I've grown 2 love plants and trees also :) have a variety of cacti & succulents :) Manly type plants :)
They have a very lovely garden at Navy Pier Wally, Andrea, and I visited it a couple yrs back. Had a few pix I think on Stuntmans site. It is a blessing 2 have plants and trees and a necessity 4 us 2 live. On 4/3/05 4:07 PM, "Dana Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am sooooo envious! Missouri is not bad and can get very hot, but I do > hate the winters! I do think they should be more ecologically sensative--a > lot!--but thats business for ya! I love trees and hate any of then to be > cut down--lived in an old house(my husband and mine "first" house) with 10 > foot ceilings and completely shaded by trees all around. We did not need > a/c! Sometimes would sit under a tree after work and splash my feet in the > kiddie swimming pool, but it was at least bearable as long as air was > moving. The yard was large, the 20' x 40' dog pen attached to the separate > garage, was barely noticed. It was an old house tho, had not been taken > care of and really needed to be gutted and redone. Instead we sold it at a > profit and moved into one of those sub-divisions built on a field that was a > repo. House was better. Yard stank! It did have a lot of trees on the lot > for some reason. We had the equivilant of all the trees on our street in > our yard. > I forbade my husband to touch them! When we divorced the first thing he did > was cut the 2 big pines in the front down and the tree next to the back > patio. That still left several trees, but I have not seen it and will not > go by it again. We had so many birds in the winter and we planted plants > that attracted hummingbirds and my ex had a nice rose garden coming along. > We added 2 dog runs to the side of the house under another pine. Put > privacy up in the front and partially down the side. There was not much air > circulation there, so on really hot days, the dogs stayed in the garage with > a fan, unless we were home, then they enjoyed the central a/c as we did. > > There was a bank downtown that had a mini-tree/garden retreat just outside > their building with trees and lots of shade loving plants. When you walked > by, it felt like10 degrees cooler! There were benchers and people used it > to rest, cool off and enjoy a bit of nature. Its gone now and there are > rock benches and is as hot as everything else is. > > If people would just remember what trees and plants do for us! Off my > soapbox now. take care, > > Dana > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Lori Michaelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Quad" <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2005 8:48 PM > Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] AZ > > > A life changer indeed Greg! I look & feel 100% better (despite UTIs) after > moving to Tucson. > > 84 here today and a balmy 74 evening. You were SO LUCKY bnuying when you > did! That's > NOW why we can't ... prices too high :-( > > All the building however (in a desert) is good & bad. Our neighborhood has > grown exponentially too (hundreds or thousands more homes in just 2 yrs), a > new > hospital, street repair, etc. > > But all the building has been non-stop noise and dust & dirt for over a year > Valley fever > can occur because of this and they don't water it down as they should. > > We just started seeing a Tucson commercial of a kid walking to school and > all the dust plumes > he passes (from street blowers to construction to you name it). Upon > arriving > to school he coughs out huge plumes of dust (exaggerrated). > > Then it says 2000 people will die in Tucson this year from desert dust air > quality problems. > > Unfortunately, just over our backyard 6-foot brick wall is a street > expanding further. It'll be a busy noisy street. > And the truck noise out there starts at 7 AM daily. > > > Been working out there a year in the SAME PLACE! Non-stop noise & dust. > WHY it's taking so long who > knows. Under other circumstances I wouldn;'t care but I called the PIMA > COUNTY DEPT OF > AIR QUALITY a week ago (the commercial I stated was to encourage people to > call if they're > in an area affected by huge dust). > > They're supposed to send someone out for the formal complaint. > > Although we're in a nice part of Tucson ... we've seen so much beautiful > quiet desert areas nearby > with Saguaros and their kin be destroyed for subdivisions to be built. I'm > not a tree hugger but > it's gotten bad. And getting worse. > > I love it (warmth, skies like no other) and hate it (unable to buy). > > But love our forecast! After 35 yrs in the northeast freezing ... I'm in > balmy heaven. > > Lori > > -------Original Message------- > > From: Greg > Date: 04/02/05 17:13:39 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [QUAD-L] AZ > > My first Spring in AZ. It's great, 85 degrees here. It's a big change from > my past, I'm wearing short sleeve shirts for the first time in 23 years. > Which means my first sunburn on my arms in 23 years. We moved here in Sep. > and we are on the South edge of a growing suburb. Only 1 close grocery store > It's said to be the fastest growing town in the country. Already we have a > number of stores and restaurants. A new freeway building 2 miles away. They > are building a Starbucks, Wallmart, Costco, Samsclub, by the new freeway, > plus tons of high-end stores near by. It's funny, every time we see a new > store we like, we get happy. They are building a 10 acre park at the end of > my street. 2 miles away they are building a huge 100 acre watrerbird > preserve, filled with parks and paths, I can't wait. I got so lucky. We > bought just after housing started going up. We picked this area because of > pricing, but before we got here, they jumped lots. But after I bought, they > sky rocketed. Houses! > on my block are going for 35%-40% more than I paid. They are halfway done > building my pool. I'm not sure I will ever get in it, but I can't wait to be > out sitting by the pool in the sun. I spent 23 years basically couped up > sitting by the fireplace in my TV room, only getting out a few times in > summer. Now, even if I stay home, I'm at least going outside, getting my > niece from school, etc. Starting in March, on Tuesday nights the city has > free "Music In The Park" different live bands, from rock to jazz to classic. > Lots of cool things going on. I'm sure lots of cities do these things, it's > just I was always to cold to go out in the nights. To you cold quads, moving > somewhere warm can be a life changer. > Greg > > > > >
