This years Christmas Ornament

Hey Nancy,

Are you talking about the new Christmas Wishes pyramid? The link opened a page full of Stitching Parlor designs - lovely, of course. I think I have one of the Jane Austen ones in the stash....

Nice ornie -a little different.

Ellice

Yes, guess the copy and past didn't quite work. I've done so many snowmen that was something different.

Nancy

This should take folks directly to the orni

hey we have a large collection of christmas ornaments like celtic cross, saint christopher, 'sterling silver earrings'

Right now, I don't want to see anymore snow or snowmen

Cheryl

Agreed. Hopefully that 9 inches we had last week will be the end of it.

Nancy

"Nancy"

I'm with you: we've seen enough of the business end of a shovel this year, as far as I am concerned!

-- Carey in MA

It's going to snow again today!sigh

All that snow is now wreaking havoc with flooding. Ohio has been bad. Were you aware that Linda Roswell of The Primitive Needle died in the flooding when her car was swept away?

just me, Cathy from KY in CA

That is so sad - I heard about it yesterday on a different board. My prayers are with her family

Cheryl

It is really sad, for so many reasons. We actually saw a story about this particular incident on some news program. Horrible. Thanks for the link.

Here, all the melting hasn't been so much a flooding issue, as trees being affected. Our weeping pussy willow actually tipped over after the windstorm and melting the other day. It's a "dwarf" - but about 4" caliper trunk, over 6' tall, and heavy. I had to do some weird rope/winch it to the front porch until DH got home. Then we were able to stake it, and rope it back to one of the stone pillars at our porch. We've seen a fair amount of trees/ mud sliding. At least it's not California (with serious mud-slides).

Ellice

There are many fallen trees in Baltimore. Across the street, a HUGE evergreen toppled, overturned with the whole root base, and fell right between two houses. The houses are probably 20 feet apart, if that, and the tree went right between them. Whew! Last week I drove past a corner and two houses each had a *big* tree blown over. Wondered if a mini-twister had hit, though I didn't hear about anything to that effect.

I wonder if last year's harsh winter and huge snowfalls weakened some of the older trees and so this year's windy days are finally making them succumb.

sue

Awful news...how very sad.

sue

So scary when trees come down. In the old house we had a pair of about 150 yr old maples, huge ones, in the back courtyard - and sometimes we really wondered in wind. Our next door neighbors' huge poplar split apart during a tornado microburst - and sent a 25-30' missile over the fence and in various pieces to our yard. With a spear that split off embedding in the furthest part of our stockade fence a good 220' from the tree. The major part - landed in our courtyard - between the huge maples -destroying the patio furniture and another took a turn and hit the brick wall at the front of the pool (like a knight's move from where most hit) - knocking off some lighting. Very strange things happen with those tornadic things.

It is scarey seeing these things - having grown up with hurricanes in Florida, we saw a roof lifted off from a house across the street (tornado skipping down the street), water spouts - worst while driving across a causeway from mainland to the beach, and tree slamming down onto my parents car - parked up between the houses during a hurricane. Then there was the hurricane Andrew destruction - tree partway thru a wall, and the roof of the

I'd bow to our master gardeners, but from what we've learned, the older trees especially are at risk with so much of the roots coming up close to the surface. And some of the native trees around here do age out - DH knows more - but I think a lot of these trees at about 40 years are really at risk of not living healthily for much longer. Our tree was showing a little tiny bit of lean from the prevailing wind, and even after dropping leaves, the long branches still are kind of a wind block. With the high winds, and the wet, wet ground - that was it. I'm just hopeful that it'll survive - hoping to do yard stuff during the week. We did have to call our homeowners insurance 'cause if it's actually dying, and has to be removed it was pricey, and is covered. Hate seeing the trees suffering - oh, well.

Glad we're all essentially ok.

ellice