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Kimco's Suburban Square is no stranger to events that benefit the Greater Philadelphia area. We've hosted a Spring Social to raise money for the Devon Horse Show, and each summer we host a concert series, Rock 'N' Stroll. We also partner with the local Ardmore Rotary every May to organize Run Around the Square, which has raised over $20,000 for military families.
Our latest event offering a great time for patrons while giving back to the local community was Sip, Sample, & Serve, held at the Ardmore Farmer's Market. Attendees purchased tickets to attend an evening of delicious samples from all the different vendors at the Farmer's Market, paired with delicious wines.
All proceeds from the benefit go towards Silver Springs-Martin Luther School, a Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania school that promotes trauma recovery and family reunification in a nurturing and healing environment with a quality educational program. The campus offers a residential treatment program for approximately 180 students from the ages of six through 14, a recreational area complete with pool and gym, foster care, outpatient services, and a Host Home Program which provides therapy and treatment to children who have serious emotional and behavioral issues and would otherwise require residential treatment.
Kimco became involved with Silver Springs a few years ago through sponsoring holiday toy drives for the children. While successful, Director of Real Estate for the Philadelphia Metropolitan Area Nina Rogers and I thought that it would be a good idea to host a larger event to help advance their cause. We thought it would be a great idea to have a ticketed event at the Farmer's Market where people can enjoy good food and wine and learn a little bit about the school. I talked to the different tenants within the market, and they agreed it was a great idea.
We advertised the event on our Facebook page, by word of mouth, and through the Suburban Square website, and Silver Springs advertised the event to its audiences as well.
The end result was a huge success. The food was catered by Di Bruno Bros., Aziatisch, Ardmore Seafood, Stoltzfus Meats & Poultry, and others, and a local musician played acoustic tunes for the crowd. As patrons enjoyed the food, wine, and music, students from the school circulated among the guests to act as ambassadors for the school and educate guests about Silver Springs' mission. A total of 140 tickets sold, raising $3,500 for the school.
We are looking forward to hosting future events for the school's fundraisers and are even thinking of opening up the Ardmore Farmer's Market as a future events center. The Ardmore Farmer's Market has an interesting architectural design, and with so many delicious tenants located in the market, it only makes sense to offer them catering opportunities.
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A BAND FROM THE BAY AREA was on stage, playing favorite old songs under summer skies, and thousands of fans sang along on verse after verse, chorus after chorus. That wasn't all that the Lollapalooza Festival, headlined by Metallica, and the Furthur Festival, featuring former members of the Grateful Dead, had in common when the two reached the New York City area on consecutive July nights.
Both were full-day music marathons: seven hours for Furthur at Liberty State Park in Jersey City and nearly 10 for Lollapalooza at Downing Stadium on Randalls Island. Each included a nonmusic act (the Shaolin Monks martial-arts troupe at Lollapalooza, the Flying Karamazov Brothers jugglers at Furthur). Each festival also travels with a mini-village of vendors deemed appropriate for their audiences. The Deadheads at Furthur, from teen-agers to graying baby boomers, could pick up concert tapes; Lollapalooza's modern-primitive youth, almost all in their teens and 20's, could get their noses or navels pierced.
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As festivals and package tours proliferate, there must be joy in the hearts of tour-bus companies and stage-equipment suppliers. At least seven festivals are on the road: Lollapalooza; Furthur; the similarly tie-dyed Horde Festival (at Downing Stadium on Aug. 16); the punk, ska and hard rock Warped Tour (at Action Park in Great Gorge, N.J., on Aug. 2); the hip-hop and reggae Smokin' Grooves Tour (at the Garden State Arts Center in Holmdel, N.J., on Aug. 7); the Enit Festival, with all-night high-tech dance music, reggae and a New Orleans brass band (at the Garden State Arts Center on Aug. 17), and the blues-rock House of Blues Barnburner Tour (at the Garden State Arts Center on Aug. 30 and the Jones Beach Theater, in Wantagh, N.Y., on Aug. 31).
With its vendors and side attractions, the six-year-old Lollapalooza is the model for this decade's festivals across America (although its inventors learned a lot from the Reading Festival in England). Lollapalooza's organizers, whose goal at first was merely to come up with something other than a standard arena tour for Jane's Addiction, tapped into the contradictory cliquishness of American culture: the determination to be an individualist without losing too many friends.Continue reading the main story
When it started, Lollapalooza presented itself as a kind of asylum for the alienated, both offstage and on. Its bands appreciated the chance to be heard by larger audiences, but they mistrusted the mass market, and their songs teetered between self-doubt and rage. Ambivalence made them cool; even when performing for 15,000 people, they were underdogs. Meanwhile, Lollapalooza's audiences could feel as if they weren't just ratifying hits but were seeking out something new as well. They were, at a time when the word still had some meaning, alternative. Even last year's Lollapalooza, with Sonic Youth and Hole, refused to choose headliners on the basis of album sales.
But this year, Lollapalooza's arteries hardened. Its organizers decided to book places with twice the capacity of last year's tour stops (except in New York City) and chose Metallica, a band of stadium pros, to top the bill. Metallica knows how to sway a huge crowd; performing "One," its song about a quadriplegic veteran, it uses the artillery fire that maims the narrator as a pretext for flash pots and fireworks. While Metallica happens to be a galvanizing live band, it hasn't been an underdog since the late 1980's.
LOLLAPALOOZA '96 ALSO abandons the festival's previous insistence on variety. Its music, with a few exceptions on the poorly attended second and third stages, runs on power chords and generates high-impact moshing; after a year in which women from Alanis Morissette to Tori Amos to Joan Osborne claimed rock's high ground, Lollapalooza booked its main stage entirely with bands led by men, almost suggesting a backlash.
As at previous Lollapaloozas, the overwhelming message in the songs remains pessimistic or angry; it's still the festival for disaffected youth, though now misgivings are orchestrated by hard-edged guitar riffs and bare-chested belting. Lollapalooza's organizers have been saying that their bill is an alternative to the new orthodoxy of alternative rock; actually, it's just a throwback to the metal package tours of the 1980's.
But it's not as deliberate a throwback as the Furthur Festival. Except for Mickey Hart's Mystery Box, an international percussion summit with singers, Furthur looks back to 1960's psychedelia and its roots. Its bands lean toward blues vamps and cheerful, easy-rolling grooves, suitable for hours of steady shimmying; they invoke older American traditions -- blues, country, gospel, jazz -- and use them to provide a sense of security.
The bands don't always dignify their sources; Bob Weir, the former Dead guitarist who leads Ratdog, is no blues singer. Yet while the bands on Lollapalooza's main stage each sang about its own estrangement, Furthur's bands rallied around a shared musical legacy and a tenacious optimism. Lollapalooza concluded with Metallica's last encore; Furthur finished up with a jam session involving nearly everybody on the bill, full of hippie-style camaraderie. Between the nostalgic comforts of Furthur and the brute force of Lollapalooza, it's time for another alternative.Continue reading the main story

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{The Homestead Garden} Katie and Goliath
I thought about calling this post "How to Build Raised Beds," but who am I kidding? I am definitely not an an expert at any of this gardening stuff. I am just googling for tips and then adapting to my reality and hoping I get it halfway right. There are two huge primary challenges with building our Homestead Garden:
1. Our garden is a 900 square foot fenced in area that has been overgrown with weeds and poison ivy for 10 years.
2. As mentioned, I don't have a green thumb.
The past couple weekends, we've been tackling point one. Can't get to point two until we have somewhere to try not to kill the veggies, right?
I spent two weekends pulling the weeds by hand and fighting with vines that would totally support Tarzan swinging through the trees. My battle with the vines growing throughout the garden was my first battle with Goliath in the garden project. See the one sticking out over the asparagus that I gave up on?
I finally called the local equipment rental place and picked up a rototiller, which promptly leaked gas all over my car #awesome. TimTheFarmer was at work when I got home with it and when I want to do something, I want to do it now #instantgratification, so despite the fact that it took two guys to load it into my car, I was going to get it out on my own. I set up a ramp with two boards and managed to get it out of the car by myself. Can you tell I'm proud of myself? 'Cuz I am ;). The trip across the yard to the garden was brutal – there is nothing ergonomic about a front-tine rototiller! I then got to work tilling everything up and holy crow! If I thought the weeds were my Goliath, I had another thing coming. It took every.single.muscle in my body to control that dang rototiller. Here's me looking like it's a walk in the park:
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TimTheFarmer came home (with a truck full of dirt dug up from a back corner of the farm!!) and we took turns with Goliath. It was much easier for him than me. What the heck?! Within a couple hours, though, we had the entire garden weeded and turned. Yippee! Remember my plan? I was trying not to bite off too much at once and was going to weed and plant one bed at a time, but forget that! We are all weeded and ready for beds. Just looking at the cleared garden makes me feel like I can take a nice, deep breath.
As a side note, it seems I'm one of those people who doesn't react to poison ivy, unlike TimTheFarmer (who will puff up like a blowfish). I didn't recognize the dormant vines as poison ivy and have been pulling them for a few weeks without reaction. I'm allergic to everything else on the planet…small wins I guess?
In between weeding and rototiller wrastling, we got to work building the garden beds. We spent Mother's Day with TimTheFarmer showing me how to use a circular saw and I cut up all the boards for the beds. I insisted on cutting the boards myself (can you say stubborn?), so Mother's Day looked like this, which cracks me up.
I ultimately decided not to treat the boards which I'll get into in a another post. I know, a whole post dedicated to treating raised beds…you can't wait.
To build the beds, we used 2'x10'x8's. Most of my beds are 4'x8′ so we cut one board in half for the ends and used 3 boards total per bed. I priced out the different board lengths and it seems lumber is not one of those things where bulk=better price. I guess that's why they don't sell it at Costco? I thought that the 16′ boards might be less expensive, but it all seems to be about the same price per foot. We used scrap 2'x4's to brace the corners. And, I learned the value of good screws. Apparently the Home Depot guy sold me crappy screws and I had my third Goliath experience trying to screw together the beds. I'd been using TimTheFamer's non-galvanized star lock screws and it was easy peesy; then I used my new phillips-head galvanized screws and the heads were getting stripped and they just wouldn't go in the dang wood. It took me HOURS to put them together. TimTheFarmer came home with some more of the good screws and put the rest together in minutes, not hours. Ugh! But yes, Dad, I did use my pink screw gun.
We moved the beds into place and then laid down weed barrier between all the beds. I stapled the barrier inside the beds to hold it in place and minimize weeds poking through. I used garden staples to secure the perimeter of the weed barrier.
And the last battle with Goliath was moving the dirt from the apple crates to the beds. We took turns shoveling and shoveling and shoveling and…you get the idea. Our backs and shoulders are wrecked, but we're done!! We filled the beds about halfway full. Since the dirt is freshly tilled under the beds, there should be plenty of room for the plants' roots to take hold and this gives us room to add dirt for next year. So, we don't have any more plants in the ground than last week, but the beds are all built and filled!! Are you tired? 'Cuz I'm exhausted! Time to head to the nursery to look for veggies!
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{The Homestead Garden} Asparagus Planting – It's a Jungle Out There
I hope all you mamas out there had exactly the weekend you wanted! Happy Mother's Day!
It's Monday and I feel like I've been hit by a train. Apparently weeding a garden that has been left to Mother Nature for almost 10 years is no small feat. But, we're making some serious progress and I'm not regretting undertaking the crazy project. Well, I'm not, but my back (and legs, and arms, and abs) might be. If you missed the first post in this series, click here to start a the beginning of The Homestead Garden.
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According to my handy dandy weekly to-do list I created based on what my Garden Planner told me, this week was for prepping and planting the asparagus beds and clearing the beds for peas, onions, and fennel.
I'm just seeing the note about clearing the pea bed today, so … clearly that didn't happen. But aside from that, we made some great progress! Over the course of the last week, I bought asparagus and onions to plant, cleared and planted the asparagus beds, cleared the onion, beet/fennel, and kale beds, and started building beds. Oh, and I completely redesigned the garden for the third time. Apparently I am really bad at using my steps to measure anything, so when I finally got out there with a measuring tape, my garden got even smaller. Here are the new plans – sketched out and then updated on my Garden Planner.
Tip: I covered my garden map in a plastic sleeve to keep it from getting ruined in the garden. And, I used a dry erase marker to remind me of the planting specs for that day's crop.
Planting Asparagus
Getting the asparagus in the ground was our priority because it's supposed to be planted in early spring (May counts right??) and it takes two years to mature, so we didn't want to wait whole year to start the process. I triangulated the tips from my Garden Planning Tool, my garden book, and the asparagus package and came up with a plan.
1. Pull all the weeds (that wasn't in the book, I came up with that on my own #genuis #iknow).
2. Dig two rows of 5″-6″ deep trenches that were 15″ long which would accommodate ~25-30 crowns.
3. Test the soil – asparagus wants a high pH – between 7-7.5.
4. Amend the soil if needed.
5. Put a layer of compost/manure at the bottom of the trench.
6. Place the crown roots down/crown up (you buy 1 year old asparagus called crowns) and spread out the roots. Plant them 18″ apart in rows that are at least 18″ apart.
7. Cover the asparagus with 2″ of soil.
8. Water.
9. As the asparagus grows, cover with 2″ more of soil until you've used up all your soil.
And, here's how the plan actually went down.
As I was weeding (and by weeding I mean forcefully hacking at the weeds with a hoe), I heard these squeals and was freaked out about what might be on the end of my hoe. Nothing was impaled, but this tiny little rabbit came stumbling out of the ground. There ended up being a nest of teeny tiny baby bunnies in my planned asparagus bed. TimTheFarmer advised me not to touch them because our scent could scare off the mama. We guided it back into the nest with some sticks, covered them all back up, and hoped the mama would come back and move them. I weeded around them last weekend and when I came back Saturday to start digging, the nest was still there and all the bunnies were dead. 🙁 Despite knowing these bunnies would eventually come back and terrorize my garden, it was still super sad. I loaded them up on the shovel and took them into the woods. #keepingitrealfolks
The bunny is still alive here…be glad I didn't show you the shovel pic.
To add to the feeling of being in wilds of the jungle, I was seriously pulling out 8′ long vines from under the entire garden. Between the vines I fought with and the manually dug trenches, it's no wonder I feel like I did after that one time I tried surfing (except for the full body chafing from the surfboard … so there's that #brightside). And, because I was deep in the wild jungle, I was startled by this little guy when I went to pull the tarp off the fence to load up more weeds. I'm confident my next sighting with be a cheetah.
I was able to get the kiddo off his phone for 30 minutes by enticing him with doing our soil testing. A chance to dig in the mud, but not actually have to weed? For sure! It turned out our pH is perfect for all the other veggies we're going to plant, but not alkaline enough for asparagus. So we picked up some lime and as I dug the trenches, I mixed it in to both the bottom of the trench and the dirt I was piling up. I used a regular shovel to dig the trenches and at first I was wishing we had a pick axe because the width of my trenches seemed overkill, but once the asparagus was in there with it's roots spread out, they were perfect. Oh, it was raining while I dug the trenches … that asparagus was getting planted come hell or high water.
Note: I was NOT intoxicated while digging these trenches. It's hard to dig a straight line! (I should have put the twine up first)
TimTheFarmer brought me pig manure home from the farm (that might have been my Mother's Day present??) #thankshoney and I laid it down in the trench. I went light with it and mixed it in because it had some shavings in it. For the record, I have no idea if that matters … don't forget that I'm making this whole thing up as I go. I then got to work spreading out the crowns.
I planted them ~18″ apart, covered them with 2″ of dirt, and watered them in. Fingers crossed I didn't completely blow it at some point of this because that was a TON of work for a crop we'll harvest in two years! Now, on to the rest of the garden we'll actually get to enjoy this year.
Here are the question marks at the end of the process, which we'll answer as the asparagus starts to grow:
– How quickly can you change soil pH? Will the lime be enough for the asparagus to thrive?
– Is old pig manure mixed with wood shavings an adequate compost/manure?
– Did I plant the asparagus too late in the spring?
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{Friday Favorites} Lawn and Garden Edition + VOTE!!
Well…it's Friday and another week flew by! I am looking forward to spending the entire weekend on building that giant garden I overcommitted to last weekend. Plans for the weekend include weeding, buying lumber, weeding, building raised beds, amending soil, weeding, and getting a few crops in the ground. #wishmeluck Today's Friday Favorites will be quick, because I have to get outside (in the rain) and…you guessed it…weed.
We're Finalists – We Need Your Votes!!
If you're stopping by today from the Andrea, Erika, or Narci's blogs and are new around here (Hi! and Welcome!), we would love your help! My family and I have three photos in Steamboat Ski Resort's Then and Now photo contest and if one of them wins, we win a ski pass (which is a huge deal because they're crazy expensive)! I made the handy dandy map above so you know which photos are ours. Here are the links to vote. You can vote for all three photos every day until May 15th. Thanks for your help!! XOXO
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Magnolia Home Paints!
Chip and Joanna from Fixer Upper have some serious business savvy and are actively creating all sorts of product lines as their show continues to gain popularity (stores, B&Bs, furniture, rugs) and now they have paint! I was so excited to see this come out – now we don't have to guess what color palette Joanna used…we can just go get it. I can't wait to try some on our next project!
Ryobi Electric Mower
Our new yard is substantially smaller than our old house (we have more land, but less grass …yippee!!) and because of all the stumps and hills our old-school riding mower won't cut it. Cut it. Hehe. Get it? We needed a push mower and having previously worked for a sustainable lawn care company, I wanted to go back to electric equipment. There are definitely limitations to the electric (mostly in terms of how long the battery can hold a charge), but you have substantially reduced noise, emissions, smell, and weight on the mower. I did some research and picked up the 40 volt 16″ Ryobi electric mower and then grabbed their 40 volt string trimmer (with a 2nd battery). For the same price as their 16″ mower with two batteries, we got a mower, trimmer, and two batters! The two batteries provide enough of a charge to get through our lawn if you're efficient (~80 minutes of run time). I LOVED the mower! I rarely mowed the lawn at our old house because TimTheFarmer loved his riding tractor time (and the mower was a bit touchy), but I have mowed lawns my whole life and have always had to fight with the big, heavy gas mowers. This Ryobi was SO light and SO maneuverable. It's deck is small at 16″ and while I thought that would be a problem, it actually allowed me to get in and out of tight spaces where other mowers wouldn't fit. And, it's super easy to start! Nothing to prime, no cord to fight with. I am super happy with this choice!
Garden Planning Tool
I mentioned this Monday when I laid out my
crazy ambitious plans for our home garden, but I love the garden planner from The Old Farmer's Almanac. It's making this huge project feel totally doable. We'll see how I feel about it in early June 😉
Ok, I'm off to weed! I'll see you on the flip side friends!
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WHEN they got to the end of the Railway Pier where the pinnace was lying panting and puffing, a Flag-Lieutenant touched his cap to Erskine, took him by the arm and led him aside. He took an envelope out of his pocket and said, in a low tone:
"Here are your instructions, Erskine. They've jumped on us a bit more quickly than we thought they would, but the Commander-in-Chief trusts to you and your ship to do the needful. The position is this: one division of the Russian, German and Dutch fleets is making a combined attack on Hull and Newcastle. Two other divisions are going for the mouth of the Thames, and the North Sea Squadron is going to look after them. The French North Sea Squadron is making a rush on Dover, and will get very considerably pounded in the process. Two French fleets from Cherbourg and Brest are coming up Channel, and each of them has a screen of torpedo boats and destroyers. The Southern Fleet Reserve is concentrated here and at Portland. The Channel Fleet is outside, and we hope to get it in their rear, so that we'll have them between the ships and the forts. If we do, they'll have just about as hot a time of it as anybody wants.
"As far as we've been able to learn, the French are going to try Togo's tactics at Port Arthur, and rush Portsmouth with the small craft. You'll find that it's your business to look after them. Sink, smash and generally destroy. Go for everything you see. There isn't a craft of ours within twenty miles outside. Goodbye, and good luck to you!"
"Good-bye!" said Erskine, as they shook hands, "and if we don't come back, give my love to the Lords of the Admiralty and thank them for giving me the chance with the Ithuriel. Bye-bye!"
Their hands gripped again and the captain of the Ithuriel ran down the steps like a boy going to a picnic.
The pinnace gave a little squeak from its siren and sped away down the harbour between the two forts, in which the gunners were standing by the new fourteen-inch wire-wound guns, whose long chases were prevented from drooping after continuous discharge by an ingenious application of the principle of the cantilever bridge, invented by the creator of the Ithuriel. In the breech-chamber of each of them was a thousand-pound shell, carrying a bursting charge of five hundred pounds of an explosive which was an improvement on blasting gelatine, and the guns were capable of throwing these to a distance of twelve miles with precision. They were the most formidable weapons either ashore or afloat.
Just outside the harbour the pinnace swung round to the westward and in a few minutes stopped alongside the Ithuriel.
As far as Lennard could see she was neither cruiser nor destroyer nor submarine, but a sort of compound of all three. She did not appear to be a steamer because she had no funnels. She was not exactly a submarine because she had a signal-mast forward and carried five long, ugly-looking guns, three ahead and two astern, of a type that he had never seen before. Forward of the mast there was a conning-tower of oval shape, with the lesser curves fore and aft. The breech-ends of the guns were covered by a long hood of steel, apparently of great thickness, and that was all.
As soon as they got on board Erskine said to Lennard:
"Come into the conning-tower with me. I believe we can make use of this invention of yours at once. I've got a pretty well-fitted laboratory down below and we might have a try. But you must excuse me a moment, I will just run through this."
He opened the envelope containing his instructions, put them down on the little desk in front of him and then read a note that was enclosed with them.
"By Jove," he said, "they're pretty quick up at headquarters. You'll have to excuse me a minute or two, Mr Lennard. Just stand on that side, will you, please? Close up, we haven't too much room here. Good-bye for the present."
In front of the desk and above the little steering-wheel there was a mahogany board studded with two sets of ivory buttons, disposed in two lines of six each. He touched one of these, and Lennard saw him disappear through the floor of the conning-tower. Within a few moments the portion of the floor upon which he had stood returned to its place, and Lennard said to himself:
"If the rest of her works like that, she ought to be a lovely study in engineering."
While Captain Erskine is communicating his instructions to his second in command, and arranging the details of the coming fight, there will be time to give a brief description of the craft on board of which Lennard so unexpectedly found himself, and which an invention of his own was destined to make even more formidable than it was.
To put it as briefly as possible, the Ithuriel was a combination of destroyer, cruiser, submarine and ram, and she had cost Erskine three years of hard work to think out. She was three hundred feet long, fifty feet broad, and thirty feet from her upper keel to her deck. This was of course an abnormal depth for a vessel of her length, but then the Ithuriel was quite an abnormal warship. One-third of her depth consisted of a sinking-chamber, protected by twelve-inch armour, and this chamber could be filled in a few minutes with four thousand tons of water. This is of course the same thing as saying she had two waterlines. The normal cruising line gave her a freeboard of ten feet. Above the sinking-tanks her vitals were protected by ten-inch armour. In short, as regards armour, she was an entire reversal of the ordinary type of warship, and she had the advantage of being impervious to torpedo attack. Loaded torpedoes had been fired at her and had burst like eggs against a wall, with no more effect than to make her heel over a few degrees to the other side. Submarines had attacked her and got their noses badly bruised in the process. It was, indeed, admitted by the experts of the Admiralty that under water she was impregnable.
Her propelling power consisted of four sets of engines, all well below the waterline. Three of these drove three propellers astern: the fourth drove a suction screw which revolved just underneath the ram. This was a mass of steel weighing fifty tons and curved upwards like the inverted beak of an eagle. Erskine had taken this idea from the Russian ice-breakers which had been designed by the Russian Admiral Makaroff and built at Elswick. The screw was protected by a steel grating of which the forward protecting girder completed the curve of the stem. Aft there was a similar ram, weighing thirty tons and a like protection to the after-screws.
The driving power was derived from a combination of petrol and pulverised smokeless coal, treated with liquid oxygen, which made combustion practically perfect. There was no boilers or furnaces, only combustion chambers, and this fact made the carrying of the great weight of armour under the waterline possible. The speed of the Ithuriel was forty-five knots ahead when all four screws were driving and pulling, and thirty knots astern when they were reversed. Her total capacity was five thousand two hundred tons.
Behind the three forward guns was a dome-shaped conning-tower of nine-inch steel, hardened like the rest of the armour by an improvement on the Harvey process. Above the conning-tower were two searchlight projectors, both capable of throwing a clear ray to a distance of four miles and controlled from within the conning-tower.
"Well, I am afraid I have kept you waiting, Mr Lennard," said Erskine, as the platform brought him up again into the conning-tower, in much shorter time than was necessary to make this needful description of what was probably the most formidable craft in the British Navy. "We're off now. I've fitted up half a dozen shells with that diabolical invention of yours. If we run across a battleship or a cruiser, we'll try them. I think our friends the enemy will find them somewhat of a paralyser, and there's nothing like beginning pretty strong."
"Nothing like hitting them hard at first, and I hope that those things of mine will be what I think they are, and unless all my theories are quite wrong, I fancy you'll find them all right."
"They would be the first theories of yours that have gone wrong, Mr Lennard," replied Erskine, "but anyhow, we shall soon see. I have put three of your shells in the forward guns. We'll try them there first, and if they're all right we'll use the other three. I've got the after guns loaded with my own shell, so if we come across anything big, we shall be able to try them against each other. At present, my instructions are to deal with the lighter craft only: destroyers and that sort of thing, you know."
"But don't you fire on them?" said Lennard. "What would happen if they got a torpedo under you?"
"Well," said Erskine, "as a matter of fact I don't think destroyers are worth shooting at. Our guns are meant for bigger game. But it's no good trying to explain things now. You'll see, pretty soon, and you'll learn more in half an hour than I could tell you in four hours."
They were clear of the harbour by this time and running out at about ten knots between the two old North and South Spithead forts on the top of each of which one of the new fourteen-inch thousand-pounders had been mounted on disappearing carriages.
"Now," he continued, "if we're going to find them anywhere, we shall find them here, or hereabouts. My orders are to smash everything that I can get at."
"Fairly comprehensive," said Lennard.
"Yes, Lennard, and it's an order that I'm going to fill. We may as well quicken up a bit now. You understand, Castellan is looking after the guns, and his sub. Mackenzie is communicating orders to my Chief Engineer, who looks after the speed."
"And the speed?" asked Lennard.
"I'll leave you to judge that when we get to business," said Erskine, putting his forefinger on one of the buttons on the left-hand side of the board as he spoke.
The next moment Lennard felt the rubber-covered floor of the conning-tower jump under his feet. All the coast lights were extinguished but there was a half-moon and he saw the outlines of the shore slip away faster behind them. The eastern heights of the Isle of Wight loomed up like a cloud and dropped away astern.
"Pretty fast, that," he said.
"Only twenty-five knots," replied Erskine, as he gave the steering-wheel a very gentle movement and swung the Ithuriel's head round to the eastward. "If these chaps are going to make a rush in the way Togo did at Port Arthur, they've got to do it between Selsey Bill and Nettlestone Point. If they're mad enough to try the other way between Round Tower Point and Hurst Castle, they'll get blown out of the water in very small pieces, so we needn't worry about them there. Our business is to keep them out of this side. Ah, look now, there are two or three of them there. See, ahead of the port bow. We'll tackle these gentlemen first."
Lennard looked out through the narrow semicircular window of six-inch crystal glass running across the front of the conning-tower, which was almost as strong as steel, and saw three little dark, moving spots on the half-moonlit water, about two miles ahead, stealing up in line abreast.
"Those chaps are trying to get in between the Spithead forts," said Erskine. "They're slowed down to almost nothing, waiting for the clouds to come over the moon, and then they'll make a dash for it. At least, they think they will. I don't."
As he spoke he gave another turn to the steering-wheel and touched another button. The Ithuriel leapt forward again and swung about three points to the eastward. In three minutes she was off Black Point, and this movement brought her into a straight line with the three destroyers. He gave the steering-wheel another half turn and her head swung round in a short quarter circle. He put his finger on to the bottom button on the right-hand side of the signal board and said to Lennard:
"Hold tight now, she's going."
Lennard held tight, for he felt the floor jump harder under him this time.
In the dim light he saw the nearest of the destroyers, as it seemed to him, rush towards them sideways. Erskine touched another button. A shudder ran through the fabric of the Ithuriel and her bow rose above five feet from the water. A couple of minutes later it hit the destroyer amidships, rolled her over, broke her in two like a log of wood, amidst a roar of crackling guns and a scream of escaping steam, went over her and headed for the next one.
Lennard clenched his teeth and said nothing. He was thinking too hard to say anything just then.
The second destroyer opened fire with her twelve- and six-pounders and dropped a couple of torpedoes as the Ithuriel rushed at her. The Ithuriel was now travelling at forty knots an hour. The torpedoes at thirty. The combined speed was therefore nearly a hundred statute miles an hour. Erskine saw the two white shapes drop into the water, their courses converging towards him. A half turn of the wheel to port swung the Ithuriel out and just cleared them. It was a fairly narrow shave, for one of them grated along her side, but the Ithuriel had no angles. The actual result was that one of the torpedoes deflected from its course, hit the other one and both exploded. A mountain of foam-crowned water rose up and the commander of the French destroyer congratulated himself on the annihilation of at least one of the English warships, but the next moment the grey-blue, almost invisible shape of the Ithuriel leapt up out of the semi-darkness, and her long pointed ram struck amidships, cut him down to the waterline, and almost before the two halves of his vessel had sunk the same fate had befallen the third destroyer.
"Well, what do you think of that?" said Erskine, as he touched a couple more buttons and the Ithuriel swung round to the eastward again.
"Well," said Lennard, slowly, "of course it's war, and those fellows were coming in to do all the damage they could. But it is just a bit terrible, for all that. It's just seven minutes since you rammed the first boat: you haven't fired a shot and there are three big destroyers and I suppose three hundred and fifty men at the bottom of the sea. Pretty awful, you know."
"My dear sir," replied Erskine, without looking round, "all war is awful and entirely horrible, and naval war is of course the most horrible of all. There is no chance for the defeated: my orders do not even allow me to pick up a man from one of those vessels. On the other hand, one must remember that if one of those destroyers had got in, they could have let go half a dozen torpedoes apiece among the ships of the Fleet Reserve, and perhaps half a dozen ships and five or six thousand men might have been at the bottom of the Solent by this time, and those torpedoes wouldn't have had any sentiment in them. Hallo, there's another!"
A long, black shape surmounted by a signal-mast and four funnels slid up and out of the darkness into a patch of moonlight lying on the water. Erskine gave a quarter turn to the wheel and touched the two buttons again. The Ithuriel swung round and ran down on her prey. The two fifteen- and the six twelve-pounder guns ahead and astern and on the broadside of the destroyer crackled out and a hail of shells came whistling across the water. A few of them struck the Ithuriel, glanced off and exploded.
"There," said Erskine, "they've knocked some of our nice new paint off. Now they're going to pay for it."
"Couldn't you give them a shot back?" said Lennard. "Not worth it, my dear sir," said Erskine. "We keep our guns for bigger game. We haven't an angle that a shell would hit. You might just as well fire boiled peas at a hippopotamus as those little things at us. Of course a big shell square amidships would hurt us, but then she's so handy that I think I could stop it hitting her straight."
While he was speaking the Ithuriel got up to full speed again. Lennard shut his. eyes. He felt a slight shock, and then a dull grinding. A crash of guns and a roar of escaping steam, and when he looked out again, the destroyer had disappeared. The next moment a blinding glare of light streamed across the water from the direction of Selsey.
"A big cruiser, or battleship," said Erskine. "French or German. Now we'll see what those shells of yours are made of."
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Outlook Mail that I send to Hotmail.com is rejected. Any ideas Thanks
Outlook Mail that I send to Hotmail.com is rejected. Any ideas Thanks
Not enough information. Are the rejected messages to yourself or other folks? What error messages are you getting? Which version of Outlook [part of Microsoft Office]? Or is "Outlook" referring to Outlook.com [successor to Hotmail.com]? That's becoming quite a common issue thanks to Microsoft's propensity for confusing things by using the same name. Are you including attachments that may be too large for the recipient's ISP rules?
I mean sending from Outlook.com to Hotmail.com
I thought MS was going to eliminate all Hotmail.com.
error msg was Hotmail don't exist
I'm using both and don't have problems but then I don't usually send from one account to myself on the other. But I just did a test from my Hotmail.com to my Outlook.com [different addresses] and it worked as expected. I also sent a test from Outlook.com to Hotmail.com and it worked as expected. I did try sending from a local account but misspelled my address, naturally it failed, have to go out and will check later.
Microsoft does intend to end Hotmail.com sometime, maybe sooner rather than later but who really knows.


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Man's best friend has taken center stage in a new exhibit at the Florida Museum of Natural History.
Man's best friend has taken center stage in a new exhibit at the Florida Museum of Natural History.
"Wolf to Woof: The Story of Dogs," a traveling exhibit by Wonderworks, runs through Sept. 1 and will be celebrated Saturday with a day of free activities at the museum.
The exhibit tells the story of how dogs have forged a deep relationship with humans over thousands of years, says Tina Choe, museum exhibit director. It also covers the history, biology and evolution of dogs.
The exhibit is split into four components, each covering a different aspect of the species, Choe says. Visitors can learn about the different types of dogs, how they are related to wolves, how they have helped humans and what we can do to help them.
Some parts of the exhibit are interactive, Choe says. For example, visitors can compare their sense of smell to a dog's or learn what different howls mean.
Not only can visitors learn about dogs and wolves from a distance, they also can see them up close with taxidermy displays.
"There are several wolves, and also all other kinds of canines that are connected to wolves," Choe said. "It is very well done visually."
Museum assistant director Paul Ramey says "From Wolf to Woof" is the most comprehensive traveling exhibit created about dogs.
Ramey says it is also special because the museum often has exhibits on paleontology or archeology. "I can't remember the last time we had an exhibit like this one," he says.
Choe says "Wolf to Woof" received a lot of attention when museum staff members were deciding on the next exhibit.
"All of us are dog-owners or love dogs," she said. "And Gainesville is a very dog-friendly town."
She says the museum wanted to highlight how special and unique the relationship between dogs and humans is.
Saturday's opening celebration from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. features different dog-related organizations, including First Colony Exhibit Research, which will bring along a dog skeleton found at a dig used in research, Patriot PAWS and the Gainesville Humane Society, says Tiffany Ireland, a museum educator and coordinator of the event.
Pepe Dogs will feature demonstrations by detection dogs at 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m., and the University Police Department K-9 unit will offer demonstrations at noon and 2 p.m.
Another group will bring Carolina Dogs, also called American Dingos, which research has shown to be native to North America. And groups like the Greater Ocala Dog Club will bring dogs to demonstrate agility.
As for the exhibit, Ireland says its nothing short of exciting.
"There is a lot of information for the scientist in all of us," she says.


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Real Madrid striker Raul will not be going to the European Championship finals after being left out of Spain coach Luis Aragones' privisional 31-man squad. Raul's absence is not that unexpected with the Real Madrid skipper not having represented his country since September 2006.
Aragones has included Barcelona teenager Bojan Krkic and Valencia's David Albelda who has not played for his club since December. The absence of Raul may meet with an outcry from the Madrid-biased press, such as AS, who were driving a campaign to see the goalscorer recalled after showing good form this season.


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Aug 15, 2012
In our five years as a band, we've never assembled an email list. Kinda strange, right?
We're about to fix that!
We've mostly held off because we don't want to bug anybody or fill up your inboxes, and we're gonna stick to that mentality. We'd love it if you'd all take a moment to sign up for the new IWTDI mailing list, but rest assured we won't send out more than 4 emails a year, maximum. We'll cram them with updates, tour info, special offers, etc on a quarterly basis- and that's it.
Pretty cool, right? To make it even cooler, if you sign up between now and next Tuesday (8/21 the day our new album Vexations is released!), you'll receive a free download of an exclusive brand new song we just tracked a couple of weeks ago. No one else will have this- only the people who join the mailing list!
Think you've signed up with us at a show before or something? you probably have, but help us out and sign up here to make sure you're officially on there!


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Tim Mann & Jon Waites
for LODOS
5/10/2013 – 5/15/2013
LODOS is delighted to present 'It's Five O'clock Somewhere', an exhibition by artists Tim Mann & Jon Waites.
The show opens Friday, May 10th with a reception from
Two guys walk into a bar:
"Long day?" one asks, the other cracks a smile. They clink mugs, finish their beers, and order another round.
We wake up in the morning, make it through a day's work, get home, take our shoes off and unwind.
It's hard for us not to think about play while we work and even harder to keep the two from seeping into each other.
Though we understand that there's a conflict in there, sometimes ya just gotta go with your gut.
That being said, have a beer and relax, it's been a long day.
For this exhibition, Mann & Waites will present new sculptural work.


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Texture is everything. It's what makes a hand-made item scream out to someone "Touch me!" When someone has the desire to touch your work, you're half-way home. If they have a pleasant experience when they do touch the item, it's sold.
I enjoy creating designs that force me to think about what kind of "experience" the piece can offer. Sure, sometimes it's just visual. But when you can get the visual down, and then be able to add dimension, softness, or stimulation of other senses such as touch, you've truly created an interesting piece indeed.
The piece I've used to illustrate some interesting "texture" is a throw pillow that will soon be offered on my Etsy site Poladora when the shop opens. It will be part of a series called "dark chocolate Mocha Meringue". It was born out of a beautiful fabric of large flowers of gray and brown on a deep chocolate background. (I have some very beautiful coordinates for Mocha Meringue that will also appear in the shop.)
The main body and back of the pillow is hand crocheted in a bulky weight chenille chocolate brown that is very soft to the touch. I used this to balance out the "stiffness" of the method I used to create a three-dimensional look on the side banner of fabric that is applied to the left hand one-third of the front of the pillow.
The effect seen was achieved by hand quilting the entire flower (including every petal, leaf, and stem), to Warm and Natural cotton batting. (I machine quilted the stripes - I was tired!)
I further enhanced the three-dimensional look of the flowers by hand stitching some additional "shading" underneath some of the petals.
I used a new product on the back of the fabric to create the "pucker" that allows the flowers to "jump off" of the pillow.
And, of course, it would not be my work if I did not try to further embellish the pillow in some way - thus, the beading! The beads are hand applied and are precision-made and galvanized with an infusion of real gold.
A bit much, you say? Then you don't know me very well yet.
Until next time...


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Since the legendary days of Hollywood's golden years, Del Mar has been the destination of choice for many a movie star as well as those with a taste for fast horses, beautiful beaches and award-winning cuisine. Along with the Del Mar Fairgrounds, home to the Del Mar Races and San Diego County Fair, the historic and charming Del Mar Village offers a variety of unique shops, renowned restaurants, and luxury and beach-style hotels. Saturday's farmers' market is also a great place to pick up the freshest and finest produce, flowers and seafood the region has to offer.
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"That's the funny face that greets you at the beginning of the Super Terrific Happy Hour."
"Oh, Super Terrific!"
"Yeah, that's him."
"What is he doing?"
"Well, I don't know, but something Super Terrific, I'm sure."
- Kramer and a Japanese tourist, talking about Jerry, in "The Checks"
"Everybody laughs at Jerry here in America."
- Kramer, in "The Checks"
"What's with the claw?"
"Super Terrific Carpal Tunnel Syndrome."
- Elaine and Jerry, in "The Checks"
"So you're angry that this bizarre carpet cabal made no attempt to abduct you?"
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Fear The Duck Overlord!!!
ok, the interwebs are abuzz about an editorial letter from a 14 yr. old named Jasmin Harris who has some definite (if not a wee bit confused) views regarding evolution and homosexuality:
when i first read this, i honestly thought this was "a Poe" (Poe's Law states, "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."). Then, i worried that it might not be "a Poe" and i had to hope that people will not have the typical knee-jerk reaction and recognize that if this is indeed a real letter from a real child then she is a victim. (mum and da need jailtime or a whippin'). there is a serious confusion on display here that PZMyers demonstrates with an annotated transcript over at Pharyngula. Stevyn Colgan has replied with an open-letter to Jasmin that was very compassionate and well-done. [Mr. Colgan deserves the kudos for showing how to gracefully handle things like this one].
now, i cannot lie.....i can understand why this young lady might be afraid of a duck-take-over or Duck-pocalypse......there are some things about ducks that are......a bit scary:
- torturous and eplosively deployable penises (the penis inflates like a car's airbag)
- ducks are descended from dinosaurs and "dinosaurs eat people."


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Happy Monday, Readers -
This week was crazy. So crazy, I don't even know where to start. I am going to start jotting down the weekly anecdotes of my daily life. In other words, keep a better record of what I should say in my weekly posts. You deserve to hear only the best and craziest and funniest stuff.
I want to begin by thanking you so much for all the support you have given me these past few months. In this business of being a missionary...one needs support. It means so much. Everyday, I am humbled and so grateful. Thanks for just reading my blog and appreciating what I write. I love you all. (And if there is some random creeper from let's say, the Ukraine, who is stalking my mission blog? I thank you, as well.)
I want to start by spotlighting two awkward moments I had this week.
**Awkward Moment #1 - I was really (like really....) tired and we were at a less active's house home teaching her about prophets. I decided to lay my head back on the chair to see if that would make me more comfy. The gal yelled in her SASSY African-American voice, "OH YOU WANNA TAKE A NAP? YOU WANNA? WELL GO ON AND TAKE A NAP!" I thought she was ticked. Come to find out, she was actually serious. She offered Sister Savage and I a spare key to her apartment...in the occasion we are in the neighborhood and we get tired (again) and need to take a nap.
**Awkward Moment #2 - I am now officially a Facebook Missionary. First step, I had to clean out my FB profile. Then I had to hide (I REFUSED to delete) all my photos that don't "fulfill or correlate with my missionary purpose." Looking at all my 80s dancing photos at a public library, with my "Sister Kelly" name tag on, was a real treat.
This week's missionary moments are as follows:
A quick update on "B." He got sick and had serious back pain this week and as a result, we were unable to teach him. All is not lost. We will not give up on "B."
This past week, in terms of "stereotypical missionary progress" such as baptisms and new investigators? We fell short. But in terms of bonding and gaining really deep trust with less actives and members?? We struck gold.
I saw first hand the strength of the Oakton, VA members of our church. I am truly amazed. This past Saturday, September 20, the Oakton Ward had their National Day To Serve combined with The Church of The Brethren Presbyterian Church and the United Methodist Church. We made blankets, organized 3,000 kits for laundry and made hundreds of infant care kits. Our Mormon congregation (we have about 400 members who come to the Oakton Ward every Sunday) and the two mentioned congregations, met at the Methodist church. We had a blast!
I particularly enjoyed getting to know Pastor Singleton from the United Methodist Church. (#mynewbff) She loved talking to us about our mission. About 200 people showed to serve at the Methodist building and 80% of them were from our church. The other churches were astounded and shocked at how much we were willing to serve. A few people asked me, "HOW MUCH DO YOU PAY YOUR BISHOP TO GET PARTICIPANTS AND SERVICE LIKE THIS?!?!?!" We had to break it to them that our Bishop doesn't get paid and no one gets money for their service or church assignments.
Also, I was able to bond with Karl, a member of the Church of the Brethren. This awesome 60 year old man with a SWEET ponytail and beard, is in charge of a donation center and wants us to help in Vienna (no...sadly not Austria). He was so kind and sweet. I LOVED the Day to Serve. I loved everything about it. I loved how willing people were to help others. Mostly, I loved the fact that we were all from different faiths and backgrounds. We are all under one God.
Service, from what I have learned, is the glue that holds our world togther. It is truly a beautiful thing. Service can be the smallest of acts...like a smile or a card. Sometimes the smallest things are the biggest. Little acts of service truly make the biggest difference. I know that to be true.


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- Heat and grease the skillet with coconut oil. Place ground turkey in skillet and season with sea salt, pepper, low sodium all purpose seasoning and chili powder.
- Mix in 1 cup of onion and 1 cup of red bell peppers
- Sautee for 3-5 minutes until everything is cooked through
- Mix in the diced sweet potato.
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Dec 19, 2015 6:01 PM CST
|Background history:
'Wild One' is a dormant diploid introduced in 1978 by Allen J. Wild. Check out more information about the family and their website: http://www.gilberthwild.com/
Wild One is a mid-season bloomer. It has earned the following AHS awards: Honorable Mention: 1985 and JC: 1979. It sports diamond dusting on it's petals and is both pod and pollen fertile boasting 21 beautiful registered children:
This plant can be found in the ATP Plant Database at:
Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Wild One') .
Please join in, if you own this plant! We would love to know more! I award an acorn for performance information posted to this thread.
Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Wild One')
Posted by BevJ
Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Wild One')
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Also, please consider adding a "Local Report" to the ATP Plant Database! Thank you!
Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Wild One')
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| Quote | Post #1011768 (1)
Dec 20, 2015 9:48 AM CST
|'Wild One' joined my garden in late summer 2014, and did not bloom at all in summer 2015 nor did the clump seem to grow much at all. I'll move it this year, and see if it makes a difference in its performance. Sorry I can't be of more help with this Daylily of the Day!
"Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." - Lewis Carroll
Dec 20, 2015 10:44 AM CST
You are the only person I see who has this plant in a very hot climate, it seems most people who have this dormant are up north. I will be looking forward next year to your report, seems a lot of people just recently got this plant. I love how the blooms look in the photos, but will wait for a report and especially a report on the rust resistance. How is it looking so far?
Dec 20, 2015 2:43 PM CST
|I have had this one for years but it only gets about 5hrs direct sun/day where it is so my report may not be the norm. Very slow to grow. Color is rich/saturated especially the blush. It is fertile.
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Dec 20, 2015 5:48 PM CST
|Wild One is certainly a beauty! I love the colors.
May all your weeds be wildflowers. ~Author Unknown
Dec 20, 2015 6:28 PM CST
|Larry - I was hoping someone from the south who has had this plant for awhile would post their evaluation as I, too, am curious to know how it does in a warmer climate.
I received a small clump of 5 fans from Susan (stilldew) at the end of August of this year. It went into a pot initially until the new raised bed was completed and then was transplanted to it's new home. It's looked great since I received it. I did note that it was listed as a dormant. But since Susan was selling it very cheap, I figured it was worth trying because I absolutely love the blooms in the photos that I have seen. (I totally agree with you, Vickie!) I am hoping that it is not a hard dormant and does well here. So far, so good!
I've had an infestation of aphids attacking all my daylilies the past few weeks. I need to spray with some soapy water, but have not had the time. I hope to do that while I am off over the holidays. It has held up better than most against the aphid attack. Not sure why. It seems to have narrow leaves, so maybe the aphids prefer wider, juicier leaves?
It is planted at the very back corner of the new raised bed and has been under some partial shade from an invasive tree growing in the next door neighbor's yard. I've called the city to ask that the tree be trimmed away from my power lines and property. I hope it gets done soon. Despite the partial shade, this cultivar has seemed robust and remained green and appears very healthy (much to my surprise). If it is true dormant, I've not seen it hit that phase yet. Here are 2 photos taken of it today. My weather/temps have been in the low 80s with sunshine. This is not a typical winter for me. About 10 degrees or more warmer than normal. Maybe this cultivar thinks it is still summer?
All I can say is so far, so good! I hope to see blooms this Spring/Summer. Will add more info to this thread as I observe more data on it.
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Dec 20, 2015 7:15 PM CST
|We have had two days in a row with frosts and freezing temps, but I was out looking today to see if I could distinguish between dormants and evergreens, but so far I can't. I had aphids a week or so ago, and sprayed with soapy water, might have been the cold, but I saw no sign of them today.
Dec 20, 2015 10:18 PM CST
|I have had wild one for many years and it has always done well here in zone 6. It has good height and a unique color,it does not have a lot of buds but It is a favorite of mine and is 1 of 3 wilds intros I still have.
Dec 21, 2015 7:57 PM CST
|Does anyone know if Gilbert H Wild is the hybridizer of this cultivar?
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Dec 22, 2015 6:51 AM CST
|Brian Reeder on his website lists Wild One as hybridized by Wild.
Lighthouse Gardens
Dec 22, 2015 6:59 AM CST
|There's an article in the Summer 2014 Daylily Journal about the history of the Wild family which goes back five generations to the 1800's.
Wild, by itself, is listed as Allen J. Wild in the hybridizer code, Allen was the son of Gilbert H. Wild.
Dec 22, 2015 7:18 AM CST
|Awesome! I did not catch this. It was brought to my attention by jmorth who just happened to read my initial post and took my challenge about who the hybridizer was for this cultivar! Thank you, J ...for putting me on the right track. And many thanks to Char and Cindy for verifying it! An acorn to each of you!
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us.
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Dec 22, 2015 9:49 AM CST
|You are welcome Becky!!! Thanks!!!
Lighthouse Gardens
Jan 7, 2016 10:10 PM CST
|Due to my limited garden space I no longer have "Wild One" The coloring is so unique that I never knew what color would be more prevalent from one day to the next. Nice size blooms and such a charming daylily. I'm sorry I no longer grow but I'm sure I'll bring it back to my garden someday.
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
Sep 30, 2016 4:33 PM CST
|Since obtaining 5 fans of this cultivar in September 2015 and then transplanting it into a raised bed in October 2015, it has since bloomed this year ( Mid-May of 2016). It produced a scape from each fan. And each scape had 4-5 buds on it. No re-bloom. It is by far my favorite blooming daylily of 2016! I love the bloom colors and it put on a beautiful display when blooming several flowers at once.
It is now Fall 2016 as I write this and it has not increased. It remains at 5 fans. I did set a number of pods on it, so I hope I get some nice seedlings from those seeds. Oh, another thing .... it was in much more shade than I originally intended because of a neighbor's large tree, but it still seemed to perform quite nicely despite that fact. And it shows rust resistance! It is a keeper in my garden!
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Dec 17, 2016 5:35 PM CST
|This is truly one wild daylily. In my garden it changed colors throughout the day. Beautiful plant. Nice big blooms but I did give it away as it was slow to increase.
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
Dec 17, 2016 6:15 PM CST
|I have heard so many people compliment Wild One and have wanted it. This summer, I went to a town festival and a local person was selling daylilies at a booth. I was very excited to see that she had Wild One, so I got it. Can't wait to see it in bloom in 2017!
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We've been getting lots of e-mails and letters from Elder Varvel! He has been out for two weeks, and it seems like he's doing fantastic! He loves any communication with friends and family. He can receive e-mails throughout his mission at email@example.com. He gets an hour once a week on the computer to read them and respond. He says he prefers letters though, because then he has a hard copy with him to read and reread throughout the week.
He sent an e-mail telling us about all the guys in his district. Here's what he had to say about one of them. "Elder Richards is basically Captain America...he is so buff. I have been following some of his workout routines and I really wish I hadn't, because now I can hardly move." That made us laugh!
He was able to go to the Provo Temple once, but now it's closed for cleaning. He might not be able to go again while he's in the MTC. He was bummed about that.
Elder Varvel and his companion had a hard learning experience while 'teaching' someone in the MTC. This is what Sawyer had to say about it.
In my e-mail I told you that we had an experience teaching Isaac that was really rough, so I will tell you more about that. We had been teaching him for awhile and we had been doing really well. He had been reading the pamphlets we gave him and the Book of Mormon. We even got him to pray and say yes to coming to church with us! But then the next lesson we taught went downhill. It was probably the best lesson we taught because we could feel the spirit so strongly and words were coming to our mouths that we didn't even think we knew. But it wasn't what he needed I guess, because when we asked him if he had faith in Jesus Christ and a belief in God he just kept saying no. That's when we realized that we really hadn't gotten to know Isaac. We asked him why he didn't have faith and he told us a story about his dad that made him lose his faith in God, but we couldn't understand any of it. It was really rough and since we couldn't understand him, we just moved on with the lesson. After that he didn't really seem interested in what we had to say. I was about to read a scripture and he just said, "Thank you for coming and I will see you next time." We left the room, and when the 'real' Hermano Torres asked us to come back in, he asked us how we felt. Elder Checketts started to cry and if I hadn't been in front of people I probably would have too. Elder Checketts said he had experienced something like that before. It is really rough! I felt so much love for Isaac and he isn't even a real person! It was a learning experience that I won't forget for the rest of my mission. We've decided that our next lesson is just going to be about Isaac, getting to know him better, and just being his friend.
I asked him in another e-mail if they were still teaching Isaac. This is what he said.
We are still teaching Isaac and it went soooo much better both times after that. On Monday when we closed the door, me and Elder Checketts went cheering and screaming, "He's getting baptized" down the hallways because the lesson went so good! It just gives a whole new perspective of having good days and bad days in the mission, but the experience as a whole is just amazing!
It's going to be so hard celebrating the 4th of July without Sawyer tomorrow! We are going to the Stadium of Fire in Provo. We will be less than a mile from him, but won't be able to see him. The missionaries get to go out to the field and watch the fireworks show. This is what Sawyer wrote about that, "It's crazy to think we will be close enough to watch the exact same show, but still two years apart." That made me want to cry! We sent him a 4th of July package to help brighten his holiday. He said that every Elder in his district took a picture of him wearing his sunglasses with his headband on, and waving his little flag! I hope someone used his camera, because I'm dying to see one of those pictures! What a nut!
We got an e-mail from him today, and this is a little message he shared with us from a devotional he had been to.
There is a replica of a stone that President David O. McKay saw while he was on his mission that completely changed his mission. At the top of the stone is the message, "What e'er thou art, act well thy part." It really made a difference in the way I view my mission. Whenever I have a situation to deal with when I'm out here I ask myself how I can be the BEST missionary. Then when I get an answer, I act on it! That strategy can be used in any one's life. People should be asking themselves the question, how can I be the BEST brother/sister? How can I be the BEST spouse? How can I be the BEST Priesthood holder? How can I be the BEST parent? Then after asking themselves the question, they should find a way to do it! Abraham Lincoln once said, "Whatever you are, be a good one." What E'er thou art, act well thy part!


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The root word of "Date" is Didonal, an ancient Greek term which means, "to give." Therefore, when someone, (anyone) asks you out, his or her job is to honor you by giving you a good time. If your friend asks you to an event, if a business colleague invites you out, if a long-time spouse plans a date, or especially on a first date, the person doing the inviting needs to show some initiative in planning a date that will be enjoyable for the guest. It's that simple. When a guy shows up on a date unshaven and unprepared, and his opening line is, "Whassup?" The proper response should be, "Apparently nothing." Quite frankly, it's bad form for a guy to ask out a girl with plenty of advance notice and then not find out what activities will be appreciated by both parties and plan a suitable date. It's outright appalling for the same person to not plan at all.
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Ladies—if anyone takes you out and the date show effort and initiative, reciprocate by at least being a friend. You never know when that acquaintance could open another door that could change your life positively forever. Dating is a two-way street.