Re: Re: Snow

I have a few bats, just not enough.  Anyone have a bat house?  Wonder if would atract more?

Pam Evans
Kemp, TX
zone 8A
----- Original Message -----
From: Cathy Carpenter
Sent: 12/6/2004 9:10:18 PM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Snow

Bats!
Cathy
On Monday, December 6, 2004, at 07:51 PM, "" 
<gardenqueen@academicplanet.com> wrote:

> I don't know - we had our first hard freeze last week and still have 
> mosquitoes.  Doesn't anything kill these monsters?
>
> Pam Evans
> Kemp, TX
> zone 8A
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Andrea H
> Sent: 12/6/2004 5:53:01 PM
> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Snow
>
> How annoying, it's supposed to be 80 degrees here tomorrow. I'm ready 
> for
> cold truthfully. It will get rid of the gnats for a while.
>
> Andrea H
> Beaufort, SC
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <Aplfgcnys@aol.com>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 3:51 PM
> Subject: [CHAT] Snow
>
>
>> We are having our first good snowfall today (there was a dusting a 
>> couple
> of
>> weeks
>> ago that didn't really count).  Today was the day my garden club 
>> decorated
> the
>> house at Lasdon Park & Arboretum where we meet.  The house, which is 
>> not
>> really
>> open to the public, is part of the Westchester Parks Department, but 
>> is
> mainly
>> used for offices and meeting facilities.  It was a wealthy man's 
>> summer
> home,
>> built
>> in the 1930s in the style of George Washington's Mt. Vernon.  Every 
>> year
> we
>> decorate the main rooms before the annual "Friends of..." dinner and 
>> other
>> park
>> functions.  This year the tree in the main entrance hall is decorated 
>> with
>> nearly
>> 200 shiny metallic-paper origami birds made by one of our members. In
> addition
>> we have filled the spaces between branches with bits of white dried 
>> baby's
>> breath
>> which gives it a very delicate, airy appearance.  That, with the 
>> lights
> and a
>> few
>> crystalline snowflake ornaments, is all, but we think it really looks
> lovely.
>>  We
>> used origami birds in some of the other decorations throughout the 
>> rooms -
> the
>> two fireplace mantles, roping on the stairway, wreaths on doors, etc. 
>>  The
>> snow
>> had begun to fall before we finished, and it really made a
> picture-post-card
>> scene.
>> We hurried through lunch (always bring a covered-dish lunch) and 
>> business
>> meeting so members could get home before the snow got bad, but I don't
> think
>> it is really going to amount to much.  Temperatures are  in the high 
>> 20s,
> so
>> I'm expecting this to be gone tomorrow.  I have been wrong before, but
> hey,
>> it's
>> really that time of year.
>> Auralie
>>
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