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Old May 11th 2015, 8:28 pm
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Originally Posted by lansbury
Never heard of such a thing until you posted. Had to google to see what they were. Fortunately not a requirement in our part of Oregon. May you never need to use them in the heat of battle.
I also have a 20 guage shotgun for dealing with copperheads (we don't get rattlers or cotton mouths here), but in the ten years or so that I have had it I have never had to use that it the heat of battle either.
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Old May 11th 2015, 10:33 pm
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Old May 22nd 2015, 4:01 pm
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Originally Posted by kins
Parks in the UK tend to be mostly grass with some trees.

My garden is an acre of trees with a bit of grass in the middle. Bit different. Here it is from above (if my attachment works)...
This is part of my property that is "grass" but I haven't bothered to blow in recent years. It is near a massive oak tree. I took the photo last weekend.
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Had me giggling like a fool. Such a brief answer but undoubtedly much suffering and longing lies behind it.
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Originally Posted by Philk
I could start this off by saying 'a house' as they were out of range living back in the UK. Moving here, not only was I easily able to get one but it came with 1 acre of land and a pond.

Which meant that a push-mower was no good, so last week I went and got myself a John Deere ride-on mower complete with headlights and a cup-holder.

Go back a few years and this was not something I ever thought I'd have use of or be owning.
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M yearned for one of those for years. We had a ride on mower from Sears (Craftsman) for 22 years. He took care of it, changed blades, changed coils, changed oil and filters. He babied it along, kept it going until it finally died. So he bought his much wanted John Deere and quite honestly he regrets it. We have had so many problems with it, he will never buy another one.
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Old May 27th 2015, 3:57 pm
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All kinds of sun related things: umbrellas; sun shades; sunscreen in spray form, lotion form, and block form; sunglasses; car dashboard covers; lighter coloured cars to keep some of the sun's rays out; more sandals than shoes; UV protective clothing; linen scarves to keep the sun off my neck.

My life revolves around the sun. I probably look ten years older than I am thanks to it. Just spoke to a friend in Glasgow who said she felt naked the last time she went out with bare legs...whereas now I feel weird if I ever wear tights.
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Old May 28th 2015, 12:39 pm
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Just spoke to a friend in Glasgow who said she felt naked the last time she went out with bare legs...whereas now I feel weird if I ever wear tights.
I live in the northeast USA, so the sun is not nearly such a concern/obsession to me as to those of you in the south and/or west, but this line echoes one big lifestyle change I find here: I never wear tights in the summer any more. (I still wear the heavy opaque tights all winter long and well into the autumn & spring.)

NO women around me seem to ever wear any stockings in the summer, not even to formal occasions like funerals or gala events. They have amazing dresses of all lengths but are bare-legged with fancy sandals for these occasions. All the summer-weight tights I brought from England are unused.
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A Bear Canister, for a weekend camp.
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I'm with you there..
Can you imagine having 3 cubes of chopped up, coloured bark dumped out side your house back in the UK then spreading it around your yard?

My old neighbors would have thought I was nuts.
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Old May 29th 2015, 12:50 pm
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I'm with you there..
Can you imagine having 3 cubes of chopped up, coloured bark dumped out side your house back in the UK then spreading it around your yard?

My old neighbors would have thought I was nuts.
Only 3 cubes? Clearly you have yet to fully adjust to the US.

We've started getting the natural brown mulch. It's slightly cheaper, and it looks better after the first couple of storms come through anyway.
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Only 3 cubes? Clearly you have yet to fully adjust to the US.

We've started getting the natural brown mulch. It's slightly cheaper, and it looks better after the first couple of storms come through anyway.
Coloured mulch is weird. Can't everyone see how fake it looks?
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Originally Posted by Pulaski
Coloured mulch is weird. Can't everyone see how fake it looks?
Painted cars are weird. Doesn't anyone know that metal is grey ... ?
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