I am still on my son's computer and so have no photos...makes me feel "naked"..haha! I can't even change my header!!
I hope everyone out there has their pics backed up and any other information they want to save. That was something I was preparing to do, when this struck...This is apparently a new virus and it changes your operating system and EVERYONE is getting it despite multiple and very good virus programs...
My sister has it now too and she does all her bill pay on line--what a nightmare...I do mine by phone, and actually bank, and US Postal service...I do have some accounts on line but I do not pay through the computer..am I outdated? Not sure maybe...but I have heard of too many crashing computers to do that.
My sister was frantic for a while ..it meant undoing some things and changing other things to a different format...word is the computer repair places around town are inundated with service calls and the waiting list is QUITE backed up...now how I wish I would have gotten that lap top when I wanted too..because NOW there are other things that have taken priority and the Lap Top goes down on the list once again...
My biggest worry is that they might not be able to save the pictures, and I have many that will not be able to be replaced (people pictures) ...............................................................
On the other hand...spring has sprung in the north east and it is beautiful and despite everyone complaining about how cold it is I think it is typical April and the flowering tress are right on schedule. The past couple of years it was so hot the flowers lasted only a few days, and other years so cold they were frosted right off the trees..but this year it is beautiful...And really just starting..yeah a little late but that means the plants miss the last frost that ends spring so fast...
I have spring veg crops coming up and generally replant about 3 weeks after the first were planted (IF they are up and growing) to keep the spring veg going into early summer...
We are expecting a half dozen new Aracauna chicks next week...I LOVE LOVE the baby chicks..they are so funny..since there is only a few I am going to keep them in the back of the kitchen until they are feathered before I put them out..more fun for us anyway...
Today we are expected to get those severe storms that ran through the south and surely I hope all who's blogs I read from that part of the country are safe...
To while away the rainy day today, here is a foaling web cam. This is a mini, who was rescued, and due to foal..they have bee waiting to see her foal for a few days now so any minute..all you mothers out there know how that goes!! So if you have a few minutes to out the stall cam on, maybe you just might see her foal...remember she is a mini so the foal is going to be tiny...
http://www.marestare.com/fcam.php?alias=beautyshaven
Can't wait to get MY computer back and work on more pictures..we grabbed a PowerShot on sale, not my dream camera by any means but my sons are having fun with it..hope I get to use it!!
See you later..stay dry and safe (I kept my chickens inside today)
Janie
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Oh My Goodness! I am Still Here! (And Spring Gardening and other Stuff)
Last post I sent I was ON my computer...well things went downhill from there.
It totally crashed. I can not even get it to connect with the Internet...and I still do not have it fixed. And we were all sick with the flu too for a time...so I am on my son's computer. I get snatches here and there, of time. I don't want to clog up his machine with my stuff, so I limit what I do to controlling email and folders! That's it! I have not even updated my header for spring, or used any of the new settings Blogger has...!
The worst is I don't have pictures, and I fear I might have lost the ones I had....(who knows maybe we will NEVER have another winter like that again....or next winter might find me someplace else...who knows). I hope they can save them....I am going to try and get it looked at and hopefully fixed this week....but we are juggling cars (my number one son and I..) Both cars are in need of inspection the same time every year! AND they both need transmission work..soon!
I am debating whether to "catch-up" and answer any blogs or just start where I am when I come back on (when I do)
Meanwhile I have been planting some spring lettuces, dandelions, and Arugula and radishes. Not a lot yet because it has been so cold. I will plant another grouping in another week and see what comes up....
And digging up potted plants that I have been putting on the porch lately. A few years ago (Yes YEARS) when I thought we might be moving very soon...(until real life family matters took over) I dug up a few of my favorites or plants I got from my mother or grandparents....(even one or two from my great grandmother! ) and potted them in case we moved during colder months and couldn't dig them up..so there are plants in kitty litter buckets for YEARS that I dig into the ground (in the pots) every fall and then dig them up again in the spring for the patio..so when I DO get pictures posted of them PLEASE forgive the pots!! (including 2 pines ..not even sure WHY..they are easy enough to replace!! But I see a plant in a spot that it shouldn't be in, (ie; in danger of being trampled on or other wise destroyed) and it is small enough to pot and there I go again....I just can't bring myself to destroy a tree or flower bush that was started by seed dropping birds, or runners, like they were weeds...in fact..I have some trouble even CALLING some plants weeds, because they are either interesting, or even pretty, or edible!! And have trouble getting them out! I am sure my neighbors just HATE me for the patch of whatever is growing, in place of what is supposed to be called a lawn...and I will go grabbing another kitty litter bucket, poking holes in the bottom, filling it with stones or broken crock, and planting another plant..)
I now have 2 decent sized Japanese Red Maples (one from a neighbor and one from my mother's house...and we are talking started from a 1-2" seedling...) the neighbor's red maple is now about 4-5 feet!..my mothers started a little taller maybe 2' and is now at least 3' maybe more...my sister laughed at me when she gave it to me...wait until she sees it now..that tree that was in my mothers yard, came from VERY close friends of the family...in age between my grandparents and my parents..friends to all of us..young and old...close enough to be called "Aunt and Uncle"..both gone now...we spent many many good hours with them sometimes just strolling around their spacious garden and even as a kid quietly absorbing all that the adults talked about as we went along. Going from plant to plant talking about its planting, and where it came from and, "Oh, do you want a piece?" And how to keep it going, propagate, and even do air layering to make another plant... (I think the New Dawn Rose we have might have even come from them...and the Japanese Red Maple sapling (well seedling) came from a tree that was from them too (given to my mother) and going to my grandparents was the same..every visit consisted of dinner and a garden tour...it was the highlight... And we went every week. The garden is always changing....)
And from that same neighbor across from me, that I got my now 4' Red Japanese Maple from, are 3 tiny seedlings (I found them in the lawn)...all now potted..2 long needle pines (one about 4' now and one I just dug up yesterday!) and a very Western-y kind of bent, twisted Pine too...it is slower growing and only about a foot tall... one Norway maple...assorted hostas, day lillys, Montauk Daisies, Sedums, and 2 tiny flowered Bridal Wreaths. ALL easy enough to come by..it is a compulsion with me! There is still a larger flowered Bridal Wreath we brought here when we moved (25 years ago) and that came from my mother, so I want to get a piece of that too...oh, also 2 or 3 New Dawn Roses (you just bend the branches down to the dirt and cover and weight them down..the next year you have a new plant...I have to be careful with the roses though, because even a hardy New Dawn is delicate in a pot and can develop black spot...). Also easy enough to get today..but THESE came from my mother, who got them from my great grandmother....sooo....if and when we do move we will have more plants then furniture to take and I suppose I might have to smuggle them over borders!! (haha..only kidding..nothing is going to be going to where it shouldn't be)
You see...plants and flowers (even veg..you see, I still have a rhubarb and a horse radish clump that came from my grandfathers garden) are memories to me. I can tell you where, and who, just about every bulb, tree, flower, bush, and even some vegetables, in the yard came from..shared memories. I even remember the bulbs we found thrown over a fence into the woods, and yet they flowered the next year..so we gladly scooped them out to plant in our garden...the will to live was just SO great we couldn't let them be tossed away like garbage... (I am the same way with recipes..some of my favorite recipes are ones from friends and family passed down on scraps of paper)
And I know in my heart, even if I DIDN'T take the plants I have potted with us when we finally do move, if I even SEE a picture, or find another of these plants in a catalog, it will hold the same memories...because lets face it....like us humans, they all came from the same source...so are all connected....and in that, we find a shared history...a connection...and what happens to one, happens to all of us. Probably why I can't kill that weed....
So, hopefully I will be back soon...Back to work...
See ya later,
Janie
It totally crashed. I can not even get it to connect with the Internet...and I still do not have it fixed. And we were all sick with the flu too for a time...so I am on my son's computer. I get snatches here and there, of time. I don't want to clog up his machine with my stuff, so I limit what I do to controlling email and folders! That's it! I have not even updated my header for spring, or used any of the new settings Blogger has...!
The worst is I don't have pictures, and I fear I might have lost the ones I had....(who knows maybe we will NEVER have another winter like that again....or next winter might find me someplace else...who knows). I hope they can save them....I am going to try and get it looked at and hopefully fixed this week....but we are juggling cars (my number one son and I..) Both cars are in need of inspection the same time every year! AND they both need transmission work..soon!
I am debating whether to "catch-up" and answer any blogs or just start where I am when I come back on (when I do)
Meanwhile I have been planting some spring lettuces, dandelions, and Arugula and radishes. Not a lot yet because it has been so cold. I will plant another grouping in another week and see what comes up....
And digging up potted plants that I have been putting on the porch lately. A few years ago (Yes YEARS) when I thought we might be moving very soon...(until real life family matters took over) I dug up a few of my favorites or plants I got from my mother or grandparents....(even one or two from my great grandmother! ) and potted them in case we moved during colder months and couldn't dig them up..so there are plants in kitty litter buckets for YEARS that I dig into the ground (in the pots) every fall and then dig them up again in the spring for the patio..so when I DO get pictures posted of them PLEASE forgive the pots!! (including 2 pines ..not even sure WHY..they are easy enough to replace!! But I see a plant in a spot that it shouldn't be in, (ie; in danger of being trampled on or other wise destroyed) and it is small enough to pot and there I go again....I just can't bring myself to destroy a tree or flower bush that was started by seed dropping birds, or runners, like they were weeds...in fact..I have some trouble even CALLING some plants weeds, because they are either interesting, or even pretty, or edible!! And have trouble getting them out! I am sure my neighbors just HATE me for the patch of whatever is growing, in place of what is supposed to be called a lawn...and I will go grabbing another kitty litter bucket, poking holes in the bottom, filling it with stones or broken crock, and planting another plant..)
I now have 2 decent sized Japanese Red Maples (one from a neighbor and one from my mother's house...and we are talking started from a 1-2" seedling...) the neighbor's red maple is now about 4-5 feet!..my mothers started a little taller maybe 2' and is now at least 3' maybe more...my sister laughed at me when she gave it to me...wait until she sees it now..that tree that was in my mothers yard, came from VERY close friends of the family...in age between my grandparents and my parents..friends to all of us..young and old...close enough to be called "Aunt and Uncle"..both gone now...we spent many many good hours with them sometimes just strolling around their spacious garden and even as a kid quietly absorbing all that the adults talked about as we went along. Going from plant to plant talking about its planting, and where it came from and, "Oh, do you want a piece?" And how to keep it going, propagate, and even do air layering to make another plant... (I think the New Dawn Rose we have might have even come from them...and the Japanese Red Maple sapling (well seedling) came from a tree that was from them too (given to my mother) and going to my grandparents was the same..every visit consisted of dinner and a garden tour...it was the highlight... And we went every week. The garden is always changing....)
And from that same neighbor across from me, that I got my now 4' Red Japanese Maple from, are 3 tiny seedlings (I found them in the lawn)...all now potted..2 long needle pines (one about 4' now and one I just dug up yesterday!) and a very Western-y kind of bent, twisted Pine too...it is slower growing and only about a foot tall... one Norway maple...assorted hostas, day lillys, Montauk Daisies, Sedums, and 2 tiny flowered Bridal Wreaths. ALL easy enough to come by..it is a compulsion with me! There is still a larger flowered Bridal Wreath we brought here when we moved (25 years ago) and that came from my mother, so I want to get a piece of that too...oh, also 2 or 3 New Dawn Roses (you just bend the branches down to the dirt and cover and weight them down..the next year you have a new plant...I have to be careful with the roses though, because even a hardy New Dawn is delicate in a pot and can develop black spot...). Also easy enough to get today..but THESE came from my mother, who got them from my great grandmother....sooo....if and when we do move we will have more plants then furniture to take and I suppose I might have to smuggle them over borders!! (haha..only kidding..nothing is going to be going to where it shouldn't be)
You see...plants and flowers (even veg..you see, I still have a rhubarb and a horse radish clump that came from my grandfathers garden) are memories to me. I can tell you where, and who, just about every bulb, tree, flower, bush, and even some vegetables, in the yard came from..shared memories. I even remember the bulbs we found thrown over a fence into the woods, and yet they flowered the next year..so we gladly scooped them out to plant in our garden...the will to live was just SO great we couldn't let them be tossed away like garbage... (I am the same way with recipes..some of my favorite recipes are ones from friends and family passed down on scraps of paper)
And I know in my heart, even if I DIDN'T take the plants I have potted with us when we finally do move, if I even SEE a picture, or find another of these plants in a catalog, it will hold the same memories...because lets face it....like us humans, they all came from the same source...so are all connected....and in that, we find a shared history...a connection...and what happens to one, happens to all of us. Probably why I can't kill that weed....
So, hopefully I will be back soon...Back to work...
See ya later,
Janie
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