Vicki Warner

@VickiJW (260)

Canada

Joined myLot 9 years ago

Have traveled extensively, but now a sort of settled in homebody! Always interested in meeting new folks on line. Don't put up with spam gracefully.

www.warnerwords.weebly.com

Vicki Warner's Discussions

Reluctant Veggie growing 2020

Vicki Warner @VickiJW (260) • Canada 25 Oct 20

It was a beautiful summer once the rain decided to stop. This was the year I was not planning to grow veggies. I planned to just pick them up from the farmers market, and I would only have to do my thing with the saffron plants...

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5 people

And there was light!

Vicki Warner @VickiJW (260) • Canada 25 Oct 20

I always fly into a tizzy at this time of year. It’s the darkness of the mornings and nights, and the shortness of the days that simply take the joy out of these months. I want spring and summer to last all year. But it never...

lighting

decor

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6 people

566 are waiting for me!

Vicki Warner @VickiJW (260) • Canada 17 Oct 20

October is the craziest month for bounty from the garden for me. Some years back I decided to fill my raised beds with a saffron crop. Over the space of four years the crocus sativus corms I planted have increased dramatically in...

saffron

spice

gardening

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7 people

Blooming Lovely!

Vicki Warner @VickiJW (260) • Canada 16 Oct 20

The autumn days are here now, and each day seems to be shorter and darker than the last. To be honest, it has always been a most difficult time of the year for me. I crave light and the gorgeous days of summer, even though this...

flowers

hoya inside flowers

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5 people

Treasure holding treasures

Vicki Warner @VickiJW (260) • Canada 14 Oct 20

Came across this beautiful basket, and it just spoke my name! It is huge, and a masterpiece of craftsmanship, if you care about baskets. Funny, it happened to catch my eye just as I was wondering where on earth I was going to...

basketry storage containers

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3 people

The days are shorter...but the veggies still manage to be delicious!

Vicki Warner @VickiJW (260) • Canada 14 Oct 20

I still have a very few veggies left in the garden, now that the weather has decided to move down a gear and prepare for winter. I’m picking beautiful long carrots on a daily basis, and some nice little beets. There is also a bed...

gardening

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6 people

Return to the new world

Vicki Warner @VickiJW (260) • Canada 13 Oct 20

Amazing! It’s like I dropped out for a few years, and now, looking at things after all that time, how things have changed! When I was last here life was less complicated. Now it’s a whole different world, and yes, of course I’m...

covid

returning

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5 people

Are you a "selfie" fan?

Vicki Warner @VickiJW (260) • Canada 24 Sep 15

I never thought I would actually say this word, let alone presume that you would see it over and over in this post! You see, I've really tried to withhold my feelings about this for quite some time now, but it will just cause me...

selfies

importance

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8 people

No cellphone for baby!

Vicki Warner @VickiJW (260) • Canada 19 Sep 15

It wasn't all that long ago that when someone did something really silly you would say, "use your brains!" to indicate they need to think more carefully before repeating that again. But what if you no longer had to use your...

baby brain development

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11 people

She ain't no Lady... She be my gun-totin' horse ropin' bes' friend!

Vicki Warner @VickiJW (260) • Canada 19 Sep 15

She slaughters our language. Her 'puter has given up the ghost a couple of times. Just can't keep up with her disregard for all the red thingy's, even when the poor thing's trying mightily to present a reasonable-looking...

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17 people

Would you myLot on your last day?

Vicki Warner @VickiJW (260) • Canada 18 Sep 15

I've been reading here how some people feel they love being on this site so much, they are addicted to it. As I look at the huge numbers of discussions they've participated in, I think I agree! I enjoy being here too. Over time...

mylot addiction

life priorities

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20 people

We're Watching Our World Change!

Vicki Warner @VickiJW (260) • Canada 16 Sep 15

You cannot watch the thousands and thousands of refugees and migrants pouring into Europe without feeling enormous sadness at their plight, and yet worry for the future of our world as we know it. Everything is changing, and it's...

refugees

global community

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5 people

Thinking about the moon

Vicki Warner @VickiJW (260) • Canada 14 Sep 15

I was thinking last night about the power of the moon. We all know it controls the tides with its gravitational pull. When the oceans face the moon they are pulled towards it, and high tide occurs. Animals seem to be affected...

moon

lunatics

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3 people

California Dreaming

Vicki Warner @VickiJW (260) • Canada 14 Sep 15

The shorter days are arriving now. It's been a gradual process, that you always try to deny, but when you wake up early, it seems one morning you have to acknowledge it's here and happening! I haven't even finished in the garden...

summer

shortdays

california

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8 people

I want a Cleaning Lady!

Vicki Warner @VickiJW (260) • Canada 14 Sep 15

I love my home - I really do. I hate cleaning it though - I really do. It's a thankless waste of time, and yet it has to be done. It's not as if you can clean, and just sit back and admire it. In a couple of days you get to do it...

cleaning lady

paid work

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17 people

I want a cleaning lady!

Vicki Warner @VickiJW (260) • Canada 13 Sep 15

I love my home - I really do. But I don't like cleaning it, - I really don't. The thing I can't understand is how all that dust collects so quickly. And how the fridge gets all that gunky stuff in it. To be honest, I love it when...

cleaning lady

gardening

paid work

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2 people

Don't know what's for dinner?

Vicki Warner @VickiJW (260) • Canada 13 Sep 15

Sometimes, no matter how hard I try, I just can't seem to think of an easy dinner. I don't like to go the fast food route, and it's usually on the weekend, like now, that everything in me just rebels against the idea of...

omelette

salad

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12 people

Plastic surgery overkill

Vicki Warner @VickiJW (260) • Canada 13 Sep 15

Oh my, I keep on looking at the dreadful examples of plastic surgery overkill in the ads on my site, and I can hardly bear to see them, even though they pop up all the time, and you'd think I'd be used to it by now. Guess I'm...

plastic surgery

ads

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9 people

My harvesting excitement!

Vicki Warner @VickiJW (260) • Canada 13 Sep 15

I'm truly wondering about my excitement whenever I harvest from my garden! More exactly I'm hoping it isn't a mental health problem! Just yesterday I harvested this lumpy rhizome from my ginger plant that's been growing in a pot...

ginger

harvest

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6 people

Cabbage butterflies

Vicki Warner @VickiJW (260) • Canada 12 Sep 15

Today I planted out my broccoli and winter cauliflower seedlings in their raised bed. I hadn't noticed any of the little white cabbage butterflies for some time, but as soon as I had finished planting there were at least 6 of them...

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4 people