Thursday, June 28, 2007

Penis Philanthropist

One year after we moved into our new ranch-style home, the Merion Bluegrass lawn was growing well and the basic flower beds were mapped out. A new home doesn’t need repairs, but a myriad of needs kept cropping up to soak up any available money. A trip to the local plant nursery put us in shock when we added up the cost of perennials, mulching and proper bricks for the borders. I would search the want ads for bargain lots of building materials, garden tools, mowers and fertilizer with much success. When people move, they don’t want to weigh down the moving van with old tools and bags of fertilizer. They practically give them away.


The one thing people would never part with are their perennials. Plants and trees are quite visible to the new owners and they usually expect that they go with the house. My whole winter was spent browsing the catalogs for hosta, iris, roses, and especially day lilies. Available in mouth-watering shades, these new hybrid day lilies come in different heights and plant habit. Some are good for along a fence, other make good border plants, each clump doubling in size every year. Unlike the road side day lilies that grow to four feet tall, bloom only briefly, and send out root runners to take over the rest of the garden, the hybrids are garden friendly. Unfortunately, a grouping of three roots cost about eight dollars, sending the cost of the needed plants into the hundreds of dollars.


One day, in a conversation with a local nursery owner, he revealed the source of some of his day lilies. The farmer lived in a nearby town and grew day lilies for a living. Some intense research turned up his address and I paid him a visit. Presented with row upon row of cultivated day lilies in every imaginable shape and color, I drooled over owning just a few of them for our garden. I parted with all the money I had, fifteen dollars, and went home with three starter clumps. Before leaving, I took a few pictures of his fields and some individual blossoms he had self propagated. I later made a set for him to keep. One low growing beauty sported forty blooms on each stalk (opening one per day) in tones of deep ruby red. Another met the dawn in diamond dusted five-inch-wide flowers in ivory and shell pink, showing an apple green center. A third boasted four inch blooms in a true lemon yellow.


The following summer, I received a call from the farmer. He informed me that he had sold his farm land to a developer and had already bought ten acres twenty miles further west. He had removed all he needed to seed the new day lily farm but was forced to leave hundreds of mature plants. The bulldozers were slated to start preparing the land for the new development the following week and if I would like, I could help myself to any number of plants for my garden. I almost dropped the phone in excitement. Here was presented to me the most desirable flowering perennials I could dream of for our garden! Free!! I thanked him and spent the next three days digging, boxing, and transporting the day lilies. The next July Fourth we had a barbecue party in the back yard. Ringing the gentle curves of the brick borders bloomed forty varieties of hybrid day lilies, glorifying our new garden and warming our hearts.

Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Modules

The need for modules It arrives at each successful businesses: you installed a new brilliant network of systems of associated of Avaya and that functioned admirably. Little too admirably. The businesses became so productive and so effective that employed them more and more had to be rented. Soon, there were not aucunes lines or prolongation available. Chaos reigned. The employees had to divide the telephones, 5 people on a telephone. You had to dismount Internet thus you could connect your telecopier. The chiefs of company spent the innumerable hours at the meetings, sending the note after the note filled out of cries for the assistance. Buying another network was suggested by a lower director of row, but it was put fire to offer ideas idiots and useless. There are an answer however, a solution, an exit of despair and misery caused by a fundamental lack of lines and prolongations. Modules. The modules are fast and easy the modules are the key which opens the door required a telephone for each employee, a port for each computer and the telecopier. To increase thus quickly and with the facility. The sleep knowing you firmly select an effective and profitable option of washing. Module T1 has two advantages: it adds 16 lines partial control T1 and better use of functionality T1. But why stop with a simple module; more employees equalizes more lines, and a module gives you only 16 additional expenses. To buy the multiple modules, and you can create the network perfect, able to support all your employees. According to the way in which configure them to you, the modules can add up to 19 lines and 44 prolongations, or 31 lines and 8 prolongations. It is your choice, based on your needs. The modules have devices the modules have another advantage: they have devices. The devices freeze on the cake of extension of network. The cake is rich and moist; savour is balanced perfectly without being too heavy. Only, the cake would be simply good. But glazing adds a new whole dimension to the cake. A new characteristic which increases the total savour of the cake. It is the same manner with the modules and the devices. They come with the possibilities avançées from telephony which help to increase the productivity and the effectiveness: the identification of visitor, send all the calls, and conference call of part 5. The devices also amplify mobility; The portable telephone are connected and the remote work of the call forwarding in the conjunction enabling you to receive calls of businesses anywhere disappear you.