Great looking toms. I'm jealous. I gave up growing those here, my location is a bit damp (there's a small stream used to run here somewhere - they just built over the top of it   ) and toms always get botritis.

There's nothing more tasty than home grown.

hehe, thanks FL!  I have them in flower pots on my little lanai.  It is too windy, really, for plants to grow but the ones I tried did well.  Except for the squash.  It bloomed like crazy but the little squashes failed.  I have cabbage that people told me wouldn't grow.  They are doing fine, and  are pretty in their own way.  I have basil and parsely and lettuce that just sprouted.  And i just planted 2 Ti logs.  I knew I would be needing something like a garden when I couldn't go anywhere, and it sure did help.  Here is my cabbage.  I wonder if I will get all emotional when it comes time to harvest it?  You can click on the picture to see my flickr page.  I took some single-leaf shots that are kind of abstract.

Well, I guess that doesn't work here.  FLICKR

I was playing around with Apophysis and photography combinations... it isn't very skillful, but maybe with practice I will get something I like more.  That is on Flickr too.

Great looking toms. I'm jealous

   They tasted great!  Specially since they were growing in a flower pot on my lanai.  Cabbage has actually grown a head too!

makes me wish for a yard.

Yesterday I walked around without a cane or crutch, too!  So that's getting better, though it is still really hard sometimes.  I'm trying to get up enough nerve for riding the bike.

June one was feline's birthday.  He's so busy I just sent a card since he probably won't be looking in.

I buy mine at Farmer's Market.

Found this thread on page 3

  .... I've been busy eating tomatoes!  they were very good.

This thread has so many happy memories of people I care about, it is difficult to come here knowing it is so empty   

I reckon in times it will start again.  maybe not the same.  I know feline is so busy with two jobs and then house repair he is seriously in danger of burning out.  I worry about him.  OC is oround, he said so.  I'm working on some things that keep me away from the computer... or down with physical stuff.  Even if the same people aren't around, the memories are still good ones and will always be valid.  Weak sid pops in when he can, and meowie too.  I was trying to reach this thread a week ago sometime, but I couldn't.  Even now, i open a page... then have to wait a long time till i can navigate around it.  Thats pretty strange.

IE7 pins at 100% CPU opening this page making it unusable.

http://purrtopia.net/wc I put up the old WC smilies here if anyone wants to keep this thread in the old style.

I had no problem opening this page. I'm using firefox. I do have IE7 installed, just don't use it that often. I'll have to check to see if I have the same problem as you Meow.

It did take a little longer than it should of but it probably was storing information and scanning the site for phising or something like that. I might of spelled that wrong. Off to work.

I meant to say IE7 in Vista.
IE7 in XP is fine.

O' ok.

o<-<      I just replaced the screen in my door... 60 inches wide, 80 tall.  But I cant get those wheels in the top right.  one of them needs drilled to be just a little bigger in the middle I think.  Hard part was my knee popping in and out of joint while i was crawling around doing it.

Forum seems to be running smoother.... else I just am here on a lucky time.  I figure its like cpr... once in awhile one of us can come in and resuscitate this thread and one day a spark will catch again.

 

  I grew a head of lettuce.   It is getting quite big.  Only problem is, both it and my cabbage are too pretty to eat.

nope... problem is still here.  Post, submit, wait a monute to gain control of the browser again.

 

I grew a head of lettuce

I thought your other head looked fine... but if it makes you happy...   

Post, submit, wait a monute to gain control of the browser again

The site has been doing that since the last 'update'.

   Awwwww....  fuzzy is looking for a spankie!

awwwwwwwwwwwww....  my baby cabbage!

...and my new hairdo!  Do you like the streaking effect, or is it too blotchy?

Good cabbage...   

Thanks!  I am quite fond of my cabbage.  I have been pondering things and I think that a lot of food plants can be considered pretty.  So maybe I will learn ones that do best by my lanai and start growing them.  I have all kinds of emergency provisions... but what better things to have around than fresh salad and herbs in case i can't get out sometime?  And bonus... they really are pretty if you think they are.

Now.... to figure how to grow chocolate raspberries and tickle feathers.  Remember tickle feathers?

Boy, it's hard to type in here.  I wonder if that is Bert, or my keyboard?

This thread has so many happy memories of people I care about, it is difficult to come here knowing it is so empty

Even if the thread is empty now... that's only more reason to fill it up again.  New memories, new friends.  There are plenty of people around who might one day come and play in this space, if we let them feel welcome.  How many times in the life of the thread have people thought long gone turned up again?   One thing I know, they probably won't go digging for the thread.  And don't morn overmuch for the people who are not here now... it is not necessarily an abandonment.  I know for sure feline is so busy he can barely think straight.  He was so busy and tired when he was here last he may have seemed tired or distracted or aloof.  But how else would someone sound after working 60+ hours a week for months and months without ever even taking a day off?  I really do worry about him...  He might could do with an email.   As for me... I'm fighting back from a whole lot of things.  I was before too.  I had been going through so many losses it was hard to think I could lose more, but I did.  My family is mostly gone now, or distant.  I have a lot of health problems and it hurts just to walk... but you know what?  I figured... I'm not waiting to feel good any more.  I'm not waiting for my life to be free of loss and missing people and troubled people.  So I am going out and rebuilding a new life  with new things and new people.  And I will keep coming in here too... because I don't plan on dismissing fond memories as something that was here and now gone.  A memory, once you make one, is yours forever.  And the joy that was there the day you forged it is the same joy it carries with it today... else you have changed it into something different. 

for me, the hard part right now is physical.  I get really tired and sore after a day out.  So it is hard to sit by the computer.  But life is getting better, little by little. 

 

/me steps off the soap box and goes to make supper.

Hehehe. Maybe we could entice people in with a promise of free chocolate???