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Ptah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-01-07 10:33 PM
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I have decided to pull the seedlings up
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-01-07 10:45 PM
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1. Seedling???
:rofl:
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Ptah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-01-07 11:01 PM
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3. Well, I want them to be tall
:shrug:

What else might I do?
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-01-07 10:47 PM
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2. My dear Ptah!
Some seedling!

I was going to ask why until I saw how monstrous that baby is!

:bounce: :bounce:
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Ptah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-01-07 11:03 PM
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4. I'm not too confident this year


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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-01-07 11:11 PM
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5. These do look a little sad.....
But the later ones you showed looked much sturdier!

How are they doing?

:hug:
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Ptah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-01-07 11:14 PM
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7. nothing new to report, I was out of town today
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GenDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-01-07 11:13 PM
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6. I think that they've grown since last week.
Don't give up, Ptah. Mine always take a good few weeks to really take root.

We're still a good 8 weeks away from even daring to plant. That makes your sunflowers very significant to me.

:hug:
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Ptah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-01-07 11:25 PM
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8. Thanks for the encouragement, GenDem
Here's a pic from the desert:
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GenDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-01-07 11:31 PM
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9. I love your ecosystem
I was out in Mesa last November (my daughters volleyball team was playing in Scottsdale). It was my very first time visiting the Southwest. I took a ride into the Superstition Mountains, and found it absolutely wondrous.

I would love to see it when all the desert flowers are in bloom.
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Ptah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-01-07 11:36 PM
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10. Scottsdale is ok, if you want to see the desert, travel to Tucson,
see the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum




http://www.desertmuseum.org/


:hi:
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GenDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-01-07 11:44 PM
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13. I wish my stay had been longer.
I spent one day doing all the art galleries and wandering around "Old Town" - Scottsdale, and one morning enjoying the bronze sculpture art project in downtown Mesa, and then my drive outside Mesa to the Superstition Mountains. I had to pee on a very windy mountain road, but you can't really hide behind a cactus, so I stopped at this simulated old mine museum.

If I get out there again I will most definitely get down to Tucson and up to the Grand Canyon. Most of the time I was in a gym.
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Ptah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-01-07 11:47 PM
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14. It's always worth the trip




:hi:
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Nevernose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-01-07 11:38 PM
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11. Thread theft alert:
If you ever get the chance, drive through the West. The only thing cooler (figuratively speaking) than the Mojave and Below is the Great Basin.

I'd recommend, if you can get the chance, a road trip. All deserts are alike, by definition, but not all deserts are the same. A road trip north, starting in the Baja, moving into the Mojave, then the Painted, then back into the Mojave, and finally into the Great Basin -- crossing all of the various types of zones along the way -- before ultimately stopping in a place like Glacier National Park?

It will change your perspective on things.
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Ptah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-01-07 11:51 PM
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15. You have my attention now. Glacier?
My home town
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Nevernose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-02-07 12:47 AM
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23. Maybe that's impressive, if you're from Podunk, Iowa
Maybe that's impressive. If you're from Podunk, Iowa.

Big mountains, endless skies? Yawn.

It's the gradation that really impresses, IMO. The going from seemingly lifeless desert to the Great Basin to beyond. The same geography, with just 10 more inches of water a year.

For instance, I am really impressed by those pics, and wonder why anybody would ever voluntarily leave there? What's the COLA? Could I afford to move there? Do you work for the tourist bureau?
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Ptah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-02-07 12:51 AM
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24. I have abandoned Montana.
It's too cold.

I like Tucson, very much
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petronius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-01-07 11:41 PM
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12. Damn! Looks like something from 'Day of the Triffids'
You'd better be careful that thing doesn't decide to pull you up...
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Ptah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-01-07 11:53 PM
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16. AAHHHHHHHGGGG
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petronius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-02-07 12:21 AM
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20. That is a fantastic picture
:scared:
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Ptah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-02-07 12:25 AM
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21. Thank you
:oooommmm: :relax dude:
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Kali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-02-07 12:00 AM
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17. You got me too!
Ava got me this morning, now you tonight. I should have been on more today so I wouldn't be so susceptible to April Fools day posts!

Good one!:toast:
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Ptah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-02-07 12:04 AM
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18. Had a road trip to Florence today
The Catalinas look different from the north



Hi neighbor :hi:
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Kali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-02-07 12:17 AM
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19. I can see them from the east. Well, more the Rincons, I suppose.
:hi:
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Ptah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-02-07 12:26 AM
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22. Where is Mt Graham from your place?
All you lurkers, google "sky island"

:shrug:
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Kali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-02-07 10:19 AM
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29. I think it is pretty much due north. Can't quite see it until you get past "The Thing"
(over the pass through Texas Canyon)

Going to be going by there tomorrow morning - hauling a kid up past Safford to Pima for a 3-day archeology job. I have never been to the top - both times I tried my vehicles overheated and we gave up ha ha.
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wildhorses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-02-07 01:52 AM
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25. surely, you kid?
you did NOT pull them up?

you are pulling our leg!!
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Ptah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-02-07 01:54 AM
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26. And what a smooth leg it is
Edited on Mon Apr-02-07 01:54 AM by Ptah
mmmmmmmmmm
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wildhorses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-02-07 01:59 AM
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27. --
:rofl:

that tickles:P
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Ptah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-02-07 02:01 AM
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28. On a more serious note,
I treasure your friendship, H

: sweet dreams:
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