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Marion's Retirement

Started by Maid Marion, January 05, 2024, 11:41:22 AM

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Lori Dee

Your workstation is so cute. And my favorite color: PINK! I love it.
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Maid Marion

Luke Skywalker  "Amazing. Every Word Of What You Just Said Was Wrong."

I remembered this quote after talking to a black guy selling home solar systems yesterday.
I'm sure he thought I was a woman. We looked up your electric bill and it is over $80 a month.
Last 3 bills paid were $47, $52, and $49!

We are enjoying the cooler weather in Connecticut.  It was 57 this morning when I was pulling crabgrass out of the lawn.  I wore a long sleeve thermal layer under a denim top. Denim jeans.
Repotted some rose cuttings into their own pots to give away to friend.  I typically put half a dozen cuttings in one pot initially and then move the successful ones.  They say it will stay in the mid 70s today.

It is tough work but I'm organizing the house better so I can find stuff. I have a lot of stuff.

Marion
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Lori Dee

Quote from: Maid Marion on August 02, 2025, 12:23:16 PMIt is tough work but I'm organizing the house better so I can find stuff. I have a lot of stuff.

I can relate!

I have been out pulling weeds in the mornings before it gets hot. Close to 100 each afternoon. I bought a Fiskars 4-claw weed puller, which makes it much easier... but I have a LOT of weeds. I didn't pull any in June when I was down here to pick up the keys. Then didn't move in until July 8th. With monsoonal rain, my backyard quickly became a jungle of tumbleweeds, thistles, and goat head vines (Bindii).

I have it under control now, but I still have a few boxes to unpack and my workroom to organize. No rest for the wicked. I might get to do laundry tomorrow.  ;D
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Quote from: Lori Dee on August 02, 2025, 12:41:42 PMI can relate!

I have been out pulling weeds in the mornings before it gets hot. Close to 100 each afternoon. I bought a Fiskars 4-claw weed puller, which makes it much easier... but I have a LOT of weeds. I didn't pull any in June when I was down here to pick up the keys. Then didn't move in until July 8th. With monsoonal rain, my backyard quickly became a jungle of tumbleweeds, thistles, and goat head vines (Bindii).

I have it under control now, but I still have a few boxes to unpack and my workroom to organize. No rest for the wicked. I might get to do laundry tomorrow.  ;D


The four claw model works well and less of a weed and dirt handling mess with its ejection feature.
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Maid Marion

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Yesterday I had two women in their early 30s over for free roses.  One is raising young kids and brought her kid over for some small roses in pots.  The other brought her mother to dig out two mature rose bushes.  I joked that it is a lot easier to watch someone else dig them out of the ground.  One was three inches in diameter and needed a saw or loppers to cut.  I think she will be back for more.
I think she was surprised to see what I could predict what they would see as they dug the roses out of the ground.  I told her they grow differently shaped and size root systems depending on what part of my yard they are growing.  The roses in the front yard always grow deep tap roots and never need to be watered. I save a lot of time by not watering my roses. Haven't had to in years.  ;D 

The great thing about inviting smart people to my home is that I can teach them a lot of stuff very quickly.
I can make observations that may be offensive in group settings,  pointing out that I have two of a very hard to grow roses where we live. 
I named names of two people I know  that would like to grow that rose but have kill theirs.  I also talk about a very good gardener that sprays whatever is necessary to grow her roses.  That is fine for her but I only spray fungicides and rely on natural predators for control.  I also mention the "scorched earth" option of killing all the new growth with fungicides during the first heat wave. Normally a gardening "Faux Pas," this kills off the nasty rose midge and lets my roses bloom without needing those nasty necotinids used by some gardeners to kill rose midge.  One guy who uses the "nuclear option" was upset that I won  all the trophies at a rose show by using this "scorched earth" technique!  His roses refused to bloom during the heat wave no matter how much he watered them while enough of my roses kept right on blooming in the middle of the drought, just like cemetary roses.
Growing white roses means you need to trap or kill western flower thrips if you don't want the petals turning brown at the edges.
Much easier to grow pink roses without spraying.  Or move the white roses to a protected area, much like a king hidden deep in a castle.
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Maid Marion

I just realized why a burglar failed to see $5000 in gold bracelets.
It was my wife's decorating style that filled rooms with tons of clutter!
Granted he was on drugs but it was the overwhelming amount of visual information that overwhelmed the burglar and caused him to miss out on a big score!

I accidentally knocked down a decorative plate given to my wife 18 years ago and it broke into pieces.
I realized it was time to take those down.  Too much clutter.

Golf courses use clutter to mess with the minds of golfers.  A cheat code is to hit the ball to the center of the fairway.  If you can do that nothing else matters!  Point and shoot golf.  Merely hit the center of the fairway and finally the center of the green and you will score better than many golfers!  It is very much like playing basket ball without someone guarding you!

I realized I had my black and pink mice stationed at the wrong computers.  I swapped them so the black mouse is next to the black keyboard and the pink mouse is next to the pink keyboard.  My new keyboard is wireless.  I wonder how long it would take for someone to figure out that the keyboard in front of the computer is not the keyboard for that computer?  One could make it impossible for the average burglar by requiring the deft use of wire cutters and a soldering iron!  Would someone really cut the red wire to break into a computer?  And solder the blue wire? :-).
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Quote from: Maid Marion on Today at 05:47:46 AMI just realized why a burglar failed to see $5000 in gold bracelets.
It was my wife's decorating style that filled rooms with tons of clutter!
Granted he was on drugs but it was the overwhelming amount of visual information that overwhelmed the burglar and caused him to miss out on a big score!

I accidentally knocked down a decorative plate given to my wife 18 years ago and it broke into pieces.
I realized it was time to take those down.  Too much clutter.

Golf courses use clutter to mess with the minds of golfers.  A cheat code is to hit the ball to the center of the fairway.  If you can do that nothing else matters!  Point and shoot golf.  Merely hit the center of the fairway and finally the center of the green and you will score better than many golfers!  It is very much like playing basket ball without someone guarding you!

I realized I had my black and pink mice stationed at the wrong computers.  I swapped them so the black mouse is next to the black keyboard and the pink mouse is next to the pink keyboard.  My new keyboard is wireless.  I wonder how long it would take for someone to figure out that the keyboard in front of the computer is not the keyboard for that computer?  One could make it impossible for the average burglar by requiring the deft use of wire cutters and a soldering iron!  Would someone really cut the red wire to break into a computer?  And solder the blue wire? :-).

I think you may be onto a million dollar anti theft idea.
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Devlyn

Quote from: Maid Marion on July 30, 2025, 01:30:33 PMI played a quick round of golf today with half a dozen clubs. Did a little grocery shopping, then took a shower and a mid-day nap.

A picture of what I wore on my last day of work two years ago.
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There's our girl!  :)

Hugs, Devlyn
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