Shouldn't Parents Get a Thank You Note?
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What roses do you grow that you "shouldn't" be able to?
Comments (31)Virginia - in answer to your questions, I've enabled all my neighbors on each side of me and behind to try roses, and convinced them that roses aren't that hard to grow. For the most part, I did this with the more reliable shrub roses, since one neighbor in particular had been convinced that roses had to be obsessively sprayed and fussed over all summer. The ease of shrub roses have convinced them that roses can be easy care plants. For Francis Dubreuil, most folks recommend this one for part shade locations regardless of zone to maintain the deep colors and the purple tones. Mine is in part shade and it doesn't seem to affect the winter hardiness. As for Ingrid Bergman, I love the dark red of this one but I'm on 2 or 3 tries to overwinter this one, and I think it's going to be one of those "cold wimps" that are truly zone 7 rather than only reported as such. Cynthia...See Morewanted: deb!!!! you shouldn't have, but -
Comments (39)I used to wear Tretorns to play tennis when I lived in San Francisco, but I never had shoe sachets for them! I bought Tretorns because they were all white, and I bought Tretorn tennis balls because back then they were also white. Shoe sachets sound like a really good idea! I love soup, but it's far from soup weather here, as it was in the 90s in L.A. today. I will still look forward to seeing more soup recipes in the future, however. Lars...See Moreis there a reason I SHOULDN'T get a copper sink?
Comments (4)depends on what you want. If you are expecting a new-penny bright copper sink all the time, you will as homey-bird suggests spend a lot of time polishing it. Chances are, however, you are contemplating a sink that has already acquired a patina (at the factory probably). This is the case with my master bathroom sink. I find that it needs a little more care than I (an admitted bathroom slob) am used to giving other sinks. If I want it to have that nice glowing patina, I need to make sure I wipe it out every day after using it. Anything acidic or toothpaste will take off the patina, leaving little bright spots behind. And a few days of use without wiping it out seem to leave it a little ickier looking that say a porcelain sink. But, that may not be an issue at all for a kitchen sink that is used on a daily basis for say, dishes, and wiped out afterward. You will probably find that you want to slather it with an oil or waxy substance every week or two. It will give it that nice glow and help protect it from the little bright spot syndrome as well as a tendency to accumulate ick. I use paste wax, but I remember reading about one GWer who simply gave hers a wipe with whatever waxy/oily substance she had nearby every few days...baby oil, hair gel, etc. I know there are GWers out there with copper kitchen sinks, so hopefully they'll weigh in for you and give you more of the inside skinny....See MoreDo you have 'companion' plants that really shouldn't do well others?
Comments (27)English - is a dreadful language (humor ahead and it is long) We'll begin with box, and the plural is boxes; But the plural of ox should be oxen, not oxes. Then one fowl is goose, but two are called geese Yet the plural of moose should never be meese. You may find a lone mouse or a whole lot of mice, But the plural of house is houses, not hice. If the plural of man is always called men, When couldn't the plural of pan be called pen? The cow in the plural may be cows or kine, But the plural of vow is vows, not vine. And I speak of a foot, and you show me your feet, But I give a boot - would a pair be called beet? If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth, Why shouldn't the plural of booth be called beeth? If the singular is this and plural is these, Why shouldn't the plural of kiss be nicknamed kese? Then one may be that, and three may be those, Yet the plural of hat would never be hose; We speak of a brother, and also of brethren, But though we say mother, we never say methren. The masculine pronouns are he, his and him, But imagine the feminine she, shis, and shim! So our English, I think you will all agree, Is the trickiest language you ever did see. I take it you already know Of tough and bough and cough and dough? Others may stumble, but not you On hiccough, thorough, slough, and through? Well done! And now you wish, perhaps To learn of less familiar traps? Beware of heard, a dreadful word That looks like beard and sounds like bird. And dead; it's said like bed, not bead; For goodness sake, don't call it deed! Watch out for meat and great and threat, (they rhyme with suite and straight and debt) A moth is not a moth in mother. Nor both in bother, broth in brother. And here is not a match for there. And dear and fear for bear and pear. And then there's dose and rose and lose -- Just look them up -- and goose and choose. And cork and work and card and ward, And font and front and word and sword. And do and go, then thwart and cart. Come, come, I've hardly made a start. A dreadful language? Why, man alive, I'd learned to talk it when I was five, And yet to write it, the more I tried, I hadn't learned it at fifty-five!...See MoreKaren10125
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