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  Start A Butterfly Garden!

  by Bonsai in

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  time to take a break from debating religion.

  take in a breath of fresh air and be healed by the wonders of nature around you.. how many of you have a garden?

  how many have a nice flower patch to go with your vegetable garden?

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  cat has just brought in a weasel for the first time...

  Once my deceased cat brought a live snake into the house. And also mice (dead). He also picked up moles, but never killed, but dragged them to the door, and then let it go. I was not very pleased with moles afterwards devastating my garden. Bad kitty.

  When I was kid, I stayed the my grandmother house in the southern Moravian countryside. As a city boy, I never seen a snail, so I picked around the countryside a full box of them and brought them inside of her house. Worried that she would be too pleased with my life collection, I hid them in the water tank at her extensive orangery where she stored subtropical plants. The snails got out and went into feast. For year they drove her crazy, because they were everywhere, and they had to call exterminator. When i was older, i mentioned to my grandmother what I have done, and she laughed it of. She suspected her elderly neighbor was jealous and was throwing snails over the roof into her courtyard.
  
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  Start A Butterfly Garden!

  by Bonsai in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  time to take a break from debating religion.

  take in a breath of fresh air and be healed by the wonders of nature around you.. how many of you have a garden?

  how many have a nice flower patch to go with your vegetable garden?

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  So April is over. We had strange weather extremes that month. Rain deficit is 3" or 4" but this will be erased by the next week. We had non-stop rain for the last three days. We had highs to 88F and early morning freeze. My hydrangeas suffered from freeze burn (the first time ever), while wisteria dropped all its flowers, and early blooming azaleas look terrible. On the other had, lawn looks good. I have a tons of lily-of-the-valley, dragonroot, and may night sage blooming. I am hoping for calla lilies and gladiolas to finally poke from the ground, because this time of the of the year, they should be already sprouting.

  I also have a bunny family living under the shed. They stayed there couple years ago, but were gone last year. The biggest issue right now are caterpillars. We never had so many of them like this spring. They totally chew many leafs on my english laurels and some other plants. Birds seem to be too lazy to eat them, but I do not want to overspray the backyard with chemical(s).
  
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  Any thought behind your " Avatar"

  by The Rebel in

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  i think that's the correct phrase?

  anyway when i first came here, that little picture that "the rebel" hides behind, was a self portrait of a very sad man, who simply had too much knowledge.

  now i feel after 7 months here, i should repaint that " avetor" give some happiness to the eyes, and a contented smile to the lips.. in short my " avetor" was a self portrait of a man with too much knowledge.

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  Mine is a Czech cartoon character.
  
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  ANZAC day.

  by zeb in

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  the 25th april in australia and new zealand is called anzac day.

  the word is from australia new zealand army corp.. on this day are commemorated the lives of those lost in war.

  the 25th april is the day in 1915 that the forces under incompetent commanders landed on the coast of turkey at a place called gallipoli or galliboli in turkish, in an effort to force turkey out of the great war.. the landings were an unmitigated blunder.

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  WWI seems so long time ago but... My grandfather fought it in the last year in 1918 when he was drafted as a teen on Italian front line. My great-grandfather (grandpa from my mom side) was an Austrian officer, already retired in 1900s when he was called in once Austria-Hungary run out of soldiers. He survived the war, but his son, who was also teen did not. I agree with prologos, it was delusion of imperial government in Austria when it started the war.
  
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  Start A Butterfly Garden!

  by Bonsai in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  time to take a break from debating religion.

  take in a breath of fresh air and be healed by the wonders of nature around you.. how many of you have a garden?

  how many have a nice flower patch to go with your vegetable garden?

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  My azalea on the sunny side finally bloomed. The variety is called Karen Azalea and they do well in my climate. I have bluebells around them. On the shaded part, my lily of the valley bloomed and filled the flowerbed. I have mother's day azalea by the shed. One is about to bloom, the other is still waiting to bloom. Behind it is my clematis, forget-me-not and huge catawbiense rhodo.

  
  

  
  

  
  
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  Prince died from overdose?

  by TweetieBird in

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  i just saw where the emergency landing that prince made several days ago in moline was due to an opiate overdose.

  this came from tmz and sounded pretty credible.

  if true, just curious if he would still be given a jw funeral, if that is what he wanted..

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  I would wait till the official reports from the toxicology. He may overdosed from legal prescription or from a bad combo of various medications.
  
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  Start A Butterfly Garden!

  by Bonsai in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  time to take a break from debating religion.

  take in a breath of fresh air and be healed by the wonders of nature around you.. how many of you have a garden?

  how many have a nice flower patch to go with your vegetable garden?

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  kaik

  Here in USA, we had warm December till middle of the January. We got blizzard at the end of the January and tons of snow. However, we did not experienced significant freeze as I had experienced in 2010. March was seasonably warm/cold, but I had two snaps of early morning freezing, which seems to take a toll on hydrangeas which were already budded out. Even encore azalea suffered from the snap, and they started to drop leaves. I have two types of azalea, one which is evergreen and others that shed leaves but their flowers are very fragrant.

  So far the big success were camellias which produced tons of flowers. I do not see my rhodos to bloom this year. I noticed in the past that they produce more flowers every other year. One year I will get couple buds, and then next year they will be all covered with flowers. The only enemy for rhodos and all other evergreens are squirrels and chipmunks because they like to build a den under them. I ordered climbing rose for my trellis as April is the best month to plant them. I have one rose that never looked good and my mom cut it down and rejuvenated it two years ago, but still it looks sick.
  
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  what sort of reactions have you gotten when talking to other jw when telling them the "truth about the truth"?

  by AmIright in

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  its funny ive read some stories on here about how they have become so infuriated by what logic dictates as being true and their own denying of it because it completely screws up their belief and shows how hypocritical it is xd some look like a nuclear reactor about to blow xd.

  share you experiences here :) .

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  My mom could care less at her age, and to be in the "Truth" for 40+ years. I talked to her about ti, she shrugged, she knows that much of the WT is BS, but for her leaving WT would mean the end of her social life. She has friends there, she gets out to various KH and assemblies, plus much of my family is in who will shun her as aunt. Two my cousins are elder. She told me that it does not matter at this point because she dedicated a lot of money and life to it.
  

  My siblings reject TATT, but they agree that it has some valid point, but they have not crossed the decisive point, like they are afraid of it.

  My cousins are deeply in and they will run with hands over their ears if they hear it.
  
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  Start A Butterfly Garden!

  by Bonsai in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  time to take a break from debating religion.

  take in a breath of fresh air and be healed by the wonders of nature around you.. how many of you have a garden?

  how many have a nice flower patch to go with your vegetable garden?

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  kaik

  Czech Republic has two climate types, depending on the elevation and proximity to the Northern Sea/Black Sea. Most of the country is at a elevated plateau having harsh winter, and wet summer. This is valid for Sudeten Mountains, and for a region delineated by line Dresden-Prague-Linz. This is zone 5B-6A. The area around Karlovy Vary is very cold and even in summer can experience a frost. This is caused by cold air sinking into the valley. Bavaria across Bohemian-Bavarian mountains has also one of the coldest temperature in Germany.

  Eastern part (Zone 6B to 7A) of the county has continental climate, it is a part of the Pannonian basin with low precipitation and a short winter. My grandparents were from southern Moravia where my ancestors lived there since the Middle Ages. They had vineyards under Palava hills, they grew almonds, apricots, peaches, water melons, asparagus, tomatoes, paprika, artichokes, butter squash without problems. Some people were also successful with propagating figs. If I even decide to live back in CZ, than the option will be either Prague for a quality of life or southern Moravia around Palava due good weather and peaceful tranquility among the vineyards.
  
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  Start A Butterfly Garden!

  by Bonsai in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  time to take a break from debating religion.

  take in a breath of fresh air and be healed by the wonders of nature around you.. how many of you have a garden?

  how many have a nice flower patch to go with your vegetable garden?

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  kaik

  Half banana, I live in the Eastern part of USA. Here, the crape myrtles grow from Washington DC south and along the coast up to Delmarva peninsula. My M-I-L lives in New Jersey at the shore, and she was not successful with crape myrtles at all. There suppose to be a new varieties hardy to zone 6 (Washington-New York City), but I do not think they been proven considering we can see the winter temperature as lows as -20C in NJ. Crape Myrtles do well in hot humid summer, which is most of the eastern part of USA along the coast between Texas to Delaware. I never seen a crape myrtle in Europe. I have also chaste tree and this grow well. I can see them as well in the Czech republic around Prague and southern Moravia.

  My story with rhodos: We had utility dig and they destroyed last year a row of rhodos along the house. I had replaced it with another one, but I think it did not get established and is suffering. I am lucky with traditional USA based rhodos like catawbiense which grew into huge size over these years. However, other imported plants had not established. I had rhodo Novaya Zemlja and it died, because it could not tolerate the summer heat. Mountain laurels are known to be difficult. I have one well established, but the plant next to it died this winter. I have not seen many people planting them because they are plants for a higher elevation and do not get well established along Eastern seaboard. I see a lot of mountain laurels up the Shenandoah, Blue Ridge mountains and West Virginia like Dolly Sod Wilderness.