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Hi there!!! the house is sooo cute and like everyone said, there is a TON of potential. The yard will be great once you get it fixed up, under the windows i would put some window boxes to add color to the front and a big pot besside the fornt door, and put that with your flag pole, it will look fantastic. The arbor is definetly a keeper but i am not to fussy on the little fence. Maybe a little garden up the sides with small shrubs would look good. Good Luck and Congrats!! Cheers... Penny
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Thanks Penny..I like to hear every one's ideas...it DOES have so much potential... The green siding is a a color I would personally not have put on a house...but at the same time not one that I mind either....I knew I had to try for THIS house because (this is real crazy) about 5 years ago I found the neatest wash tub on a tall stand...the tub is the cream spotted GREEN enamal...I have always had it in my yard and it has never really "matched" anything,,,it was just pretty with petunias flowering over the sides...but it is actually the same exact color of the house....how funny is that! Well...I didn't hear anything from the relator today as planned...she never returns calls when she says she will...maybe tomorrow....maybe it will be good news....
~V~
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I'm praying for good news for you V!!!!
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Hi Vanessa, i to hope that the news is good, the house is adorable and there is so much potential with it. The color isnt so bad on the house and from what you said about the wash tub, maybe its meant to be. You have to keep me posted on the progress of how its going, but please dont get rid of thr arbor out front, i would love to have an arbor but in my fornt yard the is no place for one, i have a hedge about 3 1/2 feet high that runs along the property, but i have to admit its good for keeping people off the grass, the hedge hurts!!! Hopefully you will have great news today.... Cheers... Penny
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Nope..I wouldn't EVEN think of getting rid of the arbor...as a matter of fact...I am thinking of adding another one! The exsisting one will have to be repaired but it is certainly a keeper!!!
quote:Vanessa...we're all praying you get that house! And I don't pray!
Pepper..you are such a hoot!!!!
I think we should have a forum contest...a Ferguson Street Landscaping contest.....
The award winning landscape project will win a prize!!!
The prize is....
An all expense paid trip to Ferguson Street to paint,caulk, till and PLANT!!!!!
~V~
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An all expense paid trip to Ferguson Street to paint,caulk, till and PLANT!!!!!
Vanessa...I doubt if I would win a contest, but I might show up to paint, caulk, till and plant anyway! I'm trying my best to figure out how to get there this spring.
Cindy Pearl
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quote: ! I'm trying my best to figure out how to get there this spring.
I'll come get you...it may be by horse back cuz I think hay is cheaper than gas right now...
Now...if I can just figure out a way to get that backhoe here....
~V~
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Hi Vanessa, glad to hear that the arbor is staying, it will look great once it is fixed up . where you live, does the weather permit you to get started on the yard now provided that all goes well with the sale. i would LOVE to get started on my gardens BUT we have snow and that wont happen until April have you any thoughts as to what you are going to do to the outside?
quote: have you any thoughts as to what you are going to do to the outside?
Yeah...my thoughts are...I'm gonna let everybody here TELL me what to do! I have seeds from most everybody here to get started with...so this is TRUELY going to be a GH yard, that will be what will make it special...since I am getting to start with a clean slate... I am also thinking of having everyone send me a rock (a small one) for the rock garden...so I will have a rock from everywhere representing the forum...I am really a sap when it comes to sentimental things...and I think that would be just awsome!
~V~
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Rocks?? ok I have a fossil I will sent you . Got it when we were digging basement for one of these tall buildings in Dallas if my memory serves me right I think it was found about 100 ft below ground level while we were excavating the site in the 80's. Jimmy
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i think the rock idea is a fanatstic idea, and i agree it would very whimsy indeed. Let me know when you want the rocks sent, where i live we have a shale near by and there are all kinds of fossils in them, they really are quite neat . i was thiknig about what you said about everyone helping witht the garden, i have a neighbor that plants thngs at night, she likes how she cant see and that each time is unique when they bloom, i dotn knwo if i would have the nerve for that!!! Cheers>>> Penny
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LOVE the rock idea Vanessa, you will have to let us know when you want them. Now to find a rock as I need them for my garden as well and none in sight.
Any news from the realtor today???
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Cool idea with the rocks....
I have lots of them around here, actually when Jiffy was here she was having us stop so she could get rocks to take back for her rock garden! I'll shove it in the box I have to send out to you...but maybe I should wait to send it now until you get into the house????
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Nana should have some petrified rock near her. If not she could go to the Garden of the Gods and sneak a rock or petrified wood out. Also west Coasters mainly the ones in Ca. should be able to come up with some. Jimmy
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Got rocks. Just let me know when. A friend of mine in New Zealand sends all of her friends looking for natural 'heart' shaped rocks. Hand sized. That is so cool. I keep on looking. ~Tina
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Such wonderful news, V! We've certainly got rocks here in Rockland County! I'll have to look for some pretty ones once this weather pretties up. Great idea, by the way!
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We use to have Rose rocks where I lived in Oklahoma...they were so pretty...wvwn our driveway had a ton of them...but I haven't seen any in years! Okay..here's the question...is there anyway to PERMAENANTLY mark a rock? I was trying to think of a way to write the name of who sent it on the bottom...is that possible? I am SOOOO excited!!!
Penny..I actually do a lot of planting by the light of the moon..my grandfather had a "saying" about it..(and I can't think of it right now) but it was suppose to assure a healthy crop for the Indians...I cheat a little and have a flouresent flash light that helps my feeble eyes...but it has always worked...I seem to hang with what works...
I gotta get the cleaning/painting done first before we really start digging...but I really can't safely start planting for a few months anyway...so the timing will work out perfectly!!!
~V~
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I am sure planting by the light of the moon came about cuz people with kids had NO OTHER TIME to do it cept when the kids were in bed.
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Well, that is exactly why I started doing so much..that and insomnia.. For a long time after Peanut's surgery...he couldn't be outside mush because of his lung...so I rarely got to go out and it was killing me...I thrive in the sunshine..it is life to me and I live outdoors in the summer because I cannot tolorate air conditioning...so...it was nothing for hub to come in of swing shift at midnight and me be out in the back yard gardening...we had a wonderful privacy fence so it was really nice...we wont have a privacy fence here so my new neighbors are gonna think a crazy has moved in!!!!
Well, actually they wont have to "think" about it much...they will know for sure....
~V~
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Vanessa my granddad said your crops have to be planted in the dark of the moon before May first. meaning the moon cycle he didn't plant at night. We use to hace what they called desert rose in New Mexico was calcite rock in perfect shape of a rose. If I still had any oe new if there were still any around I would get you some. Maybe next time I go back home I can find some for you. Jimmy
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quote: Okay..here's the question...is there anyway to PERMAENANTLY mark a rock? I was trying to think of a way to write the name of who sent it on the bottom...is that possible? I am SOOOO excited!!!
I know spray paint eventually chips off.. But if you find a tool, like they would etch or carve into the stone *kinda like a tombstone* Thats' the only way I know of, to make it permenate...
I keep looking back at the first pictures.. Ohhhhhhhh, how I would love to have that arbor.. I just think there's sooooooo many flower's you could have growing up there.. I'd have to have about 23 arbors to grow all the vines that would look reallllly beautiful there...
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I know Weezie...I am having a REAL hard time deciding just what I want to plant for the arbor..and I plan on adding another one by the gate when we fence the yard...so that will give me another "vining" place! I am really WAY excited about the rock garden as well...I am HOPING (hint hint) that Bill will kind of do a lay out of how I can do it..(hint hint)he has a way of laying that stuff out where they just have that really "natural" neat look!!! I am so ready to get in the yard that I am having a hard time putting together the plan of action for the inside!!!!
~V~
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quote: I am also thinking of having everyone send me a rock (a small one) for the rock garden...so I will have a rock from everywhere representing the forum...I am really a sap when it comes to sentimental things...and I think that would be just awsome!
Vanessa...I have a nice rock picked out for you, but I am in the process of putting my name, state and date on it...and it is going pretty SLOW! If I try to do it too fast I'll chip the rock.
If anyone is sending rocks, don't forget the post office has 2 different size boxes that have flat-rate postage. No matter how much it weighs, the postage is $7.70.
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Oh...I ment to mention those flat rate boxes...and I will GLADLY pay the postage...it's really an exciting project for me... Jimmy sent me a pick of the fossil rock he is sending me...it is WAY cool!!!
~V~
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How are you labeling your rock Cindy? I was thinking of using one of Dan's dremmels to etch something in ours.
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You guys are the best...I never thought I would say that a ROCK was the best housewarming gift you could get...but I am thinking it is!!!!I am WAY excited..finally got the utilities lined out...everything should be on by Monday...and that is REALLY exciting..
AND...They are suppose to have the SOLD sign up TODAY...WOO HOO..but I may have already mentioned that...
and did I mention that my BRAIN is bruised!!!!
~V~
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No wonder you are being careful Cindy. I think I would break a finger or two not to mention the rock if I went that way.
A sold sign is great! Did they sign the papers yet?
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Here ya go, Vanessa sweetie! Your happy green house with a SOLD sign in front!
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Woohoo, the sold sign going up today is great!
V, do you mind if I paint your rock???? I have a perfect rock in mind, and if I put a bunch of coats of sealer on it, it should be okay outside---I painted a big concrete frog that I rescued from a yard sale and he's been outside all the time and looks as good as he did the day I put him out....
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Hi, I was thinking about your rock idea 'Nessa. Could you maybe take a pic of each one as it comes in and make a scrapbook of with a note for each picture saying who sent the rock, where from and whatever the story behind it? That would be a lot of work tho.
Acutally I have a rock for you!! I went to a women's retreat (the info is written in magic marker on the back of the rock) at a convent here in Idaho. The rock is some kind of different rock (basalt or something? can't remember) that they used to build the convent and the quarry on the nun's land here in Idaho and a couple different places in Africa are the only places this rock exists. I will try to find out the actual story before I send it off to you.
Hey, if you come help me paint, I will come help you!!!
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FERNIE...that is SO awsome about the rock...see how VERY neat this is turning out...I will probably BAWL as each one arrives!!!! And I love the scrapbook idea...that wont be too much work at all...that's what I'm gonna DO!!! Thanks FERNIE see why I MISS you so much!!!
quote:A sold sign is great! Did they sign the papers yet?
Refer to Major news thread Triss..(about the signing)
Cinja...hub is REAL worried about you...when I told him you had a hammer & chisel out he FREAKED...he asked me if I thought it was SAFE for you to actually be doing that.....
UH...NO.....
~V~
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Well...you certainly can but I am just fine with you sending them here...(it's only a mile away. I know that I will have the tin can till the end of February....we may not have to stay here that long but I have to give a 30 day notice the first so it will be ours till then. But we will also be at the ferguson house every day...so how ever you want to do it just ticles me pink! Okay...not pink...that isn't one of my more favorite colors...
~V~
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and besides...all you have to do is juggle the #'s around from the address here and change the street to Ferguson...everything else will remain the same.
~V~
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Hey, Vanessa, what a great house, and I love the rock idea! I'm so glad for you that you found such a great place. The best thing about a house that needs some work is that you get to really make it your own. Congratulations!
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I am so happy for you with the house,its sooo exciting once you post your address i will send a rock to you, but i will have to wait until the snow melts. these rocks are sooo cool, they have little fossils in them, very neat
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Things are boomin on Ferguson Street...gas, lights, water...what more could you ask for...)UH..paint, caulk, etc...)
So, off to Little Rock bright & early in the morning to get what supplies we can...starting with another new broom! I wish my mother would have NEVER shared that deal with me...have you all ever heard that you are to never move a broom from your old house to the new one? You have to leave your broom at the old house and start with a new one at the new house...trust me...she would forever haunt me if I didn't follow the rules!!!! Leon met me at the house and checked the insulation in the roof...he is anxious to get started...I am anxious for him to get started!!!
Was on the phone this afternoon with the insurance company and got that ball rollin...
All is well on Ferguson Street...
~V~
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quote: ...have you all ever heard that you are to never move a broom from your old house to the new one? You have to leave your broom at the old house and start with a new one at the new house...
Why??? I never heard this...and I always take my broom! Is that what's wrong with me???
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Vanessa glad things are going so good for you. I heard if you tie a red rag around your broom it would be safe my first wife use to do that. Billie and I never did we always took our old broom with us to the new house. Hmmm Cindy may have a point that could be what's wrong with me too. Jimmy
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Barley...you bout made me have another accident with me grapette!
quote: Why??? I never heard this...and I always take my broom! Is that what's wrong with me???
Might be...My mother always said that you NEVER take the old broom to a new house because it was bad luck. Youare suppose to get a new broom for your new house..and sweep from the front door to the back...and then sweep from the back door to the front to sweep out any "negatives" that the previous owners might have left. I have also heard that you are suppose to sprinkle mint &lavender all through your house and sweep the same as above to sweep the blues out of your house. If you make a littl doll out od Rosemary and place it in your home it is suppose to attract good omens or make a "broom" out of the Rosemary and sweep your house...it is suppose to help you focus on getting tasks completed and invites happy thoughts and friends to share your table and your home. Looks like Iam gonna be doing a LOT of sweeping! I am really not superstitious, I just think those are fun little things..
~V~
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I am with ya on that one Cindy, though we did leave our brooms in Nebraska. And we are starting to grow rosemary, so maybe we will get lucky afterall
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Uh...it's kinda lookin like it worked for me!!!
you guys, I am just so excited about this move..because I know that Peanut is going to have a "HOME" now...and that is really what I have wanted for him.. I guess tonight I have felt like I have gone on about this like a silly kid or something...it certainly isn't like it is my first house or anything...but it will be Peanut's first home..and that is where my excitement comes from. He didn't ask for any of this stuff to happen and he surely didn't deserve to live the way we have been living....I just want the very best for him and I know that I can't always provide that although I do try really hard. We ran in to one of the ladies that works at his school in the store tonight...she had the most wonderful things to day about Peanut...she said he is doing so well at school...even though he is having to deal from the terrors still. And Peanut just lit up like a Christmas tree when he saw her. They love him so much at the school and that is all that gets me through having him away from me during the day....
I am just so thankful for all of the wonderful things that are going on right now...it's all about the P~Nutty!
~V~
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You know they are doing something right Vanessa when he is happy about seeing one of his teachers! That is AWESOME!!!
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