paper back swap

Thank you Cyndi for suggesting the paper back swap. I signed up... can't wait to add my books to swap. I am off for a vacation so when I get back I will add them. 
Tricia
----- Original Message ----- From: "Johnson, Cyndi D Civ USAF AFMC 95 CG/SCSRT" <cyndi.johnson@edwards.af.mil> 
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 5:49 PM
Subject: RE: [CHAT] Happy Vernal Equinox!



I'm hoping all y'all back east are not under water or buried in
snowdrifts. I know the news only shows the worst parts but sure seems
like there are a lot of worst parts. Here it is in the 70s and sunny, no
wind to speak of...my fingers are crossed that we'll have this
throughout the weekend. May everyone be warm and dry...except for those
of you who want rain...

www.paperbackswap.com. Works on a credit system; you list however many
books you want to get rid of. If someone else wants that book they
request it. You mail it cheap and gain a credit, which you can spend on
someone else's book in the system, and they mail it to you. Only costs
you the price of mailing (about 2.15 for a paperback and a little more
for a hardback), plus wrapping stuff. I like their mailing setup, you
print out the mailing label on plain printer paper and use the sheet to
wrap the book. Works great on paperbacks. Oodles of books too, I looked
at it when it started up some time back and didn't join, but they're
pretty big now.

Cyndi


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
Behalf Of Melody
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 3:29 PM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: RE: [CHAT] Happy Vernal Equinox!

Cyndi:  What is the paperback swap and how does it work?  URL?  Thanks
so much.

Well, the storm we were supposed to get that was going to bring snow
missed us completely...not even any rain! Good for us but not so good
for north and east of us...I guess Minnesota, Michigan, and Illinois are
a mess...hundreds of flights cancelled or delayed at O'Hare...


I wonder how often Good Friday and the Vernal Equinox coincide? Cannot
be that often. One of our parishioners was born on Easter Sunday...and
had to wait 80 years before her birthday fell on another Easter Sunday.
My kids find it fascinating that Easter is dated based on the Vernal
Equinox.



Blessings in Christ's mercy,

Melody

Work for the Lord:  the pay isn't much but the retirement is out of this
world!

--- On Fri 03/21, Johnson, Cyndi D Civ USAF AFMC 95 CG/SCSRT <
cyndi.johnson@edwards.af.mil > wrote:
From: Johnson, Cyndi D Civ USAF AFMC 95 CG/SCSRT [mailto:
cyndi.johnson@edwards.af.mil]
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:43:02 -0700
Subject: [CHAT] Happy Vernal Equinox!

I know I am late by a day but hey, it's spring! I was thinking of
all<br>the things I need to do, a constant occupation for me. Even
knowing that<br>I won't get to most of them I still like to think I
will. Some day.<br>We waited until last weekend to pull out the poor
rhododendron. I<br>figured it was hopeless but I left it anyway in case
of miracles. I<br>don't know why one short week of no water killed it
off - it was in<br>October, not really that hot - but nonetheless it
died. Husband kept<br>saying it could not have been the watering but eh,
it was happy before<br>we shut off the water and indubitably dead the
next week. Now I need<br>something to put in that northwest corner. I am
considering moving my<br>Japanese maple, which is struggling in the
teahouse garden. It isn't<br>very big so should be simple to do, and it
will get more shade and wind<br>protection there.<br>I broached the
subject of hiring gardeners to help me clean up the front<br>and you'd
have thought I

hit husband with a cattle prod. However, if<br>he's not willing for us
to spend money on it then by golly he's going to<br>help me. Some chores
don't require much critical thought, like trimming<br>the junipers and
pyracantha, so we'll see how it goes. And he is capable<br>of pulling
out grass from the dry garden, I will have to emphasize that<br>NOTHING
other than grass gets pulled, but if I repeat the rules ten or<br>twelve
times he'll be okay.<br>In the greenhouse I have peppers and tomatoes
sprouted, didn't get as<br>good germination from the peppers as I'd like
but they are quite slow<br>normally. I did the saltpeter trick on the
chiles and they did okay<br>except for the habaneros, none of them are
up and it's been two weeks.<br>We'll see. All but two of the twelve
mesquite pots have sprouts. I<br>should have made a control set too,
seeds that I did not scarify at all,<br>to see what would happen. I
decided I will transplant the mesquites<br>into 5-gallon containers

and put them in the veggie garden where they<br>can grow and be
regularly watered this year (and not eaten by rabbits or<br>gophers),
and hopefully next year I'll put them into the ground.<br>If the weather
is good I will not get much gardening done this weekend,<br>we have two
days of riding planned. If it's too windy to ride I can weed<br>and
start deadheading daffodils. Sure wish I had more free time,
but<br>that's the way it is now, I have to garden smarter I
suppose.<br>Speaking of free time I joined the Paperback Swap online,
much fun. I<br>started listing about 20 books and before I was done I
had orders for<br>five of them. Now I can get five more books! I don't
know when I'll get<br>to read them, but that's not the point.
:-)<br><br>Cyndi<br><br>------------------------------------------------
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