Congrats to your son Louise. My grand nephew was into bands to and won awards. He lives in another state so I won't be able to hear him. My son was in a band for a couple of hours, he sang. I told him he didn't have a voice but he told me all you have to do is scream. Barb tipperboo12@msn.com > Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 17:29:02 -0500 > From: ddcrim@gmail.com > To: memory-lane@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [ML] tomato plants-----Doug, where are you > > Yup, you can grow just any old tomato in those things... Good luck! > > Enjoying retirement? HA! Louise, we have been so busy with an assortment > of projects I simply haven't had much time to write to the group. For the > longest we were building a chicken coop... bought chicks and spent a little > bit of time getting them into their teens. Bought seventeen chicks figuring > we'd lose some of them. Nope.. we still have seventeen chickens and they > are doing great... They are about half-grown now and we have begun opening > the door to the coop and letting them roam. Usually I am up and outside > first so I open the door for them and they are so eager to get out that when > I open the door, they literally come flying out. They spend the day > wandering the yard and when something scares them they head back to the > coop. Each day they get a little more brave and wander further away from > the coop. At the end of the day they return to the coop to be locked in for > the night. Hopefully in a few more weeks they should start laying. We'll > be wondering what to do with all the eggs then. We have at least three > roosters and possibly four, so at some time we'll have to start thinking > about chicken and dumplings. We're guessing one rooster will do. > We've also spent a lot of time making repairs to the small house the hunters > use. They have offered to paint it for us so we jumped at that offer. They > painted it just over a week ago and it really looks nice although we'll have > to get down there for some scraping and re-painting as well as paint the > door and trim. > I've got the County Agent coming out tomorrow to give us some ideas about > what to do to improve the property. It's always a good ideas to get another > perspective. When things slow down, I must start spraying our prickly pear. > I've just gotten a license to buy the necessary chemicals and the cactus > ain't going away without some help from me.. > All those things will keep me busy until end of summer and beyond.... Never > a dull moment. lol > > The Dougster :-)* > > > On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 4:13 PM, Louise Valine <antique1931@saber.net>wrote: > > > Has any one grown the tomato plant in the topsy turvey planter, the one > > where the plant is gowing upside down. > > I was given one and can you grow regular size tomatos in them or have to be > > the small ones? Just wondering how much luck you have had with them. Figure > > I can ask at the plant place, but thought some thoughts from the gang would > > be apreciated. The garden place is going to tell you only good stuff. > > > > Doug, where have you been? You sure must be enjoying this retirement or > > you are just tired. > > > > We have had such strange weather. Last week really nice and worked out > > side, now this is different. > > We just had not really hard wind, and some rain, but in Chico yesterday > > about 10 miles from us they had hail, rain, strong wind, and snow in the > > foot hills. Now this afternoon they are saying another storm coming in on > > the west side of the valley where we are. Strong winds, hail and > > thunderstorms. > > In Chico they were having their music festival and it was going to be out > > side. Well that didn't happen it got moved inside. It was supposed to start > > about the time all the hail and lightning was going on. > > Our son was playing with the Big Moe and the Blue Moon band. They won > > again for the best Blues band. Six years in a row now. They have what they > > call the Cammies. All the different bands preform ahead of time in the > > different catagories, and yesterday was when they were giving out the > > awards. There is no money involved just a chance to be heard and get gigs. > > Hopefully. > > ;Hope none of you are in the way of all the flooding in the south. Really > > makes you wonder what the world is coming to these days. But figures if it > > is a really hard winter up north all the melting snow has to go some place. > > Just to bad people have to get flooded out in order to save the larger towns > > down stream. Our prayers are with all of them. > > Take care out there > > Louise > > > > > > > > > > > > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mbousman1/memory.htm > > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > MEMORY-LANE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > > > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mbousman1/memory.htm > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MEMORY-LANE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message