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[peachybc]

Peachy, having NOTHING to do with your post...is that lovely new avatar a picture of one of your very own blooms in the garden? It is just stunning!

rowe

Oh boy...don't get me started on the battle I've had and I'm still having with the avatar and personal photo. My control panel shows everything correctly, but when I get to the board the pictures are backwards! I gave up trying to get things to work. Yet, you seem to be seeing them correctly. That's interesting.

Any way I digress....The avatar is supposed to be a picture of a yellow, native flower here called Woodland Poppy. It is stunning, isn't it?! We planted some of these jewels a couple of years ago. I did not take this particular photo. The weird weather this year has confused our plants, so no blooms as of yet. The two varieties of native honeysuckle are blooming well though. AND the hummingbirds are here, enjoying both the honeysuckles and the feeders! What a hoot those little birds are!
Peachy

[rowenaaine]

Oh boy...don't get me started on the battle I've had and I'm still having with the avatar and personal photo. My control panel shows everything correctly, but when I get to the board the pictures are backwards! I gave up trying to get things to work. Yet, you seem to be seeing them correctly. That's interesting.

Any way I digress....The avatar is supposed to be a picture of a yellow, native flower here called Woodland Poppy. It is stunning, isn't it?! We planted some of these jewels a couple of years ago. I did not take this particular photo. The weird weather this year has confused our plants, so no blooms as of yet. The two varieties of native honeysuckle are blooming well though. AND the hummingbirds are here, enjoying both the honeysuckles and the feeders! What a hoot those little birds are!
Peachy

Hmmm. Yep, I see a yellow flower. And it IS stunning.

Speaking of small flying, buzzing things...I had a big, fat, furry yellow/black bumble bee whack itself into my office window several times today. That sucker was BIG and he kept hitting the glass so hard I started to fear he might bore his way right into my office. Thankfully, the glass is way too thick and hermetically sealed (as most offices are these days, boo!). But gosh, he must have had one heck of a headache!

rowe

[stefanl]

The two varieties of native honeysuckle are blooming well though. AND the hummingbirds are here, enjoying both the honeysuckles and the feeders! What a hoot those little birds are!
Peachy

One of the prettiest places I've ever been on my wild travels out west was the mountaintop observatory in New Mexico. Wild flowers everywhere, butterflies landing on people, elk just wandering through the compound, and hummingbirds.

I had never seen so many hummingbirds in my life! Every house had feeders and every house had hummer friendly flowers, so it was a paradise. They are the funniest, weirdest things imaginable. One buzzed me when I was walking home from the post office one afternoon and sounded for all the world like a cartoon character. This high pitched, buzzy sound. It followed me the entire way back to my house. Never did figure out exactly what it wanted. It was an interesting escort though.

[peachybc]

One of the prettiest places I've ever been on my wild travels out west was the mountaintop observatory in New Mexico. Wild flowers everywhere, butterflies landing on people, elk just wandering through the compound, and hummingbirds.

I had never seen so many hummingbirds in my life! Every house had feeders and every house had hummer friendly flowers, so it was a paradise. They are the funniest, weirdest things imaginable. One buzzed me when I was walking home from the post office one afternoon and sounded for all the world like a cartoon character. This high pitched, buzzy sound. It followed me the entire way back to my house. Never did figure out exactly what it wanted. It was an interesting escort though.

Linda,

The people out west are lucky. They get more hummers (total numbers and different varieties) than any other part of the country. We get Ruby-throated hummers here. I saw a Rufus hummer once. They're not common.

Were you wearing brightly colored clothing the day the hummer escorted you home? They are fearless, feisty, very inquisitive birds. We have two feeders on the deck. I've had them come right up to me, within inches of my face, hovering in place, giving me a lengthy once over. (I was wearing a bright pink shirt at the time.) When they get worked up, declaring territorial rights over the feeders, they squeak and dive bomb each other, often missing us by just inches. (Until then, I didn't know hummers squeaked.) I've seen two of them locked in a beautiful aerial dance, squeaking incessantly at each other the entire time.

Peachy

[bwalter]

Oh boy...don't get me started on the battle I've had and I'm still having with the avatar and personal photo. My control panel shows everything correctly, but when I get to the board the pictures are backwards! I gave up trying to get things to work. Yet, you seem to be seeing them correctly. That's interesting.

Peachy, I hate say this, but I'm seeing a very handsome German (or Belgian?) Shepherd as your avatar

[Ruby-Red]

Hmmm. Yep, I see a yellow flower. And it IS stunning.

Speaking of small flying, buzzing things...I had a big, fat, furry yellow/black bumble bee whack itself into my office window several times today. That sucker was BIG and he kept hitting the glass so hard I started to fear he might bore his way right into my office. Thankfully, the glass is way too thick and hermetically sealed (as most offices are these days, boo!). But gosh, he must have had one heck of a headache!

rowe

Ouch! poor bumblebee!. I don't mind them all that much, i don't annoy them, they don't annoy me though wasps are an entirely different matter. My six year old is pathologically terrified of them ever since she got stung last summer (she went to open the garden gate and didn't see the little bleep on the handle and got stung pretty badly) so anything that flies past her, be it a wasp, bee or any kind of flying insect then she goes into all out panic mode and runs back into the house as if the hounds of **** were after her, poor thing and nothing we can say or do to her helps It's not going to be fun around here this summer methinks!

[stefanl]

Peachy, I hate say this, but I'm seeing a very handsome German (or Belgian?) Shepherd as your avatar

Not me. I see a sunset with trees reflected in a lake. The shepherd is your personal picture if I view your profile though.

[bwalter]

Not me. I see a sunset with trees reflected in a lake. The shepherd is your personal picture if I view your profile though.

In Peachy's Profile, I'm getting the shepherd in both the Personal Photo and the avatar location (compressed a trifle horizontally - poor shep looks flattened.) No sunset, no trees, no wild mountain flowers

[rowenaaine]

Ouch! poor bumblebee!. I don't mind them all that much, i don't annoy them, they don't annoy me though wasps are an entirely different matter. My six year old is pathologically terrified of them ever since she got stung last summer (she went to open the garden gate and didn't see the little bleep on the handle and got stung pretty badly) so anything that flies past her, be it a wasp, bee or any kind of flying insect then she goes into all out panic mode and runs back into the house as if the hounds of **** were after her, poor thing and nothing we can say or do to her helps It's not going to be fun around here this summer methinks!

Ruby-Red, I'll have to side with your six year old on this. I normally run screaming from most everything that looks remotely like it stings - bees, wasps, yellow jackets, etc. I don't mind looking at fuzzy bumblebees, but from a safe distance. And I've never been stung, but I'm terrified that it will happen. Not sure why...

Hugs to your little one - tell her some grownups are big fraidy cats and I'll bet she's braver than me.

rowe

[stefanl]

Linda,

The people out west are lucky. They get more hummers (total numbers and different varieties) than any other part of the country. We get Ruby-throated hummers here. I saw a Rufus hummer once. They're not common.

Were you wearing brightly colored clothing the day the hummer escorted you home? They are fearless, feisty, very inquisitive birds. We have two feeders on the deck. I've had them come right up to me, within inches of my face, hovering in place, giving me a lengthy once over. (I was wearing a bright pink shirt at the time.) When they get worked up, declaring territorial rights over the feeders, they squeak and dive bomb each other, often missing us by just inches. (Until then, I didn't know hummers squeaked.) I've seen two of them locked in a beautiful aerial dance, squeaking incessantly at each other the entire time.

Peachy

Fearless is an understatement. I was spending time on Kitt Peak, bunking with three other women in this beautiful house with the most picture postcard perfect view from our back deck. We noticed one of the other houses had inverted soda bottles hanging all around and introduced ourselves to the family living there. They were a lovely couple of astronomers who were leaving for a week to go to a conference and needed to find someone to keep their hummingbird feeders filled in their absence. We happily obliged, never expecting it to be the work that it was.

They had a huge plastic rubbermade container on their deck that was filled with 50 pound sacks of white sugar. Two liter soda bottles every 5 or 6 feet hung from each side of the house. Gallons of the sugar water were dispensed throughout the day.

Each feeder had a plastic margarine cup that was on the wire that hung the feeder from the roof to keep animals away I figured. Squirrels maybe?! The first feeder that I disconnected from its hanger to fill raises this buzzing, angry noise and this wee swordsman is flying at my face. There was a ruby throated hummer nesting in the margarine cup and he/she had come out to feed when I moved the bottle. A little warning would have decreased the comic relief for the other people with me and the fear factor for myself. There are these HUGE wasps living on the mountain and they are drawn to the feeders too.

Was I wearing colorful clothing the day I was escorted home? Probably not. Sweatshirts were the hot fashion item to wear at that altitude. Maybe it was my sweet disposition?! Yeah, I doubt that.

We did videotape a sword fight through a kitchen window when two males were sparing over territory one day. Incredibly feisty doesn't describe those little birds.

[peachybc]

Peachy, I hate say this, but I'm seeing a very handsome German (or Belgian?) Shepherd as your avatar

Not me. I see a sunset with trees reflected in a lake. The shepherd is your personal picture if I view your profile though.

In Peachy's Profile, I'm getting the shepherd in both the Personal Photo and the avatar location (compressed a trifle horizontally - poor shep looks flattened.) No sunset, no trees, no wild mountain flowers

LMHO! This just proves my battle with the board pictures is far from over. Although, I have no idea how to correct the mess that's apparently going on!
Peachy

[GoldenBook]

LMHO! This just proves my battle with the board pictures is far from over. Although, I have no idea how to correct the mess that's apparently going on!
Peachy

i like your new avatar, peachybc. it reminds me of my late mother and her beloved flowers in the garden. every time i see that avatar, gives brightening smile on my face

[stefanl]

LMHO! This just proves my battle with the board pictures is far from over. Although, I have no idea how to correct the mess that's apparently going on!
Peachy

GOT it! Whatever you did, or didn't do, I've now got the yellow poppy avatar. But dancing Snoopy is wearing a German shepherd mask.

Kidding about the Snoopy. That poppy is so pretty. My red poppies are just coming in, but one of the three didn't survive the winter.

[peachybc]

GOT it! Whatever you did, or didn't do, I've now got the yellow poppy avatar. But dancing Snoopy is wearing a German shepherd mask.

Kidding about the Snoopy. That poppy is so pretty. My red poppies are just coming in, but one of the three didn't survive the winter.

I didn't do anything, unless cursing at NBC and my computer counts! The correct Woodland Poppy flower suddenly appeared as my avatar late this afternoon. Me thinks NBC has got some technical glitches going on with the board.
Peachy

[Not_saying]

I didn't do anything, unless cursing at NBC and my computer counts! The correct Woodland Poppy flower suddenly appeared as my avatar late this afternoon. Me thinks NBC has got some technical glitches going on with the board.
Peachy

Hey you wanna curse out google pages for me .lmao

I haven't been able to put up a new tut in a long time .
I did manage yesterday to get my side panels neat and tidy but that's the extent.

[Mari Welsh]

I didn't do anything, unless cursing at NBC and my computer counts! The correct Woodland Poppy flower suddenly appeared as my avatar late this afternoon. Me thinks NBC has got some technical glitches going on with the board.
Peachy

Well, I saw the Poppy when you changed it from the fearless hunter, I can relate. For whatever reason, when I changed avatars from the Fiery Furnace to A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Pantheon it was a night before it suddenly showed up. Wee bit glitchy. However, this way the avatar changes are even new to the owners!
Mari

[thelibrarian]

My "small dog" would like to express her opinion that your avatar should, of course, be a picture of a German Shepherd. Of course, if I used her picture one day, I would have to use the other dog's the next, and that cat after that...so I'll stick with something neutral.

Think of it this way. Never knowing which avatar is going to pop up just gives you something interesting to look forward to.

LMHO! This just proves my battle with the board pictures is far from over. Although, I have no idea how to correct the mess that's apparently going on!
Peachy

[stefanl]

I had a stunt bug wind surfing on my car this morning. Funniest thing to watch. I'm driving and realize that there's this dopey spider walking across the windshield of my car. As I speed up, its bracing against the wind, hunkering down, grabbing on (to what?!), trying its best to stick it out. Win one for the gipper, I guess? I'm almost cheering it on, while trying not to hit stuff while I'm driving to work. I've got theme music going through my mind, sort of a combination of Batman's cool jazzy trumpets with a lilty Gilligan's Island thrown in at the end when it finally gave up the effort and shot off into space. I imagine it was trailing a constant stream of silk behind my car like those tassels on my bicycle handlebars when I was a kid. Only more organic.

Blasted stupid thing. What is going through its arachnoid mind, setting up a web across the windshield of a parked car. Aren't there better places to catch insects?!

[peachybc]

I had a stunt bug wind surfing on my car this morning. Funniest thing to watch. I'm driving and realize that there's this dopey spider walking across the windshield of my car. As I speed up, its bracing against the wind, hunkering down, grabbing on (to what?!), trying its best to stick it out. Win one for the gipper, I guess? I'm almost cheering it on, while trying not to hit stuff while I'm driving to work. I've got theme music going through my mind, sort of a combination of Batman's cool jazzy trumpets with a lilty Gilligan's Island thrown in at the end when it finally gave up the effort and shot off into space. I imagine it was trailing a constant stream of silk behind my car like those tassels on my bicycle handlebars when I was a kid. Only more organic.

Blasted stupid thing. What is going through its arachnoid mind, setting up a web across the windshield of a parked car. Aren't there better places to catch insects?!

LOL Linda! That was a wonderful descriptive piece! Although, I feel a bit sorry for the spider, undergoing it's version of a NASA blast off from your car. lol
Peachy

[stefanl]

I am SOOOOO not a cat person. So, of course a friend at work is asking me for information on determining the sex of three newborn kittens that her daughter's kids "brought home". Never actually knew someone who was followed home by an animal.

Anyone out there in Boardland know how old these kitties have to be before we can be definitely certain of the determination? I'm seeing some stuff on google (and will I burn in h'll for typing the words "sexing" and "kittens" into a search engine?!) that says immediately at birth vs. wait at least a few weeks.