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lucky1
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by lucky1 » Sun Jan 13, 2008 10:38 am
...you run the dishwasher (half-full) and open its door before Dry just to get more humidity for your palms.
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Cali-wanna-b
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by Cali-wanna-b » Sun Jan 13, 2008 1:10 pm
You Know You're a Palm Nut When:
You take a shower with the bathroom door open so the humidity can get in the next room.
You are more interested in trying to ID the palms in the back ground as you watch CSI Miami.
You have to park your car in the driveway because your two car garage is full of palms....LOL lot of guilty looks about this one!
IF you drive 50 miles with your car looking like this.....
Sorry Barb, I couldn't resist.
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lucky1
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by lucky1 » Sun Jan 13, 2008 1:14 pm
s'all right
I see NOTHING wrong with ANY of your examples!
Good on 'ya
Barb
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Alchris
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by Alchris » Sun Jan 13, 2008 3:45 pm
You buy a hygrometer and put the remote sensors in the middle of your palms (and bananas).
Your spouse puts palm seedlings in your bedroom so that she can put the humidifier in the same room.
Your spouse rides in the back seat and the new palm rides in the front seat.
Allen
You don't have to be crazy to grow palms in Alberta..... But it helps
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lucky1
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by lucky1 » Sun Jan 13, 2008 4:23 pm
Ha ha Allen!
another one:
You don't mind the mold in the bathroom 'coz it means the humidity is up!
This is fun...nice to have a chuckle.
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Okanagan desert-palms
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by Okanagan desert-palms » Sun Jan 13, 2008 7:07 pm
LOL
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The wife and I had a good laugh at what a palm nut I am. She really likes palms now "or else" LOL. Cali you seem to be in the same boat with your palm addiction re: Palm-garage.Barb you must have gotten some strange looks down the highway with your palm filled car.
John
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lucky1
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by lucky1 » Sun Jan 13, 2008 7:13 pm
John,
"re funny looks"
I don't know...I couldn't see out the windows
Barb
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ChattanoogaChris
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by ChattanoogaChris » Sun Aug 31, 2008 10:42 pm
i rode 400 miles with a suv full of windmills washies and sagos, from mobile,al to Chattanooga, Tn
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lucky1
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by lucky1 » Mon Sep 01, 2008 1:13 pm
Chris, 400 miles!
Perfect!
You're inducted into the palm nut club...
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macario
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by macario » Tue Sep 29, 2009 5:17 am
great stuff!!
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hardyjim
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by hardyjim » Fri Oct 02, 2009 2:07 pm
You spend your money on palms instead of paying your bills,well dah,I guess that's obvious
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ScottyON
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by ScottyON » Fri Oct 02, 2009 6:38 pm
When you smuggle palms across the boarder not booze...
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DesertZone
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by DesertZone » Fri Oct 02, 2009 8:13 pm
ScottyON wrote:When you smuggle palms across the boarder not booze...
I don't even live in Canada and I can relate to this. Every time I send some cactus pad or yucca it makes me feel like I'm going to jail.
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macario
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by macario » Sat Oct 03, 2009 6:01 am
This all great stuff ive done it all as well.
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lucky1
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by lucky1 » Mon Jan 17, 2011 2:41 pm
Time to resurrect this fun thread, and add more.
...when the softest flannel bedsheet is on the wood floor around the palms at the window (to catch misting drips).
Old bargain version is on the bed.
...during bathroom renovations, you select a pedestal sink so you have space for a palm.
And no place to store facecloths, towels or TP anymore.
Barb
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TimMAz6
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by TimMAz6 » Mon Jan 17, 2011 6:33 pm
when purchasing a new house your interested in the microclimates instead of the house.
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TerdalFarm
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by TerdalFarm » Mon Jan 17, 2011 8:14 pm
I know I've used this one before, but it always gets me funny reactions:
"You heat the house with wood and the trees with electricity?!?"
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DesertZone
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by DesertZone » Mon Jan 17, 2011 8:31 pm
TerdalFarm wrote:I know I've used this one before, but it always gets me funny reactions:
"You heat the house with wood and the trees with electricity?!?"
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hardyjim
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by hardyjim » Tue Jan 18, 2011 7:44 am
You turn the heat way up(80F) to get some extra growth out of your indoor palms.....
until the $300 bill comes for your 1 bedroom apt and you decide they do most of their
growing in summer anyway-thermostat goes back down to 60F
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canadianplant
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by canadianplant » Thu Jan 20, 2011 11:05 am
... when you move 2500km accross the country, with a huge box full of plants..... only to move back 2 years later, with a even bigger box to bring some home. rather then game consoles and bedding, and pet fish ( went to a great home BTW)
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tropicman
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by tropicman » Thu Jan 20, 2011 2:30 pm
When you own over a 1000 of them,and you think to yourself,it just my little hobby!!!
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lucky1
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by lucky1 » Thu May 12, 2011 2:20 pm
During a cool/non-existant spring, you haul 90 pound palms out the door mid-morning every day, only to haul them back in at supper time.
Considering a season's pass with the Chiropractor...
Barb
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TerdalFarm
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by TerdalFarm » Thu May 12, 2011 7:29 pm
I have that season's pass. My chiropractor referred me to a physician, who ordered MRI's of my lower back. After seeing those, he is sending me to an orthopedic doc. next week. I think the actual palms are the cheap part of this hobby.
As for money, I'm selling the goats
http://tulsa.craigslist.org/grd/2375686015.html
as they did a number today on the avatar Butia's emerging spear.
Anyway, all palms are out of the house until October frost or a goat gets them
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RJ Tropic
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by RJ Tropic » Tue Dec 06, 2011 1:24 pm
......when your palms are not in the ground yet and you have already bought thermo cubes and c9 Xmas lights!
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hardyjim
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by hardyjim » Tue Dec 06, 2011 4:38 pm
Your plants are to big to bring up stairs so
you haul them upstairs unplanted and pot them up upstairs.
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by TerdalFarm » Tue Dec 06, 2011 4:41 pm
Good one.
W did that with my jelly palm this week--dug it up from the farm and took it to a friend's house.
I guess we're both palm nuts.....
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seedscanada
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by seedscanada » Tue Dec 06, 2011 6:19 pm
TimMAz6 wrote:when purchasing a new house your interested in the microclimates instead of the house.
Guilty! Moved 30km from zone 6a to zone 7a with plenty of south facing walls and fenceline.
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lucky1
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by lucky1 » Tue Dec 06, 2011 7:53 pm
You have sooooooo many palms, you need to consider who'll get them and add the name to the will.
(coz nobody else wants them)
Barb
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DesertZone
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by DesertZone » Tue Dec 06, 2011 9:35 pm
TimMAz6 wrote:when purchasing a new house your interested in the microclimates instead of the house.
Thats my kind of thinking.
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oppalm
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by oppalm » Wed Dec 07, 2011 6:00 am
.... first thing you do when you wake up in the morning is check your remote temperature sensors in your plam huts to see what the low/high was last night to determine if your heat came on and worked properly. Its the simple things in life that bring great joy.
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by damir » Sat Dec 24, 2011 2:08 am
when you dream that "the global warming" will come soon, and erase all the winters in future and the low temps for ever, so u could grow all kind of palms and exotics. as it is a new religion...hahahahaha "once when it comes"..... "palms will grow everywhere !!!!"
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you wont have big bills for the electricity!! no watching weather forecast every day and have fear that something might froze this year!! please come the "holy global warming"
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who is with me?? just joking. rgds
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lucky1
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by lucky1 » Sat Dec 24, 2011 7:04 am
I'm with you, Damir.
That's why I grow palms...hoping for warmer winters.
Not hotter summers.
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by hardyjim » Sat Dec 24, 2011 8:34 am
oppalm wrote:.... first thing you do when you wake up in the morning is check your remote temperature sensors
.................. all 10 displays
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by TerdalFarm » Sat Dec 24, 2011 8:55 am
...you spend a night and day on a Mexican bus to spend Christmas with palms, vs. with family in the snow.
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by igor.glukhovtsev » Sat Dec 24, 2011 9:00 am
A price we pay... or, sorry, you, Erik, pay... Merry Christmas! feliz Navidad!, felices Pascuas!
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DesertZone
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by DesertZone » Sat Dec 24, 2011 9:24 am
damir wrote:when you dream that "the global warming" will come soon, and erase all the winters in future and the low temps for ever, so u could grow all kind of palms and exotics. as it is a new religion...hahahahaha "once when it comes"..... "palms will grow everywhere !!!!"
![Rolling Eyes :roll:](./images/smilies/icon_rolleyes.gif)
you wont have big bills for the electricity!! no watching weather forecast every day and have fear that something might froze this year!! please come the "holy global warming"
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who is with me?? just joking. rgds
I'm with ya! but the more I wish the colder it gets here.
Colder than normal here, but without any snow it feels much warmer.
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by hardyjim » Sat Dec 24, 2011 1:49 pm
Nice ,nice,nice.
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DesertZone
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by DesertZone » Sat Dec 24, 2011 3:04 pm
Awesome John, did you just get back?
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by Okanagan desert-palms » Sat Dec 24, 2011 4:07 pm
Thanks Aaron and Jim. We got home yesterday. I`ll post more palm pics soon.
John
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