RE: Crazy season

What's a river tender? 

Cyndi 

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From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
Behalf Of james singer
Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 9:42 AM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Crazy season

Those kinds of experiences can be real shockers, Cyndi. My first billet
out of boot camp was a river tender in Pittsburgh. I arrived in fall,
which was quite nice. Then winter followed. This po' boy from LA was not
prepared for the endless gloom, cold, snow, and--above all--dirt and
soot. I felt like I'd been thrust into one of Dickens's potboilers. 
My wife of 6 months put up with it for about 3 months and went home to
LA; I applied to every school USCG offered. I've heard Pittsburgh has
been cleaned up since then. If so, great! But I doubt they've fixed the
weather.

On Dec 18, 2006, at 11:40 AM, Johnson Cyndi D Civ 95 CG/SCSRT wrote:

> Some years ago I spent the first two weeks in December at a class held

> in Illinois, not terribly far from St. Louis. For two weeks the sky 
> was unremittingly grey with occasional drizzles, and they all looked 
> at me puzzled when I asked if the sun ever came out. Talk about
depressing.
> We
> have our climate challenges here in the high desert but I try to 
> remember the good things, like sun in the winter. It is shining 
> through my window even as I type.
> On the other hand, it's obligatory to gripe about the weather... I'm 
> peeved because it cleared up just in time for Monday, it was wet and 
> windy Saturday and not all that wonderful Sunday.
>
> Cyndi
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On 
> Behalf Of Andrea Hodges
> Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 3:31 AM
> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Crazy season
>
> If I was still living up there the crazy in the subject line would be 
> referring to me. The gray was killing me! It's been beautiful here, 
> the camellias are all getting ready to put on a show (the sasanquas 
> already have, reminding me that I need to add some to the garden) and 
> all of the bedding plants really brighten everything up. Of course 
> there's also the Christmas lights, many houses of which remind me of 
> the Griswold's.........
> A
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <Cornergar@aol.com>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2006 10:07 PM
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Crazy season
>
>
>> In a message dated 12/17/2006 11:36:11 AM Central Standard Time, 
>> islandjim1@verizon.net writes:
>> peppers, rosemary, yada, yada, yada
>> We need some of your yada yada here. It is very gray and what isn't 
>> gray is brown. Thank goodness for Xmas lights. Kathy
>>
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Island Jim
Southwest Florida
27.0 N, 82.4 W
Hardiness Zone 10
Heat Zone 10
Minimum 30 F [-1 C]
Maximum 100 F [38 C]

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