Welcome to my pond - Swim, wade, or sit on the bank

[sourland]

@dan26552 , is there any chance that the plants you did not dig will successfully overwinter where you are ? Should be interesting to see.

 

[dan26552]

 

[dan26552]

@dan26552 , is there any chance that the plants you did not dig will successfully overwinter where you are ? Should be interesting to see.

There is a 100% chance! The ones I planted last year were actually divisions of one I’d been growing for two years. A teeny tiny one I got from Walmart. They overwinter just fine.

 

[room onthebroom]

Can I stand on my soapbox a minute?

I've been on a mission to buy my great-nieces/nephews little kid books after visiting them a few months ago & realizing they have none. They live out of state & so once a month I pick a new one from Amazon to be shipped out. The books I pick are all well read favorites of mine, but I still read the negative reviews because some of them are badly printed, damaged or edited, etc...

I am BLOWN AWAY at how badly the Snowflakes have victimized all of my most cherished reading material. Get this; My all time fav kids book 'A Fly Went By' has been totally demonized because (1.) There is a man with a gun (2.) The fox thinks the man wants to kill him. (3.) The fox actually uses the word 'KILL' & (4.) The boy threatens to 'whip' an animal for chasing a baby calf. I can not freaking believe this! Multiple reviews said that there were messages of violence throughout the whole book, that they parents were mortified, it disgusted them, ruined their whole day, they were traumatized & even that its racist.... WTH???

Would you believe that Hop on Pop "encourages bad behavior". One Fish, Two Fish & Go Dog Go are "random jibber jabber." Green Eggs & Ham "Encourages children to say I don't like things" & is "creepy" because it "exhibits extreme lack of respect for individual boundaries & a persons ability to say no." Sam was also referred to as "a dealer pushing something on someone for free to get them addicted to it." Are You My Mother is a "terrible child abandonment story" & has "no respect for foster, adopted, or interracial families where parents don't always look like their children." I can only assume that Put Me In The Zoo is encouraging caged animals preform in captivity & Fish Out of Water is a fat shamming book.

I could go on all night, but dinner just walked thru the door. Suffice it to say, I'm frustrated!!! I was raised on these books, raised a generation of nieces & nephews on these books & even raised my own kids on them. Whats next? Burning AA Milne books?

 

[drumstick diva]

Black eggs would frighten me

 

[shawluvsbirds]

Can I stand on my soapbox a minute?

I've been on a mission to buy my great-nieces/nephews little kid books after visiting them a few months ago & realizing they have none. They live out of state & so once a month I pick a new one from Amazon to be shipped out. The books I pick are all well read favorites of mine, but I still read the negative reviews because some of them are badly printed, damaged or edited, etc...

I am BLOWN AWAY at how badly the Snowflakes have victimized all of my most cherished reading material. Get this; My all time fav kids book 'A Fly Went By' has been totally demonized because (1.) There is a man with a gun (2.) The fox thinks the man wants to kill him. (3.) The fox actually uses the word 'KILL' & (4.) The boy threatens to 'whip' an animal for chasing a baby calf. I can not freaking believe this! Multiple reviews said that there were messages of violence throughout the whole book, that they parents were mortified, it disgusted them, ruined their whole day, they were traumatized & even that its racist.... WTH???

Would you believe that Hop on Pop "encourages bad behavior". One Fish, Two Fish & Go Dog Go are "random jibber jabber." Green Eggs & Ham "Encourages children to say I don't like things" & is "creepy" because it "exhibits extreme lack of respect for individual boundaries & a persons ability to say no." Sam was also referred to as "a dealer pushing something on someone for free to get them addicted to it." Are You My Mother is a "terrible child abandonment story" & has "no respect for foster, adopted, or interracial families where parents don't always look like their children." I can only assume that Put Me In The Zoo is encouraging caged animals preform in captivity & Fish Out of Water is a fat shamming book.

I could go on all night, but dinner just walked thru the door. Suffice it to say, I'm frustrated!!! I was raised on these books, raised a generation of nieces & nephews on these books & even raised my own kids on them. Whats next? Burning AA Milne books?

Snowflakes ruin everything!
There was even a big ordeal about the Christmas song "baby it's cold outside" one of my favorites. They claimed it was insinuating date rape with the use of roofies because of the line "say whats in this drink?"

The whole POINT of the song is that she actually WANTED to stay.. . But is thinking about the moral or social consequences. Saying hey what's in this drink was her trying to figure out a way to give herself and excuse to stay.

 

[perchie.girl]

Sheesh..... First villifying old cartoons... Now this?

I wont get on my soap box about politically correct and revisionist history.... I can understand age appropriate but People are supposed to read along with their child... Same goes for input for any sources.

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

OK I have a question about LLamas. Does any one in this group raise or have LLamas?
Or know any one that has them on BYC?

I am beginning research for companion animals which I can trim their hooves my self .... There are several Llama breeders here in San Diego... I want one that can go with me on walks and possibly carry a back pack and harness to steady me if I have balance issues.

deb

 

[Alaskan]

Last year I planted eleven of these canna lily corms, they were about this size with only one eye.
View attachment 1634235

They went insane! Almost all of them (all but three) grew 15-20 stalks and got about 2 1/2 feet in diameter.
This is about average, there were some bigger ones. That’s my foot for size comparison. That boot is a size 13.
View attachment 1634236


And here’s the wagon load I got from just digging 8 of them. I left the three smallest ones.
View attachment 1634237

I SERIOUSLY thought that first pic was a pic of a dead critter!!!!

A rat or something.

Achem..... nice increase with the PLANTS.

 

[drumstick diva]

There is a cute saying on the "What breed or gender is this," forum.

"When you hear hoof prints, think horses not zebras." In other words the most likely choice Alaskan."

Believe me everything is NOT gloom or doom, just in my life.