred phishing spams. All came from the same IP, and all directed to the same IP group, and then there was another redirect buried in the source code. There were e-bay notices, paypal notices, Lloyd's bank... The origin of the e-mails came from Turkey and all redirected to China and then to a Romanian ISP. I forwarded the entire mess of to a group of white hatters, and the ISP where the e-mail originating, although some of these places don't really care. Except the Lloyd's bank scam spam because they send such nice thank you letters when you forward phishing spam. Which they just did! They are such nice people.
Now that's all taken care of I can do a few other things. I got hubby a bunch of easter cream eggs for valentine's day. It's what he likes best, so why not? The machine I want is on sale at the Singer Store. I'm very tempted to go and put it on lay-away. It would take a half an hour bus ride...ten minutes in the store...and another short bus ride, shorter because I won't need to stop at the bank. It comes with a table, motor, everything! And the price is so good that I could buy some feet and accessories, like an extra bobbin case, maybe a couple extra pairs of feed dogs for different fabric weights. And needles, lots of needles. I change needles all the time.
It's funny...when i took my babylock in I asked about a problem with my kenmore, and she very cautiously asked if I changed the needle. I laughed and said of course, I always change needles! I said that I know all about people who never ever change their needles (my mom) and wonder what's wrong with the machine.
You know what I really hate? The temperature in shopping malls. In the winter they have the temperature cranked up to 72. And on day's like yesterday when it's freaking cold and I have to wear extra sweaters under my coat of risk freezing to death...I get over heated and dehydrated in the mall. I hate that! And in the summer they crank up the AC to 68...you know what? 72 is better in the summer, people won't freeze, and in the winter 68 is better because people won't melt. Bitch Bitch.
A couple days ago we had a "darwin award" winner. Today I present an "honorable mention" from the winter storm battered Hamilton. One word dude...D'oh! I don't think he thought his cunning plan through to the end!
So...CSI:New York is going to kill one of theirs the slow way. But why Stella? I like her, she lights up the screen whenever she's on. At least it's subtle. Tonight the tiny house killer is back! Think it's Grissom himself? There are rumours on the interwebs that it's actually Grissom gone insane. I dunno...I think Catherine is more on the edge. The "snickers" all ant Grissom to go crazy so nick and sara can get together. The poor deluded snickers don't realize that nick is gay, he just doesn't realize it it. Or rather, teh ghey, like Carl from ATHF.
For my valentin'e day present Dave got ame one of my favourites: a pair of pots filled with crocuses. I love that because by the time the flowers have bloomed, faded and the leaves sprouted and then turned brown and wilted --it's time to plant the pansies and the bulbs! He also got me a little canvas garden tool caddy with a few tiny tools, which are perfect for spring seeds and seedlings. There's room for other tools and for carting around seed packets. I hope we don't have too late a spring this year!
I went past Warren Greenhouse the other day and I saw some one inside with a watering wand hovering over a sea of green sprouts. I'm going to need to buy my peat pellets and starter seeds soon! I got a catalogue from Vessey's seeds filled with lilies and day-lilies. The lily is one of those plants I have good luck with and grows like gangbusters for me. And day-lilies only ned to be planted and then they spread into spectacular mounds of green leaves and colourful blooms. And as a bonus, the small bulbs that they use to spread are edible when boiled for a few minutes. But don't: they are much too pretty to eat.
Here are my favourites from the catalogue, but I won't plant because they look like they might be difficult to grow. The spectacular Bat Flower! Wow! It's a tropical, I doubt I our growing season would offer enough time for it to reach its full potential. I looked at Jack in the pulpit bulbs...they are all heart stoppingly expensive. This one is typical of the cultivars available and the price. The most unusual Jack in the Pulpit has got to be this one, which looks like it has a fungus as its spadix. I love arums, with their distinct spathe and spadix effloressence...sadly they don't love me in return. I have terrible luck with callas and their relations. Up in Sault Ste Marie at Hiawatha falls, if you follow the path at the top of the falls, and then go off it towards the stream, there's an area filled with native wild calla palustrus. Hundreds of callas! I don't know if they still grow there...I hope they do...imagine coming through some thick tangled sedges and true rushes and coming upon unexpected callas. Here's a page of garden calla lilies. and finally, the mouse plant. Looks like a bunch of computer mice hiding in the foliage!
I know what I'm going to do! I'm going to get my sprout growing kit out and grow some fresh bean, lettuce, onion and alfalfa sprouts! I don't like radish or broccoli sprouts, YUCK city! I feel the need to grow something! That should be a good place to start!
Later!
