Hi All,
Although cottage gardening is what I've aspired to do over the years, I don't post often enough here, so y'all help me welcome ridesredmule to this forum. I know she loves mules, morning glories and cannas - sounds like she's up our alley to me, 'cept my main critter is a perpetually self-renewing family of woodchucks - well maybe woodchucks are just as cute as a mule?
Ridesredmule, come on over :)
Karen
Help me welcome ridesredmule
Have to be careful, I'll erase my letters in a heartbeat and have to start over. Thank you for the Welcome. I feel wanted and that is a great feeling. I love critters and plants and flowers, mule, donkeys, dogs, fish(have koi & goldfish) chickens. DH has to put a leash on me to not have a zoo! :) I am glad to be here and hope you like pictures, cause I sure do take them of my babies and flowers. My babies is One mule and three beautiful donkeys. Have four dogs too. Lots of flowers and getting on DG to see what the folks can teach me. Learn more everyday. Glad to be here.
Hi ,
Welcome, always good to see a gardener who also loves animals.
I too have a DH who has to keep things under control.
Two horses,two goats,5cats ,dog chinchilla,and tank fish.
I have seen you are also talented, (your faces) over in stain glass.
Do you also ride the donkeys?
Love pictures, looking forward to seeing them.
Hey welcoem Redmule!!!!!! Down the road from me had a donkey for years and years. I even road one way back when I was a young thing in a donkey basketball game. Had a fun and wild tiem for sure.
Welcome to the cg forum. Don't forget to stop in at the piggy swap thread too and say hello.
Welcome ,Iam a convert to cottage from rock,Iam a cottage-rock now !! may be a new forum !! (kidding ).We have no horses or mules,just 3 cats ,55 gal AQ,veggie garden, flowers every where, 2 harleys ,a popup camper,an old corvette :)
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Alright, I feel welcome here by one and all Everyone is welcome to come to
Georgia to help me break those donkeys to ride. My brother rode in one of
donkey basketball, it was so funny. I have fish too. 3 stock tanks is what they
are in. Thanks for the welcome, I will check out the Piggy swap, it sounds like
fun.
Thanks everyone - I'm trying to imagine donkey basketball - can't imagine getting certain donkeys heading over to the basket at the same point in time I would want to - must be lots more baskets for balls positioned around the court? Extremely flexible, creative, kind referees? Doting humans who don't care about silly things like scores and competition? Sounds like my kind of game - lol!
Two basketball goals and donkeys that only want to do what they want .But they have the same rules, basicially.
Got to remember most of these kids know how to play basketbal but don't know anything
about donkeys. For most of them, this is first time ever on one. Poor donkeys, even if they are
broke to ride are getting signals from the riders that they have never been trained for. You are right most people didn't care
who won or lost because they are laughing so hard at the kids trying to control the donkeys.
They still do it but not often. You would love it.
I NEVER missed donkey basket ball when I was a kid...LOL LOVED IT..
Welcome Ridesredmule!
Thank you Highmtn. It was fun, wasn't it?
Welcome, ridesredmule! You'd love the annual "Mule Day" festivities that happen in nearby Columbia, TN - parades, food, booths, crafts, contests AND the big mule parade! It'll be April 8th - 11th for 2010. Then again, you may already know about it, but welcome, again!
Yes, We have been up there several times and I love it. Somehow, we miss the parade. I have several friends from my horse club that go up there. Driving wagons and riding mules. Maybe next year I wil be in parade, almost was this year but didn't know it. DURN!! Thanks for the Welcome.
Welcome, Ridesredmule! I'm right up the road in Newnan. Have only known one mule in my life, ol' "Gray," and he was a natural racker. Smoothest ride you ever saw! Plowed the fields during the week and entertained the kids on the weekend! He lived on a farm in Rico out from Palmetto and was owned by my cousins. Of course, that was more than 50 years ago ... LOL
I'm sort of new myself ... both to gardening and to the forums but there sure are a lot of friendly, helpful people here, more than willing to help out and praise your efforts. They're terrific.
Welcome!
Judy
Oh, thank you, Judy. It is a pleasure to be in this forum. So many friendly people.
Now people breed to get all kinds of mules. My Charley has a beautiful gait, I love
to watch him move out. If I can help you with something let me know. I know I like
to ask questions and there is always someone who will give an answer if they know.
I just spotted this thread... Welcome, Ridesredmule! (and Welcome to Judy, also!)
Any friend of blue's is definitely a friend of mine. :-)
Thank you, everyone here is great!!!! has been awhile since I have seen anyone here and I Thank you all for the Welcome. Fall is finally getting here and folks are thinking of seeds to save and plants to move and I am with the rest of you. I want to change a few flowerbeds and put some of my garden art in them. Always looking for a few new plants and a lot of new friends and I believe I have found them here, Thank you all.
Judy are you manuering around and enjoying yourself ,as I have?
thank you, critterologist for the warm Welcome.
Blue is a great lady.
Hey Rides... The sign up sheet is up for the annualpiggy swap ove r on the seed trading forum. Don't forget to go sign up and ya cna have alot of crazy fun in a fe w weeks.
Rides,
Thank you for the welcome and yes, I am a regular "Forum Butterfly," flitting here and there and enjoying the heck out of myself. Just waiting for cooler weather so I can get outside without melting in the heat. So much to do ... so little time. LOL
I like butterflies. so fluuter along and we will all learn something, huh?Judy.
Star, are you ready for those persimmon seed? They are falling from the tree andall I got to do is SQUISE them for you.
Want to wait for the swap or do you want me to send them to you?? How about you Judy are you ready for the swap? I have some seed saved up and a few labels made. Got to get my rump in gear.
Star , which forum is sheet up? This one?
Wait til the swap. It wil be starting in a fe w weeks. That wil giv e ya time to get things ready and I sur eothers wil want seed too. Them piggie s get hungry hehehehhe
her eya go sign your name up here and anybody els e who wants in this year.
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1035816/
Critter, I just knew when I first *laid eyes* on Rides that she was gonna oink along with the best of us piggies - glad ya signed up, Char.
Judy, how about you? You don't need a whole lot of seeds to join, 'cause for some of us, this piggy swap is our equivalent of leaving zucchinis in cars or on porches and then hightailing it outa there.
Thank you for the kind words, Critter and Rides.
What would y'all think of including vandalized gardens among the survivor group? I've got someone in mind to send over here - plmk.
Karen
Whoo! I just read most of the posts and followed the links and I feel like Dorothy caught up in the tornado. Think I better sit this one out. I really won't know what I really like or want, or how to collect and send seeds until next summer. I am a REAL newbie. I am not kidding. Have very few flowers (compared to the rest of you); still experimenting; lots in containers but, because of these forums, am learning fast. I will just follow along this year and see how things are done. But I really appreciate the invitation to join the group. This is going to be very interesting to watch!
Judy
Judy, it not all gathered seed. It cna be packets of 10 cent seed from the corner piggy wiggly . It cna be left over seed sitting in yoru fridge that you want to get rid of.
We all was newbie s at one time. Everybody helpe s evrybody get set up and then when ya see somethign ya like ya just type that persons name and oink for it.
The first few tiem s ya oink it may seem a bit confusing, but after that you be a ful fledge pig pushign and shoving and oinking with the best of folks. LOL
Ah, come on Judy, This is my first time too. You may as well be as confused as I am but with this nice people you won't have anything to worry about. I still got to figure how where to send the seed. So, see,it will be fun to watch. Vandalized gardens to help, yes that sounds interesting. Can we hear what happened?
Thank you, you all for letting me join you.
Hahahah that the way I felt the first time too. Only I was toto being swept away. I cna in one year on the tail end and just liste d some of my seed a s I got it ready and oinke d when I seen somebody pout up somethign that I would like.
Then after a few times, I starte dot get the feel for it and next thing ya know I was a big ole hog and coudl oink right along. LOL
I would get lost soemtiems back in that first swap but the hostess and other piggie s all help ya and help keep evrybody from getting lost . I just grabbe d on to another piggiys tail and followe d all around. hehehehe
Allright. I'm with you.
Hi, y'all. I talked to my friend who's garden was vandalized and have pointed her over here and to the cottage garden forum and piggy swap. I'll let her share her situation in her own words. If she decides she doesn't want to participate on the basis of being a survivor, hopefully she'll join as a regular swap member.
I'm gonna repeat for Judy what I wrote to my friend. If you're starting out or been cleaned out by Mother Nature etc., there are a couple of inexpensive sources of seeds from which you can pick up a few packets with which to trade. They can be divided and repacked and labeled, too. I seem to recall that about 22 - 25 average sized seeds makes a trade, with maybe 1/8 teaspoon of really tiny seeds and 5 - 10 seeds of the large ones. There's a lot of leeway - this is just a guideline. When in doubt, ask a piggy :)
--- http://www.valueseeds.com/ - This is an outlet for Thompson & Morgan. I think they'll be getting more in stock pretty soon.
Another cheap source is bulk seeds from - http://www.jlhudsonseeds.net/ .
So, Judy, I hope you'll reconsider and join the piggy swap. When you receive your seeds around January or so, that will be the perfect time to start wintersowing some of them - www.wintersown.org .
I won't be in the piggy swap this time around, but like Critter will be dropping in from time to time to say hello...too much else going on.
Have fun, y'all -
karen
Karen, and others Hi
I have been going out of town now for about a month or so due to hubby being stationed away from home. which is very hard right now on me as its been like 10 years or more since he has been stationed away from home,
a few weekends ago when i got home after being gone for the weekend. i come home to my babies under the carport out into the sun. scorched. my morning glory babies done in. other babies i had going done in. still havent found my grape vine yet.
porch plants missing( spider plants and philos) and ones i had in carport moved around and not where i left them. i have a locked gate on my property and bobwire on fence but still stuff gone.
my japanese maple moved in big pot . my baby hydrageas in the sun . still dont know if they will make it or not. my calla lilies which i had in a pot on the porch as these were the only way to get them to bloom strewed over the yard.
filed a police report. Brother came over and found where they had used a towel or something to get over back fence and bob wire.
hubby was home this weekend and we put up those flood light things on the back porch so when i turn on the lights i can see all the way out my back door down into the yard. we have to get some more for the side of the house. ones that work on batteries as no power on that side.
i know plants can be replaced and seeds redone. but still shakey over this all.
hubby left this morning and now its getting dark amd nervous all over agian. but have dog inside and his hunting rifle under bed so. dont know if i would hit the side of a barn with it or not but hey may detour them.
Karen suggested I post here and as she is a dear friend i am posting. She is so sweet and been a really big help to talk to through this.
Rie
I am so sorry about all the bad things that has been damaged. Some one has been watching your movement and caused all this terrible loss. You are going through enough with your husband being gone to have to go thru this. If we can help, Please let us know. Lordy, I hope you don't have any more to happen. Charleen
Bless you, girl. Hang in there.
thank you i hope nothing else happens
I'm SO sorry! I can live to be 100 and never understand the meaness in some people. Is you DH in the service? I'm seconding Charleen - if there's anything we can do, please let us know. And keep that dog close!
Deb
Oh, and "welcome, Charleen!" Since we've D-mailed, I feel like I already know you! LOL
I love it, thank you . How about some pryracantha bushes to put under that fence, that ought to set them on fire. I am not a mean person but there is no reason why anyone shoul tear up anyone elses property, just because they are not home. And your husband in the service protecting us all. Shame on them.
HI, Deb, it is so great to have friends like you all.
my hubby is a private contractor working for the gov. he is making the housing and stuff for bases. making sure the guys have homes to live in and stuff. he was in north carolina at the beginning of this year. now he is in south carolina but still aways away from home.
the gov has decided that the bases need more and better housing for the troops. so he and the company have started to go out to the different bases and start new projects when they get up and running they move on to another one where they start a new crew and get it up and running.
he has several to start yet and the last one so far is in kentucky which will kill me him being so far away.
the company he is with covers our region. but somehow ended up with kentucky. but know he has 2 years of this now the gov says this is what they are doing. he used to travel out of town when we were first married and oversees to build barraracks for the guys in the miltary. but for a long time he didnt go to far from home,
he was laid off in march for a few weeks do to the base here didnt have nothing going on due to fact it might close then this job come along. which they were here at home till about 2 months ago and now i am trying to deal with this gov job. liked the last one but you gotta go where the money is nowadays.
and this one i cant go on the base. its high clearance type thing. so that makes it harder too. and money tight so hotels are out except once and a while.
then this stuff with the vandalism. been vandalized before in process of moving here nothing was secure no fence or nothing like that and we lived like 50 miles away and trying to move here. but that was just kids. we found that out because others were getting hit too. was a group of teenagers with nothing better to do.
but the cops dont think this is kids. which is scary. talked to them today. they say someone else was hit down the road and same thing happened but finger prints showed an adult in area that has record.
so that doesnt make me happy. their house was broke into. thankfully mine wasnt. dont know why. maybe something spooked them. just glad its wasnt.
you know i am seriously thinking on this but the cop suggested this. its funy but it may work.
he said since halloween is coming and these things are on sale. get one of those motion sesored like witches or something that talk. and put it under the carport. when i am gone. it may just scare the jeebers out of them if they try something agian.
and those auto lights that you set to come on. at certain times. i am looking into those. dont know the name so f them but am looking into it.
oh my didnt mean to make a novel here to answer a question.
Get some Motion sensor lights. I know Lowes has them and that Halloween figure too. They got a skeleton 6 ft. tall.
They got timers you can set to come on and off too. You just have to ask some of these "smart" people what kind of
safety measures. Might have to go to Rescue place and get a big dog. But sometimes that doesn't work either if they
are mean enough. Hope you ge tsome kind of help to end the fear.
Charleen
Charleen and Imzadi - wish I could do more than sympathize. I agree with Char about the motion detector lights. I don't know anything about pooches, but a barky one sounds good...I wonder, though, what all would be good for its own welfare...training? lots of play time and rapport with its human...maybe visits from neighbors when its human is away?
We're cat folks and have absolutely no regrets about the rescue cats we've adopted. I really like the idea of adopting a rescue pooch.
I'm glad you two have met and have both signed up for the piggy swap - did y'all know there's a chat thread that goes with the swap here - http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1033667/ ?
I have met some of the nicest folks on DG in the piggy swap thread which must be a few years old by now. They'd love ta visit with ya, too.
Karen
Yes, friendlier here. Got on a thread yesterday and another girl and I got to haveing a talk
and I was trepassing on the wrong thread. Was not talking about ,what they were wanting.
Bet I don't write on that one!!!!! But it's o.k. other folks like you make up for it and guide on
the right path. I'll have to try that. Maybe won't get in too much trouble. :-) Thanks
Some threads are just chattier than others... If people are discussing a specific question or if it seems to be more of an advice or how-to thread, then I try not to get off topic, because I figure people are waiting for the thread to pop up on their watch list with some helpful response in it, and it could get annoying to keep checking on the thread and finding private chit-chat on it.
Nobody (I hope!) is trying to be mean if they suggest that a conversation be taken elsewhere... sometimes, when a new topic pops up in a thread, I suggest a new thread would be better for it -- not just because it's off topic, but also because a new thread would mean new eyes for whatever question has just been asked. I'm talking about threads where people are discussing, say, tomato varieties and somebody drops in with a question about why their beet plants are wilting. It's not a matter of posts being unwanted, it's more a matter of trying to keep topics easier to discuss and to find (especially if you're trying to find the topic again later -- easier if it's in its own thread and not in the middle of an unrelated thread).
In general, DG is a very friendly place!
I think you all are great. some just more business-like than others.
I just got to watch where I do my chattering. It's o.k. It only
pains for a bit. There is always someoone who makes up for
it, several times more. Thank you, love you all .
Hi ridesredmule!
Critter is right - everyone here is very friendly! and very supportive. But watch out . . . if you join the piggy swap you could end up with sooooo many seeds and soooooo many plants - well, you won't believe how generous folks can be!
You are goin' to love it here.