Anne, Lucky you, keeping the deer out of your garden with icy snow, but then all those rocks and slopes help. Here, in spite of a northerly slope frozen over, forcing us to clamber up and down a long, long drive, for the last three weeks or so, to the cars at the bottom, most of the garden areas are fairly flat. This AM I saw the gang of six plump two year olds(I think), lying down as well as pawing at the snow cover on the grassy slope above the house. One was shoving its head against the netting fence, sigh, so it is time to drag out the pellet gun which, unfortunately does not have much of a range. I enjoy watching the deer but enough is enough...smile. Just wish i could see an adonis or snowdrop poking through. Hopefully it will not be long now. The temperature is close to 57 but then blizzards are always possible into April. Cheerio, Marcia in Ithaca, NY, USA Zone 5 In a message dated 2/14/2011 7:27:21 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes:
Marcia, the one thing that strong icy snow cover does is keep the deer out of the garden here. Because the garden is steep, when it's icy the deer seem to have the good sense to stay out. It's an ill wind ...etc Anne Spiegel Mid-Hudson Valley New York Zone 4b/5a -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Sun, Feb 13, 2011 10:20 pm Subject: Re: [Alpine-l] Large files Hi Carolyn and All, I guess I am non-tech as well although I dislike the rather pejorative sound of that term. We have no choice here except for very expensive Verizon broadband. All the roads radiating from our location can get cable, but as our short little road has only a few residences, we seem to be neglected. However, even crummy aol would never take 45 minutes to download anything so I have to wonder if the problem for some people is not their carrier. I so wish that the photos could be embedded in the email itself. Such photos are much quicker to show that doing an upload from a download and download/uploads go automatically into one's files,which means one is stuck with these accumulating unwanted except for the initial view. I have to wonder why we cannot do embedded photos as we can on Yahoo lists. Still a strong icy snow cover so I doubt that we will have snowdrops and hamamelis in bloom by the 20th as we did in 2009...sigh. Waiting, waiting...smile. Marcia Meigs in Ithaca, NY USA Zone 5/6 In a message dated 2/13/2011 4:51:32 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) writes: Sorry, I keep forgetting how non-tech this group is. No more photos from the field. I sent the rocks to show the general area to Cliff who mentioned the dryness and said it to the group. Sometimes sending from a phone, the cell tower you are on says it has not sent, but it has. Then when you hit the next tower it sends again causing duplicate messages. 1 MB is pretty standard for most systems, but I now realize not this group. Carolyn Strong Almost to zone 8 now On Feb 13, 2011 1:11 PM, "Fran Doyle" <[email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) > wrote: > With regret I must ask you to remove my name from the mailing list. Ms Strong's photos (one sent twice!) took 45 minutes to be received. Do you remember "dial-up"? Some of us country-dwellers are still stuck with it. It could be suggested to posters that they resize their photos before sending them. I can't be the only person on this list with dial-up. And, no offense meant (although it will probably be taken) but, rocks? Living on the Canadian Shield I am not unfamiliar with them so after waiting 45 minutes I was somewhat disappointed. > Thank you, > Fran Doyle _______________________________________________ Alpine-l mailing list [email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) _http://mailman.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/alpine-l_ (http://mailman.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/alpine-l) _______________________________________________ Alpine-l mailing list [email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) _http://mailman.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/alpine-l_ (http://mailman.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/alpine-l) _______________________________________________ Alpine-l mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/alpine-l
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