Dear Santa...

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Thu Dec 10, 2009 5:10 pm

-- OR --

I'll even supply the plants!

Barb

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Thu Dec 10, 2009 5:42 pm

I hope Santa is good to you Barb, then you could set-up a palm rescue operation in Canada. For all the neglected palms left for dead in gardens.

BILL MA · Post by **BILL MA** » Thu Dec 10, 2009 5:46 pm

I'll build you one of those Barb if you want to fly my girl and I out there and put us up for a week or two this summer

Bill

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Thu Dec 10, 2009 5:50 pm

I knew this hobby would put me into the poorhouse...

Thanks Bill...but you wouldn't leave your Washies and Nanas for a day!

Aaron, it's all about dreams!

Hey everybody post a pic of what you dream about...
Barb

BILL MA · Post by **BILL MA** » Thu Dec 10, 2009 6:16 pm

I almost bought this very house lot in Tortola BVI 5 years ago for 60K. Look what's there now, I had the right connections at that time too! I should have moved there instead of building this house. I did manage to find the girl of my dreams here though

Who know I might retire there after all. It's funny I have a video of this place before the house was there.

http://www.myvacationrentalmanager.com/ ... y_b_02.jpg

Here's a similar view.

http://www.cvillas.com/bvi/summersalt/i ... ture10.jpg

I met and hung out with this guy, he's from NY his place rents out for 5000 a week

Same subdivision

http://images.wheretostay.com/prop_phot ... -10747.jpg

One of the most beautiful Islands on earth! People are so nice there, plus it's super safe.

Bill

TerdalFarm · Post by **TerdalFarm** » Thu Dec 10, 2009 6:38 pm

...is to move 20o latitude to the south.
Here is a photo of me making notes on (I think) a Sabal spp. in Belize. No "winter protection" just hurricane protection every few years.
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/UM ... directlink

BILL MA · Post by **BILL MA** » Thu Dec 10, 2009 6:44 pm

I don't even think hurricane hit Belize it's to far down.

TerdalFarm · Post by **TerdalFarm** » Thu Dec 10, 2009 7:00 pm

Bill,
Since we're dreaming, I'll say, "yeah!"
(Actually, hurricanes Keith (2000) & Iris (2001) smacked Belize hard. But this is a good dream, right?)
I like your Tortola dream, too! No hurricanes there, either, right?
Barb,
I just looked up Vernon, BC. Wow! I assumed you were on Vancouver island near Victoria as that is where I associate palms in BC (I was last there in 1992). I was last in your part of BC in 1982 when driving from Oregon to Banff for skiing. Given that, I associate it with cold weather and lots of snow. I'll read your posts differently now.
--Erik

BILL MA · Post by **BILL MA** » Thu Dec 10, 2009 7:24 pm

Wow Erik! I'm surprised with Belize! It looked fine in 2007! Gotta love the tropics. No, BVI is not in the hurricane zone at all? You should see how fast things come back there from 150mph winds. I spent 2 weeks there, one of my best vacations ever. I wish I had the money back for a week of it

Bill

Barrie · Post by **Barrie** » Fri Dec 11, 2009 12:27 am

BILL MA wrote:I don't even think hurricane hit Belize it's to far down.

"Natural hazards in Belize include hurricanes (mostly in the late Atlantic hurricane season, September to December) and coastal flooding, especially in the south.

Hurricanes have played key--and devastating--roles in Belizean history. In 1931 an unnamed hurricane destroyed over two-thirds of the buildings in Belize City and killed more than 1,000 people. In 1955 Hurricane Janet leveled the northern town of Corozal. Only six years later, Hurricane Hattie struck the central coastal area of the country, with winds in excess of 300 kilometers per hour and four-meter storm tides. The devastation of Belize City for the second time in thirty years prompted the relocation of the capital some eighty kilometers inland to the planned city of Belmopan. A hurricane that devastated Belize was Hurricane Greta, which caused more than US$25 million in damages along the southern coast in 1978.

There was a period of 20 years that Belize was considered as a hurricane-free zone by many until Hurricane Mitch (October 1998) caused quite a stir and gave rise to hurricane awareness and the National Emergency Management Organization (NEMO). Two years later Tropical Storm Chantal and Hurricane Keith did much to put the country on the hurricane map. In 2001, Hurricane Iris swept through the southern part of Belize causing damage that ranged in the hundreds of millions due largely to wiping away the banana industry, crippling the citrus and tourism in the area. Six years later, the fury of Category Five Dean landed on the Yucatan coast at Mahahual but Corozal, on northern Belize, was not spared the brunt of reportedly Category 3 to 4 winds. The latter did tens of millions in damages, especially to the infantile papaya industry and to a lesser extent to the endemic sugar cane industry.

Nice dream there Barb, shared by many here. The lottery just isn't paying out like they advertise!

Cheers, Barrie.

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Fri Dec 11, 2009 8:47 am

oops, Santa, I forgot my fav one!

Yup, the lottery is the only possibility...and a poor one at that!

Barb

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Fri Dec 11, 2009 5:56 pm

lucky1 wrote:Aaron, it's all about dreams!

Barb

Amen.... Eveything I have is a dream that someone told me I could not have.

don't worry, it runs on alcohol a complete carbon.

I want a bunch of palms to plant on my place in Arizona. My Neighbors said they would water them for me.

Here is a few of the things I want this year.

euro palms

date palms

w.filiferas

butia

cidp

robustas

and some big fat filiferas like these

TerdalFarm · Post by **TerdalFarm** » Fri Dec 11, 2009 6:14 pm

Yes! I too dream of big palms.
Here is a big dream: to own and run a wineyard.
A palm wine wineyard!

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Wed Dec 16, 2009 7:49 pm

Dear Santa,
I would like one of these and a warm place to plant it.
www.pacsoa.org.au/palms/Corypha/umbraculifera.html

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Wed Dec 16, 2009 11:46 pm

Nice everybody!! Very nice indeed.

Looks like Santa blew up my pics

That's OK, the plans are still in my head.

Barb

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