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Oh btw SIX I talked to hubby. His problem was a little different- he was trying to install linux AND Windows OSs on different partitions on an all-in-one originally loaded with Windows, so you could have a multi-OS bootup. Long story short Windows would not allow a multi OS bootup, so he had to clobber Windows and load linux with a bootable CD drive and create the system that way.

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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
CHKDSK - all the way to win95 ??

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Managed to put up the Xmas lights ... no roof-work for me, tho! It's all ground-level!

While I was out there I too saw a couple of termites fluttering around. I think of their wing arrangement as "X" wing; its very unique. Anyway, where there are two there are more. I'm going to need to figure out where they're coming from.

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I remember you don't like snow, Brenda. But I don't remember, or I never knew, if you always get at least some snow accumulation every year, or if it takes an exceptionally bad year for that.

Anyway - I hope the snow holds off for a long time after that dusting! And no accumulation!

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Yeah Brenda, now I remember you saying you fell.

Personally, when it comes to winter, I can take the cold, but the snow makes everything 10x more miserable, difficult, and hazardous. My last few years up in the NE, for whatever reason, I developed a phobia about falling. I'd be creeping along wherever - through the parking lot, on the sidewalk ... while other people were just striding along. I just had such a fear of stepping through the snow onto a hidden patch of slick ice and going down.

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I'm surprised it's green up there now, Brenda.

I think we set a record for how much of the US was covered in show around Thanksgiving. Luckily, that seemed to miss us.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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That's awesome, SIX! You're an incredibly quick learner.

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So, nothing to do with anything Brenda, but as I was thinking about it, I remembered that in my experience, one way to help keep a positive outlook in winter is to stay toasty and dry.

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How you liking your first winter in your new place? :)

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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So, nothing to do with anything Brenda, but as I was thinking about it, I remembered that in my experience, one way to help keep a positive outlook in winter is to stay toasty and dry.

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Is it raining by you?


I ask because the fire alarm went off a few times for seemingly no reason at a place I used to work at. It was a huge deal because we'd end up with like 8 fire trucks from different cities over nothing and they'd get big fines.

It turns out that there was a leak in the roof that was dripping right on the box going to the alarm system and it tripped it.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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"I wonder why the city doesn't plant coast live oak as a street tree."

A lot of people dislike that the coast live oak is a very asymmetrical, gnarled tree.



They want something prettier looking, I guess. And I haven't looked deeply into it, but I think the coast live oak (and perhaps a few other evergreen oaks) are exacting in their retirements, in terms of air space/ soil compaction, watering, and symbiosis. The oaks I have (2 coast live oak quercus agrifolia and the 2 I thought were some kind of scrub oak that also appear to be coast live oak) planted themselves, so I guess they found a good enough spot. HOWEVER, the 5 years of drought, along with the fact that the uphill neighbors weren't watering their property as much - so my plants didn't get the benefit of underground surface water - tested them severely. The coast live oaks do NOT like direct water especially in summer, so keeping them alive was challenging. Their health has been taxed.

Anyway, whenever you see a coast live oak in a human landscape, you see it with TONS of space around it. I suspect they wouldn't do well hemmed in by sidewalks, curbs, landing strips, roads, etc, with direct irrigation that usually sustains public landscaping.

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So, Signy ... to continue with a conversation from a LONG time ago - there were some conifers that by the photos I thought were cypress, simply because they had multiple leaders (and AFAIK cypress is the only conifer that does that). Did you ever positively identify them? I think I recall you had, but I forget the answer.

And ... leaders produce some kind of auxin the suppresses lateral buds. Maybe there's something in your neighborhood soil that can mess with that, given your oak and those conifers ...

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And today, when I was running errands, I gave away my umbrella to some poor old lady in an electric wheelchair who was riding in the rain. It wasn't supposed to rain today. That's what everyone's been telling me all day long, from the waitresses at the restaurant to the cashiers at all the stores I've been to. (But I have to say Wunderground had it right.) Anyway, I hope I made the day at least a little less miserable for one person.

Between today, sat and sun Wunderground predicts all of a half an inch. Whoopee. /sarcasm

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