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HARAHAN, LA - Charles "Charley" H. Harris, of Harahan, LA died Sunday, June 2, 2013 of Alzheimer's disease. He was born on January 16, 1929 in Beckville, Texas to the late Houston H. Harris and Willie Young Harris.
He was predeceased by his wife of 46 years, Claire Strieber Harris, and his sister, Stella Moser.
Survivors include: his daughter, Cindy Harris Horchoff (Pat) of New Orleans, LA; sons, Kevin Harris of Montclair,NJ, and Wayne Harris (Eileen Crowe) of Olney Maryland; grandchildren, Michael and Katie Horchoff, Evan, Gabriel, Colin and Luke Harris; brother-in-law and sister-in-law Clifford and Harriet Strieber; nephew,Robert Moser (Debbie); nieces,Catherine Grimm and Cheryl Strieber.
He graduated from Lutcher High School in Orange,Texas and attended Lamar Junior College prior to enlisting in the U.S. Army, serving during the Korean War. Following his military service he attended the University of Texas in Austin and graduated with a degree in Geology. He began working with Chevron, geoprospecting in Montana and Wyoming, prior to returning to Texas.
Charley began his career as an engineer in the dredging industry with Bauer Dredging in Port Lavaca, TX, in 1959. He quickly moved from Project Engineer to Estimator. In 1969, he moved his family to New Orleans to become the Chief Estimator of the newly formed T.L James and Company's Dredging Division. After T. L. James was bought by Weeks Marine in 1998, Charley continued to perform estimating functions for 6 years and retired in November, 2004, after 45 years in the industry. He was active in the LMVD Branch of the Associated General Contractors and was a member of the Society of American Military Engineers.
Charley enjoyed 'cooking' Wednesday night dinners for the family, long talks and bourbon on Friday nights with his dear friend Adrian Cordes, and spoiling his grandkids. He was a devoted husband, father and "Papa". He was a parishioner of St. Rita of Cascia in Harahan.
Our heartfelt thanks go out to Cassandra Thigpin and Stacey O'Mally, with ARCH, who provided wonderful care to our Dad in the last months of his life; Serenity Hospice; and Hunter House/Poydras Home with a special thanks to Linda Baker.
Visitation will be at 10am followed by a Funeral Mass at 11am on Monday, June 10, 2013 at Holy Cross Catholic Church, Yorktown, Texas. Interment to follow at Westside Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, donations in Charley's memory can be made to Second Harvest Food Bank, Child Hunger Programs, 700 Edwards Avenue, New Orleans, LA,70123 (online at no-hunger.org) or Louisiana Horse Rescue Association, P.O. Box 4502, Covington, LA,70433 (online at www.lahorserescue.com).
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Are you as goofy as this post implies? (and goofy is the most polite word I can think of) Comparing an LPGA penalty to Auschwitz is too incredible for words.
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Here are the top 10 money leaders on the LPGA so far this year: Yani Tseng, Ai Miyazato, Sun Young Yoo, Na Yeon Choi, Bok Choy, So Yeon Ryu, Jiyai Shin, Shanshan Feng, Candie Kung and I.K. Kim. I.K. Kim would be higher but at the LPGA's first major this year the Kraft Nabisco Championship In Kyung missed a 3 inch putt on the 72nd hole to hand the title to Sun Young Yoo. Nobody misses a 3 inch putt but I.K. missed it deliberately because she can't swim.
Two days ago the LPGA held the Sybase Match Play Championship at the Hamilton Farm Golf Club in Gladstone, N.J. The semifinals featured Morgan Pressel vs. Azahara Munoz and Vickie Hurst vs. Candie Kung. The Men's PGA has not penalized a golfer for slow play since 1995. In 1995 Saddam Hussein's daughters Raghad and Rana defected to Jordan with their husbands; they should have stayed there.
This past Sunday Morgan Pressel was playing Azahara Munoz in the morning semi final of the Sybase Match Play. People were calling her "Whitey" and those were the LPGA officials. This year Luke Donald tweeted "Slow play is killing our game"; how about world number 1's who have never won a major title?
Tiger Woods has won 14 major championships so far and is closing in on becoming the first golfer ever to win $100 million in prize money. Yesterday Tiger Woods said "I certainly think we need to speed up play because we are the figureheads of golf. It's going to have to go through the policy board so it's going to take time. It's not going to happen this year." Is the policy board going to be penalized for procrastination?
Morgan Pressel is a Jewish 23 year old LPGA blonde, blue eyed cutie from Tampa, Florida who was the youngest player ever to win an LPGA Major Championship when she won the Kraft Nabisco Dinah Shore in 2007 at the age of 19. On Sunday Morgan was playing in the semis and she was steamrolling her friend Azahara Munoz. Morgan Pressel won the 12th hole to go 3 up on Azahara Munoz. It was at this point that the LPGA sent some stooge to give her a loss of hole penalty for slow play on the 12th hole for checking the wind for 3 extra seconds and as a result instead of being 3 up Morgan was now 1 up and she lost the match. Tomorrow is Morgan's 24th birthday and the LPGA has already given her her present, a trip to Auschwitz, Poland all inclusive.
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If Greece defaults, what about Spain, what about the rest of the Eurozone, and what about the rest of Europe? "Contagion" has become a buzzword in international economics. This column asks whether markets are responding irrationally to the nightmare scenario or finally waking up to reality.
- The troika's bailout of the Greek government and the heavy haircut imposed on private bond holders have failed to reassure markets about Greece's permanence in the Eurozone.
- The relief brought about by the recent election results waned in a matter of hours.
- Similarly, the decision by the EU to pour about €100 billion into Spanish banks has not proved sufficient to convince investors that the umbilical cord between the State's and the banks' balance sheets have been severed.
- In the meantime, confidence on peripheral sovereign bonds and banks has been crumbling, as interest rates and CDS spreads rose in the past weeks.
While proposals for a banking union, Eurobonds (Manasse 2010) and fiscal union still belong to the realm of dreams (or nightmares, depending on who should be footing the bill), the question is whether the flight out of Europe's periphery will become a flight out of the euro full stop.
Irrationality or delayed realisation? Empirical evidence on contagion
But are financial markets behaving 'irrationally' or – following a long period of benign neglect – are they simply rediscovering market fundamentals (Manasse 2011b)? And crucially, what policies should southern Europeans, Italy in particular, implement to maintain market access?
In order to address some of these questions we look at the recent evidence on contagion across EU sovereigns CDS spreads. Our empirical model builds on Bekaert et al. (2009) by using time-varying factor loadings and market indexes in order to proxy the dynamics of common and specific risk factors. In the empirical model the daily change in a country sovereign's spread depends on four elements:
- The change in a global risk factor, measured by an index of the most important (non-European) sovereigns' CDS,
- The change in a European risk factor, measured by an index of Western European sovereigns' CDS;
- The change in a financial risk factor, measured by an index of the CDS on private European Financial Institution;
- A (time-varying) idiosyncratic component captures the market participants' assessment of the individual country sovereign risk.
We proceed in two steps. First we estimate the model on daily observations (1630) from 1 January 2006 to 29 march 2012, separately for 15 European countries, 11 of which belong to the Eurozone (Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Netherland, Austria, and Finland), and four of which who do not (Sweden, Norway, UK, and Denmark). Unlike the previous literature, we run a series of rolling regressions, on a moving window of 200 observations, estimating 1427 regressions for each country and retaining the time series of parameters relating the spread change to the Global, European and Banking indexes. The evolution of these parameters is quite interesting in itself, as it reveals comparatively when and to what extent each country reacted to 'external risks' through the recent waves of crises (we do not discuss these results here for reasons of space). In addition, our approach allows us to trace the systematic movements in the country-specific risk, the drift in the CDS spread daily change. This captures the idiosyncratic component that is unrelated to the remaining 'external' factors accounted by the model. When this parameter spikes simultaneously for many countries, we have an indication of 'pure contagion' in the sovereign CDS market, possibly resulting from herd behaviour, a rise in risk aversion, agents' coordination on a 'bad equilibrium'.
'Pure' idiosyncratic sovereign risks during the US subprime and the Greek crises
Figure 1 in the appendix plots the evolution of the systematic change in the idiosyncratic risk component (only when significantly different from zero at 5%) for the countries in the sample. The US subprime crisis (September 2008 and March 2009) and the Greek crisis (around November 2009) are evident in the data, as jumps in risks are clustered around these episodes. As regards to the crises' impact, countries naturally divide themselves into three sizes: Smalls (Finland, Germany and Norway), Mediums (Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, the UK, and Austria on the high side) and Larges (the 'periphery'). More fundamentally, while the US subprime earthquake affected all Europeans, albeit with different magnitudes (Ireland, followed by Austria and the UK being the most affected for reasons due to the role of their financial institutions), the Greek crisis is largely a matter for the Eurozone. Norway, Sweden, the UK and Denmark, which do not belong to the Eurozone, were hardly affected. But differences inside the Eurozone were at least as remarkable, with France, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Ireland and Portugal showing large and recurrent spikes in idiosyncratic risk. Thus an explanation requires more than the one-size-fits-all corset provided by the euro.
The role of fundamentals
In order to understand what makes a country vulnerable to changes in 'market sentiment', we perform a second round analysis. We use panel estimation in order to explain cross-country differences in the model parameters on the basis of each country's (lagged) economic fundamentals (trade openness, the public debt/GDP ratio, the budget deficit/GDP ratio, the current account balance as percentage of GDP, the rate of unemployment, the monthly change in industrial production, the country's sovereign rating (Moody's), an index of market volatility (the VIX), of liquidity-shortage in the inter-bank market (the TED spread). We also include a 'crisis' dummy which takes the value of one from November 2009, when the numbers for the Greek 2009 budget deficit was revised from 5% to 12.7%, and a Eurozone dummy.
Table 1, in the appendix below, presents the results.
The first column shows the effects of the countries' lagged economic fundamentals on the time-varying risk coefficients, outside the crisis. The second column shows the additional effects of each variable during the Greek crisis (e.g. the coefficient of the interaction of each variable with the crisis dummy). It appears that before the outset of the European debt crisis (first column) three variables significantly affect the idiosyncratic risk: the rate of growth in industrial production (which significantly reduces the risk), the budget deficit/GDP (which significantly raises it), and the volatility index (which significantly raises it). However, things change dramatically during the crisis. First, markets sentiments shift against the Eurozone countries, as documented by the fact that the Eurozone dummy becomes significant during the Greek crisis with positive sign; second, the systematic change in the spread is higher in countries where the public debt-to-GDP ratio is higher, as this variable now becomes positively associated to the systematic risk. Moreover, the real economy matters more inside the crisis: idiosyncratic risks respond positively and significantly to the rate of unemployment, and the coefficient for the rate of growth of industrial production becomes larger during the recent crisis. Another difference with the pre-crisis period is that countries' systemic risks become sensitive to credit rating: this variable, which was not significantly different from zero outside the crisis, becomes positive and significant. Overall, our measures for economic fundamentals explain more than 50% of the cross-country variation in idiosyncratic risks.
Our evidence supports the conclusion that after a long period of benign neglect in the Eurozone, financial markets have rediscovered that fundamentals and structural fragilities matter for sovereign risks.
- In the crisis, markets have increasingly focused on the public debt (8), on the real economy, and on the labour market in particular.
The implications for the appropriate policy response required in order to become more resilient are straightforward:
- More emphasis should be placed upon the employment and growth so that fiscal consolidation does not backlash by plunging the economy into recession.
Here the reason it is not because the recession widens the deficit through the automatic stabiliser. The effect works via a direct link from lower employment and growth to spreads.
- Although not necessarily the panacea for solvency (Bekaert et al. 2011), privatisations should be accelerated, not only because they do not adversely affect the economy, but also because they may well work to calm fears of debt insolvency;
- Labour market reforms that reduce unemployment should have priority.
However, structural reforms aimed at increasing flexibility and reducing firing costs – such as the one currently being voted by the Italian Parliament – may backlash if they raise unemployment in the short run. They should be accompanied by reforms in the wage bargaining system in order to make real wages more flexible (Manasse 2011a).
- The evidence seem to reject the naïve 'credibility' view of multiple equilibria and sunspots, according to which 'credible promises' of future reforms may be all that is needed to select the 'good equilibrium' of low interest rates and solvency (Manasse 2012).
If this were true, past economic fundamentals should not explain cross-country differences in 'fear perceptions'. However, to a large extent, they do.
This column is based on Luca Zavalloni's MSc Economics (Lmec) Dissertation at the University of Bologna and on work in progress with Paolo Manasse.
Bekaert, G, M Ehrmann, M Fratzscher, and A Mehl (2011), "Global crises and equity market contagion", NBER Working Paper No. 17121
de Grauwe, Paul and Yuemei Ji (2012), "Mispricing of sovereign risk and multiple equilibria in the Eurozone", VoxEU.org, 23 January.
de Haan, Jakob and Mark Mink (2012), "Contagion during the Greek sovereign debt crisis", VoxEU.org, 23 February.
Manasse, Paolo (2010), "My name is Bond, Euro Bond", VoxEU.org, 16 December.
Manasse, Paolo (2011a), "Why Privatizations are not the Panacea for Greece", VoxEU.org, 30 May.
Manasse, Paolo (2011b), "Credibility is Not Everything", VoxEU.org, 9 November.
Manasse, Paolo (2012), "Monti and the Mother of all Reforms", EconoMonitor.com
Manasse, Paolo and Giulio Trigilia (2011), "The Fear of Contagion in Europe", VoxEU.org, 6 July.
Table 1. Regression results
Source: Author's calculations, standard errors are clustered by country. ***, **, and *, indicate statistical significance at the 1%, 5%, and 10% levels, respectively.
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Figure 2. 'Mediums'
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2012 Young Birds - Where you at in training ?I am thinking that road training must be in full swing for most folks. Some start earlier, some later, but I would think that the 1st Race for most folks will start some time middle of August to first couple weekends in September. For the United Pigeon Combine of which I am a member, for our geographical location, we figured it best for our start to be the first Saturday in September. So as of today, there is only 70 more days till Show Time !
Because of my laundry list of excuses, I have only about a dozen road training tosses in. Always thought distance was a bit relative, because a 25 mile toss for one fancier, might offer different challenges in different geographical locations. For some unknown reason, it appears that over the years, for one reason or another, I have progressively reduced the total number of tosses, while jumping them down the road further and faster. I only lingered at the 5, 8 mile release points because I was unnerved by so many squeakers in the group. Completed my 2nd toss now from what I call my 35 mile release point. Unless there is bad weather, planning on 55 miles tomorrow. My first race station is 137 miles, and I want to get them there a few times before showtime. Not necessarily because they need to learn home from those locations, but with all the training in south central Pa. and Maryland, New Jersey, Delaware, etc. I want my birds to experience larger flocks crossing their paths, and hopefully that experience will be of some value. The risk is of course, that they get caught up in a 400+ bird flock of group trainers, that turns a 55 mile toss into a 100+ mile foray to the shore of New Jersey or some such place, in 90+ degree heat, hot and exhausted, yet still hours away from home. |
Hello Warren, i understand exactly what you mean about the sqeakers and also about the geogrphical locations. i am at 20 mile road tosses with my older young birds. i have a done a couple more tosses at this location due to the birds have to cross a semi large mountain, and up to date not one problem at all. knocking on wood. i just got started in pigeons so i have alot of late hatches, so i am going to begin my 2nd round road training probably in a week or two. out of this round i have 3 pigeons im perticularly eager to see how they do. at this age they look better than the older birds i have when they were this age. and the older birds are really good. so im pretty anxious as im sure we all are.
since i just got started i am more in the culling stage. breeding my own birds from some birds that were gifted and birds that i have purchased. so as these training tosses gradually get further and further i will hopefully see which are the better birds and the not so good birds. and then go from there with eliminating and so forth. if they pan out good or decent for that matter then i will enter races depending on how many birds i have left. |
If it is taken any other way, people could think you were referring to lethal culling, which would be a violation of forum rules. Sounds to me like you are on the right path. The "perfect" training, does not exist yet, that I know of. Pigeon guys still debate same stuff they did in 1965, except a lot more new faces. I wouldn't necessarily suggest that anyone does what I actually do. I am not a serious local competitor. For me, it's about growing our local York Racing Pigeon Club. What's the point if I win every race every week ? New guys would all quit, and most of the clubs that would then have me as a member, I can't get excited about. So, it's more for the fun of it, and busting on my club mates when I get a chance. When I can actually pull myself up out of bed, and get the loft helper, then get the dirty two dozen all loaded up, once I am out on the road, I can enjoy a view back to the good ole days of my youth, when a parent or friend would head out to our maximum distance of about 12 miles. Now, man...that was hard core training !!! |
no lethal culling being down warren. they would be given out to new flyers which there is plenty in my area. just because the bird is not to my liking as far as racing goes, doesnt mean that it wont be to someone elses. the number 1 thing as far as my birds are concerned is health. healthy bird, clean loft,clean water, good feed. a sick or unhealthy bird would do me no good in my loft, let alone racing. so im starting with that and then will continue to become a better fancier second. i learn new things everyday and try to apply them. as everyone knows theres a million different ways to do this. but theres also a lot of ways to go wrong also.
I personally like the way you think !
I especially am interested in hearing from those who have cut flights, or are otherwise on lock down. Been there, done that, always wistfully looked at fanciers like me now, who is able to get down the road. Loft Manager took his teams down the road 20 days in a row now. They come home and trap like racing champs. Talk about a disciplined team ! My little crew is somewhat behind in times down the road, but doing more distance runs. I am hoping this additional conditioning, will become an advantage on race day and will make up for any disadvantages for not doing a lock down system. It might just come down to who is more motivated to train. For this year's schedule, in order to tip the advantage over to the no lock down, might have to have dozens of additional training tosses for hundreds of more miles then the lock down manager can accomplish. How many more ? I really don't know. One year I think it was 2007, conducted a brutal training routine and ended up with 7 of the top ten champion birds in the combine with SFL bands on their legs. How much more is good and better, and at what point does it become counter productive ? I haven't any better idea today then I did ten years ago. And it takes more self discipline then I generally have displayed. It's a lot of work, and it costs a lot of money. |
on that note and subject you just mentioned warren, would you like to give your opinion on cutting and pulling flights? two questions...how do you feel about entering 1 loft races that cut and or pull flights? and secondly, how do you feel about cutting and pulling flights of your yb's? have you seen it effect or help your yb's while young or old birds?
I don't really care what system a One Loft event uses. If their management and methods produce the desired results, then who am I to argue with success ? And success for a One Loft event IMHO would be among other things, a high percentage of entries making it to first race ideally 70%+ and a high percentage of entries available for the last in a series of events 50%+ the higher those percentages the better. The One Loft event is not really about if one system is better then another, it is there to provide an equal playing field. I suspect I would prefer they do cut, since if the bird is in the loft, he goes to a race. Unlike local racing, where I can pick and choose which events to send a bird to, and can thus fly more natural. |
road trainingHi Warren, Today was the first day I did any road training. I have a y.B team of 16 and they hatched from Feb thru april 18th, so you can see the range in age. Some of the team have been loft flying for about a month,and some just a few weeks. Today I took them out 2 miles from home and away they went. I watched them for awhile and they headed further from home. My heart sank thinking I had sent them too early. I went home and waited and watched and then after 15 minutes I started kicking myself in the rear. At about 18 minutes,two came in and I looked at the band numbers. Feb hatch.. At about four more minutes five more came in, and then in about 3 more minutes the rest came in. Not sure why they separated like that.. But whew !!
road trainingtoday was first training toss at 2 miles down the road for about 20 birds and they beat me home. Now I have to get into a regular training regiment.
Mel S Last edited by italianbird101; 22nd June 2012 at 06:16 PM. |
I feel way behind. My birds are not routing yet so I am still loft flying. Our first race is at the end of August, so I planned to start roadwork around the third week in July.
I still haven't taken any YBs down the road . One last OB race to think about. My YBs are loft flying like rockets, but I will have to add some of the younger ones in as they get ready to join the flock. I will be flying different ages of young birds born from Dec to May so I have birds that are breeding and laying eggs to ones that have never been out side. Will be a wild ride this year . Most guys in our club don't start the road training till after the OB season is over so if you think your behind don't worry to much. I know a guy that had late born birds last year and the first toss for them was with his older YBs at 40 miles and they did just fine. |
I've got 20 yb's loft flying, and another 10 that were bred late so they are in the trap training process, but they are trapping well so they'll be out with the others soon enough. I hope to start road training the 1st week of July!
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I took my oldest out to 8 miles then pulled the flights and locked them up. They're back to flying now. My younger ones are just now starting to route a little so after the 4th of July is when I usually start to haul them off. Lot of effort coming up but I'm excited for this years team....think I should have some good ones.
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June 24, Good morning Dawn: Just wanted to
say how much we enjoyed our visit to "Gardens Plus" last Sunday.
I do know that we will be out there again to make more purchases - I have
started a new list - Hosta I want! I am now up to 56 different
hosta that I know I have and others I do not know the names as they were
either given to me from splitting or my old house when we moved and I just
thought a hosta was a hosta. How silly was that? Anyway
- just wanted to share my visit with you - it was awesome! See you again!
On our next visit perhaps I will bring some pictures of our gardens if
you are interested. Take care and happy gardening.....Pam and
June 15, Hi Dawn! You convinced me. I read your
e-mail this A.M. and by noon had flight reservations to Ottawa on Sat.
I am picking up my granddaughter, and she is driving us to Peterborough.
Look forward to seeing you
on Sunday or at least on Monday. One question: your directions
are very clear, but would appreciate it if you can name me hotels and
Bed and Breakfasts in your near vicinity. We would only need them for
Sunday night, but I want to
book ahead. I am very excited!
Gerry L, Winnipeg
P.S. All the plants from fall 2010 are doing great, good plants, and
a l-o-o-ong cool spring.
June 7, WOW, my order just arrived and I am so happy. Thank you so much - so easy. Filled out the order form, emailed it and you even worked with me for my zone for shipping times! Nice plants I am looking today to order more! Marg
June 7,
Hi Dawn,
I got my lilies the
other day, and I just wanted to let you know how impressed I was.
The fact that I could tell the plants were hand dug, cleaned, labelled
and wrapped really made me smile. I even liked the smiley sticker
on the outside of the box!
The root systems were
so impressive, and the prices were great. I was a little leary, but
you never know 'til you try! I'm definately going to be a return
customer...I've got my eye on the coral bells right now.
Thanks Dawn, Laura.
June 6, Hi Dawn, I just wanted to let you know how impressed my mom and I were with our recent order of hostas. We could not believe how healthy they were and certainly are doing well. Thanks again. Michelle
May 20, WOW, I have never been so impressed with mail order. I had given up but read the comments of your customers. Glad I took the chance. I will be ordering again for the fall. Just unable to tell at this point what I need and your seleciton and prices are awesome!!! Thank you soooo much Dianne
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September 13, Hi, I just wanted to let you know we are so impressed with your service and quality! Keep it up Dawn - just keep doing what you are doing! See you next season and looking forward to your next Newsletter! Peg
July 9, I can not put into words how much we enjoyed the tour of your gardens! WOW, Your place is the most beautiful I have ever seen and I do not know how you do it. We will be back and we came to see just where the mail order plants we have been so delighted with were coming from. Thanks again - see you soon! Donna PS will look up Gardens Plus on facebook (thanks for the tips too!)
June 21, Hi Dawn, I was so surprised when the hostas were delivered today....... and it`s Monday! This must have been a record for Canada Post! They were all absolutely perfect, not a blemish or break on any of the foliage. I spent some time finding spots for them in the garden. Have put them in potting soil and watered and will plant tomorrow. I`m impressed at how large Ginsu Knife is. Thank you Dawn for making this such a happy experience. My friends are envious so may be ordering at some point. All the best, Sylvia Vancover Island, BC
June 2, Hi Dawn, I just
want to say thank-you for opening your gardens to us yesterday. What a
phenomenal amount of work you have done to create your little piece of
heaven. Your gardens are an inspiration to anyone with a lot of shade and
teaches us what one can do when the right plant is put into its proper
May 18, Many thanks Dawn. Received
my order this afternoon.
They look terrific ! I am
one very happy customer ! :) Regards, Chris
May 17, I am not sure why I didn't stop earlier when passing by - ( I guess because your sales area isn't seen from the front where your display beds are) WOW I will be a loyal customer now that is for sure. I have never seen such selection all in one place for all my favorite perennials. Your set up is amazing - so easy to shop and your gardens. They took my breath away and it is early. I can not wait until early July for Hosta Fest and when the daylilies start blooming - Thank you Elaine
May 11, WOW thank you so much.
I am a first timer and not the last you will see my name. I know
we are way ahead out here
but didn't expect your plants to be such quality this early. I ordered
Empress Wu
from 3 places due to the shortage
last year and although all about the same size your price was 1/2 and wrapped
with TLC!!! THANKS>
you are the only one that advised they will take a bit to grow and honesty
is the best policy. Jane
May 13 - thank you so much
Dawn. Looking forward to you uploading the 2011 so I can add to my
collection again
from your awesome stock.
I am glad I ordered in January as some are already sold out! Have
a great season! Mel
2009 Comments:
Aug Hi Dawn, Thank
you!! I hope you get enough of her that I actually do get one.
I did know that there is one called May. I saw it a couple of weeks
ago at a hosta place east of Ottawa. Did not get it, but it is certainly
on my wish list. I did check for it yesterday at your place. Didn't
see it and it was just as well. I bought enough to take care of for
now. I will get it from you when it is time. Allot of things
at the other place were very expensive compared to yours. Plus I
liked getting the free ones and the discount from you. Takes the
guilt off of being so impulsive when plant shopping.
When Empress Wu is available...I
will order for mail delivery, but we want to come back again in person.
There is nothing like actually being there. Much more fun than internet
shopping. We all agreed that we enjoyed the visit to your place.
Well worth the drive. Thanks again..take care, May (Ottawa)
Jun 17 Hi Dawn, It's Kim A.
I just received Empress Wu which I ordered this week from you. Thank
you so much-she's a beauty, nice and healthy. It's already in my garden(had
a gigantic spot picked out just for her). I have to say, great service,
fast and friendly two thumbs up from me. I'll definitely order from you
Take care and have a wonderful
day, I know I will now, Kim
Jun 16 Hi and Thank you: Plants arrived a day or so ago and everything OK. Wonderful looking hostas and i look forward to seeing the cone flowers..'soup and macaroni' in bloom. look forward, also, to finding more space in the garden/yard so I can get EVEN more. Heather in PEI
Jun 15 Hi Dawn just to let you know the hostas that I ordered are all planted up and going great guns they are wonderful healthy plants. Now if I can just stay away from the catalogue things will be great. Have a great day thanks again for such nice healthy plants Marj
Jun 6 Just back home from your Gardens - Please add me to your email listing and we will come back soon. Nice job a little paradise. Gong to speak to our garden club and come as a group. Mary, Kingston
Jun 2 I have been ordering Hosta and daylilies from various web sites and just discovered yours this year due to a friend that also loves gardening. She has been ordering from you for 8 years - I do not understand why this hadn't come up earlier? You are at the top of my list - thank you for not shipping in April when they are dormant and so small they should be sold in a 2" pot!!! Even the newest ones are of great size. You really do a great job - thank you again Ruth
Jun 1 Hi Dawn! My order arrived this afternoon and all the plants look FABULOUS! I have already planted them and I am expecting that they will do really well. Everything I ordered from you last year is up and looking great too! Please keep me in mind if you are able to get "Big Kahuna" hosta. Thanks for all the effort you put in to supply such wonderful perennials! Heather AB
May 20 WOW, I am so glad I came for a visit. I am hard to impress and I just do not know how to put into words my thoughts. YOu have an amazing place the gardens are something else. You enspire me and I have decided to order a truck load of dirt and add more! My dream would to have half the gardens you have and have them so beautiful. GREAT plants and such knowledge! I will be back often. Hank, Toronto
May 18 THANK you so much for my Hosta order. So nice to have a place to order online that cares. Great prices and service mean a lot. I heard about you from some gardening friends and will now be placing a daylily order. Will get back to you as soon as I can get me list together. At this pont I have reached the 'L page' and have 28 picked! OOPS. Sandra QC
2008 comments:
Just a sample of some of the feed back I have received
19 Hello Dawn WOW...I have had tons of plants through
the mail over the years but I have never been so pleased with an order
as I am with yours. Everything looks perfect. Thanks so much and I will
order from you again come Spring. By the way, the bloom was still on the
coconut lime. Thanks Griffin
13, Re: Workshop on Daylilies, Dawn I really enjoyed yesterday's daylily
seminar, especially when we got into the garden for the demo (great shovel!)
and learning what the written descriptions of a blossom refer to.
That part was very helpful. Thank you for so kindly giving us each
a lily!
I would
come to any seminars you feel like giving later in the summer or fall,
if you do them then. Thanks again.
22 Hello, Wow!! I just got my package delivered
(on Sunday morning which is odd but perfect timing). I cannot believe
how fresh and big and beautiful these plants are. Unbelievable!
All the other mail in orders I did things came like little sticks small
and still not grown to full size even after a year. I will be back
for sure in the fall if you have any bulbs for online or next year.
very very much for accommodating my late order. I think it is worth
paying extra for shipping because of the distance and then you get perfect
plants just like I went this morning to pick them form the nursery.
on the previous Wednesday with the expected day of delivery Monday>?? ON
to MB}
Jun 11 All plants arrived in good condition and are very nice! I will certainly be making future orders! By the way, how late in the season do you accept orders or stop shipping? Thanks for everything! Heather
Jun 10 Got the plants in the mail today. Awesome! The hostas are huge. Don't know how you got the dirt off the roots, but everything looks really good. The heuchera have the most interesting color. Can't wait to see how they do with some sun. Thanks again, Jen
Got my
order today. Hostas arrived looking great. Do have any
suggestions for planting depth ?
you still accepting orders ? Thanks, Susan
Jun 6 Thanks Dawn. As usual your customer service is fantastic. The Canada Post box was sitting at the front door when I was sent my husband off to work this morning. The quality of he hostas is superb (as usual). Will carry the pen with me at all times and share your contact info with everyone. Enjoy the rest of the season. Maybe see you in the near future. Sincerely, Jocelyn
Hi Dawn, We picked up our order at the post office this afternoon. The daylilies all look really healthy and are just begging to be planted. Thanks again for the good service and great daylilies. D. Crawford
Jun 3 I received my plant order today and am VERY happy with it! Thank you so much for sending me such gorgeous BIG and healthy plants-I can't wait to get them planted. Hope the rest of the season goes well for you. I'll keep watching the website and will DEFINITELY be in touch with next year's order. Chris
May 30 Received order in good shape. It always seems like Xmas when your parcel arrives. I`ve been looking for hosta May for some time. Enjoying last years acquisitions this spring especially hosta Seafire. Thanks for the bonuses. Until next time Al
May 26 WOW, I have been ordering mail order for some time. Just discovered you and thought I would give you a try. I had heard on a gardening forum you had great stuff. Thank you great size and value for both Hosta and Daylilies. I will be ordering again soon! Nice you are still shipping! Marg Ps I really think I may visit too as you are only 2 hours away!
Hi...not sure if I am on your Email list, but if not please add my name and address. Also, if you have a printed catalogue I would appreciate it. I only have dial up and it is so slow browsing your day lilies on the Internet. The plants I purchased off you last year did very well, and I'm looking forward to purchasing more this year. Also last year, I purchased some of your $1.00 day lilies that you were selling. Every one of them came along just great. Don
changes to your site. Nice that you change it up for our benefit.
Love your enthusiasm. To others please note the old email address for Dawn
has changed. I learned the hard way! New one that gets a response
within hours is firstname.lastname@example.com. Sign up for her emails - not
spam. Just useful information. Sally
Snails and slugs -
We strongly suggest purchasing the more slug resistant (SR) varieties and
try 1 part household ammonia, drop of liquid soap with 9 parts water in
a spray bottle (or watering can or hook up a pump to a garden hose
and drop in a water
barrel?). Once a week from early spring to mid summer. Best done
at night or on a rainy day!
Spray the eyes and
soil the first round if you can early when they are just emerging. Then
again once the leaves start to unfold. Then a third time once they are
totally leafed out. This is usually all within a month or so.
If has been an extremely wet season no harm doing it more often.
If you are reading
this and they have already been leafed out for a bit - not too late.
Same solution just do it once a week for three weeks.
You can even get a
head start by doing this in the fall to be one step ahead of the spring.
They just watch if
you have any holes weeks after just do these plants and no it doesn't hurt
other plants around
your Hosta. Just do not do it when the sun is out!
If you see any frogs
or toads - do not do this area they will do the job for you!
Cutting back
The rule of thumb
is cut back the flowering stocks after the plant is finished blooming.
Letting it go to seed takes energy from the roots. If the plant looks
ragy cut more back. If I had the time I would cut back most in the
fall. At least all the spring blooming perennials. I never cut back
my grasses as they have great seed heads to admire all winter long.
Again after it is
done blooming is a great time or keep in mind; Spring bloomers 6-8 weeks
before first frost and Summer/Fall bloomers in spring.
The one thing to watch
for is winter heaving - with the thaw - freeze back and forth
they do tend to push
up out the ground more than a lot of other perennials. We try
to get out early with
the lawn is blooming with crocuses and inspect and push the
plants back down.
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'Recovering' Gul says is ready to return to competitive cricket
Islamabad, Sept 21 : Pakistani fast bowler Umar Gul has said that he is ready to return to competitive cricket following an absence of six months after undergoing knee surgery in Australia this May.
The senior left-arm quick was sent to Melbourne for an arthroscopy on the right knee after he limped out of the one-day series during the South Africa tour, following which he was ruled out of the ICC Champions Trophy and the subsequent tours of the West Indies and Zimbabwe.
According to the Daily Times, during Gul's absence, Pakistan suffered a humiliating loss in the Champions Trophy, a successful West Indies tour and a mixed tour of Zimbabwe.
Gul, who has been undergoing rehabilitation to regain complete fitness, said that he is 'pretty optimistic' of getting back the rhythm of his past successes as he feels fine at the moment, although he admitted that there is no way to find out the actual state of his fitness as the domestic first-class season is not slated to begin till October.
Gul, the leading bowler in all Twenty20 internationals with 74 wickets in 52 matches, further said that his knee is fine with no signs of any ill effects from the surgery, adding that he has started bowling in the nets as well.
However, the report said that it is unlikely that the national selectors would risk Gul, currently Pakistan's leading paceman with 163 wickets in 47 Tests and 161 in 116 ODIs, for the forthcoming matches.
--ANI (Posted on 21-09-2013)
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