TipsFromtheGarden-MoneySavingIdeasForFeeders&Containers

TipsFromtheGarden~
MoneySavingIdeasForFeeders&Containers~

Old Fashion baby Carriage 

Good Morning my dear Friends & Followers and Welcome

to Saturday's TipsFromtheGarden!

I hope that you all have Enjoyed my post every Saturday

on Gardening Tips that I started a couple of months ago?

 At least I know I have had fun bringing you these wonderful and

fun tip for the Garden and lots of these I have used myself!

Well my dears for today I thought I would try to think of some

fun ideas that would be great for the coming spring & that would be Money

Saving idea's for all of you All! Around the world!!!

We all could use money saving idea's for our gardens,

backyards and patio's where ever we live and which ever country 

we happen to live in too! 

So I have a list of ideas that I hope will help ALL OF YOU!

TIPS FROM THE BACKYARD

1-Did you know by planting more flowering trees it will enabled the 

Anna hummingbird to expand their breeding range around your area.

2-Place fruit slices in a suet basket [you can get these at any local bird selling

area products at your stores],the woodpeckers will truly love this special snack

and the basket works great!

3-When using eggs whites, don't throw out the yolks.

Scramble them, cool and put them in your bird feeders for the birds.

It will give them the extra calcium that they need and they will love it.

4-Pecans are another favorite of the birds too. What you need to do, 

is wait until they have lost their fresh taste.

Then put out a handful in a mesh bag and hang them from either a tree limb or

from your patio hook. It won't take long for the birds to find the treat.

5-The Suet cage or basket are perfect for the birds for either food that you

can buy at the local stores, but your own foods in there too, or nesting 

materials in them to help with breeding time. 

6-Another great tip is the Old wheelbarrow. Usually an old and rustic one is the 

best of all! Once you find it, fill it with good potting soil and whatever type of

plants or flowers you would like inside the wheelbarrow. 

The best I would do, is either great colors of ivy because it grows so well

and will grow over the sides and look grand. The other would be very colorful 

flowers that are winter save with lots of color. 

After this find a great focal point in your yard, backyard or

close near your patio so it will look grand in your yard.

7-Containers is the next tip my friends, So how about some different 

and interesting planters for the on coming Spring.

You can use old leather shoes, old leather boots, wagons, wheelbarrow's,

work boots, old lunch box's, old cars, or any thing you could 

find for and interesting planter. Just don't forget to make drainage holes

in your new interesting containers.

8-An Simple Dish Bird Feeder, here's another simple money saving

idea for an bird feeder. Its a very simple and you can also hit the bargain 

stores for great glass plates that can be used for a Bird Feeder. 

All you do is make sure that you can add twine to the glass plate.

It should be at least 4 sides so it doesn't tip over in the weather conditions

or so the birds will be save too. Also add the twine to the tree or bush

that you have decided to hang it too.

9-An turkey baster is another great tool too!

This is great to water plants, it prevents you from overwatering

or flattening your tender new young plants and seedy for the spring.

10-Lastly I found a way to make a feeder with copper tubing,

and use fruit. All birds and the hummingbirds will love you for this one!

To make this buy a 48 inch copper tube wine shape of copper tubing for any

hardware store. Then shape the copper tubing from a small circle and continue

making three circles wider as you go down top to bottom.

At the bottom of the feeder make the circle large enough just for 

an half an orange.

Then continue to bend the copper tubing at the very top

into a design that makes it easy to hang. 

This is where you can use your own creativity. 

 Well I hope that you will find so good idea's for you

own gardens my dear Friends & Followers. I will also 

add a couple of images that I found of interesting containers

that I hope that will inspirit you all too.

YOUR WENDY

Greek Orthodx Monastorey's in Greece

Greek Orthodox Monastorey's in Greece~

Good afternoon my dear friends & followers for today's post I thought I would bring you all into the world of Sarced 
Monastery's. I hope that you will find this as interesting as myself. The one that I am going to go over today is the Holy
Monastery of Great Meteoron. This happens to be the largest of the monasteries which is located at Meteora. 
The Monastery was erected in the mid-14th century and was
the subject of restoration and embellishment projects in the years 1483-1552. The building serves as the main museum for tourists. Now the Katholikon-main church, consecrated in honour of the Transfiguration of Jesus was erected in the middle of the 14th century & 1387-88 and then was decorated in the year 1483 -1552.
The Holy Monastery of Variaam, this is the second largest Monastery in the Meteora complex. The Monastery of Variaam was built in the year 1541 and embellished in the year 1548. 
An Church, was dedicated to the All Saints, is in the Athonite
with an spacious exonarthex is surrounded by a beautiful dome. This Church was built in the year 1541-42 and then was decorated in the year 1548, while the exonarthex was decorated in 1566. The old refectory is used as a museum while the north of the church is the parekklesion of the Three Bishops, that were built in 1627 and then decorated in 1637.
The Holy Monastery of Rousanou-St.Barbar was founded
in the middle of the 16th century and decorated in the 1560.

Monastery of the Holy Trinity

The Holy Monastery
of Stephen in the 16th century

The Holy Monastery of St. Nicholas 

The Monastery of Rousanou
StBarbar

The Holy Monastery of St.Nicholas of Anapusas, which was build in the 16th century. It has a small church that is decorated by the noted Cretan painter 

Theophanis Strelitzas in 1527.

The Holy Monastery of Stephen has a small church that was built in the 16th century and was decorated in 1545. This monastery rests on a plain rather than on the cliffs in Greece. It was sheltered during the Nazis during the World War ll who believed it was harboring insurgents and was abandoned. Nuns took it over and reconstructed to this day.

The Monastery of the Holy Trinity is on top of the cliffs. It was built in the 1475 and then remodeled in 1684-1741. 

In the 9th century, an ascetic group of hermit monks had moved to the ancient pinnacles.They were the first people to inhabit Meteora. They lived in hollows and fissures in the rock towers, some of which reach as high as 1800ft [550m] above the plain. This great height, combined with the sheerness of the cliff walls, kept away all people, however there were the most determined visitor. Which the initially is what lead the hermits to a life of solitude and only meeting on Sunday worship or special days of worship and prayer in a chapel built at the foot of a rock known as the Dhoupiani.  It seems as early as the 11th century AD hermits monks were believed to be living among these caves and cutouts in the rocks below the monasteries for century's. As for the exact dates of the establishment of the monasteries above well that is unknown other than the dates that I have given you folks. However, by the late 11th and early 12th centuries, an rudimentary monastic state had formed called the Skete of Stagoi and was centered around the still-standing church of Theotokos - [Mother of God]. By the end of the 12th century an ascetic community had flocked to Meteora. 

Then in 1344, Athanasios Koinovitis from Mount Athos brought a group of followers to Meteora. These followers from the years 1356 to 1372 is when the found the great Meteoron Monastery on Broad Rock, which were perfect for the monks at the time; they were safe from any political upheaval and had complete control of the entry of the monastery. They only way of reaching the monastery was by climbing a very long ladder, which was drawn up whenever the monks felt threatened. 

Monastery of the Stephen 

At the end of the 14th century, the Byzantine Empire and 800-year reign over northern Greece was being increasingly threatened by Turkish raiders who wanted all control over the fertile plains of Thessaly. Well during these turmoil times in ancient Greece, when the hermit monks were seeing a retreat from the expanding of the Turks occupation in their country, they found the inaccessible rock pillars of the Meteora to be an ideal refuge for them. So more than 2o monasteries were built, beginning in the 14th century to help the people and monks of the time during the threaten of the Turkish raiders into their country. Six of these 20 monasteries still remain today. 

Well were in the 1517, when Nectarios and Theophanes  built the monastery of Variaam, which was reputed to house the finger of St John and the shoulder blade of St Andrew. 

In the ancient times all access to any of the monasteries were originally and deliberately very difficult to impossible to get too! Also requiring either very long ladders lashed together or large nets used to haul up both goods and people. This all required quite a leap of faith during those times. Now the ropes were replaced, so the story goes only '' when the lord let them break'.  In the words of the pilgrims in ancient times ' the net was hoisted up vertically alongside the 1,224 ft cliff [373metres] where the Varlaam Monastery dominates the valley and symbolizes the fragility of a traditional way of life that is threatened with extinction. 

Greek Monks

So were in the 1920's there was an great improvement in the arrangements on the monasteries. At least some would say that. Steps were cut into the rock, making the complex accessible via a bridge from the nearby plateau. Now many would have lots to say about this and I am sure my dear friends and followers you might too. its a hard call to say to do something like that ..

 Sadly during the World War ll the site was bombed and many of the art treasures were stolen. 

Now were in the 17th century, well this primary means a convey of goods and people from these eyries was by the means of baskets and ropes during this times. 

Well were now in 2015 and there are only Six of the Grand 

Monasteries that remain today.

Of these Six, Four are inhabited by men, and two by women. 
Each of the monastery has fewer than 10 people.
All the Monasteries that remain open today are
Now tourist Attractions.  
So I hope you all found this to be interesting 
I did myself, I also found it to be very sad too that these 
Amazing and Beautiful Monasteries are not saved, not even one! for
the monks and nuns of Greece. 
Well anyways I hope that you liked my dears 
Friends & Followers, I love you all very much
YOUR WENDY