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Exciting Purchase
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| twistedxkiss |
Posted on March 20 2010 04:35 AM
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I just bought myself a handheld GPS. I figure I get disability accommodations for class, why not for life? XD
I moved to the city in September and haven't ever explored it and hardly ever leave the house because I am so afraid that I will get lost and be unable to find my way home. I was hoping my purchase would coincide with the suddenly Springy weather in Michigan, but alas, it is supposed to snow tomorrow (It has been in the 60's and 70's). Hopefully soon it will warm up and I'll finally be able to explore my new home... just in time to go home for the summer. XP |
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| RottieWoman |
Posted on March 20 2010 11:55 AM
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good luck with the GPS; my dad has one my mom bought him as a holiday gift, he uses it in car. I understand about learning to get around somewhere
yup, yesterday here it was in the 60's and this morning, snow |
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| justfoundout |
Posted on March 20 2010 06:52 PM
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3/20/10
We had a beautiful sunny, 78 degree, day yesterday, but it's 39 today, with a freeze expected tonight. I wonder how the pretty pink blossoms on my fruit tree will feel about that. - jus' |
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| CheshireKat |
Posted on March 20 2010 08:54 PM
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Lucky you Jill, I wish I had a GPS! I usually get along fine as long as I print out the MapQuest directions before I go somewhere. Although MapQuest isn't always reliable, and that can be a real problem. For example, if you ask it to take you to UCF (University of Central Florida), it actually takes you into the heart of the Orlando ghetto... definitely not UCF. (That wasn't even a driving mistake on my part, everyone who used the MapQuest directions got taken to the ghetto.) So if I'm going somewhere using MapQuest directions I almost always ask someone else who has been there before to look at them and make sure the directions really are going to take me to the right place.
Jus, we had a gorgeous day today too, right around 75. I spent all day outside, helping out at a friend's garage sale and then laying out at her pool. Fortunately for me though, it's going to stay in the upper 60s and 70s for the next ten days, according to the Weather Channel. Thank God winter is over here, I was about to go out of my mind with all that cold nasty weather.
"The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings." - Eric Hoffer |
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| justfoundout |
Posted on March 20 2010 08:56 PM
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3/20/10
The wind has started to blow, and I feel sorry for my fruit tree. Should I try to wrap up some of the blossoms? It will freeze tonight. Would wrapping help? - jus' |
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| CheshireKat |
Posted on March 21 2010 12:45 AM
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Jus, down here when it gets cold we wrap the base of the orange trees to keep them from freezing. Draping a sheet over the foliage of the tree (if it's not too tall) might help protect the blossoms from the blowing wind, but you should also wrap some blankets around the base to help protect the roots if it's not a tree that fares well in cold temperatures... although if it survived all your snow then it's probably not going to freeze to death.
"The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings." - Eric Hoffer |
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| justfoundout |
Posted on March 21 2010 12:51 AM
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No, the tree won't freeze to death. What's dismaying is that I planted this fruit tree about 6 years ago, and it's never really given me fruit. This week, however, with all the snow, and then some gentle rains, it had finally decided to blossom all over with beautiful little pink flowers. I thought that I'd finally get some fruit from it. And, now, I'm afraid that tonight's freeze will kill the blossoms and any hope of fruit. When we finally get enough water, then comes a freeze. Where'd that 'sub-tropical climate' that Texas is supposed to have 'run off to'? - jus' |
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| CheshireKat |
Posted on March 21 2010 02:02 AM
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Jus, I was wondering where Florida's sub-tropical/tropical climate went in January when we had temps in the 20s for over 2 weeks straight. Thank goodness Florida has finally remembered where it is and started warming up again. What kind of fruit tree is your tree? My aunt and uncle have an orange tree in their yard, we're a little far north for orange trees (they do really poorly in sub-freezing temperatures) but when it blossoms it smells absolutely amazing.
"The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings." - Eric Hoffer |
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| justfoundout |
Posted on March 21 2010 02:49 AM
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I was afraid that you might ask what kind of fruit tree it is. LOL Now tell me, how do you feel when you have to answer those 'ethnicity' questions on job applications? Don't you have any 'sensitivity' for my fruit tree? Okay, here's the dirt on my fruit tree. I picked it out of a nursery catalog. It was advertised as being five different kinds of fruit on one tree. Evidently, it's a peach tree, but it's supposed to give something like peaches, apricots, plums, nectarines and something else that I've forgotten. These had all been grafted onto the peach tree. So, now, you can see why I've been so curious to see the fruit from this tree. - jus' |
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