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It is much safer to have your cats stay inside, there are so many ways they can be hurt or killed outside.

You don’t need to leave door open. They let you know when they want out or in.

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Cor, where do you live! Best i got was a nice old carpet (still have it). When i drove the bin waggon the lads got loads of good stuff, and even people running out with stuff to ‘rehome’.
Freecycle is brilliant idea, go for it.

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That’s a good diet, but your weight is normal for your height. Here’s my diet- I eat cooked egg whites with bread and a little mayo. I can also add salt or pepper, or both, as much as my liking, just not too much! I eat like that for all meals, or just breakfast and dinner, until you lose enough weight as you want. It’s actually really healthy, but I just remember to drink milk, orange juice,and take a multi-vitamin, so that way I don’t miss out on all of the important nutrients that you need. Hope I helped.

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To start in landscape gardening the basic tools you will need are….A good wheel Barrow…Strong Spade and fork… A Pick and Shovel….A good Tree Saw plus small and large pruning shears….Some steel toe cap boots and loose fitting overhauls….Later maybe a Rotovator…Lawn Mower….Chain saw……Then after a while you will know what you want to do a job….Most people have their own mower and some tools so ask….Get some flyer’s printed and put them through the doors of your local area….Put adds in your local shops saying all sorts of gardening work done at reasonable rates…Give it a go you can earn good money if your willing to work hard at it…..The main thing is to give yourself an hourly rate when you estimate a job….Look for similar things in your area and find out what they charge then undercut them slightly……Good luck..

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You could make a simple box long enough to hold your gardening tools with a hinged lid. Finish this off with a back on it and convert it to a bench. I would put a few holes in the bottom for drainage of moisture. If you do make it, try to make the lid for the box wider and longer than the box itself so any rain would run off of it and not into it.

Good luck hope it helps

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Get a securiy video system they are cheap. And you can monitor it from any pc in the world. Here’s a direct link to some on ebay.

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No. But definitely a treat to “fair and balanced”.

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They’re like Pat, They think Haitians deserved it because they made a pact with the devil.

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You obviously have no concept of what the 1st Amendment is all about.

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They have been the only station to expose the thieves, thugs, commies, perverts, anti and unAmerican people and ideas of the people that obama has surrounded himself with. There has not been one single of his henchmen that have expressed any PATRIOTIC ideas or programs, only new and bigger ideas of how to push corruption, deception, and plundering of America’s treasury. He is obviously a Communist based on Marxism. A total failure in every country that has tried it. It fails because it based on stealing from the workers and then giving to the nonworkers. It is false and misleading to call him a Socialist. The ‘redistribution of wealth’ that he calls for is the basis of Communism and is nothing but a euphemism for stealing the workers blind. THis country never became ‘great’ by stealing money from the people and giving handouts to the lazy. Fox News is the ONLY TV that has presented all the hidden nastiness of Obama. They do try to present the good side of the news also but there is NO good side to Obama and his fellow travelers ideology.

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Oh but you support the hate from msnbc huh !!!! Hypocrisy ia abound today!!!

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Yes

This is true. More people watch CBS News than the FOX NEWS. That is a fact.

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22=2x

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It’s not impossible. Maybe you could try putting your question here for a better response:

http://www.evthreads.com/

Good luck!

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She was Jewish.

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Oh dear, I read the book back in high school which was 6 years ago. Lol. If I remember correctly, it’s a book about reincarnation. A girl finds out that in her past life, her and her half-sister knew each other. I forgot their exact relationship. She doesn’t find out until the end of the book though. I forgot all that happens in between. For some reason, I keep thinking of a bone. I think she finds out because of bones or some artifact. Gahh…sorry, not much help. I think you should use reincarnation as the theme for the book.

I’m sure if you google it, you will find a site with a summary of the book.

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False

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/medical/amybruce.asp

Hope that helps.

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Square footgardening is the way to go!!
Look it up on google has books qnd everything on it !

Easy as 123

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Hi! Well it’s a Great idea that you want to grow a garden. You have many choices since you live in a sub-tropical climate. If i were you i would start simple, as i assume you are new to gardening.

Try Beats, Onions, Tomatoes, Radishes, or turnips. These are pretty easy to grow, Just make sure you water regularly and keep patient! Now Tomatoes where i am from are grown all over the place as an annual, as they will die in our frosts. We are actually the Tomato capitol of the world! (Yolo County) Anyways, Since you live in a tropical climate, your tomatoes may last longer than a year, but they quit producing their best within the first year, so i would probably recommend pulling them out after 7-8 months. As for the others that i mentioned, just harvest when they are a size you want and when you need them! The great thing about onions is they store for a long time. Harvest them when the tops start to die. Once they start doing that, let them sit on top of the soil for a day or two to dry the outside. This makes them last longer in storage.

Later when you get the hand at gardening, you can try stuff a tiny bit more advanced, such as beans, corn, Squash, etc.

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Now plants like it when the soil is very loose so they can move their roots around to get more nutrients from the soil, So tilth is important. Before planting your garden, till your garden well. You can use a digging pickaxe, a shovel and hoe, or you can rent (or use one you own) a rototiller or cultivator.

Once your soil is well cultivated, i would recommend amending your soil with a fertilizer, ideally a composted manure. Steer and chicken manure is most common. Just follow instructions on back of the packet! Now contrary to popular belief, Composted manure is usually odorless (well, it doesn’t stink, it smells like normal soil pretty much). This is because it has been aged and composted (composting is another you should consider, but ill wait to answer anything about that till you ask ). Neither does it attract flies, as they have no reason to eat dirt!

Once you have amended the soil, it is time to plant. Now you need to think about how you want to irrigate your garden. Do you want to use a simple-lazy way of using a sprinkler? Do you want to use simple, yet time consuming row flooding? Or do you want to invest in a soaker hose, which is effective and almost no upkeep? Well i would recommend using the soaker hose, if you have the small amount of money to invest. To use it, just put directly next to all of your plants. Water every week, or when the soil is dry, and keep it on until it looks moist. These slowly water your crops.
The row-flooding method is also effective. What you do for that is just dig a trench (also referred to a drill or ditch) near the plants, and water the trenches. This makes it so you are watering the roots, not the top of the soil.

Hope my advice helped! And have a fun time with your new garden!

If you need any questions answered directly about gardening, you may contact me at SamuelMonteon@yahoo.com

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I know of NO vegetable that will be able to live being watered with seawater. There are salt-tolerant plants (sea oats, bayberry), but that doesn’t mean they can be watered directly with seawater. Just that they can survive a salty-sea-spray environment.

They only thing I could think of is growing a tank full of kelp, which you could keep topped off with your seawater. But then, it would be more practical wo simply take your boat closer to shore and harvest some when you need it, rather than grow your own.

You might consider a rainwater collection system, and just plant on a large container of water just for your plants, which you could replenish on land if rain is scarce. Then you could choose any easily container grown vegetable that you like.

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That depends on what you like to eat.I have a garden going every spring and fall.Right now,spring,we have tomatoes,yellow squash,okra,corn,two kinds of potatoes,onions and peas.It’s doing very nicely.It’s a whole lot of work though so be ready for it,alot of weeding and keeping bugs out.Stink bugs and aphids are particularly bad around here(in Texas).The plants that are the least work for us are potatoes and onions.They hardly need any water and the bugs don’t like them as much as the other stuff.You should get a good gardening book and study it.That’s what I did and it helped alot.Different vegetables have different water requirements and some need fertilizing more than others,etc.It’d be good to learn about all that if you intend to garden every season.The best way to get the ground ready is to put compost in the dirt and till it in.Small gardens are easy to manage.Ours is 20 x40 and has 11 rows.

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I don’t know where you live so if you take my advise just adapt it to your area.
In the fall before the ground freezes, we till the garden spot up and add cut up leaves and till those in also. As you said, you are just starting so you will need to get all of the grass clumps and rocks out of the area you want to plant in. For a smaller garden you can hand dig with a shovel but a tiller is easier. This will help to build the soil up for next spring.
Over the winter is when to plan what and where you want to plant. When you are deciding what to plant, keep in mind a few things:
1. How much space you have and how much space the veggies need.
2. Are they early, mid or late season veggies. Potatoes and lettuce are early and here in Indiana we plant in late March where as tomato’s and cucumbers are mid season. We plants peas in late March and then after they are done harvesting we plant beans in the same spot. Etc.
3. You need to know the what can be planted next to each other and what can’t.
You should also think about crop rotation. This is where you don’t plant the same family of veggies in the same space for at least four years. This will help with pest and disease control.
You will need to have a ph test kit to tell you if the soil needs to be amended to establish a neutral ph level.
As soon as the soil can be tilled in late winter do it. We till the garden two to three times before planting just to get the soil freed up for the roots to grow.
Once the garden is planted you will need to control weeds and pests. Straw is good once the plants are established. It helps to keep the weeds down and retains moisture when it rains or you water. We use liquid Ivory soap mixed with water as a spray for pests. For some of the tougher ones we might dust with Sevin.
There is so much more to tell you but this is not the space to do it. Your best bet is to buy a good book or two on gardening and to visit some web sites. Cornell and Purdue Universities have a lot to offer on there web sites. For your first garden I would start out small with a 10′x10′ or a10′ x15′ just to get the hang of it. As with us, the more you garden and learn the bigger the garden gets. Good luck.

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1. Raking up grass in a growing area is a lot harder than it sounds, and it wouldn’t accomplish much either. Grass is virtually indestructible. So if you want your planting area to be grass-free, it’s better in the long run to either (a)dig it up and turn the plugs upside down, or (b) till it under. This won’t get rid of grass forever and ever, but it’ll keep your garden patch tidy and easier to weed as the growing season progresses. FYI: You will need to till your garden every year, preferable in mid-March as the weather warms up and the ground isn’t as hard.

2. You won’t need straw. Unless you’re wanting to plant more grass, in which case #1 above is a moot point. Once your garden patch is tilled under or dug up, no soil additives (such as MiracleGro or peat moss) are absolutely necessary. Later when you have more experience with preparing/planting your own garden, you might want to invest in some vermicompost as an all-natural soil additive. You will spread this on the surface of the planting area and till it under.

3. Plant your fruits/veggies in the evening, when there’s about 2 hours of daylight left and it’s not as hot. Plants generally don’t like being transplanted in the heat of the day. Evening is best, especially after a good long drink of water to settle them in.

4. Check your local weather to see when your next few rain showers are forecasted. Try to pick a day before that and you shouldn’t have to worry much about watering. Some plants, such as tomatoes, prefer hot, dry weather. If they were overwatered, you wouldn’t want to eat them.

5. Pick veggies and enjoy.

The plants will be done at the end of summer. What that certain someone probably meant is she’s going to be using scraps from her compost heap or vermicompost and tilling it in her garden patch next year to enrich the soil.

If you want watermelon/tomatoes/corn next year, you’ll need to plant them next year. Food plants aren’t perennial (meaning they die back in the fall, come back in the spring).

Hope this helps and happy gardening

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First make a plan of what you want.
Investigate the space, water requirements, soil conditions of each.

The soil is very important. Have a good, thick (at least 6″) base of good potting soil if possible. Manure that has been seasoned is also good. Make sure that you also have good drainage.

I don’t know what you want to grow but any kind of pepper and tomato are fairly easy for beginners. Mints and herbs are also fun and they demand little space.

Have a great time with this. You can start in one half of an old whiskey cask if you want to start small. I grow 5 pepper and tomato plants (mixed) in two barrels.

Mulch well if you don’t want to spend all of your time weeding and plan on watering it 3 times a week.

Have fun.

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You didn’t say whether you have long hair or short or whether your hair is relaxed or natural.
Do you use a head band when you work out?

Besides airing out your scalp and a light towel dry to your hair roots, you could layer some fragrance.

Select a subtle, fresh fragrance spray.
Spray the air above your head and step into the spray so it falls on your hair. (Watch your eye)
Don’t spray your hair directly.

If you have a pure scent (oil), a few drops massaged into your hair may work .
Tea tree, with it’s disinfectant properties, may help too. All natural, no pharmaceuticals..

Your shampoo might be stripping your head of oil so the sweat glands are working over time.
Also, ph in your skin and hair is affected by how acidic your diet is.

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Live your life dude. There is no such thing as heaven (there is no proof of it).

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Hopefully a “master of physics” can figure this one out w/out the help of “Yahoo Answers”!! If not, you better ask for your $$ back!!

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You don’t have to do anything about that
Because you didn’t do wrong things
It’s not your fault at all
You must care about you and your boyfriend for a good relationship.

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I suppose you could ask someone that you’ve kissed before…

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No one here who is qualified to answer that question will. I’m sorry! Please call your doctor’s office tomorrow morning. Stress to the receptionist that you are breastfeeding and don’t want to wait until the end of the day. You can also call your pediatrician’s office.

For general medication information, go to www.rxlist.com

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Try less and then none.

Begin making your own w fresh fish, Panko or other, mayo for binding, eggs, even just water.

Bake in oven at 350 until golden.

Fill up on salad first, then protein.

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OMG i need one too!!!

LOL Shepherdgirl, I totally need one now so I can have the tiniest guard dog ever. No one will see it jumping out of my purse to maul them when the baddies mug me!!!

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You or you mom only have a tempray card which is of course not reloadabe
you will get the reall one in the mail here some information from
greendiot website

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You can reload your temporary Green Dot card by going to a participating retailer or setting up an online reload from your bank. Fees may apply for non-direct deposit reloads.

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Your Temporary Card can be used anywhere debit Visa or MasterCard cards are accepted in the U.S. For non PIN transactions. They can be used at stores for signature purchases; all you have to do at the register is select “credit” and sign. You will not be able to make purchases that require a PIN number until you receive your Personalized Card. You can also use your Temporary Card online, and to make purchases over the phone.

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Temporary Cards cannot be used at ATMs; you will be able to use your Personalized Card to withdraw money from ATMs. You will not be able to get cash back when making purchases either because Temporary Cards cannot be used to make purchases that require a PIN number. Temporary Cards cannot be used to make purchases outside of the US, including purchases made online or over the phone with companies that are outside of the US.

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For those without bank accounts it can be a good way to handle money
there are fees involved, so ALWAYS be aware of what each transaction costs you

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Anything emo. You sound emo, so skinny jeans and retro t shirts with a lot of color should be your 2 main staples.

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Wow you sound EXACTLY like me! Except that I’ve just graduated…. Great taste, btw. If you’re bored of the stores you already shop at, I recommend online shopping. You could definitely move into some contemporary designer stuff. Try shopbop.com and revolveclothing.com. AND, they have great return policies, so don’t worry about that. Some designers to check out- Marc by Marc Jacobs, Dallin Chase, Miss Davenporte, Foley + Corinna, Catherine Malandrino, Diane von Furstenburg (DVF). If you’re not into spending that kind of cash, check the sales regularly (especially shopbop), but if you’re already into Neiman’s and Saks, that shouldn’t be a problem : ). Also, see if there is a Madewell store in your area- it’s a little offshoot of J.Crew with younger-style clothes that are great basics. Good luck!!!

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Sounds like you have cicada killer wasps. They dig burrows into the ground. The opening to a burrow is about an inch in diameter. There are several species of cicada killers, so they don’t all have the same colors.

Http://ww2.lafayette.edu/~hollidac/cicadakillerhome.html

There used to be an American elm tree in my grandmother’s back-yard that exuded sap. The sap was a food source for cicada killers, so they burrowed all around the tree, because the tree was like liquor source for the; they’d get drunk on the sap. The tree eventually died and the burrows disappeared over the next 5 to 7 years. The cicada killers moved to a new neighborhood bar in Hooker, OK.

Tell your exterminator that you have cicada killers, but you don’t know where the burrows are. I don’t know if there is an insecticide for them or not, but competent exterminators are very smart and should know what you are talking about. If there is an insecticide for them, exterminators should now. Just try not to disturb a cicada killer. I never got stung (I was about 10 years old), nor did any animals I know of, but those cicada killers were drunk once they had enough sap, so they didn’t react normally.

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I have a phobia of bees to, but I ride my bike all the time, unless there are a lot of bees around don’t sweat it, they won’t sting you cause its suicide for them (unless you make them mad) and you can always ride away faster than the bee will fly after you, so just go out there and ride your bike

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Dont waste your money on those products..

They will NOT attack you unless you provoke them.. So just keep your distant. And if one happens to come close to you do not swat at it just remain calm and stay still until it leaves.