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Instead of talking about which rewards cards have the highest sign-up bonuses, today I want to cover which five cards I am actually using the most for my day to day purchases. Make no mistake, I absolutely get rewards credit cards in part for the sometimes awesome sign-up bonuses, but that is just part of the points earning process for my family. Another major way we earn points is by strategically using the rewards credit cards that we already have. We don't go crazy with signing up for tons of cards each year or rack up lots of charges by "manufacturing" lots of expenses we wouldn't otherwise have. Instead we mainly just think twice about which card to use every time we buy gas, head to the grocery store, or pay bills. You know, boring normal people stuff.
While I have a bunch of rewards earning cards I use from time to time, here are the five I am using the most right now to maximize everyday purchases.
Chase Freedom®
The more things I can earn 5x on the better, so I vigilantly keep up with the Chase Freedom 5x bonus quarterly categories. The third quarter just kicked off and with it the card earns 5x at gas stations and Kohl's (be sure to register). I don't frequent Kohl's, but I do frequent the gas station, so this is my current go-to card for gas at 5x points. Remember that these points can transfer 1:1 to United, Hyatt, Singapore, Southwest, IHG Rewards, British Airways, and more because I also have a Chase Sapphire Preferred, Ink Bold, or Ink Plus card. If you have the Freedom card, be sure to use it for all your fill-ups and other gas station needs his quarter until you hit the $1,500 quarterly 5x cap.
Ink Plus® Business Card
Again, since I am a 5x fan I use this card as much as I can for its 5x bonus categories including: cell phone bills, internet, landline, internet, cable, and office supply store purchases. I have many of those bills like cell phone, internet, and DIRECTV set to auto-pay each month to my Ink Bold so I earn 5x without even trying. This is literally thousands of Ultimate Reward points earned each month without lifting a finger…other than to pay the Ink Bold bill of course.
Amex EveryDay Preferred Credit Card
This card has won a big spot in my heart (and wallet) since it pays out 3x Membership Rewards points at U.S. supermarkets (up to $6,000 per year), 2x on US standalone gas stations, and 1x on everything else. That alone is pretty good, especially at grocery stores, but it also pays out a 50% bonus on all points earned in the billing cycle if you have 30 or more transactions. This means that grocery stores effectively pay out 4.5x Membership Reward points, which is great! I have easily hit 30 transactions every month that I have had the card, so I use it for my grocery purchases, as well as little purchases here and there to hit 30 transactions. That means that even the transactions that would normally be just 1x pay out at 1.5x for me since I have 30 transactions a month. It sounds uber corny, but this really is one of my everyday cards now.
Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card
The good 'ol Chase Sapphire Preferred doesn't get as much play in my wallet as it used to thanks to all the other awesome cards on the market, but it still is my go-to card for dining and travel since it earns 2x Ultimate Reward points on those charges. It is pretty much the perfect travel card since it also has no foreign transaction fees. It will be the stand alone best travel card once it has chip + pin instead of just chip + signature.
Citi Executive AAdvantage Card: (offer expired)
This very popular card pays out 100,000 American Airlines miles after you spend $10,000 in the first three months. It's weak in terms of bonus categories at 1x on most everything, but we are still using it almost every day since my husband and I are both working on hitting the 10k spending mark on our respective cards. Since this will result in another 200,000 miles between the two of us, it's worth the effort. Anything we spend money on that doesn't fall into a bonus category on another card is pretty much going on this card.
That's our current system with the main five cards we have in rotation right now. It isn't overly elaborate, but it is very effective for us. What is your current spending system?
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Glad to see someone else also has the Amex Everyday Preferred card in their wallet. I snatched one of these up a few weeks after applications went live and between the 15K point signup offer I've manage to accrue nearly 40K points on this card just for everyday spending and bonus categories.
My lineup is pretty much the same as yours minus the Citi AA card. Hopefully the 100K signup bonus will return sometime next year.
How quick was the turnaround time on the Citi Aadvantage card (after approval)? We have a trip on AA (paid with Avios) in the near future and the free bags plus lounge access seems tempting. I know Amex sends some of their cards via overnight access. Is Citi as accommodating?
Amex Blue Cash for grocery/gas/drug stores
Ink Bold/Plus for phone/cable/office supplies
Chase Freedom and Discover IT when applicable
Barclay Arrival+ for everything else -
I'd get the Amex Everyday, except for the fact that I have the "old" Amex Blue Cash. 5% on gas, grocery, and drug stores after $6500 minimum spend. I think I come out ahead on that one.
Yes, Citi is. I applied (& was approved) for the card on a Wednesday, had it in hand by Saturday morning. Hope that helps. Good luck! -
Greg: I applied for my Citi Exec AAdvantage on 6/30 and received the card on 7/2. I hit my 10k spend a few days later (mostly tuition bill with no cc fee). Still waiting for the $200 credit and the points to post on the 16th, then will cancel the card during cancellation period without paying fee. I have another one that I did pay for.
hmmm…love to hear how you about higher education payments without a fee. Are you just lucky?
Not lucky to have to pay them, but lucky that I don't have to do any manufactured spend and can meet the 10k before the first statement closes in order to save the $450.
I use the Chase Sapphire Preferred card for travel and dining, and Chase Freedom for the current 5% categories. These are my 2 primary cards.
I use the exact same cards. The only time I switch to Chase Freedom for dining is when it is 5% back.
Also, I use Freedom for everyday purchase vs. CSP because I get 10% back with Chase Checking.
My new spending system is just underway, geared toward our big trip next year (you inspired us to to do a RTW tour). I'm in Hawaii for the rest of the summer so have no need for my Freedom card's 5x on gas), but:
1) Hilton Honors Visa (furiously saving toward Seychelles stay)
2) Chase Sapphire Preferred
3) Lufthansa Miles&More MC
4) AA Platinum VS
5) First Hawaiian Bank Priority Destinations MC (5% on first $6000 in travel, 2x points on groceries, gas, cable, phone & other utilities, 10% bonus when redeemed on travell), no transaction fees -
My spend is just from me, and as much as I love the Barclays World Arrival, I simply can't justify the annual fees on both that and Chase Sapphire Preferred. My system is
1. Ink Classic for office supplies, internet, and gas
2. Freedom whenever the 5X categories apply
3. Chase Sapphire Preferred -
The apple doesn't fall far from the tree LOL! My strategy and use are same as yours. Freedom card is new as is our AA 100K. Happy to have both!
"uber corny"? Yes you are!
Especially as I have connected my AEP (AMEX Everyday Preferred) to my Uber account for the additional extra points.
I use my PenFed card for 5% back as a monthly statement credit for gasoline. I use my Fidelity Amex for 2% cash back unless I have something better to work on. For miles instead of 2% cash, for those who value miles more than that cash, the Starwood card would be my go to card for most airlines.
I have two in college and I was able to put one of the boys tuition on a card without a fee from the college. In fact, they gave us a 10% discount if we paid by a certain date. My other son goes to a school that will charge 2.5% if we put it on a credit card. I am trying to think of everything possible to earn some points for that tuition. That school gives me every reason to hate them. They nickel/dime us for EVERYTHING! Maybe bluebird? As far as everyday spend, lately I take advantage of category spend and then I have been working on minimum spend for new credit cards. I just got out of the hospital and I think that my portion is going to take care of almost all of that unfortunately. If anybody has any ideas for tuition for a school that doesn't take credit cards without a fee, let me know.
I am in the same boat and would also be interested in ideas for avoiding/minimizing fees while making tuition payments via credit card.
I have found only a few universities on the payment list at evolve, though I don't think the search feature is very straightforward. If you are able to use evolve or a similar option, the fees for purchasing prepaid cards might be well worth the rewards you earn.
MP-Sounds like a job for Superwoman of Miles/Points! You will be in the tuition world someday!
Mine are Chase Freedom/Discover for their 5% quarterly bonuses. Discover also usually has the best shopping portal cash back. AMEX SPG and Barclay's Arrival for everything else. Chase Ink cards for the office supply/cable bills etc. . . So far, not a big fan of the Chase Sapphire. I'd rather put spend on Barclay's.
I'm in the same boat with tuition this Fall. I'd love to hear some ideas as well. Originally, my thought was to use VRs@CVS to stock BB and then just write checks, but now VRs are much harder to come by…..obviously not worth the convenience fee to put directly on CC. Any ideas??
So ticked at myself for not getting the 100K Citi Executive for my husband. I got it for myself but I was afraid to get it for both of us at the same time because that was a lot of minimum spend at the same time. Now, I realize that we are going to have a lot of bills in the next few weeks. The minimum spend won't be a problem. Would love it if someone would post a link that still works.
Re Tammy: While VRs aren't so available with cc now, various types of Visa or MC Gift cards are from supermarkets in many areas. Providing they aren't Vanilla, they can, for now, be loaded onto BB at Walmart.
Generally $2 more per $500 than VR, and much less convenient unless Walmart is part of your usual trips, but doable. -
Another card that does not get much mention on is the Sallie Mae Rewards card issued by Barclay. The sign up bonus is only $25 statement credit but there's always 5% cash back on grocery and gas.


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Do any of you have an Oreck Orbiter and have you used it to clean your carpets? I can't use water on my carpet (allergies to mold)...so I need a dry method. Our carpet is barely 2 years old and is not stained - just time for a general cleaning. Thanks. |
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I GUESS the dry powder that Oreck uses is baking soda based. Seems to be a good concept. One thing that I have learned about vacuuming carpets is that the carpet manufacturer should take a far bigger role in the design of the cleaning machine. I THINK that some machines may be too hard on the carpet fabric, even too powerful... But I know nothing of this Orbiter. |
Earthworm - thank you for your response. Actually you have hit upon the one thing I didn't like about the orbiter. The carpet cleaning brush is very stiff and the brush rotates at a high speed as it goes across your carpet....I told my husband that I thought that the brush would eventually tear the fibers up. I'm really in a quandry about cleaning the carpets...and I agree with you about manufacturers taking a bigger role in letting consumers know the best cleaning method. |
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presence of MB members in the protests. could be just a few anecdotes
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Muslim Brotherhood looks to gains in Egypt protest
By HAMZA HENDAWI
The Associated Press
Thursday, February 3, 2011; 5:00 PM
CAIRO -- Egypt's wave of protests has brought the fundamentalist Muslim
Brotherhood within sight of a long-sought dream: Not outright power, as
some fear, but a recognized and open role in the politics of this top U.S.
Vice President Omar Suleiman on Thursday said he had invited the
Brotherhood into negotiations over Egypt's future and the transition to
democracy - a stunning concession to a group that the regime considers its
worst enemy and has cracked down on ferociously in the past years.
The Brotherhood has rushed to take a stronger role in the unprecedented
protests that erupted 10 days ago, led by more secular young activists
demanding the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak. The Brotherhood's
strength was on display in the pitched battles in Wednesday and Thursday
against government supporters who attacked the protesters' camp in Cairo's
central Tahrir Square.
Brothers - distinguishable by their close-cropped beards - dominated the
front lines, often lining up to pray for "victory or martyrdom," before
throwing themselves into the fray, hurling stones, sticks and firebombs at
the attackers while shouting "God is great."
The potential of the Brotherhood gaining greater power has clearly weighed
on the United States as it presses Mubarak to bow out. U.S. officials have
said they want the transition to democracy to be stable to prevent any
group from imposing its ideology.
Israel has been more alarmist in fears of an Islamic militant takeover,
and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned that any government that
emerges from Egypt's turmoil must preserve the 1979 peace deal between the
two countries.
And Egypt's government has been happy to fuel those worries, long warning
the U.S. and Egyptians themselves that the Brotherhood aims to take over
the country and lead it into Islamic radicalism. Mubarak, in an interview
with ABC News, blamed the Brotherhood for the past two days of clashes.
The Brotherhood, founded in 1928 and outlawed in 1954, renounced violence
decades ago and its strain of conservative Islam falls far short of the
radicalism of Afghanistan's Taliban or even the ultrapuritanism that
reigns in U.S. ally Saudi Arabia. Though some in al-Qaida have Brotherhood
roots, the terror group and other jihadists despise the movement for
participating in elections.
But the Brotherhood's professed ultimate goal is to turn Egypt into an
Islamic state, likely to pressure women to cover up in public, ban alcohol
and undoubtedly strain ties with Israel.
Brotherhood leaders insist they are not seeking a leadership role in the
protests. That reflects a wariness of breaking its fragile alliance with
secular activists and prompting a backlash against it.
"We are very clear: We are out there, but only so far as what fits and
meets the requirements of the nation," Mohammed Mursi, a senior
Brotherhood leader, told The Associated Press,
"We are not wavering, but we are not being reckless either," he said.
The Brotherhood's presence among protesters has visibly grown. Their
supporters - men in beards and women in veils cloaking their entire faces
except their eyes - were checking the ID of people coming into the square
and searching them.
One secular woman protester, Selma Abu al-Dahab, said Thursday that as she
and three others like her dressed in chic clothes without Islamic
headscarves entered Tahrir, a bearded young man told them the TV was
reporting that there are growing numbers of Islamists in the protest "so
please congregate to show this is not the case."
Diaa Rashwan, a prominent Egyptian expert on Islamic groups, believes that
the Brotherhood may be moving to top gear to take full advantage of the
situation created by the protests.
"They are a highly organized group and have been wanting to gain power for
a long time," he said. "At this point in time, they have gone on a high
alert and are mobilizing all their assets. They would be fools not to."
The disparate young leftists and secularists who launched the protests and
still make up a majority on the streets view the Brotherhood with
suspicion. But they also insist that its power and the popular support it
would have in a democratic system are exaggerated.
"The Brotherhood looks big in a nation like ours where politics are
basically a one-party system," said Fathi Farid, a 23-year-old blogger
with a ponytail. "But once we have a nation where everyone is free and the
law is above everyone, it will be just one of the players."
The Brotherhood maintains a deliberate ambivalence over its intentions.
It says, for example, that it opposes Egypt's peace treaty with Israel and
endorses the right to armed resistance against the Jewish nation, but says
that it will not actively seek to rescind the agreement since it was
adopted by the parliament of the time. [THIS OBVIOUSLY WAS WRITTEN WITHOUT
"We in the Brotherhood are not living in dreamland," Mursi said when asked
whether the group would rescind Egypt's peace treaty with Israel if in
It continues to maintain that its objective is to create a purist Islamic
state in Egypt, but says it will not force women to wear the Islamic veil
in public. Its stand on whether Egypt's Christian minority should have
equal rights with Muslims and women's role in society are less clear.
Mursi himself maintained that the Brotherhood was unlikely to win a
majority in a free and fair election in Egypt.
But this, critics contend, is a Brotherhood tactic to play down its
abilities and conceal its real intentions. The Brotherhood has long been
seen as the best organized opposition movement in Egypt, despite the ban
against it, with a disciplined political network across the country. Much
of the Brotherhood's popular support comes from its network of social
services, which in some cases offer the public a more efficient service
than the government's.
It runs candidates as independents in parliamentary elections, and its
best showing came in 2005, when it won 20 percent of the legislature's
seats. However, it failed to win a single seat in last year's elections,
rigged to ensure that Mubarak's ruling party won all but a small fraction
of the 518-member chamber.
Thousands of Brotherhood members have been arrested in crackdowns in
recent years. That in part was what made Suleiman's offer of negotiations
so startling. The vice president, a former intelligence chief and diehard
military man, dangled before the group the seat at the table that it has
long sought, calling it a "valuable opportunity."
So far, the Brotherhood and other groups involved in the protests have
rejected any talks until Mubarak goes.
The military, Egypt's most powerful institution, is known to oppose the
Brotherhood but may be willing to tolerate it as a part of the political
spectrum, not a dominant force.
Ammar Ali Hassan, an expert on Islamist groups, said the past 10 day's
turmoil has shown the strengths and limits of the Brotherhood's popular
support. "In the climate of freedom of the past week, the Brotherhood was
seen for what it really is away from the regime's exaggerations of the
threat it poses."
(c) 2011 The Associated Press


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Ever ridden down the road on your DH/FR bike to get to one of your favorite flow parks, dirt jumps, or whatever you ride often? There may be a fun, non automobile infested way to get where you want to go. There are of course dangers involved in riding roadside ditches, but they are far less bo ... Read More »
Ditch Witch SK500 questions
Our throttle cable is "slipping" and binding, anyone else have this trouble on the DW SK500? We are going to pull the cable line out to lube, inspect it (?) and perhaps we just need a new one. It does not operate smoothly, sorta full throttle, or idle, no real in between. And lately it has loosen ... Read More »


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A few weeks back I wrote a couple posts about experiencing brain fog on a daily basis after I concluded my 180-day elimination diet. I ruled out that it was food related because I wasn't experiencing any digestive issues as I normally do. Instead I was only experiencing what I call day two symptoms when I accidentally get "glutened" which is brain fog. If you want to read my previous posts about it you can do so with the following links.
Welcome Back Brain Fog, I Think?
No More Brain Fog – A Work In Progress
I've been taking Aller-Tec for about a month now and I've had no symptoms of brain fog. My air allergies are horrific and they typically cause severe sinus pressure which has caused headaches in the past. I've been told by numerous people that local honey can help with air allergies so I did some research and found Sonoran Desert Honey to have the anti-histamines that I'm hoping will alleviate the symptoms. It was stated that it could take up to two months for this to start working so I will continue with the medication and hope that this works because as I stated before I'm not a fan of medication but it definitely beats the brain fog.
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Great blog! Let me know how the honey works. You are making me want to have some right now
Hello, can you please tell me where you can purchase the honey? My son and husband have horrific allergies and if this helps even slightly, I want to try it! Thank You!
I love finding holistic benefits to yummy foods! Thanks for the tip…glad the fog has lifted!
well did it work?


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Now i have a new problem on my hands.
it's called falling for my girlfriend's best friend.
like really?
i mean dude. IM NOT LOOKING FOR LOVE, FEELINGS. PLEASE STOP.
haha. but yeah. at least this girl doesnt live on the otherside of the country. its more like 2 hours away, basically in los angeles. ._.
and ive only known her for 1 night. but i know im going to fall for her. same way i felt with christina when we first started talking. :o
BUT, luckily, these feelings are mutual. this girl feels the same way for me.
we just kinda clicked.
oh and there's another part to this too. she also has a girlfriend.
but she's so effing pretty. she's got these trippy ass eyes. they're like a mixture of hazel and green. and if you know me, then you'll definately know im a sucker for girls with pretty eyes. and she's so sweet. and im all like GAHHHHHHHHH for her. she's got snake bites (and other piercings that i havent seen yet lmao). and they look good on her. she's like 5'7 and a half. XD. she said my laugh was cute. ^-^.
god im so pathetic.


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December 1, 1999, 12:00 AM
By Russ Baker
I wake up and reach for the phone. Busy. Downstairs, I eat breakfast and read about how the guillotine was invented here in the Charente region. The first humane execution.
I rush back upstairs and dial Ira's number. Busy. Two hours later, still busy. Then, at last, a break. A woman with a lilting, singsong accent answers: "You must want to speak to Ira."
She asks me to wait, and, after a moment, for the first time, his voice. It is slightly high-pitched and young sounding, with a fair amount of Philadelphia in it. He hisses at me. "I told you not to come!" he says. "You've wasted your time!"
"If you won't see me as planned," I tell him, "I'll have to interview the mayor, the shopkeepers, the police, and your neighbors."
"Don't you dare threaten me!" he yells, and hangs up.
Midmorning, Ira answers the phone. "Listen," he says, "you threatened me yesterday. If you were ever going to get an interview, now you certainly never will." He's angry, but he stays on the line, and before long he begins to soften. He talks about some of the things journalists have done to him. "If you can understand, I'm sharing with you the problems I have," he says. As for my dilemma, he wants me to know that he is a Jeffersonian and that this prevents him from telling me what to do. By the time we hang up ninety minutes later, he still hasn't agreed to see me, but he is suggesting a tourist itinerary. A couple of hours later, my cell phone rings. It takes me a moment to realize who's calling. "Why don't you come by," Ira says. "We'll take a little walk."
IRA'S TRAIL TOOK HIM all over Europe, and some pursuers came close, but no one caught him. Not even during the time he spent living in the southern English town of Totnes, where, Ira says, all the old hippies went to die. "There must have been three hundred massage therapists in that town. I was more apt to run into my past out there than anyplace I'd been in my whole sojourn." That was in the early 1990s, and Ira was living with Annika, a Swede he had met in England. By then, he had told her the truth. He was not who he said he was--he'd been using an alias, a name he'd borrowed during the Dublin leg of his flight--and he was wanted for a terrible crime that he hadn't committed. Annika loved him and believed him and agreed never to call him Ira in public. It would be their secret.
Soon they were on the move. Ira read a copy of Living France magazine and sent real estate agents a list of requirements: a secluded place with a big kitchen, good climate, water nearby. Their choice, less than a mile from the edge of the village, in move-in shape, cost all of $90,000. Now he proudly shows off the spread, which includes a three-car garage and a wine cellar and was in the previous owner's family for 250 years. Our tour takes us along the edge of the property, which is bounded by two streams--L'Argent, the silver, and L'Or, the gold. Ira stops to point out the tiny natural pools where, like a king, he takes a dip several times a day. High walls and tall poplar trees border the property.
Ira, who in Philadelphia was recognizable for his girth, brags about the shape he's in, and he attributes his fitness to hard work-- pushing a lawn mower, chopping wood, and gardening. "I work in the hot sun for two or three straight hours," he says. "I'm fifty-nine, and I'd run most people who are half my age around the block." He plans to clear several acres of outlying land "if we get through this." To one side of the house is an outbuilding, an old bakery, now in cobwebby disrepair--another project Ira plans to tackle, time permitting.
Over to the gardens he and Annika have cultivated--strawberries, corn, carrots, lettuce, chard, "scrumptious, delicious pears," pomegranates, apples, figs, plums. They live on this stuff. Ira says that their household budget is just $1,000 a month, so things are tight. He admits that Annika's parents help him out, and over the years, other people have helped also. Others help still, but Ira won't say who they might be.
Suddenly, Annika appears. She's a quiet one, and she sort of just glides over. A young-looking forty-eight, auburn-haired, tall and slim and pretty, she's wearing a floral-patterned summer dress that she made herself. Her parents, now elderly, owned Stockholm's finest fabric shop, and she modeled the merchandise. After a little friendly small talk--she seems a bit wary but at the same time glad to have a visitor; not many people make it by--she invites me to stay for dinner, then disappears.
"I gave up a lot in terms of what happened to me, but I feel so good about this woman," Ira says. "So what I gave up doesn't matter. I'm devoting myself now to thinking, reading, writing, taking care of this house, and loving a woman."
Ira is proud to show off this place, his first real home during all his years on the run. As we step inside, he walks determinedly into another room and returns with a small, soft red rucksack. He handles it delicately, like a museum piece. "Everything I had was in here," he says.
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The folks at fault are not the editors, who have been thoroughly professional, but the people at DC, who have been anything but. There's no use moping about it, even though the story is unsaleable to any other market. So here it is, available to you, free of charge.
I'm not the only writer to have been treated shabbily by DC during the course of this project. You can obtain another perspective on the debacle from Karawynn Long. Read her fine story about Delirium and contemplate the book that might have been...
I don't know about you, but my two favorite words in the English language are "quittin' time."
You spend the whole freakin' week busting your butt: painting skies, schlepping books from one wing of the castle to another, fishing the evilest kind of crud out of the plumbing, trying to construct an orrery when you don't have a clue what the hell an orrery is supposed to be. Seems like you're never going to get to the bottom of the job orders, even if you work twenty-seven hours a day.
Stress City, pal. I get migraines like somebody's carving my head with a woodburning kit.
Construction's a demanding trade, a science almost, but do you think anybody appreciates that fact? Forget about it. All you're ever going to hear is how the doorway to the laundry room is thirteen degrees off plumb or that you've connected a sewer main to somebody's hot tub. The stuff you do right, they never notice.
That's why I'm so jazzed when the five o'clock whistle blows at the end of the week. My time's finally my own. For the next forty-eight hours, nobody's gonna be telling Merv Pumpkinhead what to do. I punch the time clock a good one across the chops, and I'm out of there without another look back.
Last Friday, after quittin' time finally came around, I was getting my lunchbox out of my locker. Boris, one of the regulars on my crew, came up behind me and said, "Hey, Merv. Me and Tiny are going to grab a couple of six-packs and head over to his place. He's got cable and the George Raft-Hedy Lamarr version of 'Casablanca' is on tonight. Want to come along?"
Now, I like Tiny and Boris. They're good, honest joes, salt-of-the-earth. But, cripes, I'm stuck with them all week long. Enough's enough. Besides, when you're in a supervisory position like I am, it's not smart to get too chummy with the hired help. They'll just try to take advantage later. Trust me on this.
So I said, "Thanks, but no thanks. I'll see you guys on Monday. Have a good one."
To tell you the truth, I had bigger plans than sitting around with those palookas, swilling cheap brew and watching Ronald Reagan as Viktor Laszlo. For the first time in I don't know how long, there was going to be a card game. A real, no-kiddin'-around card game. Just what the doctor ordered to cure those Workaday Blues.
I went back to my place, put on a fresh pair of overalls and packed a duffel bag of necessities, including some items to barter in case I ran out of cash on the barrelhead. Since we'd agreed that I'd bring the beverages to the game, I also loaded a wheelbarrow full of bottles, cans and ice and headed off. You never know what people are going to want to drink around here, so I'd stocked up on everything from absinthe to Moxie in a two-liter jug.
I was a little late getting to the House of Secrets, having hit a damn pothole on the way and spilled everything in the road. Abel answered the doorbell right away, saying, "Cuhcome in, MuhmuhMervyn. Everybody's huhhere." He was all sweaty, his beady little eyes darting all over the place, his jowls quivering
"Your brother around?" I asked.
"Nuhnuhno. Cain's, uh, guhgone on an errand. He won't be back until tuhtomorrow night." He grabbed my sleeve and pulled me inside. "Come on. Huhhuhhurry."
Some folks think Abel's place is a dump, but I kinda like it. It's got personality. It's also got tons of cobwebs, splintery boards in the floor, skulls on the bookcase, a stuffed crocodile hanging from the ceiling, weird-ass collector's items from every time and place imaginable, and something you don't even want to think about living in the basement. But hey, it's a damn sight more comfortable than some of the fancy-schmancy quarters at the castle, full of marble that's got to be polished and Persian carpets that need to be vacuumed every hour on the hour. At Abel's house, nobody's going to yell at you if you rest your feet on the coffeetable.
Abel had set up a cardtable in front of the fireplace, and three guys sat around it, diddling around with their chips and not bothering to talk to each other. I recognized two of them right away.
"Hey, Ruthven," I said to the giant, fanged rabbit in the frock coat. "How they hangin'?"
He nodded at me. "Mervyn. Always a pleasure."
The fat man with the broad-brimmed hat, green vest, drooping, gray mustache and wire-rimmed, pinch-nose spectacles said, "Hola, Mervyn. It's good to see you again. Pull up a chair and join us."
"Don't mind if I do, Fiddler's Green, old bean."
I'd never seen the third player before, not in any part of the Dreaming. He was muscular, blond and young-looking, though of course that don't mean a thing. He wore a blue, double-breasted suit with yellow pinstripes, a red tie, two-toned shoes and a green fedora. Very sporty in a "Luck Be A Lady Tonight" sorta way.
He didn't seem eager to introduce himself, so I stuck out a hand. "Merv Pumpkinhead's the name, seven-card tarot's the game. How's it going?"
"Fine, thank you, Mervyn." We shook. He had a grip like a pair of needle-nosed pliers. "You may call me Herman."
"Nice ta meetcha, Herm."
He squeezed harder, enough to break the bones in my hand, assuming I had any. "I said, you may call me Herman."
"Okay, okay. No problem. Jeez."
I got my mitt away from Mr. Congeniality and sat down. Something under my butt went "Meep!" I got up quick and found Abel's pet baby gargoyle on my seat. "Sorry, Goldie. Didn't see you there." The little yellow critter hopped down and went looking for a safer place to roost.
Abel came to the table, a fresh deck of cards in hand.He said, "I've buhbeen, er, umm, looking forward to this all wuhwuhweek. We, uh, we huhhaven't done this in ages."
Fiddler's Green said, "Hoom. Not for half a century or more."
I said, "All we need is Brute and Glob, and it'd be just like old times."
"Brute and Glob," said Ruthven. "A disagreeable pair, indeed. But I rather miss their antics."
I kinda missed them, too, to tell you the truth. Brute was dumber than a wet sack of fertilizer and not any prettier. Glob cheated like a son-of-a-bitch, but if you didn't mind getting fleeced every once in a while, you could learn a thing or two from him.
I wouldn't wish what happened to those two numbskulls on my worst enemy. But that's what you get when you try to pull a fast one on the boss. One strike, and you're out.
Abel opened the deck of cards and did a couple of sloppy shuffles. We drew to choose the dealer, and Fiddler's Green got the high card. We were off.
I got a crappy hand, so I folded early and watched the others battle it out. I'd tumbled to Abel's and the Fiddler's tells decades ago (Abel's sweat glands go into overdrive when he's bluffing, and the "hooms" come fast and furious when the fat man's on a roll), but Ruthven keeps a real poker face. Those red eyes give away nothing.
Herm the Germ, of course, was a complete mystery, and I wanted some clue about his strategy. Nothing obvious caught my attention, though. He didn't tap his toes or whistle or bite his nails, just sat there with his back straight and his eyes on the cards. When the hand was over, it was Herm who came up the winner, his full palace beating Ruthven's pair of knights.
Herman chuckled and rubbed his hands together as he raked in the chips. "The evening is off to a most satisfying start. You may take this as a portent of things to come, gentlemen."
I said, "Just shut up and deal, willya?"
While he shuffled, I reached into a pocket and pulled out my cigs. I was all set to light up, when Herman shot me a look and said, "Do you mind?"
"Do I mind what?"
"I would prefer if you didn't smoke. I find the habit offensive in the extreme."
"Pardon my French, but excusez-moi." I looked around the table for support. "Whaddaya say, guys? Am I within my unalienable rights here, or what? Abel?"
"Uhh, err, I, thuhthat is, uh --"
"Never mind. Ruthven?"
Ruthven's pink little nose twitched.. "Actually, it is difficult to get the smell out of my fur."
"Hoom. Quitting would do you a world of good, Mervyn. Nicotine plays havoc with one's constitution." He rooted around in his carrybag. "Perhaps you'd care for a few jelly babies instead?"
I considered telling him that losing ninety pounds or so would do wonders for his own freakin' constitution, but there was no point in being nasty. So I just stashed my pack and said, "All right, all right. I'm out-voted. But I want you to know that you're all turning into a bunch of old ladies."
We played for about two hours without a break. Herm didn't win every hand, only four out of five. Ruthven and I took a couple of pots each, but Lady Luck never smiled once on either Fiddler's Green or Abel. The fat man's wagers never went beyond the penny-ante, so he was still in pretty good shape, but after hemorrhaging chips for a hundred and twenty minutes, Abel was down to his last half-dozen.
I figured it was time to put a chill on Herman's winning streak. "How 'bout we take a break, guys? I could use a stretch, a smoke and a can of brew."
Everyone except Herman was quick to agree. We put down our cards and moved to the buffet. It was a pretty good spread. Fiddler's Green and Ruthven had done the catering. Sometimes their hoity-toity tastes get the better of them, but there was still plenty of stuff for a meat-and-potatoes man like myself. I managed to put together one beaut of a sandwich, a triple-decker with roast beef, salami, sardines, Limburger, tomato, pickles, horseradish and sweet Bermuda onion.
I caught Herman staring at my selection of drinks. His upper lip was wrinkled like he'd been offered a cup of raven's droppings.
"Nothing suit your fancy, Herman?"
"Mmmm, no. I'm afraid not. I've been looking in vain for a glass of nectar."
I pulled two 12-ounce cans out of the ice. "What do you mean? We got guava nectar. We got mango nectar. Take your pick."
"I'd rather not."
Glass in hand, Fiddler's Green said, "May I recommend the tokay? It's quite fine."
Herman sniffed. "Perhaps another time."
That was all I could take. Out on the porch, I cornered the host. "Hey, Abel, who the hell invited that bozo? He a friend of yours?"
"Huhherman? Er, uh, no, no. He arrived with Ruthven."
Ruthven doesn't have any friends. He spends all his time flirting with that broad in the hoop skirt. I told Abel as much.
"Wuhwell, Lucien was supposed to join us tonight, but he cancelled at the last minute. Uh, uh, muhmaybe he knows him."
"I doubt it." I fired up a smoke and took a long, delicious drag. "There's something mighty fishy about this chump, and I don't like it. Not a freakin' bit."
Right on cue, Herm came out to join us. Actually, he did his best to ignore me, homing in on Abel, saying, "Bad bit of luck you've been having, my friend. Perhaps you'll fare better once we resume."
"I huhhope so."
"Quite the place you have here," Herm went on. "A veritable treasure trove of antiquities and ephemera. Would you mind showing me around?"
"Of cuhcourse not. It would be my puhpleasure."
Herman steered Abel back inside, leaving me alone with my cig, my sandwich and my thoughts. The first two were great, but the last were giving me major indigestion. Without saying a word to anybody, I set off on a little walk, down past the graveyard and up to a little cave I know.
I got back just in the nick of time. As I closed the front door behind me, Ruthven and Fiddler's Green were in their seats at the cardtable, and Herman and Abel were coming down from a tour of the attic. Nobody asked where I'd been, and I didn't offer any hints.
It was my turn to deal. I executed a spiffy little shuffle and passed 'round the cards. For once, my hand wasn't complete garbage, giving me a fighting chance of winning.
Ruthven and Fiddler's Green folded early, but I could tell from the slick of sweat on his forehead that Abel thought he had a hot hand. I wanted to kick him under the table, but I wasn't sure either of my aim or that Abel wouldn't yelp like a goosed schoolgirl. Herman, a chilly little grin on his puss, kept raising the stakes, and Abel kept right on matching them, down to his last chip.
When they turned their cards over, it was Herm's hand that was full of royal portraits.
Abel looked ready to cry. "I-I guhguess I'm done for the nuhnight," he said, starting to get up from the table. "Muhmight as well get a start on the duhdishes."
Herman reached around, grabbed Abel by the shoulder and pushed him back down. He asked, "What's your hurry, Abel? We're all friends here, correct? I, for one, would be happy to advance you a small sum so that we can continue to enjoy your company at the table." He deposited a stack of chips, probably two dozen or so, in front of Abel. "Is this a sufficient quantity?"
Ruthven, Fiddler's Green and I were all looking at each other, silently asking "What the flick is goin' on here?" but Abel didn't notice. He said, "Thuhthat's very kind. Buhbut I don't know if I shuhshould."
"Of course you should. In fact, I insist."
Fiddler's Green spoke up. "If Abel is uncomfortable accepting your debt, then I don't think--"
Herman cut him right off. "Abel is quite capable of looking out for himself. I mean, despite what you three and his brother happen to think."
Abel gave a little start. "Duhduhdo you know Cuhcain?"
"Oh, yes, quite well. I'm surprised you didn't invite him tonight. He'll be so disappointed when I mention to him that you waited until he was out of town to throw this party."
Abel's eyeballs inflated to nearly twice their size. Given his brother's homicidal tendencies, I didn't blame him one bit for being scared.
"You wuhuwouldn't do that, wuhwould you? Puhpuhplease, there's no nuhneed to say anything to Cuhchcain!"
Herman said,"Well, perhaps not. Still, the night is young, and I'm not yet ready to call it quits. Please accept the loan. I happened to notice a couple or three items in the house that can serve as suitable collateral."
I should have tumbled to it earlier, but suddenly everything made sense. "Hold it, pal," I said. "Just who the hell do you think you are? "
Herman didn't even bother to glance my way. "I don't believe this is any of your business, Mervyn."
"Oh, yeah? Well, I'm not going to stand around with my thumb up my butt while some out-of-town sharpie cheats a compadre out of what's rightfully his. This whole game has been one long con, a scam to get your hands on some of Abel's best-kept merchandise, right?"
"I have no idea what you're talking about. I'm here to enjoy a simple game of cards. I have no interest in taking what isn't mine."
"Hey, bub. Everybody wants secrets. Don't kid a kidder."
Herm turned his attention to Ruthven and Fiddler's Green, who were just sitting there, taking it all in and doing their damnedest not to choose sides. "What would you have me do? Are you inviting me to leave? That's fine, but I'm afraid poor Abel may later rue his lack of consideration for his brother's feelings."
I wanted to take this guy to the cleaners, bad. "How's this? Why don't you play me, one-on-one, no limit, winner takes all?"
He pointed at my pile of chips and said, "That is nothing but pocketchange to me. What else do you have that I could possibly want?"
"Well, let's just see, OK?"
I reached into my duffel bag, rooted among my emergency supplies and came up with something I'd been saving a long time, from the days when the boss was locked up, the Dreaming was a shambles and I was out in the world, scratching a living.
I asked, "Interested or no?"
He didn't actually lick his lips, but he couldn't hide his interest. "May I examine it? This would not be the first time someone offered me a counterfeit."
"Go right ahead."
He looked the small statue over and, when it passed inspection, said, "Wherever did you get it?"
I shrugged. "I used to drive a bus. Folks leave the damnedest stuff behind. You ready to play?"
"Sky's the limit," I said. "If you walk out the door empty-handed, you don't bitch about it later."
He gave it a second's thought, then nodded. "Fair enough. Let's go."
Abel brought us a fresh deck, and we cut for the deal. Herm got the high card. I took my seven cards and made sure I didn't wince when I got a gander at them. Not a hell of a lot to work with, but I figured to make the best of it. I took two cards. Herm took three, definitely a good sign.
Back and forth it went. I got the cups and wands I wanted, but I was weak in the Major Arcana. But finally it came down to put up or shut up. If I didn't match his bet, I lost.
"Well, Mervyn," he said. "Are you going to play or do you fold?"
He was bluffing. He wasn't bluffing. I couldn't tell. Ever so carefully, I let my gaze wander upward, to a point just over Herm's left shoulder. I saw what I needed to see without anybody seeing me see it, if you get my drift.
"No way in Hades I'm gonna fold."
Herman turned his cards over. "Let's see if you can beat that."
"Oooh-kay!" I said, unveiling a gorgeous run of high-value pasteboard. "Read 'em and weep, Herm. Read'em and weep."
Nobody said anything. All you could hear was the tick of the grandfather clock and the growl of Fiddler's Green's belly. Then Herm got all red in the face, smashed his fist down on the table and stood up so fast that his chair skidded across the room, smacking into the bookcase behind him.
Something up near the ceiling went "Kaarkk!," followed by the flutter of wings and a muttered "Oh, shit!"
Everybody whipped around and stared at the raven trying to regain its balance on the horned skull that sat on the bookcase's top shelf.
Leave it to Abel to not know when to keep his big trap shut. "Muhmatthew!" he said. "Wuhwhat are you doing huhhere?"
I wanted to disappear through a hole in the floor, but none of them was quite big enough.
Herman twigged to the situation real quick. "You underhanded little bastard. I was right, afterall. I knew you were a cheat the moment I saw your orange, empty head."
"Heh, heh. You might be jumpin' to an erroneous conclusion here, Herman," I said. "You see --"
"Spare me." He did something -- traced a pentagram in the air, twitched his eyebrows, wiggled his nose, happened so fast I couldn't quite catch it -- and suddenly he wasn't costumed like a chorus boy from "Guys and Dolls" anymore. Nope, now he looked like a refugee from a frat party, dressed in a toga and a wide-brimmed hat. In one hand he held a stick with a couple of live snakes twisted around the top of it, hissing into each other's faces. He'd also traded his Florsheims for a pair of little sandals with wings.
He said, "You asked who the hell I think I am, Mervyn Pumpkin. Well, let me tell you exactly. My name is Hermes. Messenger of Zeus. God of travel, of luck, of healing."
Fiddler's Green said, "Of gambling, of commerce, of thievery."
Hermes ignored him. "I am here in the Dreaming at the invitation of Lord Morpheus. That's right. These days I ply my trade between the worlds, tracking down lost treasures, bartering them among my many customers. Today I supplied your master with an item he had long been seeking, an act for which he was exceedingly grateful."
He hooked a finger under my bowtie and yanked me forward until his face was an inch from mine. He said, "Do you think Morpheus will be pleased with the singular lack of hospitality you've shown me?"
Man, oh, man. I knew the answer to that the way I know my own name. Rules of etiquette are a big freakin' deal to the boss. Seems like people get banished to the Eternal Darkness for using the wrong fork around here. I had a feeling the next words out of my mouth would sound something like, "Homina, homina, homina."
But somebody else spoke up before I could. A voice croaked, "Not so fast!", and Matthew swooped down and landed on Hermes' shoulder. Before Herm could swat him away, the raven stuck his head up his left sleeve and came out with two cards in his beak, a hierophant and a hanged man.
Fiddler's Green took them and said, "Hoom. What have we here?"
Now it was Hermes' turn to go kind of greenish. "I have no idea how those got there."
Matthew said, "I'm no eagle, but I know what I saw. You slipped them up there while Abel was searching for a fresh deck."
Ruthven said, "It looks as if Mervyn isn't the only one guilty of bad manners."
"Hoom," said Fiddler's Green. "I'm not certain Lord Morpheus would approve of your behavior, either, Hermes. Perhaps it would be best all around if we practiced a degree of discretion and said nothing further about this matter." He looked pointedly at our host. "Right, Abel?"
"Yuhyuhyes. Shuhshuhsure."
Hermes mulled it over before saying, "Then I will take my leave." He scooped his winnings into a sack tied to his belt.
I could breathe again. "So, we're even, Herm," I said, giving him a friendly pat on the shoulder. "No harm, no foul. Let's let bygones be bygones."
He stared at me at long time, and the snakes-on-a-stick hissed like they wanted to spit hot poison in my eyeholes. "I don't believe in bygones, Pumpkinhead. You would do well to tread carefully from here on out."
He left without slamming the front door.
"Good riddance," I said. "We still got time for a couple more hands. Everybody still up for it?"
Abel's phone rang.
"Muhmummervyn, it's for yuhyou!"
"Criminy! Now what?"
Seems like someone hadn't tightened all the screws after installing a new chandelier in the ballroom. I had to split and supervise the mop-up.
Before I left, though, I gave Matthew the statue Hermes had had the hots for. What the hell, he'd kept my ass out of the fire, and I owed him one. Besides, I thought the figurine was a pretty good likeness of him.
Matthew keeps it up on a shelf in his cave. He says it's not a raven, though, but a falcon. Whatever. I got more important things to think about.
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I bought this Anthurium online under the name Anthurium - Jungle. After that I searched online and found two names.
Anthurium - Jungle Bush and Jungle King. Are they the same? What species of Anthuriums are these two? Anthurium ellipticum? Here the the photos of my plant. Thanks in advance. |
Follow-Up Postings:
- Posted by pirate_girl Zone7 NYC (My Page) on Fri, Jun 24, 11 at 11:57
Hi Hank, I don't know enough on Anthuriums to help here, but perhaps post this Q on the Aroid Forum? They're bound to be able to help. |
Thanks for the suggestion pirate girl. The Aroid Forum seems very inactive. :) I'll try my luck here first. :) |
- Posted by hopefulauthor z5IL (firstname.lastname@example.com) on Fri, Jun 24, 11 at 20:14
Hank..I believe yours is A. 'Jungle Bush.' Jungle King's flowers are shaped different. Do you still have the pot it came in? Toni |
Thanks Toni, you are right. After comparing all the photos online. My Anthurium should be 'Jungle Bush'. Unfortunately I don't have the pot it came in anymore. |
- Posted by hopefulauthor z5IL (firstname.lastname@example.com) on Sun, Jun 26, 11 at 12:54
Hank, the reason I asked if you had the original pot...when you enter the long SKU? number, '16 digits' on your search engine, I use Google, up comes the product name, and other information. BTW, your Anthurium is lovely. Toni |
Sorry for the late reply Toni. I'm busy with my photos recently. I wonder the SKU is used in Europe. Anyway the internet shop (in Germany) that sold me the plant also sells bigger sample which they named Jungle Bush. Just this smaller sample they named only "Jungle". Thanks Toni. I bought another three Anthuriums from Thailand. Anthurium vittarifolium, hookeri variegata and superbum. The last two are in terrible stage, especially the last one. I wonder it would survive. |
- Posted by hopefulauthor z5IL (email@example.com) on Tue, Jul 5, 11 at 15:39
Hank, did you buy the Jungle Anthuriums out of US? What do you mean by SKU used in Europe? Oh, more new plants!! Can you name the nursery? I usually order from Aleya Gardens in Thailand..Beautiful plants.. I adore A. superbum. I have a little guy with one or two leaves..Very slow-growing. When you have time, can you post pics of your new plants? Thanks, Toni |
Toni, I live in Germany. I bought the Anthuriums from greenthumb3000 on ebay, but we made the deal through email instead of ebay. His plants are quite small. In fact the best Anthuirum nurseries are in US. Unfortunately they don't ship to Europe or I've to pay 100$ for the Phyto. Cert. I can't take photo of my Anthuriums, because they don't look good at the moment. One has only one yellow leaf and the other two yellow leaves. I'll take photo only when they look good. |
- Posted by hopefulauthor z5IL (email@example.com) on Wed, Jul 6, 11 at 15:49
Hi Hank. Aw, Germany..Ironically, overseas nurseries (Europe, Thailand, Australia and China,) have every plant I want..lol. Most beautiful, and quite rare..Rare for USA. I've never seen a seller from Germany on Ebay. What type of native plants grow in Germany? Types we'd (US)keep as house plants... Have you ever checked Gardenwatchdog? There are online nurseries that ship overseas, and do not charge 100.00. Hank, when I order from Thailand, mostly Aleya Gardens, 'cost is based on weight,' I go with small parcel. 14.99 opposed to 35.00 for 3, good-sized, healthy plants. Don't think I ever bought from Greenthumb, but have seen his plants..they're gorgeous. I'm shocked they're small considering price and high shipping costs. Usually 30.00 for one plant. I guess like some US nurseries, one in particular, pics are for show. You end up getting an over-priced plant in 2.5" pot. When you're ready, I'll be happy to see your new Anthuriums. Take care, Toni |
I've the same opinion Toni. We tend to like rare plants, as I'm into US plants; Anthuriums and variegated Agaves. I used to like Philodendrons, but they tend to have long stems and small leaves, when I grow them. Well, there aren't much sunlights in Germany, especially in winter. All the native plants in Germany are perennials. I don't think they can be grown indoor. You can't see German seller on ebay? In fact most of the Germans aren't that crazy about plants. Thanks for the recommendation of Gardenwatchdog. I'll look into them. In fact I only like few types of Anthuriums and most of them only available in US. e.g. Anthurium veitchii, Ant. warocqueanum, Ant. pendulifolium, and Ant. wendlingeri. That's really annoying. Toni, in what soil do you grow your Anthurium superbum? I've just took a photo of my Anthurium vittarifolium. It's the only presentable plant from the three. Okay, I post the photo here. Best regards, Han |
- Posted by hopefulauthor z5IL (email@example.com) on Fri, Jul 8, 11 at 17:07
Hi Hank. Hank, all native plants are perrenials, despit location. Dandilions are weeds, but they're also perrenials. Orchids are weeds but perrenials in their native lands. Here, we grow other country's weeds as house plants. LOL. Do you know what I mean? I talked to a man from the Philippines who laughed when I told him the price I paid for a certain plant..He said, Americans pay high prices for our weeds..lol. A second man from Mexico made a similar comment about Plumerias. He was shocked when I told him their going price. He laughed, and basically repeated what the first man said. 'We pay high prices for sticks.' lol. This was back in the 90's, when I worked at a plant store. I knew both men personally.. Thankfully, you have someone to share shipping..That works out fine..Who gets to keep the freebie? lol. I really hope you find an Anthurium seller who will ship overseas. Although your Anthurium vittarifolia is a little small, (though I don' know its cost) it's healthy and good-looking. I've never had that species..Very interesting. I love the strap-like foliage. Very pretty. What do flowers look like? Hank, like I said, my A. superbum is tiny..(one or two leaves) It was bought at a starter plant from a seller on Ebay who sells nothing but starter plants. All-Purpose soil, Peat, Bark, Coarse Sand and tiny pebbles. Seems, most Anthuriums do best in shallow pots..NOT Bonsai containers, but semi-shallow opposed to deep. Since you've done well with your Anthuriums, continue using and potting the way you have. Hank, have you ever seen, A. Tweed? Toni |
Oh yeah, I think I misunderstood the meaning of perennials. What I meant for "perennials in Germany" is you can't grow them as house plants, as they need winter to survive. Regarding Philodendrons I can grow them as house plants too, but they don't look good like in "dwarf form" when we buy them from nursery, therefore now I switch to Anthuriums. We shared the freebie. I mean 50/50. In fact I traded my share(50%) of freebie with an Anthurium crystallinum from him, as he sells plants. We traded some plants as well. Thanks for the tips of Anthurium. I think the price from Thailand is higher than in USA. I paid I know Ant. Tweed. It looks more like Aralia. In fact beside Agaves/succulents I like only Anthuriums/plants with big leaves. From my experience with bugs, it's easier for me to remove them, when the plants have big leaves. Saturday I bought a new pesticide. We called it "combi-staebchen" which you can stick the small rod into soil. The rod will change the taste of juice of plants, so that bug won't suck them anymore. They are expensive, 54 cents for a rod which lasts only 4 months and a 20cm pot need 6 rods. Today I've found a cheaper alternative which costs only 32 cents peer rod. Thanks for the Gardenwatchdog again. This year I've stopped buying plant, as it's "almost" autumn. I'll wait till next year. |
- Posted by hopefulauthor z5IL (email@example.com) on Wed, Jul 13, 11 at 16:43
Hi Hans. Prices should have one set rate, 'for the plant, not shipping.' Some Thailand and other countries seem to make up prices. If a plant isn't marked, find a different seller. And many will negotiate. You'd be surprised. They want to sell as much if not more, than we want to buy. With shipping costs and the economy, sellers are willing to drop prices. 40.00 for Ant Vittarifolium is rediculous. They're sold her at a store called Walmart for 3.00, 'when on sale,' or 5.99 regular price. There are local and online florists that overcharge, but I don't do florists. 100.00 for a common plant in a 4" pot..Forget that! Does your pesticide contain chemicals? What type of insects are you trying to kill? Do you know their names? If you're talking about house plant bugs, there are many household products that rid these creatures. Without using chemicals. Toni |
Yeah, those online sellers (What I know are from Asia) do sell their plants at ridiculous prices. Beside Anthuriums red Aglaonemas, When I was in Thailand last year, I paid $3 for a plant and they sell it at $15 online. Regarding the Anthuriums I could understand them, as they probably bought them from USA. That means they paid the $100 Phyto Cert. Some US ebay sellers do agree to send plants to Europe without Phyto cert, but they insist to send it with UPS which the shipping costs $35, therefore it isn't cheap either. So far I bought from two US sellers who do send with normal post which costs only few US dollars. They declare the plants as wooden or garden decorations. So far everything runs smooth. Unfortunately they don't sell Anthuriums, therefore I've to find new sellers. Toni, do you know Nature's Asset on Flickr? He has great Aroids. Here is the link http://www.flickr.com/photos/back2nature/ I've few types of different house plant bugs on few Aroids and I'm tired of spraying pesticide every week. My dentist recommended me this rod. It works on her Hibiscus and I checked online many people do recommend it too, therefore I don't mind to spend a little bit more money on it. |
- Posted by hopefulauthor z5IL (email@example.com) on Fri, Jul 15, 11 at 13:55
Hi Han. Han, I'll have to look in favorites and/or old emails for a second Thailand seller I have purchased plants. Besides Aleya, I've ordered from this nursery, 'great prices,' a woman from Malaysia, a seller in Thailand who happened to be related to 'don't want to say,' one of the other Thailand sellers I've ordered from half a dozen times and China..All have decent prices, and by using a different shipping method, I've never, ever paid 30.00-35.00 for shipping..I've only paid for the Phyto once: $5.00 USD. Han, I've been on Flickr from the beginning..Flickr was original owned by Yahoo, but supposedly, Yahoo sold to Flickr. Anyway, to this day, the only thing I know how to do on Flickr is post pictures..lol.. Thanks, I will check Nature's Asset's plants, but can't now because I'm going visiting in a couple hours and still have much to do before leaving. So, here I sit on the puter..lol. Han, several years ago, I made up a home-made insecticide..No chemcials. Here's a list of Ingredients. Mites.. I mix: 16 oz spray bottle Add water in sprayer, then remaining ingredients the night before you plan on spraying. Shake spray bottle thoroughly before use. Spraying every other week keeps bugs at bay. Scale: Although Fish Emulsion is primarily used as an organic fertilizer, it also prevents and kills Scale. Believe me, I saved my Olive Tree by spraying with 1 cap of Fish Emulsion and water, in a 16oz sprayer. Han, last winter, like most other winters, I feel down, and forget to spray with my mix, but before last winter, I've sprayed religiously, and never had plant bugs. This last winter, my plants contracted Mealy..the one bug I cannot rid. They attacked my African Violets and Scale. Since I can't find an organic solution to kill these creatures from hell, I ended up tossing most AV's and a few Clivias..I did spray with Rubbing Alcohol, but with some plants, too late. But when I sprayed every other week, my plants were w/o insects. BTW, if you decide to try this mix..if you add FE, discard leftovers..However, if you use the first recepie, it won't spoil, can be used days later. Please give it a try. There's nothing in my insecticide that will harm your plants, so what have you got to lose? I don't like using chemicals, mainly since I have birds..I dont want them breathing the fumes or, if by chance one flys out of the room and lands on a plant that was sprayed w/a chemical, it can kill the bird. Besides, I just don't like handling chemicals. Yuck,. Good luck, Hans. PS. Have you checked Anthuriums in HI? I don't know if they can or will ship to Germany, but it's worth researching..And HI has some true beautys.. Toni There are a few overseas sellers on Ebay who charge way too much for shipping. I know what you mean when you said, while visiting Thailand plants were 3.00..lol..Did you have problems bringing a plant on the plane? How does it work? Once I find the second seller's name, I'll send it to you. His site doesn't list most plants available, so you'll have to email him and ask about Anthuriums or plants you'd like to have. |
Hey Toni, I can't find the website of 'great prices' nursery that you mentioned. The only ebay seller from Malaysia I know is 'sheflora'. Her plants aren't cheap as well. Last year beside Thailand I was in Malaysia too. Her online prices are 7x higher than the market prices in Malaysia. I don't know much about Flickr either. I only use Flickr to upload my plants photos and check new plants. But I've more my plants and my garden photos on Facebook, because unlike Flickr the space on Facebook is free. Thanks for the information of your home-made insecticide. After few years battle my bugs are clever nowadays, as they hide inside the (leaf) axil, where no water can reach. I've a Hoya carnosa compacta. It's even worse, as the bugs hide inside the leaves. I believe you know the form of that Hoya's leaves. Every week/fortnightly I've to clean those bugs with cotton swab with baby oil. I clean the leaves like cleaning our ears. I think the Hoya has more than 100 leaves, therefore it's good for me to use the chemical rods, at least I save time. Moreover I've only about 10 plants that have bugs. I found a nursery in Hawaii that sells plant to Germany, but they have only Alocasia (quite beautiful), but not Anthurium . Another nursery that sells Anthurium is www.ecuagenera.com. They've many rare species, but their prices are high. So far I don't have any problem bringing in plants from overseas. Normally I carried them in my hand luggage, but last year I bought too much, therefore I'd to put some into my check-in luggage. Fortunately the plants had no problem with it. At the custom they asked me what was in my luggage. I told them plants, then they just let me go. Few years ago I bought a 90cm high Ficus benjamina - Starlight in Turkey. I carried it as hand luggage, because I was afraid it would be frozen/damaged, if I put it in a check-in luggage. I asked the stewardess whether I could put it somewhere in the plane. She told me there wasn't any free room, therefore I'd to carry it to my seat. I put the Ficus between my legs for the whole journey like a country pumpkin. In fact I didn't mind it, because now probably beside Botanical Garden I'm the only one who has this plant in Germany. Toni, thank you very much for helping me to look for sellers. Best regards, Han. |
- Posted by hopefulauthor z5IL (firstname.lastname@example.com) on Tue, Jul 19, 11 at 16:15
Hi Han..Aside from Aleya, try atgtree.com . I've bought several plants from Atgtree, in Thailand; all arrived in perfect condition. You will probably have to email him since his site has 'X' amount of plants, he has many others that aren't listed. Oh, the owner of Aleya Gardens has a relative who is now selling plants. She's quite generous, and her prices are great. The problem, I can't recall her Ebay name. lol. I ordered a Dracaena 'goldianna' from sheflora two years ago..yes, her prices are high, however, if you talk to her about shipping, she might drop the price..She did for me. Well, if the rods don't work, 'I hope they do,' you can try my recepie. Thankfully, it works for me, and that's all that matters..I don't like using chemicals, so it's the next best thing. Oh yes, your H. carnosa, 'Hindu Rope' will hide all sorts of insects. Perfect curves to build a cozy home. It's 'almost' funny you brought plants on a plane..I wonder if you'd be able to haul plants from the states to other countries..lol..In US airports, they toss personal items..It's sad it has to be that way, but safer. After 911, people are afraid. I guess they're laid back overseas. Have you been able to transport plants since 911? How long was the flight from Turkey to Germany, while you cuddled your Ficus? lol. Well, let me know if you'd like Aleya Gardens relatives' name. I ordered from her last year...Oh, her name might be in my Feedback..I can always check there, too. Whatever, Han, I hope you find every single Anthurium in the world..lol Do you like King and Queen Anthuriums? They both have huge leaves, 20+ inches long..sorry, don't have a converter page opened.. Toni |
Hi Toni, thanks for all the information. I'll check with Aleya, but only next year, as I don't intend to buy any plant in this year anymore. In fact I try to grow plants that attract no bugs, therefore I start to sell (get rid of) those plants with bugs, once they're bug-free. From this experience my new plants are plants with big leaves (except succulents), therefore I like big leaves Anthuriums now, at least it's easier for me to get rid of those bugs. The flight from Turkey to Germany takes about 3 hours. I believe the airport control in Germany isn't as strict as in US. Normally I transport my plants without soil and I pack them in newspapers. In the worst case I would tell the custom those are veggies, as I believe they don't much about plants. :) In domestic flights in Malaysia we could even bring water bottles on board. Toni, could you tell me the link of your Flickr account? I would like to take a look of your plants collection. Best regards, Han |
- Posted by hopefulauthor z5IL (email@example.com) on Tue, Jul 26, 11 at 15:47
Hank, sorry...I haven't been online much. We had extreme heat, then flooding..The basement is a disaster. Some Anthuriums have huge leaves, but are usualy grown in a conservatory or large green house. Hank, hope this link works. Here's my Flickr page. http://www.flickr.com/photos/19171044@N04/ I don't know how to post the address so you can click on the link without having to type it in..Sorry. Hope you're well. Ha, I always say 'this is the plant this year,' then come across somethiing I have to get. lol. Take care...and I hope your plants are doing well, Toni |
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