Well, the peace and quiet is over and so is the stitching time

On Aug 7, 10:43*am, lucretia borgia
wrote:
On Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:28:40 -0400, Cheryl Isaak
opined:



I have my head on straight. *it's only a fantasy. *Our suburban
backyard is enough. *Mark saw three baby and mommy raccoon in the tree
last night, then there are four baby oppossums, and he found a little
tiny baby oppossum in the pool, alive and he saved it. *Now he's out
there taking a photo of a tarantula hole in the tree. *Our backyard is
definitely a wildlife habitat. *The rats sit there eating their seeds
by the brush pile and when they see us they wave now!
And you know about my dead (now a smallish lump of bones and fur) skunk that
died in my garden. I see lots of wildlife.

Cheryl

In NS people appreciate an urban skunk in the garden. *You know they
are there and don't bother them and they won't bother you but while
they are there neighbourhood cats steer a wide path round your garden
and somebody else gets the poop.

While I don't want them in my hen house, I love having skunks around
the property since they dig up yellow jacket (wasp) nests and eat
them. :-))) Usually, it's a case of we don't bother them and they
don't bother us. The presence of the dog keeps them from getting too
comfortable too close to the house.
Liz from Humbug

On 8/7/08 9:48 PM, in article ,
"Jangchub" wrote:

On Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:52:57 -0400, Cheryl Isaak
wrote:

On 8/7/08 4:24 PM, in article ,
"Jangchub" wrote:

On Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:28:40 -0400, Cheryl Isaak
wrote:


I have my head on straight. it's only a fantasy. Our suburban
backyard is enough. Mark saw three baby and mommy raccoon in the tree
last night, then there are four baby oppossums, and he found a little
tiny baby oppossum in the pool, alive and he saved it. Now he's out
there taking a photo of a tarantula hole in the tree. Our backyard is
definitely a wildlife habitat. The rats sit there eating their seeds
by the brush pile and when they see us they wave now!

And you know about my dead (now a smallish lump of bones and fur) skunk
that
died in my garden. I see lots of wildlife.

Cheryl

No, I didn't know. Was that a big PU going on as well?

Sure you did - you even told me not to move it myself in case the stink
gland popped. Didn't smell to bad - all the rain really accelerated the rot.

Okay, I am officially announcing my senility here! I don't know if
it's early Alzheimer's or I am just having short term memory problems,
but this is happening a LOT these days. I'm glad I gave you good
advice!

I think you
should know by now, but our yard is certified by Texas Parks and
Wildlife as well as World Wildlife Foundation backyard wildlife
habitat. We even have a water snake in the pond! Very small.

I've thought about doing a backyard habitat.

C

It's very easy. You need to have at least 50 percent native plants, a
place for animals, birds, etc. to nest and raise their young and a
food source, which can be in shrubs etc. You apply online at
http://www.nwf.org/backyard/ I said it was the WWF.

v


I know who they are. DD has the paperwork, we just really need the water
source on the property.

Cheryl

On 8/8/08 2:34 PM, in article
, "Liz from
Humbug" wrote:

On Aug 7, 10:43*am, lucretia borgia
wrote:
On Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:28:40 -0400, Cheryl Isaak
opined:



I have my head on straight. *it's only a fantasy. *Our suburban
backyard is enough. *Mark saw three baby and mommy raccoon in the tree
last night, then there are four baby oppossums, and he found a little
tiny baby oppossum in the pool, alive and he saved it. *Now he's out
there taking a photo of a tarantula hole in the tree. *Our backyard is
definitely a wildlife habitat. *The rats sit there eating their seeds
by the brush pile and when they see us they wave now!
And you know about my dead (now a smallish lump of bones and fur) skunk that
died in my garden. I see lots of wildlife.

Cheryl

In NS people appreciate an urban skunk in the garden. *You know they
are there and don't bother them and they won't bother you but while
they are there neighbourhood cats steer a wide path round your garden
and somebody else gets the poop.

While I don't want them in my hen house, I love having skunks around
the property since they dig up yellow jacket (wasp) nests and eat
them. :-))) Usually, it's a case of we don't bother them and they
don't bother us. The presence of the dog keeps them from getting too
comfortable too close to the house.
Liz from Humbug


I felt bad - poor thing was clearly ailing.

I know there will be a replacement by this time next year.

Cheryl

On 8/8/08 6:14 AM, "Karen C in California" wrote:

ellice wrote:

On 8/7/08 7:10 PM, "Karen C - California" wrote:


Bruce Fletcher (Stronsay, Orkney) wrote:


Beer from a pottery mug? Never tried that, might have a go tonight.




It's called a beer stein. Quite popular among my people.


I have some antique ones with pewter lids - though I believe they're
actually tankards. I thought beer steins were like Pilsner glasses.

Ellice



In all the German kitsch catalogues I've ever seen, the pottery ones
with lids were called "stein" (which also means stone, hence, makes
sense to me that it would apply to pottery more so than glass).


German = stein for some beer vessel To Bruce in the UK = tankard Pottery,
or pewter - mugs with handles - older ones with lids - English language
usually refers to those as tankards.

ellice

ellice wrote:
German = stein for some beer vessel To Bruce in the UK = tankard Pottery,
or pewter - mugs with handles - older ones with lids - English language
usually refers to those as tankards.

Thanks Ellice. Some pubs used to have a few pewter tankards for their
regulars but I think the practice has died out and pints of beer are
served in glass tankards or glass sleevers. For descriptions see
http://everything2.com/title/sleever
--
Bruce Fletcher
Stronsay, Orkney
http://tinyurl.com/3b54af
(Remove dentures to reply)

On 8/8/08 5:05 PM, in article ,
"Jangchub" wrote:

On Fri, 08 Aug 2008 14:35:12 -0400, Cheryl Isaak
wrote:

On 8/7/08 9:48 PM, in article ,
"Jangchub" wrote:

On Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:52:57 -0400, Cheryl Isaak
wrote:

On 8/7/08 4:24 PM, in article ,
"Jangchub" wrote:

On Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:28:40 -0400, Cheryl Isaak
wrote:


I have my head on straight. it's only a fantasy. Our suburban
backyard is enough. Mark saw three baby and mommy raccoon in the tree
last night, then there are four baby oppossums, and he found a little
tiny baby oppossum in the pool, alive and he saved it. Now he's out
there taking a photo of a tarantula hole in the tree. Our backyard is
definitely a wildlife habitat. The rats sit there eating their seeds
by the brush pile and when they see us they wave now!

And you know about my dead (now a smallish lump of bones and fur) skunk
that
died in my garden. I see lots of wildlife.

Cheryl

No, I didn't know. Was that a big PU going on as well?

Sure you did - you even told me not to move it myself in case the stink
gland popped. Didn't smell to bad - all the rain really accelerated the
rot.

Okay, I am officially announcing my senility here! I don't know if
it's early Alzheimer's or I am just having short term memory problems,
but this is happening a LOT these days. I'm glad I gave you good
advice!

I think you
should know by now, but our yard is certified by Texas Parks and
Wildlife as well as World Wildlife Foundation backyard wildlife
habitat. We even have a water snake in the pond! Very small.

I've thought about doing a backyard habitat.

C

It's very easy. You need to have at least 50 percent native plants, a
place for animals, birds, etc. to nest and raise their young and a
food source, which can be in shrubs etc. You apply online at
http://www.nwf.org/backyard/ I said it was the WWF.

v


I know who they are. DD has the paperwork, we just really need the water
source on the property.

Cheryl

All you need is a birdbath.

I'd like to do a small pond or fountain with pool that I can put BT tabs in.

Cheyrl

On 8/9/08 10:42 AM, in article ,
"Jangchub" wrote:

On Sat, 09 Aug 2008 09:13:35 -0400, Cheryl Isaak
wrote:



I'd like to do a small pond or fountain with pool that I can put BT tabs in.

Cheyrl

You can get a small hard pond cheaply, but no matter how small, you
will still need to keep the water moving or it gets rank fast. I
don't recommend fish unless you have really have a deep pond for them
to hide from the raccoons, and in our case, the Heron's.

v

One of the reasons I haven't is the oddball local codes required to have an
AC operated pond pump.

Cheryl

On 8/9/08 2:24 PM, in article ,
"Jangchub" wrote:

On Sat, 09 Aug 2008 11:03:30 -0400, Cheryl Isaak
wrote:

On 8/9/08 10:42 AM, in article ,
"Jangchub" wrote:

On Sat, 09 Aug 2008 09:13:35 -0400, Cheryl Isaak
wrote:



I'd like to do a small pond or fountain with pool that I can put BT tabs
in.

Cheyrl

You can get a small hard pond cheaply, but no matter how small, you
will still need to keep the water moving or it gets rank fast. I
don't recommend fish unless you have really have a deep pond for them
to hide from the raccoons, and in our case, the Heron's.

v

One of the reasons I haven't is the oddball local codes required to have an
AC operated pond pump.

Cheryl

They won't accept solar operated fountain pumps? All you need it to
do is move the water to aerate it. If you don't have fish you
shouldn't need a filter. Eh, I feel like I'm pond thumping you! LOL.

I could do that, but I don't know that I would get enough sun where I want
it.

If I could turn the entire backyard into a pond it wouldn't be too
soon for me. I adore water gardens and if (oh with dred) I ever have
to move, I will not have a pool dug. I will buy one of those endless
pools which can be in or outoors and I'd build a series of pond
systems with streams and stuff. I want to move to Wyoming. Mark
started to shiver!

v
Giggle

I used to shop at a garden that had the most wonderful series of streams and
eddies that ended in a lovely pond.

C

On 8/9/08 8:11 AM, "Bruce Fletcher (Stronsay, Orkney)"
wrote:

ellice wrote:
German = stein for some beer vessel To Bruce in the UK = tankard Pottery,
or pewter - mugs with handles - older ones with lids - English language
usually refers to those as tankards.

Thanks Ellice. Some pubs used to have a few pewter tankards for their
regulars but I think the practice has died out and pints of beer are
served in glass tankards or glass sleevers. For descriptions see
http://everything2.com/title/sleever

You're quite welcome, Bruce. When I lived near Southend, one of the locals
out in the rural area had tankards for the "locals" - knew I'd been there
enough with my friends when I got to keep one there. They hung all around
the main bar. Of course, I guess for the most part in a pub I'd usually
expect to get my beer (whichever variant) in a pint or 1/2 glass.

Ellice

"Karen C in California" wrote in message
...
Carey N. wrote:

Care to enlighten me about which shape is for which beverage?
--
Carey in MA(showing her ignorance....)


As I recall, the deeper cups are for coffee and the shallower ones are
for tea.

In this household, it's all served in mugs.
--
Karen C - California

Thanks, I kind of thought that was it. Sorry for the delay in getting back
here.

A friend of mine has always maintained that tea just tastes different in a
porcelain cup, and she acquired one that she didn't like. It was more of a
coffee cup rounded style (rather than a footed tea cup style), which didn't
suit her as she prefers a mug style. Now, if I can only find mug style
porcelain cups that holds a decent amount, she and I would both be happy.
Any suggestions?

--
Carey in MA