from a dead looking stick
 

http://personalpages.bellsouth.net/t...rate-Rose.html

about 3 years ago a friend gave us a dead looking stick and
told us if we planted the stick in the ground and watered it
once a day for two weeks we'd get a Confederate Rose bush.

I decided to play along thinking there would be some great
future laughs concerning how I was tricked into planting a
dead looking stick.

http://personalpages.bellsouth.net/t...rate-Rose.html

well, the friend was not playing a joke. now I get to enjoy
taking cuttings from this bush and telling other friends how
if you plant this dead looking stick in the ground you'll get
a Confederate Rose bush.

been kind of neat watching this bush being propagated into
the yards of friends.

from a dead looking stick
 

On 10/29/07 1:09 AM, in article , "Jim"
wrote:

http://personalpages.bellsouth.net/t...rate-Rose.html

about 3 years ago a friend gave us a dead looking stick and
told us if we planted the stick in the ground and watered it
once a day for two weeks we'd get a Confederate Rose bush.

I decided to play along thinking there would be some great
future laughs concerning how I was tricked into planting a
dead looking stick.

http://personalpages.bellsouth.net/t...rate-Rose.html

well, the friend was not playing a joke. now I get to enjoy
taking cuttings from this bush and telling other friends how
if you plant this dead looking stick in the ground you'll get
a Confederate Rose bush.

been kind of neat watching this bush being propagated into
the yards of friends.


That is neat. I did a quick google and it isn't nearly hardy enough. Would
it make a house plant?

C

from a dead looking stick
 

On 10/29/07 9:46 AM, in article , "Jim"
wrote:

Cheryl Isaak wrote:

Jim wrote:

http://personalpages.bellsouth.net/t...rate-Rose.html

about 3 years ago a friend gave us a dead looking stick and
told us if we planted the stick in the ground and watered it
once a day for two weeks we'd get a Confederate Rose bush.

I decided to play along thinking there would be some great
future laughs concerning how I was tricked into planting a
dead looking stick.

http://personalpages.bellsouth.net/t...rate-Rose.html

well, the friend was not playing a joke. now I get to enjoy
taking cuttings from this bush and telling other friends how
if you plant this dead looking stick in the ground you'll get
a Confederate Rose bush.

been kind of neat watching this bush being propagated into
the yards of friends.

That is neat. I did a quick google and it isn't nearly hardy enough.

yea, Confederates don't do well up north, just look what
happened to them at Gettysburg.

g

Snicker! I wasn't even going to go there. I plenty of New Englanders that
have headed south, but the few southerners that came north couldn't handle
the weather.

C

from a dead looking stick
 

Cheryl Isaak wrote:

Jim wrote:

http://personalpages.bellsouth.net/t...rate-Rose.html

about 3 years ago a friend gave us a dead looking stick and
told us if we planted the stick in the ground and watered it
once a day for two weeks we'd get a Confederate Rose bush.

I decided to play along thinking there would be some great
future laughs concerning how I was tricked into planting a
dead looking stick.

http://personalpages.bellsouth.net/t...rate-Rose.html

well, the friend was not playing a joke. now I get to enjoy
taking cuttings from this bush and telling other friends how
if you plant this dead looking stick in the ground you'll get
a Confederate Rose bush.

been kind of neat watching this bush being propagated into
the yards of friends.

That is neat. I did a quick google and it isn't nearly hardy enough.

yea, Confederates don't do well up north, just look what
happened to them at Gettysburg.

g

Would it make a house plant?

I don't know the answer to that.

from a dead looking stick
 

Cheryl Isaak wrote:

Jim wrote:
Cheryl Isaak wrote:
Jim wrote:

[....]
a Confederate Rose bush.


That is neat. I did a quick google and it isn't nearly hardy enough.

yea, Confederates don't do well up north, just look what
happened to them at Gettysburg.

g

Snicker! I wasn't even going to go there. I plenty of New Englanders that
have headed south, but the few southerners that came north couldn't handle
the weather.

C

in a different life when I was traveling for Nortel I made
many trips to Canada in January and February. it was during
those trips I discovered how we in NC should not use the word
'cold' as a descriptor for describing the weather conditions
here in NC. it simply does not get cold in NC.

from a dead looking stick
 

"Jim" wrote in message
...
Cheryl Isaak wrote:

[snip]
plenty of New Englanders that
have headed south, but the few southerners that came north couldn't
handle
the weather.

C

in a different life when I was traveling for Nortel I made
many trips to Canada in January and February. it was during
those trips I discovered how we in NC should not use the word
'cold' as a descriptor for describing the weather conditions
here in NC. it simply does not get cold in NC.

Two winters at Fort Churchill made getting back to southern Ontario seem
springlike -- but I don't think roses would have grown in the winter --

from a dead looking stick
 

JimR wrote:

Jim wrote:
Cheryl Isaak wrote:

[snip]
but the few southerners that came north couldn't
handle the weather.

in a different life when I was traveling for Nortel I made
many trips to Canada in January and February. it was during
those trips I discovered how we in NC should not use the word
'cold' as a descriptor for describing the weather conditions
here in NC. it simply does not get cold in NC.

Two winters at Fort Churchill made getting back to southern Ontario seem
springlike -- but I don't think roses would have grown in the winter --

Ottawa was the usual destination because the BNR labs for
the products I was associated with were located there. I
tried to get a summer time trip but never managed it.
Buffalo NY was another place where the word 'cold' was
applicable.

from a dead looking stick
 

On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 20:16:44 -0400, "JimR" wrote:


"Jim" wrote in message
...
Cheryl Isaak wrote:

[snip]
plenty of New Englanders that
have headed south, but the few southerners that came north couldn't
handle
the weather.

C

in a different life when I was traveling for Nortel I made
many trips to Canada in January and February. it was during
those trips I discovered how we in NC should not use the word
'cold' as a descriptor for describing the weather conditions
here in NC. it simply does not get cold in NC.

Two winters at Fort Churchill made getting back to southern Ontario seem
springlike -- but I don't think roses would have grown in the winter --

Hah! Takes me back...

I remember tenting at minus 25 (at which point, ISTR, Celsius and
Fahrenheit converge?), during a 10-day mushing trip on the Great Slave
Lake. Ah...them were the days..

Persephone

How cold is it were you are NOW - WAS from a dead lookingstick
 

On 10/29/07 8:16 PM, in article , "JimR"
wrote:


"Jim" wrote in message
...
Cheryl Isaak wrote:

[snip]
plenty of New Englanders that
have headed south, but the few southerners that came north couldn't
handle
the weather.

C

in a different life when I was traveling for Nortel I made
many trips to Canada in January and February. it was during
those trips I discovered how we in NC should not use the word
'cold' as a descriptor for describing the weather conditions
here in NC. it simply does not get cold in NC.

Two winters at Fort Churchill made getting back to southern Ontario seem
springlike -- but I don't think roses would have grown in the winter --


As I write, it is 6:36 AM and it 28 degrees. And still dark.

Cheryl
Southern NH

How cold is it were you are NOW - WAS from a dead lookingstick
 

Cheryl Isaak wrote:
On 10/29/07 8:16 PM, in article , "JimR"
wrote:

"Jim" wrote in message
...
Cheryl Isaak wrote:
[snip]
plenty of New Englanders that
have headed south, but the few southerners that came north couldn't
handle
the weather.

C
in a different life when I was traveling for Nortel I made
many trips to Canada in January and February. it was during
those trips I discovered how we in NC should not use the word
'cold' as a descriptor for describing the weather conditions
here in NC. it simply does not get cold in NC.
Two winters at Fort Churchill made getting back to southern Ontario seem
springlike -- but I don't think roses would have grown in the winter --


As I write, it is 6:36 AM and it 28 degrees. And still dark.

Cheryl
Southern NH


33 degrees at 7:30am and 37 degrees now at 8:16am. It's light out now,
and there was a bit of light out then. First frost and the coldest night
that we've had so far...weird for it be the end of October, huh?

~Rae

How cold is it were you are NOW - WAS from a dead looking stick
 

rachael simpson wrote in
:

Cheryl Isaak wrote:
As I write, it is 6:36 AM and it 28 degrees. And still
dark.

it was 24F here (24.6 actually) at 6:30am. i thought we had
more "coastal" warming than you (keeping in mind i'm 30 +/-
miles from the coast...).

33 degrees at 7:30am and 37 degrees now at 8:16am. It's
light out now, and there was a bit of light out then. First
frost and the coldest night that we've had so far...weird
for it be the end of October, huh?

currently, at 9:33am it's 41.2F & i'm going out to brush a
llama (Sally, not to be confused with the chicken named
Sally). glad it warmed up. i hate standing around in freezing
weather, especially if there's a breeze.
lee

OT How cold is it were you are NOW - WAS from a dead lookingstick
 

"Cheryl Isaak" wrote in message
...
On 10/29/07 8:16 PM, in article , "JimR"
wrote:


"Jim" wrote in message
...
Cheryl Isaak wrote:

[snip]
plenty of New Englanders that
have headed south, but the few southerners that came north couldn't
handle
the weather.

C

in a different life when I was traveling for Nortel I made
many trips to Canada in January and February. it was during
those trips I discovered how we in NC should not use the word
'cold' as a descriptor for describing the weather conditions
here in NC. it simply does not get cold in NC.

Two winters at Fort Churchill made getting back to southern Ontario seem
springlike -- but I don't think roses would have grown in the winter --


As I write, it is 6:36 AM and it 28 degrees. And still dark.

Cheryl
Southern NH


At 6:36 AM here it also was still dark and also was 28 degrees, except my 28
degrees were C.

JimR
Florida Highlands

OT How cold is it were you are NOW - WAS from a deadlookingstick
 

On 10/30/07 9:38 AM, in article , "JimR"
wrote:


Snip

As I write, it is 6:36 AM and it 28 degrees. And still dark.

Cheryl
Southern NH


At 6:36 AM here it also was still dark and also was 28 degrees, except my 28
degrees were C.

JimR
Florida Highlands


Blowing raspberries in your direction! I needed the fleece coat this AM.

C

How cold is it were you are NOW
 

Cheryl Isaak wrote:

[....]


As I write, it is 6:36 AM and it 28 degrees. And still dark.

Cheryl
Southern NH

34F was the morning low here. we got our first
frost this morning YeeHaw!!!

Jim
central NC

How cold is it were you are NOW - WAS from a dead lookingstick
 

on 10/30/2007 6:37 AM Cheryl Isaak said the following:
On 10/29/07 8:16 PM, in article , "JimR"
wrote:


"Jim" wrote in message
...

Cheryl Isaak wrote:

[snip]

plenty of New Englanders that
have headed south, but the few southerners that came north couldn't
handle
the weather.

C

in a different life when I was traveling for Nortel I made
many trips to Canada in January and February. it was during
those trips I discovered how we in NC should not use the word
'cold' as a descriptor for describing the weather conditions
here in NC. it simply does not get cold in NC.

Two winters at Fort Churchill made getting back to southern Ontario seem
springlike -- but I don't think roses would have grown in the winter --



As I write, it is 6:36 AM and it 28 degrees. And still dark.

Cheryl
Southern NH
6:15 PM 55º F. The low today was 38º¨ F

--

Bill
In Hamptonburgh, NY
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