I wasn't. For me gardening is better than weight watchers
What Makes You A Gardener?
Yes, yes, yes! Gardening IS better than any diet plan! You forget to eat and get exercise all day!
Hey, where's Victor? No input from him yet. Maybe the warden has censored his comments!
You're a gardener when you carry a shovel and pail in the trunk of your car instead of more important things like booster cables :(
Good one, threegardeners!!
Pixie, I can soooo relate. At least on the weekends.
Supper was always the main meal for me too. Dinner was when you had your main meal closer to lunch time, like on Sunday. Is that just an Italian thing??
Nope
oh you guys are good! I usually loose weight during gardening season... I usually don't have lunch during summer!!!!
You know you are a gardener when you introduce yourself to your patients and make a comment about the flowers they got so you can start talking about plants... and if they are gardeners oh well...
or when you encourage your patients to go online to check dg instead of just playing solitaire...
You know you're a gardener when you buy a miners headlight so you can keep weeding after dark.
Sorry....I'm not a northeasterner, but I just couldn't resist!
You know your a gardner when a little old man with a portable oxygen tanks gets out of his car and starts asking you questions about your plants then tells you what his mom's garden used to be like.
To this day the smell of roses brings an image of my mom on a summer day.
So you know you're a gardener when your kid's memories of you are wrapped up in the scent and sight of a beautiful garden
Caliche, we don't mind you jumping in...... as we say on this forum "you're always Northeast of somewhere"
You beat me to it, Jen. Hi, Caliche!
I like the head lamp idea, I've got one for braiding horse manes after dark. I think I'll use it in the garden too!
three times fast!!
Great thread, Sue!
You know you're a gardener when the UPS guy lets your plants ride in the front seat.
...when my hands are white while the rest of me is tan (garden gloves.)
...when you spend resting hours thinking about creative ways to torture garden-destroying animals.
...when your wife is more at ease leaving you in a women's prison than in a nursery.
I really like that last one Victor!
When you occassionaly pray for rain (Well, not lately)
When you divide insects into good guys and bad guys
When you think your buddies talk sports too much
LOL
(I experienced this yesterday for the first time)
You know you're a gardener when you tell your kid "don't hurt that bug, he's a good guy"
Your fingernails are dirty from April til' September! lol!! and your clothing too!
I have one of those headlamps too. The only problem with it is that the bugs are attracted to it! After being smacked in the forehead several times by moths, I decided it wasn't such a great idea! LOL!
LOL...I can imagine. I have that problem while taking the dogs out at night using the mega-flashlight DH bought. Although the dogs enjoy the bugs I'm not so thrilled with them getting tangled in my hair and behind my glasses.
You need one of the bug nets! I have one that you put over a hat/cap, but haven't used it yet.
LEIGHTONHILL said, "Your fingernails are dirty from April til' September!" - I don't wear my wedding ring during those months! I get that black ring on my finger, plus the diamond twirls around too much.
Nice netting .... I need one of those. I heard I can get something similar from LL Bean..,
Oh, and Victor, you said, "...when you spend resting hours thinking about creative ways to torture garden-destroying animals."
I keep asking my husband to get me a BB gun, but he won't!
I was thinking paint ball might be kind of fun.. lol!
Randy suggested a paint ball gun for the chipmunks
Stones carved as acorns really get to them.
Chipmunks carved as acorns is better.
Sue, what a fun thread! I just found it and really enjoyed all the responses!
You know you're a gardener when you buy a car roof carrier for your luggage so you can transport cuttings and plants in the air-conditioned car!!
What a hilarious thread, which I just found.
You know you're a gardener when you go out into your front yard wearing your really unattractive but comfortable gardening pants with the hole in them. and your billowing but practical shirt and your grubby straw hat and you know your face is smudged with dirt when your immaculately-dressed neighbors see you and you wave happily because you're IN YOUR GARDEN!
...when your stocks are plummeting, your wife is cheating on you with a non-gardener, your kids don't talk to you, your job is in jeopardy and your dog hates you, yet you're still happy because your GARDEN LOOKS GOOD!
You know you are a gardener when your sister brings you a bucket of horse manure and you get excited!
You know you are a gardener when you haul a bucket of horse poo in the trunk of your new car for two hours and you are excited to give it to your sister.
victor real sorry to hear about the dog:)
Christina, I have a headlamp that switches to red light to avoid the moths. Works great! Find one like that.
Yup. I like the one about you know you're a gardener when you get excited about horse, cow and chicken poop!
Red, huh? I'll have to look into that. I'm always out there until I can't see anything anymore. Would be good to extend the day! Thanks!
you guys are too much
Oh, That's why you have a red light!
Very funny, everyone!!! Great thread!!