Where the Deer and the Antelope Play - Living in the USA (visitors welcome)

[SuperBunny]

East Coast
MaNanny - Boston
Twinmommytobe - Boston
MuminCT - CT
Greatgooglymoogly - NY State
Yesthereare4ofthem - NY State
Brooklynmom - NYC
alarkaspree - NYC
MKG - New Jersey
Mummimamma - PA
Poetmum - PA
Twirl - MD

South
Earlybird - TN
jabberwocky - AR
Sunchowder - Florida
Marls001 - Bentonville, AR
Tinpot - NC
MadameDeathStare- AL

Midwest
SuperBunny- Chicago
Dodgykeeper - Dayton, OH
Chocchipcookie - Ohio
MonkeyLover
KickAssAngel - Ann Arbor, MI

Rockies
Alipiggie - Boulder, CO
Ribena

Northwest
AnnieLaurie - Seattle, WA
Dooneygirl - Oregon City, OR

California
SittingBull - nr San Francisco
Califrau - Milpitas
loopsngeorge - Brentwood, LA
Syd - Manhattan Beach, LA
SofiaAmes - LA
LATyke - Redondo Beach

Texas
Texan - Dallas
Tiggyhop - Houston
Vixie78 - Houston
BananaPudding - Austin
Cosmicdust - East Texas

Canada
Hellish - Ottawa
Shouldlistenedtomymum - Hamilton
Nooka - BC
Jacksmama - Langley

Exotic Islands
Anorak - Bermuda
cp - Trinidad
Barefeete - BVI

Brazil
Albert

Where's Cali? Is she still entertaining?

I think she said that her company was there for 2 weeks.

I forgot, I thought of her today. We were at Borders, and they had a book called I (heart) geeks, the instruction manual. It made me laugh.

Not really paying attention so I can't remember who was starting a garden/lot but Last year was our first year here and although I planted a lot from seed, I got great results from the plants from Walmart that come in peat pots that you plant straight in the ground. I also found that the things that were available in pots gave a good indication of what actually grew well in your area. Also corn only grows well when you plant a group together not random seeds put in my flower beds by my ds.

My corn didn't grow at all. And I live in the midwest - all you get round here is corn.

Yes, I planted a group really close together and the middle plants gave us some corn; The ones round the outside seem to protect them and they don't grow so high. That's the same with the ones in the fields here where the ones round the edge are shorter. I did decide it would be easier to pinch a few from the fields around our home though.
Tomatoes worked really well in the midwest as did my peppers, chilies and peas. I'm going to grow leeks this year as they are not always easy to find. Salad was a no-brainer obviously. We tried melons and squash but I think I didn't water them enough. I loved how well my bedding plants grew compared with waterlogged Scotland. I'm thinking of growing some lobelia (blue) and Alysum (white) in the shape of the Scottish flag in our front "Yard" this summer. Is that Weird?

No, it's lovely! My leeks were great. I'll definitely grow them again.

Thanks everyone, feel bit better reading your comments - superbunny, agree there are far worse drivers over here from what I have seen!

Dodgy - all set for the birth? Ermmmmm

Parents arriving on 26th, hoping baby will hang on in there til they arrive so dont have to panic about who looks after 2yo DS.

Hope baby hangs on until then.

On a different note, a two year age gap is beyond lovely.

Did you start them inside? what time of year? I paid a fortune for them because dd wanted them with CHristmas dinner.

Would any of you do a pole dancing class? It's supposed to be a great workout. I thought I was too old but she has a student who is 61 so I would hope I could do what she can. Do you know the strangest part of the whole story? I met the lady at church!

Ok I need to explain that. I was replying to SBs comment about leeks not ALs comments about babies!!!
My two babies are two years and 8 months apart - they get on great and at least you don't have to carry two people!

about to post & run - dh is hassling me to go to bed. do you think i should try growing a bed in the pattern of the union jack perhaps a tad too obvious. i have a south facing slope with a road going past, so lots of people would see it!

Try my lobelia and alysum with some begonias!!
I fly my Scotland flag with pride (I never dreamed of flying a flag in Scotland but everyone has their flag out here!)so why not do the flowers. it makes it easier to give directions to all the friends you are going to meet!@!!!
{The first time our babysitter came round I told her that we had a Scottish flag out side and she went to our neighbour who has a Steelers flag outside - ffs}

SB - dh is talking about a weekend in Chicago for his birthday in March. If you are free, do you fancy a coffee?

At the rate she's going, SB is going to be the most popular one on this thread, since she will have met a lot of the people on it.

I got a kitchen scale today. I named it Frank, and I love it. I didn't need it to cook anything, but keep turning it on and weighing things in pounds and then kilos.

I would be lost without my kitchen scales but mainly because I do a lot of Nigella which I think is actually a homesick thing (what's more British than Nigella?).
My daughter had a math(s) assignment where she had to bring in a recipe that used volumes such as cups etc and the only recipe I could find that didn't have grams etc was for a cocktail. I think it explains the school's attitude to me {hmm}.

Have you tried Nigella's recipe for involtini? THE best vegetarian meal I have ever cooked!

Frank is a great name for it. My Kitchenaid mixer I got for my birthday is called Marjory.

My bathroon scales are a bit too frank.

Dodgy.

I really haven't been able to name my Kitchen Aid. I worship it, but have to much reverence to name it. I do call my food processor Ah-nuld, after the Governator, because it is so powerful. It really looks more like a Sid, though.

I left my good food processor in the uk and I have a poor relation at the moment. It does the basics but tbh I don't even take it out unless I really need it as i can usually do it better by hand. Of course this means dh thinks that that means a good food processor is not needed.
Im going to buy one with my pole dancing money - see new job. ^

Tell your DH I said he's wrong.

I saw your pole dancing thing. I don't think I'd have the guts, as the graceful gene has totally bypassed my family altogether. Unfortunately, that includes both my children, also.

Im too scared to do the pole dancing. Im doing some kind of yoga/aerobics thing with her but reading about all the exciting things other people do. I don't envy them one bit but its like gossip girl on acid.

My dd does dancing and is actually very good -she is doing national comps this year - but she still falls over her feet regularly.

My Kenwood sits in the corner and gets used very rarely, as I haven't gotten around to buying a step-up transformer for it. I've never considered giving it a name. That's dh's department. I have to admit I thought it was a geek thing! All our computers have names (which I get mixed up), and it was a struggle to avoid the car and my truck ending up with names too.

I don't name my computers unless you count "You BASx*%$" My car is like one of my children so although it doesn't have a name, I talk to it all the time - "OOOoohhh don't do that now!!!!!!!"
Marjory says he has issues with her and my coffee maker, Carl.

I don't name my computer, because it is just a computer, but I'm afraid my naming things only proves it is a geek thing.

Lol. I am probably insufficiently imaginative . I tend to be quite happy with my truck, my PC, the iMac etc. I find that I don't tend to personalise things much. I do occasionally try, but when I was clearing my office of five years I found that although I had brought in pictures of the children at some point - I think I'd read that not having pictures meant you were psychotic or something - they were years out of date and I hadn't noticed! They were nice pictures at least

never occurred to me to name appliances! i brought over my magimix, dyson & bread maker. just couldn't live without them & too expensive/not available in the states. we have one step-up transformer big enough to make the beasts wrok, it also does the treadmill, so i can either make bread, chop veg, vacuum, or go on treadmill. hmm, treadmill doesn't seem to get much use!
vacuuming is a real pita, having to carry the big grey box around with it, but i love my dyson too much to go without.