Hey Anita, Al's got your back!
Coffee 3/2/2006
I like Anita - she's purty
Just want you all to know, I saw a robin yesterday. Spring is beginning in Buffalo too. I hear we'll be close to 60 by Friday.
Al, I'm supposed to tell you that stripes are slimming.
Must get out of here or I'll be late for work. Ta-ta!
What! The state bird of WI in NY? - that Steinbrenner's gone too far this time, what's next you will all be doing our state dance - the polka!
Why am I still here when I should be getting ready?? This time I'm really leaving.
But, Al, is the robin really your state bird or are you making fun of me again? You know, New York is a good sized state. I'm an awful lot closer to WI than George Steinbrenner is. Maybe the robin is looking for Wisconsin and just got side-tracked.
The Polka?? Are you Polish?? I make a delicious czarnina.
Goodbye for real.
I could go a few places with Al being Polish, but he's got my back today and he thinks I'm purty! So....I say nothing!
I hope I see some Robins - they definitely know when those worms are ready for eating..watch out Dena!!!
Well I have to go to work. Not sure if I'll get to the office, so I might chat with you guys again until tonight!! Enjoy your day!
OK I have all the answers - you match them to the questions.
*No I'm mostly German - Anita's long lost brother?
*Nap I'm going to butcher this - but they always have the story about bakeries making puzckhi's on fat tuesday around here.
*no you're not going anywhere.
class here is your Wisconsin State symbols to memorize for tomorrow.
http://www.wisconsin.gov/state/core/wisconsin_state_symbols.html
**finally the takeover has begun**
OOOWEE! I missed you all yesterday!
Hi Nap! Glad to see you here! (might just mean we'r not to scary?)
Hey Al...Howz it going?
Hi Anita, don't worry my worms are safe from the Robins, in their little Wormdom tote. Oh and they will all forget your sliming typo and maybe the one about the night shiFt too, just as soon as I goof up something funny, and you know I will!
Hi Andy, your Crocus is so cute! Do you remember mine from last month? I think its on the other coffee thread, or was it the one before that? I think mine came up even earlier than yours because they are in a rock garden, and the stones warmed them up. I may have to rethink their location, altho it is cool to have them in Feb.
Mornin Dave (no doldrums)! What are you up to today?
Here-here for the Germans!! Woohoo!!! Sorry - Al, my brother's not lost, although sometimes I wish he was! - how about a cousin??
So Dena - you gonna mail us all the worm gold when their done making it??
Hi GREN, Now that you mention your Crocus along the rocks I do remember. It was more impressive than this 'miniature' one. Either way they are nice to see so early.
Don't even think of moving it, you would have to wait longer for some color. Just plant more this fall.
I'm starting to see new sprouts coming along, almost daily. There is a sheltered Daffodil that is 7 inches tall with buds. This weekends expected warm up will push everything along.
Andy P
I think you are right Andy - they are saying we should see 60's!! Yipee!!
oh good maybe my compost will heat up somemore! : )
I must be doing something rite, it was the first thing I noticed when it snowed, no white stuff on the compost pile! gotta be a good thing!
Where is everyone?
How was work Nap?
Hey have we've seen any pictures of your gardens?
Hey Dena - I was in a church - for cub scouts.
I was having a breakout session in perennials with some of the others. Dave is missing-presumed sleepy.
Hey AL, perennials is a good place to be!
I had me a look around the Brugs today, good stuff in there. I can fore see problems in the future, like needing more room for plants, big big plants!
I think that you have reached the 12th step now. That is common with all gardeners, the only mistake that I made once and will not make again is to kill a plant by overcrowding. I sort of upgrade or change plants as a method of controlling the #'s. I have 2 large burning bushes on the block for this spring.
Al, the burning bushes have a bad reputation around here. I have a few that sprouted on their own in just the right spots, they stay.
GREN, my compost pile never gets hot. But it's just a big pile that I add to.
Look what I had greet me when I got home today!. (Besides Sidekick Sarah,)
My oldest Amaryllis, 2 stalks again this year but only 2 flowers on the first.
Andy P
Andy thats beautiful! What a nice welcome home!
Al, you better not let Equil catch on that you are going to plant a BIG NO NO!
She'll go Native on you!
No No No - I have them already. You know I see them on the invasive list - in fact I went to an invasive plant seminar last year. I don't believe they escape around here. Nothing like buckthorn. I am giving them away to make some more room.
Andy - very nice flower pic.
oh sure give them a new home where they just might be a problem! She'll just love that!!!!
I'm tellin.....
................................................HEY!!!!
....................................................EQUIL!!!!!!!
.........................................................guess what Al is gonna doooo!
Al, ya know...
It may not look like the plant is a problem around you but the birds are eating those seeds and poopin the problem all over the place!
here read this
http://tncweeds.ucdavis.edu/alert/alrteuon.html
She's a beauty Andy - what's that growing behind it?
Burning Bush is invasive? I wasn't aware of that. I think they are so pretty. I believe we have them planted along the highways by me.
yes they are beautiful, but they should be in asia where they belong.
I have it pop up in my yard from time to time and I yank it before it berries and get rid of it, sad to get rid of any plant but they are such a problem.
Another one thats bad around here is the bittersweet, its every where, oh and the honeysuckle. Its all over smothering everything in its path. Including some of Ct's endangered Ferns.
I have a thorny vine that comes up out of no where. I have no idea what it is, but the root is incredibly strong and long!
Good evening all! Late night at work.
Al, the robin is CT's state bird and we are much older than WI so back off.
Burning bush, which I always admired on CT's highways, is wicked invasive here. I didn't believe it at first, but all you have to do is take a walk in the woods around here. Its everywhere.
4 more days till my vacation!
You know I'm kinda off them just because they are a one season shrub. I'll stick 'em in my neighbor's. NY is my neighbor - right.
Looking hard at "sutherlands gold' or 'black lace' elderberry instead.
This message was edited Mar 6, 2006 9:49 PM
Anita, look here and see if you can find it, it may be Multiflora Rose
Sorry Dave---it's also the state bird of WI http://www.50states.com/bird/ I still luv ya though!
Al - I'm still watching your back...
ooops might help to post link, what a doink!
http://www.newfs.org/FAQ/FAQ8INV.htm
CT is older - well it hardly shows. At least your state is bigger than 3 counties. Crazy metes and boundser's.
Dena - I have that too...no, this thing is just plain ugly -no flower, just an endless vine of thorns.
Al - half the East coast is older than WI...They hit us first and then kinda stumbled west
My dad has some European Honeysuckle I am working on taking out and upgrading.
Are you saying we got all the leftovers?
key word - -------->stumbled....
Well, I wouldn't want to be in a state that would cheat and take another state's bird. Don't go messing with our Mountain Laurel or our Charter Oak!
Al, metes & boundsers?? I don't know this.
well folks - I'm off to sleep...see you all in the morning!
nite Anita!
Surveying reference there, that was what they call the method of following natural borders to define areas. Versus public land survey where they follow lat and longitude.
Hey I would like a mountain laurel - a bit cold for it to last, that oak is not around here.
What's your state dance tho huh, mambo #5