Chatting Over the Garden Fence! :-)

Just gettin in herre tonight....you would think with Cathyml being in Africa...she'd mention "elepahnt ears" to eat, but guess not...maybe they don't have them over there...winks*

Brenda...lots of Pork in where the Germans were at one time...here's an current joke for you called "The Bacon Tree"....

Two Mexicans  are stuck in the desert after crossing into the United States...wandering aimlessly and starving. They are about to just lie down and wait for death...when all of an sudden Luis says..."Hey Pepe, do you smell what I smell. Ees bacon, I theenk......with renewed hope they struggle up the next sand dune, and there in the distance is an tree loaded with Bacon...there's raw bacon, there's fried bacon, back bacon, double smoked bacon...every imaginable kiind of cured Pork.

"Pepe, pepe, we ees saved...ees a bacon tree!"

"Luis maybe ees a meearge?...We ees in the desert don't forget."

"Pepe, since when deed you ever hear of a meerage that smell like Bacon...ees no meearge, ees a Bacon Tree."

And with that, Luis staggers toward the tree. He gets within 5 meters, Pepe crawling close behind, when suddenly a machine gun opens up, and Luis drops like an wet sock. Mortally wounded, he warms Pepe with his last dying breathe,

"Pepe...go back man, you was right, ees not a bacon tree!"

"Luis, Luis mi amingo...Whatt ees it?"

"Pepe...ees not a Bacon Tree...ees....ees.......ees

ees...an Ham Bush!"

 Ron many men have been known to prefer something they could hang onto for the romantic overtures..... beside as one guy said....Skin and bones. But that is not to dismiss the fact that they make dresses that look better on skin and bones! Nor do we gals like going out.... lookin glike we are still in an tent. Smiles*

Good one, Shirley! Never heard that one before. And Mick, I never heard the term stick insect over here for the skinny models. I think Aphrodite looks perfectly normal. It always makes me laugh that even on TV shows like "America's Top Model" they almost always have one "plus size" model, but generally she's thinner than the average woman anyway, not a true plus size. Way too much emphasis on it and there is definitely a double standard between men and women. Men can have crow's feet and graying hair and be called "distinguished", but women are just old. Same with weight.

Lol Shirley.  Nice to have a laugh first thing in the morning, thanks for that.

Anyone know anything about orchids?  I was given a gorgeous orchid around the middle of April with 2 lovely flowers on it.  I have watched it with awe until it had opened 8 flowers and was busy opening the 9th one. Then overnight all the flowers folded in on themselves and just hang there. It had been a very cold night - but I suspect I did what I often do and overwatered it.  Anyone know if this could be the cause, or the cold and can I do anything to save them?

They probably got tired Cathyml..it happens ot the best of us now and then. Oh, last orchids I played with was sending an tea cup fullof them to "Vickey and Dick" because I coundn't make their anniversary party....and prior to that, my sister in-law brought me back an Hawaiian lei with some in it from Hawaii...when they went over there. Got me, I'm more into wanting to deal with little bonsai trees. Besides I like the white rock sand scuptures they do also. Take a look on-line at the Portland, Oregon Japanese Gardens...I like going there. I enjoy their whole culture for growing plants and they don't use grass...they use moss instead, tie back tree limbs to train them also. It's and "art" into itself. Next to that "Tissure Culture" is interesting. Ithink you could probably understand this this at an LPN level of nursing. My hubby's old boss "Pete" had bought into the only "tissue culture Labratory" way back when.  I borrowed one of thier books to do an FHA report for the little gal I use to babysit...her mother had the "Keys" to the local Grange Hall out here..and was quite into it all.This is where you take an small specimen off the original "mother" plant and develope maybe some one million separate plants off of it. Using test tubes...the cultures are disease free...perfect specimens. There's no having to graft the trees later on to for instance to make them prolific fruiting trees or certain varities...or disease free. His boss use to have double the amount of growing stock to ship out in one year...versus having to wait for them to grow on thier own. You have to consider back in those days they use to ship out to back east...all bare root stock. Then the nurseries held them on thier grounds to establish them out in the elements for their own specific climate needs. On average 48 railroad cars at a time...all east of the Mississippi River...wholesale only.......he retired, and eventually sold his nursery. But it's interesting along with the Disney World plant growing operation. They of course were doing thier work in mind of future living in outter space some day. Much more climate change going  an we may have to go to something like this eventually to feed people. I'll have to see if we have anything around the house here on orchids. We have tons of information in this house an more. I am suppose to be getting things together to help the kids make their own mini-volcanoes here pretty soon also.,,using small bottles of fizzy soda, vinegar, baking soda and some dish washing detergent for the bubbles. My resident squirrel just went overthe roof top of the house...startled me....my computer is working strange and gobbling up my letters of my words,,,so going to go for now.

Just been playing on the word association game and the word Greece was put in and I immediately thought Turkey.  I wondered why.  Then it started one of those silly things we learned to help us remember certain things, but I can't remember why we had to learn it.  Can anyone tell me what was the significance of this jingle:

Long legged Italy, kicked little Scilly right into the Meditteranean Sea.  Along came Germany, feeling very Hungary, gobbled up Turkey, dipped in Greece.

At least I think that is how it went! lol.  Now perhaps it will leave my head alone, lol.

They say when some little ditty or idea or nagging worry won't leave your head, Cathy, commit it to writing and it will go away.  lol

I'd not heard that one before, it's very clever.

LOL, Ron.

Maybe a drop of grouse or pheasant or whatever.  ;-)