The Good Banter Thread

[gardengirl]

Not a whole lot do do in Cherokee but Biltmore house is kinda close and Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge are just over the mountain. Lots of shopping there.

 

[sissy]

been to Biltmore house and best time to visit is the spring when the gardens are at there best .We can't visit to much gotta be back for Hills ville flea market .Thats what I miss most about NJ the Columbus flea market and the Englishtown flea market

 

[Carolyn22]

I like AC myself. I really love the boardwalk. I had heard with Hurricane Sandy that the boardwalk was a casualty of the hurricane. One thing I like to do when I go to these places is I like to go to the antique shops and the local garage sales. It is always so much fun and the people are always so nice.

 

[sissy]

It was damaged in some spots but still in decent shape .They have a web cam by the showboat casino

 

[CountryEscape]

Sissy, I could go dig up a variety of their colors and plant them here, but wondering if they are always that gangly, or if they would be more bushy if they had more room to grow and were separated? I can easily figure out who owns and/or farms the ground, I'm certain they would be fine with me digging some up. I would have to wear jeans, though, as it's "cut grass" that you walk through to get to them, and that stuff HURTS! I had shorts on when I took the pics, and had to use zoom, cause I couldn't get any closer. It will literally slice your legs up walking through it. Ouch.
If I get around to digging some up, would you like me to mail you a white plant, the roots of it, that is? I owe you after you sent me the "fairy stones". :blueflower:

 

[sissy]

All you have to do is look for the dry seed ponds after the flowers die .I just collected a bunch from mine .I just plant the whole seed pod and I get a bunch of plants .I found out they like poor soil conditions .I have 15 of the dark pink ones already and if you can get the seed pod after the flower dies you will have a better chance of them surviving as muture plants take alot to keep alive .I just gave 6 pots away and 3 of the pots went to my neighbors mom who sent over all the snow peas .She was admiring them and Tammy never mentioned it to me until yesterday so I gave her 3 pots and some seeds also .

 

[CountryEscape]

OK, good idea. Guess I need to go over there and tie a white string on the ones that are white, so I know which ones to send to you!!! I'll have to figure out a way to "tag" the pink and dark pink ones, too.
BTW, the seeds you sent to me, I kept one really good plant, and it's over 3' tall! Growing like gang busters now. What color will it be? Guess I don't need that color! LOL Thanks again, and I'll keep you posted when I get the seed pods.

 

[Arey]

I like AC myself. I really love the boardwalk. I had heard with Hurricane Sandy that the boardwalk was a casualty of the hurricane.

The Atlantic City Boardwalk wasn't a casualty of Superstorm Sandy, but Atlantic City has spent a lot of time and money combatting the story. There was a section of the boardwalk in a very unsafe part of the city which had become derelict over the years and was slowly collapsing. Every now and then there'd be an article or editorial in the Atlantic City Press that something would really need to be done about the eyesore. But it was in the part of the city where tourists and casino visitors never went, unless they had the bad luck to get lost. There was always something more important to spend money on. So when Superstorm Sandy came along it really smashed up that section of the boardwalk. Made for some great pictures and film clips, but also led to rumors that the boardwalk had been destroyed. Afterwards a city representative said that thanks to the storm it would not cost as much now to remove that section of the boardwalk, since Superstorm Sandy pretty much broke it up gratis. Of course if the eye of the storm had made landfall south of Atlantic City rather than north, there would have been much more serious damage. I watched the eye of the storm as it passed directory over where I was and it was quite an experience. Hopefully, a once in a lifetime experience.

 

[Carolyn22]

The Atlantic City Boardwalk wasn't a casualty of Superstorm Sandy, but Atlantic City has spent a lot of time and money combatting the story. There was a section of the boardwalk in a very unsafe part of the city which had become derelict over the years and was slowly collapsing. Every now and then there'd be an article or editorial in the Atlantic City Press that something would really need to be done about the eyesore. But it was in the part of the city where tourists and casino visitors never went, unless they had the bad luck to get lost. There was always something more important to spend money on. So when Superstorm Sandy came along it really smashed up that section of the boardwalk. Made for some great pictures and film clips, but also led to rumors that the boardwalk had been destroyed. Afterwards a city representative said that thanks to the storm it would not cost as much now to remove that section of the boardwalk, since Superstorm Sandy pretty much broke it up gratis. Of course if the eye of the storm had made landfall south of Atlantic City rather than north, there would have been much more serious damage. I watched the eye of the storm as it passed directory over where I was and it was quite an experience. Hopefully, a once in a lifetime experience.

Arey - Too bad about the politics involved in cleaning things up. Seems like it is always that way anymore, unfortunately.

I too am hoping there are no more storms like this, although I would not be surprised if there were more. I have family sprinkled all over the northeastern coast. This time it hit south of all of them, next time - they may not be so lucky. Glad you are ok though and I hope you did not sustain a lot of damage.

 

[sissy]

I have been going to AC for at least 20 years and have only ever seen them improve the board walk down there .The new casino across from the museum has helped and really they should put more work into the museum as that hold the history of AC and every time I am there I visit it .Now there shopping mall has gone down hill since all the outlet stores have opened
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[Arey]

The museum across from the Revel Casino has lately been the subject of editorials, letters to the editors, and articles lately. Mostly along the lines of "why isn't Garden Pier being repaired and re-opened?" When at the pier you look north to where the boardwalk makes a turn to run along the inlet, you will see a tall Blue building. When I lived in Atlantic City from 1961 to 1971 I had an ocean front efficiency apartment there. I could see the ocean and the inlet and had incredible views. My rent was $115 a month, utilities included. The building has gone downhill drastically since I lived there. If you walked along the boardwalk to there and followed the boardwalk along the inlet (which I would not reccomend!) you'd be approaching the section of the board walk that was knocked down in the storm. I've given up on Atlantic Since they knocked down all the wonderful early 20th century hotels, such as the Traymore and worse of all, the fantastic Marlborough-Blenheim. But lets face it, your average Atlantic City politician would knock down his grandmother's house and send her to live in a cardboard box under an expreswway overpass if a casino interest wanted the property for a parking lot and made it worth his while. There are bits and pieces of old Atlantic City Hotels and buildings scattered around the herb garden I have surrounding my wildlife pond. Years ago when my mother was going to the NJ Teachers Convention she'd take me, along, give me some small change and tell me to go walk on the boardwalk, but be back by noon when we'd go to Capt'n Starns at the end of the boardwalk at the inlet for lunch. Brother! Are those days ever gone.

 

[gardengirl]

What beautiful memories. As I get older I find a lot of things have changed in my town and it helps to remember the good times.

 

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[j.w]

House painting finally done. We went w/ black gutters instead of white cuz they always turn black w/ crud anyways :cheerful:

 

[sissy]

looks great jw and you can harly tell you have gutters on the house