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I wondered how the neighboring trees came to be so perfectly coordinated with the view from the house. 
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One square of chocolate? that's what I call control. Just hand me that bar and I will leave you 1 square and one square only I promisei think they go well with almost everything.i mentioned here (i think it might have been before you joined TEG) that Jr Mints go well with carrots if you are trying to get a reluctant child to eat more carrots.
most of the time we have them with popcorn for dinner. not often. just once a month or so.
i also found out they work very well squished between two crackers. they taste better than a Thin Mint Girl Scout cookie. however, since i'm trying to not have too much sugar these days i don't normally eat them every day. i try to keep it down to one square of good chocolate.
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One square of chocolate? that's what I call control. Just hand me that bar and I will leave you 1 square and one square only I promise
our normal chocolate bar weighs 500 grams...
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I wondered how the neighboring trees came to be so perfectly coordinated with the view from the house.
i'm not sure which views or which trees, but they were almost all planted by us intentionally (with a few just sprouting from animals or blown in on the wind) and i'd say right now that most of them i wish weren't where they are. it's hard to put up fences when trees are in the way or on the property line.
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If I wait long enough I end up regretting almost every tree that I have planted--except for the Japanese Maples, which unfortunately end up dying just as they reach maturity due to a water-borne disease that takes them out. The worst part is our city has a bylaw that prevents cutting down trees, even on your own property. What better way to deter people from planting trees?
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garden club meeting, i took the peas with me again and did manage to go through them and clean up some that had chaff in them along with doing some sorting (that i have no idea what they are all called so it doesn't make much difference but that is a good thing for me to do when i'm sitting and talking to someone).
so the group has four regulars/semi-regulars.
one of the members brought cosmo seeds to put into the seed bank along with having plenty enough to donate some to me to take to the seed swap along with me being able to have some fresher seeds for replanting here and mix with mine. i'll take a sample of mine for the garden club person because there's a chance i have some colors/traits in my mix that they don't have in theirs.
cosmos are always cheerful and bright with the yellows, oranges, and some oranges have edges that have some red to them.
they can make for some pretty pictures so i should grow some of these this coming year so i can try to get some pictures with the newer camera.
this is a picture from the old website of those type of flowers that shows the colors.
2004, not sure when the picture was taken, probably a few years before...
https://web.archive.org/web/20040101000000/http://www.anthive.com/flowers/tifs/yellred.tif
so the group has four regulars/semi-regulars.
one of the members brought cosmo seeds to put into the seed bank along with having plenty enough to donate some to me to take to the seed swap along with me being able to have some fresher seeds for replanting here and mix with mine. i'll take a sample of mine for the garden club person because there's a chance i have some colors/traits in my mix that they don't have in theirs.
cosmos are always cheerful and bright with the yellows, oranges, and some oranges have edges that have some red to them.
they can make for some pretty pictures so i should grow some of these this coming year so i can try to get some pictures with the newer camera.
this is a picture from the old website of those type of flowers that shows the colors.
2004, not sure when the picture was taken, probably a few years before...
https://web.archive.org/web/20040101000000/http://www.anthive.com/flowers/tifs/yellred.tif
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Cosmos bippinatus is a pretty flower and nice in a vase, and Cosmos sulphureus is impressive too. Foliage of the two are galaxies apart though, both being equally distinct.
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for sure! the bippis do not give seeds so easily and take longer to finish. we've grown them several times here but they tend to peter out. the sulphurs get loaded with seeds and i have no trouble keeping them going if i want to let them take over an area.
the foliage is very different, i'd consider them completely different plants for that reason alone.
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I'll have 2 of those pleaseour normal chocolate bar weighs 500 grams...
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my internet connection has been flaky since the ice storms.
seed swap went well, took me a few days to recover from that, busy with other things for sure now for a while.
got some taxes done the other day.
birds are starting to show up for their annual territory claims and such.
heard a flock of geese flying over a bit ago. haven't heard them in a few months.
snow that landed yesterday is mostly melted already. deer raided overnight. i also did see some mouse tracks in the snow so i'll refresh the mouse traps bait the next time i get a chance.
seed swap went well, took me a few days to recover from that, busy with other things for sure now for a while.
got some taxes done the other day.
birds are starting to show up for their annual territory claims and such.
heard a flock of geese flying over a bit ago. haven't heard them in a few months.
snow that landed yesterday is mostly melted already. deer raided overnight. i also did see some mouse tracks in the snow so i'll refresh the mouse traps bait the next time i get a chance.
