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Booney

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  1. Here are a couple more pics from Grounds for Sculpture: This tablescape was actually entirely sculpted - This was a recreation of one of Manet's painting. Even the trees are replications of the ones in the actual painting.
  2. Mr. Booney and I had a day outing today to Grounds for Sculpture near Trenton, NJ. It's on the old New Jersey State Fairgrounds, and was started 25 years ago. It's a beautiful combination of gardens and sculpture. There are some indoor exhibits, but the vast majority of the sculptures are outdoors and range from huge stone structures to a small tablescape which is entirely sculpted. Some of the sculptures are abstract and modern, while others are recreations of classic Impressionist paintings. It's really an amazing place and we fell in love with it. It was also a beautiful day today, with bright sunshine and a temperature around 80 so we couldn't have asked for a better day to walk outdoors. There were several spots to eat in the complex including a beautiful country French restaurant overlooking an outdoor recreation of Monet's Water Lilies painting. Below are some pics I took. If you're ever in the Philly/Trenton area, you've got to check this out! Bulls sculpted in bronze - Sculpted figures overlooking a lake -
  3. Same here. Mr. Booney had been living alone for 14 years, after separation and divorce, when we moved in together. He wanted to keep doing his own laundry. Suits me just fine. I do the sheets and towels and my clothes; he does his clothes. It works well. He's not much of a cook, so I do the cooking and he cleans up.
  4. Thanks, @zoemom. Yes, it has been a wonderful year!
  5. Thanks, @Julie hunter! They picked an old-fashioned Italian name (dad's family is of Italian descent) - Enzo.
  6. Thank you, @imisspuddy! I just heard on the news that today is National Book Lovers Day.
  7. I have some happy news to share. Grandchild #3 was born this morning! My youngest stepdaughter had a baby boy at 5:37 this morning. He is the cutest little peanut! Mom, Dad and baby are all doing great and Mr. Booney and I are thrilled and blessed.
  8. Love this - so fun! I think it was the prickly Mr. Thistle, who has deep roots in the community. ?
  9. It does actually. I've read that you should never pull them - it does stimulate more growth. You can cut the leaves off at ground level. Supposedly the plant spends so much energy trying to put new leaves up, that eventually it dies off. The problem with this method is that you may have to snip it back several times. The vinegar application is much faster.
  10. I've used the industrial strength vinegar, and it does a great job killing tough weeds like thistle. I can't remember if I bought it from Amazon or AM Leonard. Anyway, you should never spray it and you should wear eye protection and skin protection. This is very strong stuff! I spilled a little on the metal shelving in my garage, and it ate through a metal shelf! I paint it on thistle leaves. I pour some in a glass container, and dip a small paint brush into it it and paint it on. If it's a sunny day, those nasty thistles are brown and withered in a short period of time.
  11. I use Revolution for mine, even though they are indoor only cats. It protects against fleas, ticks and heart worm.
  12. So true! Mine also love big twist ties, the bigger the better. Mittens carries them around in her mouth like a dog carrying a stick.
  13. Great tip, LMSJ! I'm going to try that. I'll have to wrestle the tp rollers away from the kitties though, because they like to bat them around! :-)
  14. I've been attacked by thistle too. If you pull it up by the roots, it stimulates growth (or so I've read). So apparently cutting the leaves off at ground level is the way to go, or paint the leaves with white vinegar. I've had some success with the vinegar method. You can buy an industrial strength vinegar, although it's very nasty stuff. Household vinegar works too. Spraying is not a good idea with vinegar because you don't want to get it on anything else that may be near the thistle. My neighbor who planted the burdock did so because one of her relatives cooks it. It sounds kind of bizarre to me, but that's the reason she gave. She's also a self-styled "healer," so maybe she thinks it has some medicinal properties? Who knows, but that darn plant is ugly as sin! Get off of my lawn!
  15. I've had a couple of things become invasive. When I moved into my house 30 years ago, I had a small vegetable garden. I ordered some strawberry plants from Springhill - not through QVC, but directly from Springhill's catalog. I planted them and was totally disappointed by the strawberries. They were so tiny you practically needed a magnifying glass to see them. The birds, however, loved them...and ate them...and pooped out the seeds...everywhere. Thirty years later, those darn strawberries are everywhere (still as tiny as ever!). They're in the lawn, in my garden beds and they've made it into my neighbors' yards too. They put out runners, so they're almost impossible to get rid of. I've given up trying, and figure they're a treat for the birds. My neighbor planted something called Burdock a few years ago. It's starting to get out of control in her yard, and this year I've found a few Burdock plants popping up in my yard in areas that are nowhere near the border with my neighbor. I've tried pulling them up but they have a stubborn root so they'll probably come back. I also have two large Pin Oak trees in the yard. They drop a ton of tiny acorns in the fall. The squirrels love them and, of course, bury the acorns all over the yard. I could start a Pin Oak nursery with the number of tiny trees that have sprouted up all over the yard! I dutifully pull them up, but it seems like a never-ending task.
  16. One of the funniest stories about squirrels that I've heard involves one of my friends. Years ago when she was getting married, her mother decided to make her bouquet as well as some of the flower arrangements. It was a spring wedding so, in the fall, her mom planted hundreds of bulbs intending to use them in the bouquet and arrangements. Squirrels started digging up the bulbs and her mom freaked, so her dad came up with a plan. He set out humane traps, and when he caught a squirrel, he would load the cage into his car, drive to a nearby parking lot, and drive the car round and round in circles, thinking he was confusing the squirrels and that they wouldn't be able to find their way back to his yard, and then he let them out. The squirrels proved to be smarter than he was! Fortunately, enough of the bulbs came up in the spring that there were plenty for the wedding. We feed the squirrels in our yard. We put out ears of field corn, peanuts (which the Blue Jays love too) and a wildlife trail mix. The peanuts go in a metal box that's attached to one of the trees, and the squirrels learn how to open the lid to get to the peanuts. They really are smart little creatures!
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