YES!!! The "I'm So Happy!" thread - 2011

[Martin Baxendale]

Martin,

A belated congratulations on the grandfatherhood!!   

Thanks Paul.

[angie]

Martin, Ben looks lovely hopefully we will get to see a picture of you and Ben soon.

Angie

[Lesley Cox]

Back last November at my market our community stall was occupied by a group of fathers of boys from Waitaki Boys' High, selling tree paeony plants for school funds. One father has a large paeony nursery up the road and he donated the plants. I bought (for $30) a fine plant of the beautiful 'Boreas.' He mentioned at the time that he was "going out of them" as the farm work was as much as he could cope with.

So I was very happy indeed on Wednesday when he phoned me and asked would I like a couple. I said yes please and how much would they be. Nothing, he said, want rid of them. So he arrived with 3 plants yesterday, (he'd asked me what colours I'd like and I'd said red and white) a very good plant in a large pot, of 'Kronas' and two enormous plants of a white whose name I didn't get but the photo he showed me was of a large, frilly pure white semi double with a bunch of yellow stamens. I have the catalogue somewhere and will check. These two have about 20 stems each from the base and are a metre high. The fact that I have absolutely nowhere to put them hasn't discouraged me a bit. Will be digging up some more lawn I think.

[Paul T]

Lesley,

You still have SOME space then.  Our lawn went years ago. 

[Maggi Young]

Back last November at my market our community stall was occupied by a group of fathers of boys from Waitaki Boys' High, selling tree paeony plants for school funds. One father has a large paeony nursery up the road and he donated the plants. I bought (for $30) a fine plant of the beautiful 'Boreas.' He mentioned at the time that he was "going out of them" as the farm work was as much as he could cope with.

So I was very happy indeed on Wednesday when he phoned me and asked would I like a couple. I said yes please and how much would they be. Nothing, he said, want rid of them. So he arrived with 3 plants yesterday, (he'd asked me what colours I'd like and I'd said red and white) a very good plant in a large pot, of 'Kronas' and two enormous plants of a white whose name I didn't get but the photo he showed me was of a large, frilly pure white semi double with a bunch of yellow stamens. I have the catalogue somewhere and will check. These two have about 20 stems each from the base and are a metre high. The fact that I have absolutely nowhere to put them hasn't discouraged me a bit. Will be digging up some more lawn I think.

Wow! Now that is something worth finding some space for.... what a treat they'll be in flower. Who need grass anyway? It's not as if you have horses to graze!

[Lesley Cox]

We NEED horses to graze! Roger is on the look out for a couple of goats but they are too omnivorous for my liking and don't take kindly to being confined.

[Kristl Walek]

this one is not for the faint of heart....and not sure if it made me "so happy"....even beyond the adventurer in me

http://www.angelfire.com/ak2/intelligencerreport/scariest_path.html

[Luc Gilgemyn]

O.M.G. !!!! 

[maggiepie]

Kristl, I can't even bring myself to click on the play button

[ranunculus]

Very similar to the route we take every day to get our daily paper ... for some reason they won't deliver!!!   

[art600]

this one is not for the faint of heart....and not sure if it made me "so happy"....even beyond the adventurer in me

http://www.angelfire.com/ak2/intelligencerreport/scariest_path.html

I found myself viewing at a 45 dgree angle away from the edge.  Had to stop halfway.

Do you know why it was built - and is there a coffee shop at the top 

[Maggi Young]

".....one of the most dangerous walkways in the world, built by workers to transport materials between the Chorro and Gaitanejo Falls ......"

I don't care if there is a coffee shop at the top... with free cake..... not even that could induce me up that path. 
 On the other hand, I could imagine Martin Rogerson scampering up there like a mountain goat.......
He's welcome!

[art600]

".....one of the most dangerous walkways in the world, built by workers to transport materials between the Chorro and Gaitanejo Falls ......"

I don't care if there is a coffee shop at the top... with free cake..... not even that could induce me up that path. 
 On the other hand, I could imagine Martin Rogerson scampering up there like a mountain goat.......
He's welcome!

Maggi

Judging by the state of the guard rail, it must have been some time ago.

How do you ever start such a trail.

[Maggi Young]

How do you ever start such a trail.

 Kristl and Martin would say for the adventure.... I'm inclined to think.... serious loss of will to live.....

It's not so much the state of the handrail that bothers me... more the state of the path....

[Kristl Walek]

The reason I end up running into a these kinds of clips is because I actually do spend time on the "outdoor adventure" type sites on line---it gives me a good perspective on little known wild places people have explored (which is then cross referenced for plants). For me, the wild spaces I might find myself in are as important as the plants that live there.