Garden. What do you think? (No gardening desires required)

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Miri

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wow, she hangs-up pants the way I do, upside-down', also she is
wearing my exact 'pink-crocks', this can't be coincidence!

also, did anyone 'pick-up-on' that Lynn evidently takes her 'stuffed-Teddies'
for walks in the parK? here's what's got me in a tither, do her and John
'carry' them in their arms, or do they ACTUALLY 'stroller' with them???

by the way, Miri, your place is lovely...

I assumed they were on a teddy bears picnic. lol
 
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yes, and that is such a sweet thought, but I just wonder,
do they share food with each-other?
especially Lynn's sodas!:rolleyes:
 

notmyown

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Miri, your pole? is called a clothesline.

we'll make an American of you yet. :p
 

notmyown

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yes, and that is such a sweet thought, but I just wonder,
do they share food with each-other?
especially Lynn's sodas!:rolleyes:
food yes, sodas no, since the tax on soda, i imagine. :)


*tries to imagine sharing food with a stuffed animal*

*succeeds* ;)

 

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Ooh have you never had a pole? Many Uk gardens have a pole. Its a British tradition
like fish and chips.

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Ohhh, those poles. I hide mine.

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(Or somebody does.)

(Made a mistake with second picture. That's the gate, not the pole. But that's what the bag on the pole carried when it bloomed.)
 

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wow, she hangs-up pants the way I do, upside-down', also she is
wearing my exact 'pink-crocks', this can't be coincidence!

also, did anyone 'pick-up-on' that Lynn evidently takes her 'stuffed-Teddies'
for walks in the parK? here's what's got me in a tither, do her and John
'carry' them in their arms, or do they ACTUALLY 'stroller' with them???

by the way, Miri, your place is lovely...
She hangs up her "trousers" the same way. In the UK, pants are underwear. lol

And, I can see you in crocks and overalls.

As for how teddies travel?

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They try to do their own packing, but I have to intervene.


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They have their own bag.

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They prefer the front seat.

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Do their own exploring.

BUT

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I prefer to keep them safe, so no one bearnaps them... (or thinks I'm nuts before you truly understand I really am nuts. lol)

 
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yes, and that is such a sweet thought, but I just wonder,
do they share food with each-other?
especially Lynn's sodas!:rolleyes:
Decidedly not. They prefer coffee to soda, and if they have soda, it's Nehi, not Pepsi or Coke.

They also eat nothing but hotdogs. (Their definition of variety is hotdogs can be sausage, kielbasa, bratwurst, frankfurters, Texas Tommies, or anything as long as it is long and in a tube.) They also tell me they'd "share, but they have mouths to feed." (Four teddies, and each one but the thumbnail drive/teddy, have a wife and two kids. The thumbnail teddy, Chip, (looks like this) has a teddy bear pin for a wife, but I just can't find any kids smaller than them.) They also like dessert, but prefer if it can be dipped into the coffee. (Canola, their favorites. They tend to eat what we can't. lol)

These are another teddy's kids.

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They're about one inch tall, and still bigger than their Uncle Chip.

(And this is what happens when you spoil your teddy bears for over a decade, and develop a blog devoted to their lives. I know everything about these bears right down to there was a chocolate cake with vanilla frosting in the package when my first bear and his wife -- a stuffed spaniel -- came in the mail, but they had to eat something along the way. They both deny this, but they're very specific about what they deny. lol)
 
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food yes, sodas no, since the tax on soda, i imagine. :)


*tries to imagine sharing food with a stuffed animal*

*succeeds* ;)

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Strawberry soup that they made. (I don't recall getting any though. lol)
 
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Miri

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We had mummy's day today and a new family edition turned up.

Problem is I've had to fight mummy bear for the chocolate, its wasn't a fair fight as it
was two against one!

Suffice to say the bear won, that's the reason for the strange gloating smiley face.

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nuff said by both of you!!!,,,...

Father, PLEEEEESE, bring your shekenah to our home ground!!!
we're oh so ready to GO!!!
 

mar09

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What kind of fruit grows in your Eden? (I think the Apple Legend came about buy Europeans or Americans, because apples are easy to come by. I have no idea what fruit you imagine they ate.)
Many. When we were young, of course we thought they were apples as the Hi Joe's who came here passed on the legend to us. Didnt those who studied what the real fruit is said they were figs? But i think the figs we have here are different, and dont know either if edible.
 

mar09

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The word "garden" is drastically different around the world.

Last winter I was watching a gardening show from England. They think trees and grass is "garden." I mean like they actually pick trees -- big ones and huge ones and take them to their land to plant them. Where I lived, in America, trees are usually either there or they're not. If we buy a tree, it's usually a small tree -- fruit tree or willow. Or maybe we'll buy a live Christmas tree, and after Christmas is over plant it in the yard. We don't go our of our way for an elm, or a birch, or a chestnut tree. (It's rare to see birch around here.) Trees were already there when we buy the property, and our chief goal is to not have to take it down if it dies, and hope it doesn't crash into the house.

Mar is from such an exotic place, that she thinks tropical plants are the only kinds of plants there are. She's posted pictures of plants I've never seen before. Even fruits and vegetables. Ever try to explain the taste of a potato to someone? Well, I'm not all that sure she's eaten a potato, but she keeps showing plants that kind of look like potatoes, but they're growing on branches, instead of underground. And, poor lady, I'm asking what it taste like, and since neither of us eats the same kinds of food, it's a miracle if she can come up with a plant I've eaten to say, "it taste something like that, but..."

Now, I live in the Midlantic States. When we say "garden," most people think of two plants first -- tomatoes and peppers. I live across the river from The Garden State. (New Jersey.) If you ever see a sign for "The Garden State," there is going to be a tomato on there. You can grow a tomato in Virginia, but it's not a Jersey tomato. Illinois had the blackest soil I've ever seen in my life. Not dark brown -- black! You can grow a tomato there, but it's not a Jersey tomato. I can grow a tomato in my yard, but not a Jersey Tomato. Brandywine. A tomato created not far from here. It's good. It's really good, but it's not a Jersey tomato. (That stuff you buy at the store isn't really a Jersey tomato. That's a commercial tomato.) They also have orchards for apples and peaches.

I knew a woman in Hawaii. she grew passionfruit and bananas. And she hated wild boar because they like passion plants. That was her garden vermin. Ours are squirrels.

And people in the desert in the Southwest think cacti and agave is a garden.

So, when you think "garden," what do you think?
Hi lynn,
That was a bit long i didnt have time long enough to reply other day. I never thought we were from an exotic place-- coz before, what i considered exotic was africa, even south america, but the usa was where reliatives lived since long ago, so it seemed 'near' and we also had apples here, not as much as we do now, but they were familiar like grapes even if not very often.

Potatoes on branches? I do not remember posting one such, but if u saw it, it may be someone else's post-). Here when we say garden, we often think of the small home garden like below. The large formal gardens in first world countries arent common here, and the 'larger' ones we have are probably the memorial gardens like Libingan ng mga Bayani, the Japanese Garden in Laguna, among others. There are also botanical gardens, not like urs of course, like the Mehan garden in Manila, and others around here.

from Backyard Gardening and Climate Change | Greenpeace Philippines
 
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oh Mar,

hubby and I just want to reach-out and grab a-hold of your precious Spirit,,,
but, you have a ways to go yet, little-one...it's all about Jesus priorities,,,
and NOT about a 'mere GARDEN, or what we 'think' it represents.,.