jason
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Post by jason on Sept 10, 2008 21:41:57 GMT -5
maybe maybe,  |
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Post by bluelacedredhead on Sept 11, 2008 7:16:19 GMT -5
Jason, I wonder if you could see the whites of their eyes if you take a pic at night  It is afterall, a full moon this coming Monday, Sept 15th....Perhaps that would be a good time to sit and wait for them.  At least it would give you good lighting |
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Post by lavandulagirl on Sept 11, 2008 7:57:33 GMT -5
The fairies in my new garden dress in little scaly little coats with long tails. Fast little suckers...
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jason
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Post by jason on Sept 11, 2008 17:25:16 GMT -5
Lizards?
I'll do that full moon thing for sure! Maybe I can get better pictures and make a lot of money like those jerks that pretending to catch bigfoot.
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Post by lavandulagirl on Sept 11, 2008 20:13:29 GMT -5
Lizards, yeah. We have whiptails here that have wonderful, bright blue tails when they're young. Your fairies are cooler, but of course, we knew that would be the case.
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Post by Alan on Sept 13, 2008 22:39:27 GMT -5
We have tons of lizards, frogs and praying mantis here this year and last. All are keystone species so that is a plus. Strange things happen here in the fall/early winter that Kim and I will be documenting this fall. If there is any viable proof of what we experience I will post for all to see.
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Post by flowerpower on Sept 14, 2008 6:06:22 GMT -5
I have not seen a praying mantis in 10 yrs.  I am not crazy about Fairies. They are not as cute and sweet as they look. But they are better than Gnomes. I don't like those at all. Yesterday, my friend showed me an old graveyard that I didn't know about. Most of the people were buried in the 1850's. It's in a sad state. But I did notice the extremely old apple trees that were planted in pretty rows. Some were in pretty bad shape, but I see suckers coming up. The fruit looked like a mini- macintosh. I will be headed back there in the next week or so. I will have both camera and shovel with me. |
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Post by plantsnobin on Sept 14, 2008 8:03:40 GMT -5
Taking a shovel to a graveyard? I wonder what passersby will think....
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Post by canadamike on Sept 14, 2008 8:58:37 GMT -5
Gold teeth digger! ;D ;D ;D ;D
Why don't you pick scion wood later in the fall and keep them in a moist cloth in the crisper part of the fridge? Or better yet, sent some to your friend Michel?? It could be trees of SNOW, also called FAMEUSE, grown around there like crazy in those years, an ancestor of MacIntosh and even better according to most, and probably healthier as a tree, which is not very hard, MacIntosh is like a sick patient maintained artificially in life ( by tons of ...CIDES)
This variety is making a strong comeback around here, there is even commercial demand for it. I have to find some for a commercial grower, his clients ask for it.
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Post by jason on Sept 14, 2008 10:08:19 GMT -5
Sounds like cool trees fp. And, alan now I'm wondering what kind of stuff goes on at your farm.. let us know how the documentation goes. |
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Post by flowerpower on Sept 15, 2008 5:27:58 GMT -5
Taking a shovel to a graveyard? I wonder what passersby will think.... No one can see it from the street. I really wouldn't care anyway. Witches are supposed to hang out in graveyards. It is behind a Methodist Church. But there is no sign or even a cross. The stones did not have any religious decorations either. Only one had the finger pointing up toward heaven. ok, there is an online listing of the graves. Here is a little of what it says " Old Cemetery behind Methodist Church in Richmondville-This cemetery is in very poor condition, most of the stones being heavily weathered marble (October 9, 1998).... This cemetery was also surveyed in the 1930's by the Genealogical Committee of the Captain Christian Brown Chapter, DAR, Cobleskill, NY...Abraham Coons- (a handwritten note from W. S. Coons on the Genealogical Committee report stated 'Coons, Abraham was buried in this cemetery in 1841, no stone erected; he was a Revolutionary soldier.')" Mike, I will talk to redbrick about the scions. He is an expert on apple grafting. I will go back later in the week and get a pic of each tree and any fruits on them. I also want to measure the trunks. Maybe we can figure out an approximate age on them. The latest burial date I see in the records is 1873, earliest is 1837. |
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Post by bluelacedredhead on Sept 15, 2008 8:02:06 GMT -5
Michel, There was an apple nursery with many antique varieties in Quebec back in the early 90's. It just east of Mtl I believe, called Windmill Point? I used to get a catalogue from them years ago. But they sustained much damage during the Ice Storm '98. Do you know if they are still in existence? I'm sure I still have one of their catalogues, but it's, you know, packed, LOL
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Post by lavandulagirl on Sept 15, 2008 10:15:35 GMT -5
Blue, I have to say, I love that you have 10 year old catalogs packed. It makes me feel so much better about the stuff I'm unpacking right now! 
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Post by canadamike on Sept 15, 2008 11:26:01 GMT -5
Yep, I know them very well. It is more than antique stuff. Ken is a very talented breeder too. There are some weird fruit cultivars in the houses were I used to live, Ken's imprint is all over Rockland  |
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Post by canadamike on Sept 15, 2008 11:29:46 GMT -5
One of my clients is the retired chief scientist with Agriculture Canada at Vineland, on everything related to insect damage. He has a buddy that can identify them using DNA. I wonder what would happen if I made a phone call.....
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It is afterall, a full moon this coming Monday, Sept 15th....Perhaps that would be a good time to sit and wait for them. 
At least it would give you good lighting
I am not crazy about Fairies. They are not as cute and sweet as they look. But they are better than Gnomes. I don't like those at all.
