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Mar 9, 2014 2:09 PM CST
Name: Deb
Planet Earth (Zone 8b)
Region: Pacific Northwest Million Pollinator Garden Challenge Garden Ideas: Master Level
Leave Mother Nature alone is my vote. Although now that I'm retired, it really doesn't matter what 'time' it is - I'm still a morning person.
I want to live in a world where the chicken can cross the road without its motives being questioned.
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Mar 9, 2014 3:03 PM CST
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Name: Kathleen Tenpas
Wickwire Corners NY (Zone 5a)
Charter ATP Member I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! The WITWIT Badge Raises cows Farmer Region: New York
Garden Ideas: Level 2
I wrote this a few years back:

the sun
is where it would be
no matter
what our clocks say
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Mar 9, 2014 3:17 PM CST
Name: Rita
North Shore, Long Island, NY
Zone 6B
Charter ATP Member Seed Starter Tomato Heads I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Vegetable Grower Lover of wildlife (Raccoon badge)
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So true!
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Mar 11, 2014 6:48 PM CST
Name: Rick Corey
Everett WA 98204 (Zone 8a)
Sunset Zone 5. Koppen Csb. Eco 2f
Frugal Gardener Garden Procrastinator I helped beta test the first seed swap Plant and/or Seed Trader Seed Starter Region: Pacific Northwest
Photo Contest Winner: 2014 Avid Green Pages Reviewer Garden Ideas: Master Level Garden Sages I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! I helped plan and beta test the plant database.
Since I always, always, ALWAYS forget, I'm kind of against it.

My whole family was so consistent about forgetting it that the local priest would come back to the church an hour later on "THAT Sunday" to watch us get out of our car in an empty larking lot and watch the realization dawn on our faces.

Whether or not it saves energy, I loved the cartoon that showed a mother with three klids in one bed with a short blanket. She had just cut 4" off the top of the blanket and sewn them back on the bottom of the blanket.
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Mar 11, 2014 8:09 PM CST
Name: Anna Z.
Monroe, WI
Charter ATP Member Greenhouse Cat Lover Raises cows Region: Wisconsin
Rick, just write yourself a note............post in a prominent place, like, say, your pillow????? Green Grin!
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Mar 11, 2014 8:20 PM CST
Name: Rick Corey
Everett WA 98204 (Zone 8a)
Sunset Zone 5. Koppen Csb. Eco 2f
Frugal Gardener Garden Procrastinator I helped beta test the first seed swap Plant and/or Seed Trader Seed Starter Region: Pacific Northwest
Photo Contest Winner: 2014 Avid Green Pages Reviewer Garden Ideas: Master Level Garden Sages I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! I helped plan and beta test the plant database.
I did try that one year, but it wasn't a prominent enough place.

It might be a form of stubbornness. Changing the dang clocks wasn't MY idea, and who told THEM that they could make me do it?!?
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Mar 12, 2014 1:42 PM CST

Beekeeper Farmer Region: Missouri Vegetable Grower
I vote for daylight savings but I hate the change it takes me about two weeks to get use to it . It's worse in the spring
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Mar 12, 2014 2:42 PM CST
Name: Deb
Planet Earth (Zone 8b)
Region: Pacific Northwest Million Pollinator Garden Challenge Garden Ideas: Master Level
Not a fan of daylight savings time, but inadvertently found a way around it. Return from a cross country flight right when the clocks change - your circadian rhythm will so messed up from the jet lag/zone changes, that extra hour won't make a difference!
I want to live in a world where the chicken can cross the road without its motives being questioned.
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Mar 12, 2014 2:43 PM CST
Name: Rita
North Shore, Long Island, NY
Zone 6B
Charter ATP Member Seed Starter Tomato Heads I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Vegetable Grower Lover of wildlife (Raccoon badge)
Birds Garden Ideas: Master Level Butterflies Celebrating Gardening: 2015 Roses Photo Contest Winner: 2016
Hilarious! Hilarious!
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Mar 17, 2014 3:05 PM CST
Name: Rita
North Shore, Long Island, NY
Zone 6B
Charter ATP Member Seed Starter Tomato Heads I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Vegetable Grower Lover of wildlife (Raccoon badge)
Birds Garden Ideas: Master Level Butterflies Celebrating Gardening: 2015 Roses Photo Contest Winner: 2016
Gosh, I am SOOOOOO Ready for spring. Spring blooms and spring weather. Today it is cold out again but at least that snow passed us by and we didn't get any.

Now I planted thousands and thousands of spring bulbs last fall. Even thousands of crocus. All sports of species types and also the large flowered ones. So there should be plenty of crocus.

They have started blooming.

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Lily my puppy gets into mischief cause she figured out how to get up on the radiaqtor cover that is in front of the windows.
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Mar 20, 2014 5:31 AM CST
Thread OP
Name: Kathleen Tenpas
Wickwire Corners NY (Zone 5a)
Charter ATP Member I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! The WITWIT Badge Raises cows Farmer Region: New York
Garden Ideas: Level 2
Happy Spring. It's snowing
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Mar 20, 2014 6:49 AM CST
Name: Anna Z.
Monroe, WI
Charter ATP Member Greenhouse Cat Lover Raises cows Region: Wisconsin
We had a dusting too. This cannot be right. Angry Grumbling
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Mar 20, 2014 6:51 AM CST
Name: Porkpal
Richmond, TX (Zone 9a)
Cat Lover Charter ATP Member Keeper of Poultry I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Dog Lover Keeps Horses
Roses Plant Identifier Farmer Raises cows Celebrating Gardening: 2015 Garden Ideas: Level 2
Snow? I'm sorry... We have sun and a prediction of 75 for today. I am hoping to replace the hot wire in the south fence line - if nothing else breaks first.
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Mar 20, 2014 7:31 AM CST
Thread OP
Name: Kathleen Tenpas
Wickwire Corners NY (Zone 5a)
Charter ATP Member I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! The WITWIT Badge Raises cows Farmer Region: New York
Garden Ideas: Level 2
I was going to go to town today, but it's a slushy, heavy snow and the state has decided its not worth plowing, so I'm staying home.
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Mar 20, 2014 9:46 AM CST
Name: Rita
North Shore, Long Island, NY
Zone 6B
Charter ATP Member Seed Starter Tomato Heads I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Vegetable Grower Lover of wildlife (Raccoon badge)
Birds Garden Ideas: Master Level Butterflies Celebrating Gardening: 2015 Roses Photo Contest Winner: 2016
Oh drats to those having snow! I want it to be spring. It is nice here but rained heavily all night. Clear now.
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Mar 21, 2014 6:40 AM CST
Name: Anna Z.
Monroe, WI
Charter ATP Member Greenhouse Cat Lover Raises cows Region: Wisconsin
A nice rain would sure bring the frost out and settle the ground. But it's supposed to be cold AGAIN over the weekend. Nice today, yet.........in the 50's, I think.
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Mar 21, 2014 9:29 AM CST
Name: Rita
North Shore, Long Island, NY
Zone 6B
Charter ATP Member Seed Starter Tomato Heads I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Vegetable Grower Lover of wildlife (Raccoon badge)
Birds Garden Ideas: Master Level Butterflies Celebrating Gardening: 2015 Roses Photo Contest Winner: 2016
It is still chilly. Not truly cold but chilly enough. I am ready for much nicer weather to arrive around here. But the weather guys are saying that it turns colder again by Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday. I just want it to finally actually feel like spring.
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Mar 21, 2014 1:48 PM CST
Name: Mary
The dry side of Oregon
Be yourself, you can be no one else
Charter ATP Member Farmer Region: Oregon Enjoys or suffers cold winters
Deb, I had to laugh about the plane trip helping with the adjustment to daylight time. Middle of the night lambing duty will do the same thing.

Lambing is down to a handfull of stragglers. Cows should start calving right away. Today is nice, with just a breeze. Hubby is burning old grass to clean ditch lines. He will put the blade on the tractor to finish the job.

I'm planting onions today, finally. The bags of onion sets have been on my table for at least a couple of weeks. The weather got ugly right after I bought them. It's still early, daffodils haven't started to bloom yet. No snowbanks anymore, though. Calendar says it's spring, and finally today it feels like it.
Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most.
More ramblings at http://thegatheringplacehome.m...
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Mar 21, 2014 2:43 PM CST
Thread OP
Name: Kathleen Tenpas
Wickwire Corners NY (Zone 5a)
Charter ATP Member I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! The WITWIT Badge Raises cows Farmer Region: New York
Garden Ideas: Level 2
We had about 1/2 a foot of snow yesterday. Today was supposed to be warm. Ok, after this past winter 34F could be considered warm. Yesterday's snow did melt, and maybe a little more of the leftovers, but like Anna said, cold over the weekend.
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Mar 21, 2014 3:01 PM CST
Name: Rita
North Shore, Long Island, NY
Zone 6B
Charter ATP Member Seed Starter Tomato Heads I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Vegetable Grower Lover of wildlife (Raccoon badge)
Birds Garden Ideas: Master Level Butterflies Celebrating Gardening: 2015 Roses Photo Contest Winner: 2016
Yuck to the snow.

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