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Offline jbrough7

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« Reply #30 on: May 20, 2006, 07:44:34 AM »
Thanks for the tips, Sven...You sure get tired of the pea gravel disappearing, don't ya?  One year, I had $900 worth delivered and then less than a year later it had worked its way down to China...my fault as I still had a lot of big trucks coming in and dropping stuff off.

I need more plants around the house and whatnot...I like hosta's but they're expensive here to get into at the start (for the big ones).  I'm just finishing my house off and have some pine shrubs around the foundation but not a heck of a lot else.  I think I'm just tired of spending money on her...

That peeing by the house is, I swear, my indicator of whether it's a good place to live or not.  We're probably going to have neighbours on either side within 3-4 years so it'll be time to move.

Change is good - I change houses and cars instead of wives so that saves me a lot of money! :wink:
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« Reply #31 on: May 20, 2006, 10:52:01 AM »
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I need more plants around the house and whatnot...I like hosta's but they're expensive here to get into at the start (for the big ones).  I'm just finishing my house off and have some pine shrubs around the foundation but not a heck of a lot else.


Hostas are summer tubers, which I think you already know.  Nice, but not evergreen.  With your shorter warm season, I would think you'd want winter greenery, like juniper and hosta.  Rhododendrons (sp?) are great since they stay green all year, can be planted in shady areas, and bloom profusely in the spring.

Hey, when did this turn into the friggin' garden club BBS?
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« Reply #32 on: May 20, 2006, 10:57:57 AM »
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That peeing by the house is, I swear, my indicator of whether it's a good place to live or not.  We're probably going to have neighbours on either side within 3-4 years so it'll be time to move.


It's funny, but being able to take a leak outside is kinda cool...feels sort of like the natural order.  Everything has to pee, and animals aren't shy about it.  In the morning when I let the dogs (three chihuahuas) out, I usually water something (you know how it is, takes a few minutes to obtain the proper condition to do it when first waking)... and thus I have just transformed into Jim Brough, the man with no internal filter.

Is that Elvis in your avatar?  Can't quite make it out.
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« Reply #33 on: May 20, 2006, 04:00:18 PM »
You people are disgusting!  What if your wives took a little walk with their coffee in the morning and had a nice squat by the photinia frasers!  :shock:

Slap yourselves silly!  :roll:
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« Reply #34 on: May 20, 2006, 05:32:20 PM »
You guys are #1!!!  ( no exaggeration here)

Yeah, my wife is grossed out but I think it's cool, so there!  oH, DAMN!  SHE'S COMING - NOW I'VE GOT TO RUN AND DO THE IRONING!!

But seriously, I've got to get into the hosta thing...I like that quirk where you can split them after a bit and double everything!

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« Reply #35 on: May 21, 2006, 12:12:17 AM »
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You people are disgusting!  What if your wives took a little walk with their coffee in the morning and had a nice squat by the photinia frasers!


I'd pay to see that.
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« Reply #36 on: May 21, 2006, 12:12:47 AM »
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But seriously, I've got to get into the hosta thing...I like that quirk where you can split them after a bit and double everything!


Um, are we still talking plants here?
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« Reply #37 on: May 21, 2006, 07:40:05 AM »
Sven - Yes, we are talking plants!

We even have a Hosta 'ranch' near here where they 'farm' hostas and if you pay them lots they will even let you go out and work hard and dig them up yourself!

It was actually started by an American - that guy from the show 'Ponderosa'    L'il Hosta! :banana:
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« Reply #38 on: May 21, 2006, 10:23:43 AM »
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Sven - Yes, we are talking plants!


Well, it could have been blackjack!
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« Reply #39 on: May 22, 2006, 07:29:57 AM »
I think my avatar is elvis but i feel a change coming soon , anyway...

maybe I'll go look at rhodos today..it's just so embarrassing taking girlie plants home on the back of a manly bike! :sad:
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« Reply #40 on: May 22, 2006, 08:38:59 AM »
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maybe I'll go look at rhodos today..it's just so embarrassing taking girlie plants home on the back of a manly bike! :sad:


Aw, you got it all wrong!  Just doing it on a bike looks really manly!  It says "I don't need to cave in and use my car...I can let the wind rip these $25 plants to shreds and they'll grow deformed and I don't care!"

No, wait.  Just doing it on a bike looks really manly.   End of story.  Last weekend I saw a couple riding two-up...he steering, her serving as plant holder.

Finally, doing it on a bike...

...looks really erotic!
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« Reply #41 on: May 22, 2006, 09:24:58 AM »
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I think my avatar is elvis but i feel a change coming soon , anyway...

maybe I'll go look at rhodos today..it's just so embarrassing taking girlie plants home on the back of a manly bike! :sad:


 :congrats: Glad to hear you've purchased a manly bike!  Did you get a good price for the tiny effiminate 600?  :congrats:
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« Reply #42 on: May 22, 2006, 11:53:07 AM »
Yeah - I paid $800 for the thumper and that's what the dealer offered me on the trade.  I insisted on $1000 and he came up.

Sounds great in my favour , right?  But I musta put $700 into the sucker to get it legal again.  It had been sitting outside for three years with no cover!  Only 5000 km. on it so I justabout cried when I saw it sitting there all rusted out and all.  Shone her up pretty good and replaced most of the rusted stuff and she looked okay after.

Still, I rode her for a season and a bit and she only cost me $500 altogether so I can't complain.  I don't think I would have got back into biking again without her being so close and cheap and available.

And then I would never have met all of you!!! :crybaby:  :crybaby:  :crybaby:  :crybaby:  :crybaby:
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« Reply #43 on: May 22, 2006, 12:36:11 PM »
He didn't get it, Sven!  :motorsmile:

Must be short skirt day at elementary school today!  :bigok:
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« Reply #44 on: May 22, 2006, 12:52:42 PM »
Naw - we got a holiday today - boss saw how hard I worked and called school off!  go figure!

I heard about some biker getting it on with his girlfriend at 60mph in the states somewhere (on his bike)...wonder what they got charged with?

Excessive pursuit of happiness??
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