Re: Looking for the weekend!

She is a mix of lab and husky...loves to swims...since it has gotten
warmer, she swims about three times a day.  I don't think I could keep her
from hunting....


> [Original Message]
> From: Donna <gossiper@sbcglobal.net>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Date: 3/27/2006 8:39:27 PM
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Looking for the weekend!
>
> what kind of a dog do you have?  Hope it doesn't catch
> some kind of disease by eating all the wildlife.
>
> Donna
>
> --- Bonnie Holmes <holmesbm@usit.net> wrote:
>
> > Also wish I could have some chickens.  I have been
> > buying organic stuff
> > locally and recently had a delightful carton of eggs
> > with hues from brown
> > to green. 
> > 
> > My dog Biscuit catches squirrels and voles.  As we
> > walk, she suddenly
> > burrows in a mass of leaves and comes up with a
> > vole.  It must not be very
> > tasty because she plays with it like a cat, kills
> > it, and leaves it.  The
> > rabbits and squirrels she eats.
> > 
> > 
> > > [Original Message]
> > > From: james singer <islandjim1@verizon.net>
> > > To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> > > Date: 3/27/2006 2:30:22 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [CHAT] Looking for the weekend!
> > >
> > > You made me wish once more that I could keep a few
> > chickens here. They 
> > > are such great animals. And, you're right, nothing
> > makes them happier 
> > > than a barrel of weeds--unless it's a coffee can
> > full of tomato 
> > > hornworms.
> > >
> > > Gophers can really be a nuisance in a garden,
> > orchard, and pasture. One 
> > > July 4th my father dropped cherry bombs down all
> > the gopher holes in 
> > > our back yard--causing plumes of smoke to rise
> > throughout the 
> > > neighborhood.
> > >
> > >
> > > On Mar 27, 2006, at 11:28 AM, Johnson Cyndi D Civ
> > 95 CG/SCSRT wrote:
> > >
> > > > I'm only cutting back the vegetable garden, so I
> > can concentrate on 
> > > > getting
> > > > the ornamental gardens back into shape. So far
> > so good, I planted 
> > > > lettuce
> > > > seed yesterday and used up all last year's
> > packets. I think lettuce 
> > > > seed is
> > > > one of those things better planted with fresh
> > seed but it should be 
> > > > okay.
> > > > I wasn't planning on buying much for either
> > garden, but when I looked 
> > > > at all
> > > > the bare spots in the ornamental areas I
> > rationalized that planting new
> > > > things would inspire me to even more
> > maintenance. Yes, that's the 
> > > > ticket.
> > > > Anyway I didn't get the plants for the back
> > fence in the ground. I 
> > > > forgot
> > > > that the irrigation controller for that part
> > broke earlier in the 
> > > > winter and
> > > > husband has not fixed it yet. Since he was busy
> > too it will have to 
> > > > wait for
> > > > next weekend. I did put in all the salvias and
> > erigonum (buckwheat) in 
> > > > my
> > > > dry garden. And I weeded for a couple hours in
> > there and dumped 4 
> > > > barrels of
> > > > grass for the chickens - they were happy. I got
> > about half of it done 
> > > > so
> > > > that was good.
> > > > We trapped six gophers just this weekend and
> > there are mounds 
> > > > absolutely
> > > > everywhere. Husband set more traps amongst the
> > fruit trees, in the dry
> > > > garden, well just about everywhere we have
> > plants we want to keep. You 
> > > > would
> > > > not believe my back yard. Between the lawn and
> > the veggie garden fence 
> > > > there
> > > > is a lot of empty space we don't do anything
> > with. My dogs have been 
> > > > digging
> > > > for gophers back there and it looks like the
> > trenches of WWI. I guess I
> > > > won't need to clip their nails for awhile.
> > > > At least the weather was reasonable. Saturday
> > was windy and cold but 
> > > > we were
> > > > working a garage sale so I didn't care much.
> > Sunday was mostly 
> > > > overcast but
> > > > at least it was not windy, and it was relatively
> > warm. We're expecting 
> > > > rain
> > > > again tomorrow - let it rain during the week,
> > that's what I ask.
> > > >
> > > > Cyndi
> > > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net
> > [o*@hort.net] On 
> > > > Behalf
> > > > Of Donna
> > > > Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2006 6:09 AM
> > > > To: gardenchat@hort.net
> > > > Subject: Re: [CHAT] Looking for the weekend!
> > > >
> > > > So how much did you get done.... and I thought
> > you
> > > > were cutting back this year? LOL! We all seem to
> > have
> > > > the same problem, lotsa willpower till the
> > season
> > > > actually gets here.
> > > >
> > > > Donna
> > > >
> > > > --- Johnson Cyndi D Civ 95 CG/SCSRT
> > > > <cyndi.johnson@edwards.af.mil> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> We finally are having some nice days, I hope it
> > > >> lasts through the weekend.
> > > >> I'm helping at a garage sale tomorrow but
> > Sunday I
> > > >> have much planting to do.
> > > >> I bought a whole bunch o' stuff at Theodore
> > Payne's
> > > >> (my poor credit card!),
> > > >> and my order from Forestfarm showed up too so
> > there
> > > >> is no shortage of
> > > >> plants.
> > > >> I'm going to get serious about trying to hide
> > the
> > > >> neighbor in back of us but
> > > >> the plants I put in have to be tough. Thus all
> > the
> > > >> natives from Payne's. I
> > > >> bought 3 different kinds of saltbush - atriplex
> > > >> polycarpa, atriplex
> > > >> canescens, and atriplex lentiformis. None of
> > them
> > > >> are terribly attractive
> > > >> but they will take just about anything. We have
> > > >> atriplex canescens already
> > > >> back there and it is about 7' tall now, the
> > quail
> > > >> just love to hide in it.
> > > >> Since another of my wants is to provide cover
> > and
> > > >> food for birds I'm hoping
> > > >> they all do well. Considering how much less
> > habitat
> > > >> the critters have these
> > > >> days they might need my place.
> > > >> What is it about developers anyway. There are
> > > >> millions of acres of flat
> > > >> desert out here with nothing on it but
> > rabbitbush
> > > >> tumbleweeds and alkali. Do
> > > >> they build there, NO, they buy up the juniper
> > > >> woodland in the foothills, the
> > > >> places with the biggest biodiversity we have
> > here -
> > > >> hundreds and hundreds of
> > > >> species - and then they bulldoze it, pave it
> > and put
> > > >> up houses. Makes me so
> > > >> mad I could spit. Not to mention that part of
> > what
> > > >> is currently being
> > > >> bulldozed used to be city nature park, the city
> > just
> > > >> rolled over and showed
> > > >> the developers their throat. Sure, take
> > whatever you
> > > >> want, just promise us
> > > >> taxes. Citizen complaints are met with smiles
> > and
> > > >> nods and no action. Of
> > > >> course now the housing bubble is popping, who
> > knows
> > > >> maybe they'll just stop
> > > >> after bulldozing everything.
> > > >> Oops didn't mean to go on a rant.
> > > >> Anyway. I also bought 3 sambucus mexicana, an
> > > >> elderberry, as an experiment.
> > > >> There is one growing in a canyon where we go
> > hiking
> > 
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