Re: Re: Snow

Great Cathy - will check that out tonight!
thanks lady.

Pam Evans
Kemp, TX
zone 8A
----- Original Message -----
From: Cathy Carpenter
Sent: 12/7/2004 8:12:18 AM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Snow

Go to the website of Bat Conservation International.
www.batcon.org
Bats have pretty specific needs, which is probably why my first bat 
house attempt ended up occupied by woodpeckers!
Cathy
On Tuesday, December 7, 2004, at 06:13 AM, "" 
<gardenqueen@academicplanet.com> wrote:

> 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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