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The answer to that one is probably.

I don't even know where to start lol.

I've been working steadily on making the property better.

I have a new computer since a virus killed the old one. And now this one is infected. I don't know how long I'll have access.

Or how long it will be before depression sets in again. It's been giving me a run for my money.

So how is everyone?


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Get yourself a version of AVG Virus scanner. It is a free program. Also you need to set your settings in security higher and for goodness sakes make sure you have a firewall up. Those shouls help in the future and the scanner might have a fix for the virus. If you take both computers to a reputable computer shop they should be able to get them up and running again.

Also dont open any attachments on any emails,even people you know could have a virus they are spreading around, 1 last thing, when visiting a page that tells you that you have to download something to view it click cancel and dont go to that page again.

Hope that helps a little

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Good morning, TK. I've been wondering where you've been!

I'm so sorry you've been having serious troubles w/ your PC and w/ fighting off depression.

It is good to see you back with us and I hope you can keep coming for a long time yet!!!

What have you been doing with your beautiful property?

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Hi TK, I am fine...waiting on my first grand baby.

So good to see you back kissie Hope you get everything straightened out with your 'pc' and that you are feeling better.

Now what can we tear apart and fix together? thumbup


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I have missed you, Hooper..... kissie


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TK so nice to see you again wavy


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you all are just wonderful. It's nice to be here.

Pindakaas I'll see about getting the software you suggest. I know the regular avg isn't free anymore but maybe I can save up and get it.

Merme I'll post something where I can do some pictures. It's still not much but I'm working on it an hour a day.

Tamara congrats, that is so exciting.

I've missed you too problem child.

Junie sweetie how have you been doing?


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Again, it nice to have you around---please think to save time for us.

well I have been MUCH better. It has been 22 months since the last operation & 14 months since the compression fracture & teh broken shoulder. So I am well thank you very much for asking. How have you been since you were here last???


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I've taken to falling down. And I'm doing it sober if you can believe that. Twice I've damaged my right ankle the other times it just been scrapes and bruises bad enough at my age. Yesterday I was at the public library and stepped in a pot hole and down I went. Bless the librarian she called the paramedics and the town counsel. She was far more upset than I was. She is a lovely woman.

Lets see other than that I've been diagnosed with diabetes. Rather expected that since I'm 260 lbs now. Asbergers, a form of autisum which explans a lot of troubles I've had throughout my life. And bi-polar just to round things out. So is there any surprised that I felt like someone had blind sided me with a sledge hammer?...probably not hey?

Other than that I've found out that as a do-it-yourself-er I'm a dead loss. But I keep trying.



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Oh My goodness!1 That is a lot of information to take on at one time...and so sorry about the falling.

Sounds as if you came back right at the right time. We are here so you dont have to go thru all of that stuff alone. Sometimes it helps to just have someone listen, ya know???

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Absolutely true junie. So what have you been up to?


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well for a month, ending just last week, and then for a month a few months back, we kept my youngerst DD's dog while she went to be with her DH in Bahrain (a small island country off teh coast of Saudi Arabia) he is staioned there with teh Navy & will be home sometime before Thanksgiving.
Other than that I have been working on my flower/veggie/mini water garden & putting up with my DH who has been laid off since the last of February, taking my MIL to her various Drs. appointments, & oh yea--I applied to be a part time teacher's aide at a Local Pre-school for in the fall.



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Tk you surely have had an awful lot thrown at you all at once!

Like Juniegirl said, this is a great place to be when life is rough. It has pulled me through some very tough times.

I know it is a bit daunting & frightening to hear the diagnosis of diabetes, but please please do all you can to take care of yourself. Talk to your doc, your diabetic nurse educator, the dietician -- whoever-- take a class even. Just ask all the questions you need to, even if you think they sound silly. The more you understand, the more you know, the better equipped you are to manage the diabetes successfully.

Making lifestyle changes is never an easy task but the rewards will be so worth it. And we will be here every step of the way for you. I believe in you and know you can do it! thumbup

Can't wait to see pictures when you can post some.




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I want to see pictures of your flower/veggie/mini water garden. Do you have any? Wow, layoffs that's really difficult. I hope you get the job you applied for. I'll cross my fingers.

I posted some pictures under 10 year plan. They aren't very good but I'm getting alittle better as time goes on.


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No matter what happens in life, someone will always be here to comfort you and try help you through kissie

..and Ya, I want to see more pics also Carol grin


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avg 9.0 is still free tk......I put it on my new one .

Also have Mal ware bits free.

We have a computer specialists on here, YOu can click an ask Mogie anything .

Tk hooper ,

My grandaughter is almost 4 now an a real cutie. I know hyou been gone that long .
I been doing oodles of flowers an plants since we met. Really fine traders on here.
Sorry to hear your in so many dumbs in life. We had more rain an snow then we know what to do with. 4 foot of snow this winter, an Canada had none like it .
That was a long winter. I am really enjoying summer .

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Here is the site

free.avg.com/us-en/download

I have it
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I'll download it when I go back in to town to pick out my dryer.

Have you posted pictures of your granddaughter on here anywhere? I'd love to see some.

It was a cooler than normal winter here too, nothing like you had of course but I did have to put on a coat and was snowed in for about a week. Like you I'm really enjoying summer. Although spring clean up was a mess because of the bad sprained ankle last year. So the weeds got to multiply and all i could do was watch while they dropped seeds everywhere. Really has put me behind but I keep plugging.

I'm looking forward to seeing all of your flowers. Are you still growing orchids?


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Tk,

Orchids kicked the bucket from something last winter.. Now the christmas cactus is doing that too.. The leaves wrinkle an they die.. Anyonwe know why?

I get some photos here .

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over watering/humidity? that's what the jade plant does anyway.


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Originally Posted by tkhooper
I want to see pictures of your flower/veggie/mini water garden. Do you have any?
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Go look under landscapes --then Water gardens.
I have my own thread there for the half-barrel water garden I have.

I will post some of my flower beds in total today some time in "Blooming Fine 11" OK??? In blooming fine & possibly in what did you do in the garden today is a lot of my flower photos taken individually.


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So I get to chase you all over the forum today huh? Cool, I look forward to it. I'm sure your stuff is gorgeous.


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I guess if this is your thread you can say what gets posted--so here is =some old pictures of my flower beds--but hey they are in the same place now--perhaps tomorrow I will post teh rocked area & some new photos for ya...

PS I saw that you found my half barrel.

the first one is in my front between the porsch & the driveway.

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This one is to the west of my deck in the back yard.

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I want your design ability. Just wait until you see my hodge podge lol. The moles/voles got all of my crocuses and most of my tulips before I even knew they were here. And the rabbits man, can they chew through some dusty millers.

Is that cedar edging you have around the second flower bed?


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just remember--Moles do not like daffodils.--so find lots of them you like to plant
I can't help with rabbits, sorry.

The flower bed casement is made with treated lumber... 2 x 6 x 14 ft long & 4 ft wide.

Bless your kind words on my design ability--but it is all just trial & error.--I move thngs & then try again m=next year--and really I began bu putting the smallest in the front so I could see the taller flowers in the back---(my kitchen window looks out on this flower bed, you see).


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I hear you. I'm growing daffodils just as quickly as I can. The front right foundation flower bed has a nice row of them clear across. I'm slowly adding them to the sidewalk bed but it will be quite some time before I have a nice full boarder where I would be comfortable buying crocus again for that area.

I'm also harvesting a large crop of chive seeds since I understand the rabbits aren't all that fond of the onion family.

I also picked up a package of Alpine Rosy Bells that are suppose to be in the onion family on the ornamental side. We'll see if I can discourage those buggers.


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New pics Carol grin New pics..I want to see the progress this summer.


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Carol,

The good part. How neat the back yard looks with the display there. I remember when it was nothing.
Good choice for a view. You have more land than you say.

Now the bad part. My lawn is polluted with dandelion.. An moles galore in the beds.
I put castor bean in one so far to see if it works.
2 others died.

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Dodge. we have 1/2 acre. if you pay close atention to the cut grass, where it stops being cut is where our land stops. This was all 1 field. Our house & the one to the north were put on the front half of the field. The back half was to be 2 more houses until the economy did a turn.


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JunieGirl, your area looks flat, even in the distance. Is it windy?

TK, I loaded a free Avast scan. My brother in law is a computer genius and that's what he uses too.



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Tk the house is very neat. Love the color.
YOur real busy.

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I have that too.. An I arent a genius......

carol I paid close attention, clap Your really rural not town.
Lots of houses all below me like that.. I am farm an they keep wanting to buy for houses an Towers.. No sell. Were still alive.

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Dodge, I hear ya on the dandelions...I built my house in the middle of a hay field..if it wasn't for weeds I'd have no lawn lol


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Of course you can make dandeline wine..LOL

Welcome to the club. My lawn is the weedy hay patch.. Clover an alfalfa grow better in my lawn then fields.

Couple weeks ago is first I ever seeded any of it . Dog died this winter and we had a huge bare spot to fix.. I reseeded it .


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I'm saving the lawn for last. No reason to seed something that I'm going to dig up lol.

I've started painting the deck. Based on the progress I made today I should be done with all of the painting projects about the time it snows. I am so slow.


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Slow and steady wins the race TK. kissie


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Well I got the wrong product for the deck. There is 50 dollars down the drain. I'll talk to the hardware place after I see how much credit I have left. So probably next month.


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I dropped off the Thompson waterseal that was also the wrong purchase over at my neighbors and we got to talking. He told me a much simpler way to fix the shed. I'm glad I gave him the sealer he saved me a big headache. My skill saw was missing a piece that would have caused me all kinds of problems.

So now right after I finish off the grass cutting I can get right to work on the shed. Then it's just the matter of buying the white exterior paint and getting to work. So I'm a happy camper.



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Back to discussing my garden. Even though I need to focus on the house repairs right now there were a few garden things that I couldn't resist.

Wal-Mart had an end of season sale. I ended up with: white and purple crocuses (60), Daffodils (15), Double Tulips (15) and a Red Crepe Myrtle, Dwarf.

I'm thrilled with the purchases and had to take time out of the maintenance around here to get them all planted.


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