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The afternoon was spent repotting orchids in preparation for winter. Whenever possible I use containers salvaged from the recycle bin. Let's face it, orchids, when not in bloom, are not very attractive plants, so why spend a lot of money on attractive growing containers? Also, most of my...

Tell me about it, I had to drive home from work after getting a call from the State Police saying my alarm system was going off only to find the parrot roaming the house. The police have to wait in the driveway and enter the house first only to have the bird say a cheery "hello, how are ya...

I take the fifth.

That is exactly what I said to my wife! This is how life is supposed to be.

We will be sure to invite him to the block party. :celebrate

Ollie is still among the missing, thank God. The owner told people he provided for the bird in his will, so it must be dishearting to say the least after thinking that the bird loved him dearly that Ollie high-tailed it out of Dodge at the first opportunity. :th

I donated my parrot to the Berkshire Bird Paradise. The owners told me that people do not realize what they are getting into with parrots and after a few years just want them out of their lives. I had mine for 23 years and there were times I wanted to choke it. When we were caring for Ava...

They kept him indoors, in their parlor looking out the picture window. The house is a little bigger than a shoe box. It is on the street behind our's but the backs of our property adjoin, separated by a stand of large trees that do nothing to abate the noise.

They have a HUGE cage in their back yard right at the property line. The cage is large enough to accommodate a person. It is at least 8 feet long, four feet wide and five feet high. They put the bird in it left it alone with no human contact all day. These are very sociable creatures and...

Just imagine a nice summer afternoon, sitting in a lounge in your screenhouse trying to read a book and having to listen to that all afternoon. Good riddance Ollie.

You would have to move the cage about a mile the way this animal screamed. I had a small parrot for 23 years but had to give him to a bird sanctuary because he was jealous of Ava. If my bird started to scream I would snap my fingers against his beak and say STOP! He would say ESHSTOP and keep...

Three years ago the neighbors behind us got a large Macaw and installed a huge cage in their backyard about fifty feet from our kitchen window. We have had to listen to this monster screech for three years and could do nothing about it. Our town has very strict laws prohibiting dogs from...

There are also several vessels with UGOs, Unidentified Growing Objects, that I am not sure of how they will turn out. Large clumps of tiny phalaenopsis plants all stuck together. Mother Nature surely does some strange things when you tinker with the natural process. I intend to grow them on just...

A tiskit, a taskit, I guess its just a basket. :lol:

Thanks @sumi.

Then I guess it is a plain old basket, but we like it anyway.;)

Mary, I can not find a name on it. We have had it for years.

They are all sweet, we do not do hot at all. They really are a treat when roasted over charcoal. That said, we are going to have to give some away as there are more to come yet.

Colorful harvest. Like they used to say on Hee Haw: Just pickin' and grinnin'

We love the smell of carnations and I thought I would try growing some hydroponically under grow lights so we would have some to brighten the coming dismal winter days. There was a packet of dwarf mixed carnations in my cache from when I tried growing them in the greenhouse so I used them to...