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Post Your Last Purchase XXVIII
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Agreed. Had to keep it native this time.
I just finished building the Lego Brink Bank and added it to my small collection of Lego Creative Expert buildings (Diner, Assembly Square and Palace).
I going to rearrange my Lego collection to include my Lego Amusement Rides (Ferris Wheel, Roller Coaster and Carousel) in the near future.
I going to rearrange my Lego collection to include my Lego Amusement Rides (Ferris Wheel, Roller Coaster and Carousel) in the near future.
Some new ink for my fountain pen.
Toffee Brown - I'm hoping that it takes the boredom out of my notetaking by adding just a touch of warmth.
Toffee Brown - I'm hoping that it takes the boredom out of my notetaking by adding just a touch of warmth.
Adapters for candelabra socket to accommodate a standard base bulb.
Used one in a pendant light over the kitchen sink, with a 100W equivalent LED bulb.
Brilliant!
Used one in a pendant light over the kitchen sink, with a 100W equivalent LED bulb.
Brilliant!
Anker 7 port USB 3 hub
Sandisk Extreme Pro 1TB SSD
Cornetto Trilogy on Blu-ray
• iPad 2018 32GB Wifi
• Nintendo Switch (for a friend)
• Nintendo Labo Variety Kit
• Nintendo Labo Robot Kit
• Blue Yeti Microphone
• Blu-Ray movie
Should be about $1,000 with tax. I paid $400 (yes I swooped in on the Target "deal").
EDIT: Oh, I just realized this forum is a photo gallery. Sorry, I didn't snap a pic.
• Nintendo Switch (for a friend)
• Nintendo Labo Variety Kit
• Nintendo Labo Robot Kit
• Blue Yeti Microphone
• Blu-Ray movie
Should be about $1,000 with tax. I paid $400 (yes I swooped in on the Target "deal").
EDIT: Oh, I just realized this forum is a photo gallery. Sorry, I didn't snap a pic.
My first iPhone. I was in that queue. About 6th.
They are... but in a US zone 5 sometimes dipping towards a 4, I definitely have to stick with English. I have some Hidcote that I nearly lost one year when we had a long and extremely cold stretch with hardly any snow cover, but it struggled back somehow. This year it is not doing too well again so I may not have mulched it down very well last winter. I like it not only for the beauty but because it resists rabbits and deer, unlike some of my other apparently tasty plantings. So I'll probably get some new pots of it next year to plant out and augment whatever makes it through 2018-19 winter. I'm thinking to dig all up and redo the bed with more gravel at bottom to ensure good drainage.
Bought this for 2 dollar from a really nice guy and I have the first month maintenance fees waved
You bought a bridge?
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If we got deer and rabbits in my garden I'd happily replace the plants now and then.
Good for the photography!
Yah here I would have to leave it in pots and bring it in. I've seen in done in container gardens for patios around here in areas where some of the tenured profs for universities live, but they tend actually to have gardeners. I'd settle for a couple pots in sunny spots near the deck, maybe but I'm more likely to stick with something I can leave outside in the ground and mulch over winter.
My own last purchase was not pots of lavender but three yards of this, a double gauze fabric I plan to just hem up the short edges of and use as a shawl on cool summer mornings.
Double gauze is very lightweight cotton, sheer in one layer but mechanically tacked together in a very permanent way and is opaque or barely translucent in two layers, generally printed on one side. The air trapped between layers makes it feel fluffy and cozy. The length of double gauze I have now for a shawl is finally about to find that its next stop is the box for cleaning rags. The new one has a kind of giraffe or anyway mosaic pattern I guess, it's fun.
Sweet! I’ve heard of that!
Hmm, there are a lot of those for sale lately... 'nuf said in here though.
The next time I see a young deer inside my rabbit-fenced veggie garden eating the tops off the tomato plants and spitting each of them into the dirt before moving on to see if the next one tastes any better, I will think of you
even if I don't get a chance to photograph the little so and so. They are cute but gee, there's a limit.
I'm so confused!Hmm, there are a lot of those for sale lately... 'nuf said in here though.
The next time I see a young deer inside my rabbit-fenced veggie garden eating the tops off the tomato plants and spitting each of them into the dirt before moving on to see if the next one tastes any better, I will think of you
Why?
Because I didn't plant lavender inside the veggie garden to keep deer off the tomatoes??! Deer are photogenic but ornery and stupid, let's put it that way. All those tomato plants looked the same and smelled the same and the darn critter ate the tops off all of them anyway out of spite or stupidity. I had visions of shooting a deer out of season that morning, actually. And not with a Nikon, either.
There is no lavender around the veggie garden because the drainage and sun requirements are not right for it there. The lavender I do have seems to keep deer and rabbits away from bleeding hearts I have on the east side of the house near the foundation. Something used to eat that stuff when I didn't have the lavender nearby.
The rabbit fence usually does work okay on the rabbits. Once in awhile a skinny one gets in under there and commits mayhem in the lettuce bed. All his children know to try now... they are smarter than the damn deer. I have to leave a couple inches to allow for frost heave when I string the fencing, and I can't bury fencing in an L-shape as some do in other climates, although I've never seen them dig under the fencing here, just try to skinny under the gap.
I try to remember to patch some of the ground-level gaps in spring with chickenwire. I have to replace some of the rabbit fence some years when deer have been dumb enough to jump in there in winter and then panic and stress the fence if they catch a hoof leaving and fall back or forward against it. So my spring purchases are often some of this and some of this. And yeah, marigolds to put around the outside to make the rabbits have to work harder if they decide to try to get in. This year spring came so late I hardly bothered. I have a few patio tomatoes on the deck and a scruffy patch in the garden proper for some zucchini. Can't win 'em all.
Confused about the bridge, not the lavender!Why?
Deer are photogenic but ornery and stupid, let's put it that way. All those tomato plants looked the same and smelled the same and the darn critter ate the tops off all of them anyway out of spite or stupidity. I had visions of shooting a deer out of season that morning, actually. And not with a Nikon, either.
There is no lavender around the veggie garden because the drainage and sun requirements are not right for it there. The lavender I do have seems to keep deer and rabbits away from bleeding hearts I have on the east side of the house near the foundation. Something used to eat that stuff when I didn't have the lavender nearby.
The rabbit fence usually does work okay on the rabbits. Once in awhile a skinny one gets in under there and commits mayhem in the lettuce bed. All his children know to try now... they are smarter than the damn deer. I have to leave a couple inches to allow for frost heave when I string the fencing, and I can't bury fencing in an L-shape as some do in other climates, although I've never seen them dig under the fencing here, just try to skinny under the gap.
I try to remember to patch some of the ground-level gaps in spring with chickenwire. I have to replace some of the rabbit fence some years when deer have been dumb enough to jump in there in winter and then panic and stress the fence if they catch a hoof leaving and fall back or forward against it. So my spring purchases are often some of this and some of this. And yeah, marigolds to put around the outside to make the rabbits have to work harder if they decide to try to get in. This year spring came so late I hardly bothered. I have a few patio tomatoes on the deck and a scruffy patch in the garden proper for some zucchini. Can't win 'em all.
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We have wooden fences with concrete barge boards. Stops the digging I'd assume.
The bridge is an American joke.
But, I am with @LizKat on the deer; my mother grew up in the country - granted, in comfortable circumstances - and escaped (her word) to an excellent boarding school at the age of twelve without a backward glance.
However, she was under no illusions about the often grim and back-breaking realities of rural life, (especially as endured by women in conservative cultures and environments) but, even as she understood it, both with some dislike but without contempt, yet she still retained a fervent desire never to have to live it for herself.
Re purchases, some coffee (Ethiopian) and elegant coffee canisters/containers.
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In the United States the allusion to buying or selling of a bridge, specifically the Brooklyn Bridge in New York goes back to the early 20th century when a con man named George C Parker tried sell the bridge to people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_C._Parker
Thanks for the clarification. I'm aware of the story about the guy who sold London Bridge to somebody expecting to buy Tower Bridge! But that's a new one on me.
Ah, thank you, @SandboxGeneral; while I knew the joke - it is mentioned rather a lot on these threads, - an understood what it meant, I had no idea as to the background, as all I knew that it was a joke with a specific American cultural context.
Thanks very much for posting the background & clarification - actually, I find this sort of thing absolutely fascinating.
That is another story I wasn't aware of.