Re: Everyone must be....

It's one of the reasons I pay our bills on-line--let the bank worry about all that stuff. Most [not all, unfortunately] of our creditors accept electronic transfers from the bank, so the only thing that moves is information. 


On Nov 5, 2007, at 1:54 PM, Johnson Cyndi D Civ 95 CG/SCSRT wrote:


They didn't even need our signature. The fake checks didn't even have
our names on them, just the bank name (misspelled, btw) and the real
account number. Thankfully the bank is crediting our account for the
fake ones. And we're waiting for the other shoe to drop...but I hope
this will be the end of it. We have a PO box too, got it years ago for
convenience when we moved, and we'll be sending pretty much everything
there now.
It's awful how many places are getting hit with drought. I may do what
you're doing, just see what will live with the reduced water and go from 
there. I am giving thought to cutting back the veggie garden next year
too. That hurts more to think about than the front yard - now I know
what really matters to me.

Cyndi


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
Behalf Of Bonnie Holmes
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 9:44 AM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: RE: [CHAT] Everyone must be....

My husband found some outgoing bills of one of our neighbors in the
bushes
during one of his many walks.  I encouraged the neighbor to report it,
which he did. The Postal Inspector happened to be there and advised him 
to
always put his outgoing bill payments in one of the official blue postal 
boxes or the outgoing in the Post Office to avoid ID theft.  When a
thief
has your outgoing check, he has your account number, the bank routing
number and your signature...they don't need much to set up a fake.  So
sorry, I know this must have been a real pain. Hope you weren't out too 
much.  Many banks have a limit on your responsibility.

We are still in the middle of a terrible drought...worst one in 98 of
the
last 100 years.  Even if we have a wet winter, the weather people are
saying that it will take 10 years to recover and get back to normal
because
our rain fall is fairly evenly distributed throughout the year rather
than
in one season.  September did bring us some rain but not enough to help
the
ground water...if you dig down three feet, you hit bone dry soil. Right 
now, the only thing that is helping is the TVA dam system...else, we
would
all be out of water. I'm letting most of my plants survive on their own 
and hope they make it.  UGH.




[Original Message]
From: Johnson Cyndi D Civ 95 CG/SCSRT <cyndi.johnson@edwards.af.mil>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Date: 11/5/2007 10:45:12 AM
Subject: RE: [CHAT] Everyone must be....

Busy but alas, not gardening. I got one pot - one - into the

greenhouse.

Saturday morning husband sat down to do bills and discovered that

early

last month someone had stolen our outgoing mail, with paid bills in

it,

and was busy writing checks around town using our account. So we spent
hours at the bank backtracking all that stuff and more hours online
trying to make sure they hadn't gotten into anything else. I still

need

to make the police report. Did you know (I didn't) that they don't

even

need your checks? The ones that were cashed were complete fakes, they
just put our account number on the bottom. And poor fakes at that,
anyone who really looked at it would have seen the typos and weird
lettering, but oh well. We are hoping they are small-time criminals
since all the activity happened a few days after the theft and nothing
in the last couple weeks. What a PITA.
What gorgeous weather we are having! In the back of my mind is the
little voice that says we need rain, but it's just so wonderful

now...no

wind, sun, temps in the high 70s. Beautiful. Sunday I went hiking for

a

couple hours and then we loaded up my horse and went out to where
husband's horse is being trained and boarded. My sister met us there

and

we went for a trail ride. More dirt roads than trails, but we hadn't
been out there before so at least we didn't get lost. The rabbitbrush

is

blooming now and we were surrounded by hundreds of acres of sunny

yellow

(don't get too close, it smells atrocious). Ah you can't imagine how
pretty the day was.
My sycamores are dropping leaves now, so I guess it's time to start
raking. And my poor rhododendron looks awful. We had the water

rationing

last week so all the sprinklers were off. Only a week of not watering,
and it wasn't seriously hot, but the poor plant looks really bad. I am
now feeling irresponsible for keeping this cool woodland plant here in
the desert, I've always been kind of smug about having one but now I
wonder - given our water problems - if I should be keeping it. Well,

if

it doesn't recover now that we're watering again, problem solved.
Everything else looks fine.

Cyndi


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
Behalf Of james singer
Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2007 9:59 AM
To: Garden Chat
Subject: [CHAT] Everyone must be....

busy this weekend. Not much happening here. Kinda chilly when I got
up--55 degrees--but that's relative, I guess. Started a bunch of
cuttings of strawberry guava [Psidium cattleianum (aka P. littorale)]
for a friend in India. Don't know if they'll root; apparently the
cuttings can be somewhat stubborn. Interesting and odd thing about the
plant: it's invasive in Hawaii's rainforest [where wild pigs spread

the

seeds] and in central Florida [where birds spread the seeds], but not
here--and in fact, I can't get it to grow from seed for some reason.
And my friend in India is batting zero-for-two trying to grow them

from

seeds also.

If you've never seen this plant, it's a nice, large, multi-stem shrub
with very nice stem color and contour--somewhat like crepe myrtle but
without the peeling [and suckering]. The local library has several

that

have been trimmed up as small trees, and they're quite eye-catching.


Island Jim
Southwest Florida
27.1 N, 82.4 W
Hardiness Zone 10
Heat Zone 10
Sunset Zone 25
Minimum 30 F [-1 C]
Maximum 100 F [38 C]

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Island Jim
Southwest Florida
27.1 N, 82.4 W
Hardiness Zone 10
Heat Zone 10
Sunset Zone 25
Minimum 30 F [-1 C]
Maximum 100 F [38 C]

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