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  • From: VAN DELL JORDAN <vdjor AT yahoo.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] This and That
  • Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 06:43:33 -0800 (PST)

If he keeps that up he is going to overdevelop your
place. I suggest you avoid that by sending him to
stay at my place for a while.
Van Dell


--- Lynda <lurine AT softcom.net> wrote:

> We are having one weird winter. Temps average 5-10
> degrees each night. Not
> the usual. No snow. Not the norm. No rain. Not
> the norm.
>
> So, we had all kinds of indoor projects planned
> because this time of the
> year we should have been staying indoors keeping dry
> and warm. Instead,
> daytime temps are up to 60, so we've been outside
> doing things we were going
> to do in the spring.
>
> We're adding more raised beds. Put in another 11
> trees (apple, cherry,
> plum, apricot, almond). We extended the "frontyard"
> and moved roses. Have
> 8 more to move. We moved rhodies, azaleas and
> planted bulbs.
>
> To understand what happened next, you need to
> understand that DH is a Type
> AAA personality. Not a Type A. Nooooo, that would
> be too easy to live
> with. He's a type AAA! And that's without coffee
> <g> This is our third
> winter here and he's cleared all the brush on 9
> acres. Hauled all the old
> useless junk to the dump. Put up carports. Built
> storage sheds. Built an
> A-frame chicken coop. Put up about 500' of split
> rail fencing. Fenced in
> my "new" garden area (the old one you may remember
> has too much water, which
> of course can't be true since this is California
> <g>). He's split the wood
> to build a pergola for the front deck.
>
> Now he's bored. He wants a park area with specimen
> trees and exotic and
> rare shrubs. He wants a dry creek bed and plans to
> build a bridge over it.
> He designed plans (he used to do architectural
> drafting in another life) for
> a gazebo. So tomorrow he is off to buy a roll of
> field fencing to fence
> off his "park" and I'm supposed to find a list of
> trees and shrubs.
>
> With that in mind, anyone have any favorites (trees
> or shrubs that flower)
> that will grow well where the temps reach zero in
> the winter and 110 in the
> summer? Then again, they don't necessarily have to
> supposed like this type
> of weather since all of my redwoods are doing quite
> well and growing like
> crazy!
>
> Lynda
>
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