Camellias

[robinmckinley]

[ARRRGH.  No comment unscreening tonight, many apologies;  I've only just got back on line.  We're still having punitive rain and gales and one of  'em took a passing swoop at our little town and took out both the mews and my cottage.  And I am not going to wrestle with lj on dial up . . . although that's a trifle mooter than it was before the new

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[fatfred]

Just because I am evil: http://www.leugardens.org/
Come visit me in Florida.
My dad's from Bristol, 87 and still hale and hearty. He and your husband can chat.

[blackbear88]

Camellias always make me think of Old Mrs. Dubose in To Kill a Mockingbird (still my all-time favorite book ever, hands down. My copy is, quite literally, disintegrating from overuse.)

Really, though, you are going to have to post not only photos, but an overhead diagram of your garden(s) when the new blog is up. I'm a spacial learner, and yet I can't for the life of me figure out how you're FITTING IT ALL IN. :)

I cannot begin to describe the depth of my paranoia when I first brought tiny hellpuppies home, that they might somehow climb the brick wall and...

When I had my first kitten, I became utterly convinced the first time I left her alone to go to work that she would somehow find a way to stick her paw in a lightsocket or drown in the toilet or something. I was a nervous wreck. It all seemed perfectly reasonable at the time...

[ajl_r]

I think your garden must be a Tardis clone! There seem to be so many more features and plants in it than could be possible under the normal laws of space/time. :) So, which camellias?

As to the well, yes, big holes in the ground are scary. One of my great aunts used to live in a remote part of (tin-mining) Cornwall. One lovely spring morning, she and her husband went out of the back door to go down to a little summer house where they usually had breakfast on nice days, to find that a hole 20 feet across and at least 100 feet deep had opened up overnight and they no longer had either a summer house or that little corner of the garden!

[green_knight]

I made the transition to floppyless computers six years ago.

Last year, I threw all my remaining floppies in the trash on the basis that if I hand't needed the stuff now, I won't need it ever, and my last remaining floppy drive died anyway - and so did most of the floppies I tried out.

They are not a long-lived medium. I've got the important stuff on a ZIP drive, and as for the rest, well, there are only so many hours on a lifetime...

[anonymous]

*****Their latest disgusting habit is pulling dental floss out of the trash. Aaaauuugh. Aside from the possibility of its tying a knot somehow in their gut if they managed to swallow any, which I don’t know could happen or not, I do not want to be dragging it out of the other end, which I would be doing.*****

I do know that dental floss is a real problem for cat intestines. I don't know about dogs. I once had a problem with one of my Danes whose intestines were nearly sawed in half by two bits of bedding held together by some threads; she had eaten some of that fake-sheepskin bedding. My policy is better safe than sorry.

As for pulling it out the other end -- yes, it's a real problem, especially when they get into the bathroom trash and eat tampons....

Judith

[robinmckinley]

yes, it's a real problem, especially when they get into the bathroom trash and eat tampons....

********** ROTFL!!!!!!!! I *knew* toxic shock syndrome was invented for a reason!!!!!