It is so good to see you back! I love all of your totems and especially the birdbath.

Good to see you're back! Love all the totems and the succulents on the metal shelf. ~tenderlee

Glad you are back. Only chicks if they are under mama hens skirt. My DH would have said, build a patio, it will just be a place for the bird to soil. He was onery.

Very solid bright display area!!!! Well built totems of all styles! susie

I like em all. Nice that your BB deserves a patio of it's own. Your totems are so pretty.

Kathy

Love everything!!! So glad you are back!!!! I love your plant stand too!!!

Glad to see you back. I love it all. Especially the succulent area. That's what I need to do.

Donna in Florida

glad your feeling better
love all of it
debby

Love the plant stand! Glad you are feeling well enough to work outside.
kathy

YES, YOU ARE BACK! Bright & cheerful BBath...and those totems are just so LOVELY! Your succ. area is great...it looks shady, but it must be that time of the day...love that black plant stand. Hope each day is better & better for ya'...remember, nice & easy, tho'...sometimes get too tired and it's hard on ya! Give DH an extra hug for that patio to display your cheerful art! Jeanne S.

Love your backyard & all the beautiful totems,looks like a "tea party" for the birds!! I'm nuts about that plant stand too!~.~ As long as I finally got on here I want to tell you they have a new procedure for sinus problems that seems to be working great.No cutting or any of that,it is like an angiooplasty except they blow up your sinus cavity & by enlarging it the problems go away. It was on TV about 3-4 nights ago. So look into it,almost no pain at all & no recovery time. My computer gets on here & I go to leave a message & most of the time it freezes up even tho Norton says I have no problems!HA! gLAD YOU ARE BACK!! Jan

So glad to see you back on the forum! Your yard is beautiful! Your creations are so well-done and eye-appealing! I love succulents, and the deer seem to leave them alone here. Your plants are so healthy looking! Thanks for sharing! Bear Hugs! Kirk

WAY TO GO, Sylvia!!! Wooo Hooo. Love your bird-bath, and what a sweet hubby to build the little patio. Your totems are wonderful, and that plant stand.......sighing with envy on it!
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Two Months: Your husband probably complained just like my DH,
But he looks at my bald head and he does it for me
but he still makes comments under his breath LOL

SunnyCa
As a matter of fact the doctor who originally
found the cancer does this new operation,
nurses told me it really works
but haven't met anybody who has had it done.
This Forum could also work by letting Junkers
about the latest medical news!

Remember don't eat pistachios!

Sylvia

Glad your back and feeling better!! Love all your things. The bird bath is very nice. How nice of dh to build a patio for it.
Deb

What a wonderful stage for your totems! They are all so pretty. I like when people use something other than glass. I love all the different colors and shapes. Although I do love that blue glass one! he-he

Gosh, you succulent people got me looking at succulents that survive a zone 5 winter. I never realized there were so many hen and chicks out there! Holy mackeral! I was looking them up on the internet and found a place in northern Wisconsin (far north!) that specializes in succulents! Yowza, do they have some beauties! Below is a link to one of my favorites.

Welcome back! You certainly have made a grand re-entrance!

Here is a link that might be useful: Sempervivum 'Rocknoll Rosette'

What a neat site, Luna. I've bookmarked it to browse later.
I think I may be the only person here who can kill Hens 'n Chicks. Jeeez. Aren't they a type of cactus? LOL. And I live in the darn southwest. I have a feeling I overwater them. Or maybe, like flowers, they just really don't like me.
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Purplemoon, I found out I should be watering my orchid epiphyllum about once a month- not more than 12 times a year. I thought once a week was barely watering. They looked so good when I repotted them last year & now look sick. So repot & not water. Who knew??? Nana, I have same arch thing with the grapes on the sides. I really like it. I have 2 mini climbers on 1 side & English climber on other side. Did wire some rebar to it that I pounded down in the ground as we have gotten stronger winds last 3-4 yrs. The lady that had that sinus thing said she had several surgeries & she was always tired until this procedure & now she sleeps all night & didn't know what it was like to feel so good. If your dr. does it, ask him for 2 referrals, patients that have had it. I know a man that ignored the mole on his temple & by time he got to dr it was cancer & spread, he went to Dr. at UCLA that had operated on the other 3 they had had. 1 didn't make it,he got to talk to the others to deceide what to do, not much choice but at least he knew what was happening & 1 was firefighter & doing great. Man had the surgery & it's at least 10 yrs later & looks great, most of scar is right behind ear up to temple & then under shirt collar as they had to take out a tendon or something. The dr. will be glad to let you talk to his patients, word of mouth gets him business & helps make more people feel good again. It sounds like you have a very good dr. Jan

I also found out that watering is the key, I also found out they do better in partial shade that is why I have them on the patio.

I think I got those arches at Big Lots? I planted climbing roses on each one I have 2 plus one with a bench. The roses are beginning to climb so should look more full by end of summer!

I am hoping that the tumor that grew in my sinus area and almost into my brain was the cause of my sinus problems. Please God!

Thank you all for your nice comments!

Sylvia

PS My DH and I of course he did all the work just finished my first Tipsy Pot!

PPS Still having trouble with logging on and freezing on the site. I called my Tech Service and she instructed me to clean up the hard drive, she took me through it it got a little better, but I think the Garden Web Site is having problems as a whole!

Hi Sylvia, I cleaned up my hard drives-C & D not much on them but email & GJ. It helped a little. Maddening as DD is paying for dsl for me & it is slow!!!I get a lot of (not responding) up on toolbar where it says Windows Internet Explorer . Do you get that also? Yes, I got the arbor at Big Lots, saw them & called DD & she came over & we had to open the box & take it out as it was too big for her SUV. It is nice sturdy one ,just repainted it once. My hummer feeder is on 1 end of hook & other hook has a dragonfly windchimes. DS wired it on to corner of arbor, now hummers don't want me walking under it!!LOL Jealous little creatures!!! Usually they buzz over my head if sugarwater runs out, 1 little guy just gets in front of my face & hovers around until I get up from my gardening & go refill it. They have it made, neighbor next door has cape honeysuckle about 8-9 ft tall, green leaves & lovely orange flowers & they nest in it & come to my house for more food, morning glories, salvia, orange blossoms etc. The larger ones weren't happy about my project this week of laying keyhole pavers from house out to just past the orange tree. Reached the point where I'm brushing the sand into the cracks. Going to rain tues so will see if that gets more of it in & will have to brush more in after that. Lots of repotting to do. Don't know if pics are good or not, computer is such a mess haven't tried to put them on. Jan

I can't wait to see your new tipsy pot, nanagradma! To Sylvia & Jan ... Garden Junk has been having problems I guess so it might be more the site than your computers. If you read under the "What's New on Garden Web" area on the Garden Junk home page, it says something about gremlins and gnomes at war on GardenWeb's computers. So it looks like they have some sort of bug in their system.

SunnyCA How funny that you have to fight Hummingbirds when you enter their space, LOL. They are feisty we have feeders in our patio and they won't let more than one feed at a time. Now I know why they buzz my head my DH takes care of feeders. He loves birds, even had an aviary small one in our other house. He raised canaries and finches?
As a teenager he raised doves and pidgeons AND rabbits. He is a country boy from Blythe, Ca.

Luna I read that note about the gremlins and gnomes too it does take longer to get on site.
Also my tech support person told me that if you play games that takes a lot of space on the hard drive. But I am getting on other sites with ease!

I will take photo of Tipsy Pot and post. I planted wildflowers in the pots, curious to see what happens!

Loved your creations nanagranma! I liked the way you used totems to glam-up your iron trellis' & arbors. Does the totem to the back left of your bird bath have a dinosaur egg on it that is hatching? Or does my eyes decieve me?
Vickie

Akup I bought that egg many many years ago when I went to Mexico City I think they are Parrots I was collecting birds then. I have used some of my other birds as toppers for my totems. Now instead of being in a curio cabinet I can see them all the time in the garden.

This is the first Totem I made
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This is a close up of the egg
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wow, lol...that is a cool totem. yes nana, my DH was onery but helped with anything he could til he got too sick.

luna so glad you posted that site....wonderful ones...I gotta have one of those and one of those and one of those....did you see that mushroom....oh my

Ah, Sylvia, I remember when you did that Mexican Totem. I still can't believe that was your FIRST. It is totally delightful and put together so wonderfully. Thanks for showing it again.

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