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Spring is on it's way and many of us are looking forward to some sunshine and warmer weather and being outdoors...and gardens!
Perhaps you look forward to digging in the fresh spring time soil as you prepare for a summer garden? Do you plant flowers? Do you plant vegetables?
Do you garden for enjoyment? Do you garden for health benefits? What do you want to share about your garden?
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@fiesty76 @jimhd I'll trade [I think] crabgrass for the wild blackberries invading from the empty lot next door. The only thing positive about them is the fact they are helping to hold up the old fence ;)) The neighbor brush-hogged our property lines on two sides which border empty lots, so we have added repair/replace fence to the list. There are 10 empty lots, a long crazy legal story, next to us. The wild blackberries have taken over the marshy soil. Canes are almost as thick as my wrist! The urge to get starts and plant some veggies is getting stronger! I had no idea how much this was a big deal around here, everyone trading starts and crops!
@funcountess Thanks for the information. First I'll see if that cactus makes it onto the truck this weekend. We drive Interstate 5 usually because it is a straight shot.
Ginger
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1 Reaction@fiesty76 Yes, you are so right about being there with your pet during the euthanasia. I can't imagine not being there. My small town on a highway receives a lot of dumped animals, I'm sad to say. Over the years, I've adopted many of them, and so have had occasion to lose many of them. It is always hard. Jim's story about Barnabas touched me deeply.
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1 ReactionJim, thank you for relating the story of Barnabas, and his garden. Your love for him was palpable and so touching. Our animals add so much to our lives, and losing them is so painful.
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1 Reaction@gingerw I'm surprised to see you refer to it as Interstate 5, rather than "the 5", something that always cracked me up when we were in CA a lot visiting my stepson in S.F. and my son in L.A. One time we did "the 5" from stepson to son's, and that road is so boring.
JK
Hi contentandwell,
Some people say interstate5 and others just say 5 freeway. I am used to saying Ventura freeway which is the 101
Along the Pacific Ocean coast in some parts. It’s what us natives get used to. Ginger is from California. Since she’s now out of state going down the 5 freeway is a faster route to take especially if heading East or south.
Personally I prefer the Ventura101 because it’s more picturesque.
Take care,
Funcountess
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1 Reaction@fiesty @gingerw @zep @funcountess @zep and others who've responded.
Barnabas was a family pet the first couple years of his life - he was the runt of a litter on a ranch east of us, from unplanned breeding between an Ausie dad and a border collie mom, and people chose his litter mates, but no one wanted him and he was going to be put down the day after we found him - he loved everyone and the feeling was mutual. So he was one of our rescue dogs. He became my service dog after some training, much more than a pet. He was very well behaved. The relationship between a handler and his service animal is even closer than a pet. The evening Barnabas had the stroke I took him to an emergency vet that's open 24/7, then went back home and spent a sleepless night with him. In the morning I took him to our local vet and sat in the back seat with him, and held him while she injected the medication. I felt him finally relax, then stop breathing.
We lived for 14 years in Albany, Oregon, on the frontage road next to I 5. Over the course of those years, we saw a huge difference in the traffic flow. For a long time, we knew when it was 11 p.m.because the freeway emptied and it became quiet. But the last several years it changed. Traffic continued through the night. We got used to the noise. If we wanted to talk and be heard, we sat in the back yard.
And you probably noticed that I referred the freeway as I 5. Sometimes we called it Highway 5, but our young son called it our freeway.
Jim
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3 Reactions@jimhd I am so sorry you had to put Barnabas down . I had to with my dog also it was the hardest thing I had to do . After my husband died he was my buddy even more so It was hard especially that year I had just fractured my L2 from work . He had fallen of my bed and broke his hip also . Yoda was 15 . sob I,ll still get choked up
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3 Reactions@lioness and @jimhd I too still get tears when I think of our dear little Cavalier, Keller, and my daughter's dog Belly (short for Annabelle). I was there by Keller's side with my hand on him when they injected him, and Belly was in my daughter's lap. Poor little Belly was not able to have nearly as many days as she should have had, she had severe kidney problems. My daughter did get another rescue dog recently that she was fostering, but she has said there will never be another Belly. They were almost inseparable.
JK
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1 ReactionWell, so much for freeways/ highways. Why do t we just call all of them Congestion Alley
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1 ReactionI'd like to jump in here for a moment. Why are they called freeways, highways, I-#, etc.? They are not free, high, international, interstate or intrastate. I understand state highways, county roads, two-lane highways and gravel roads because they describe exactly what/where/how they are.