New bees Seed Junkie chit chat Come in!! 11-12-09

ah, holiday was gret.. had a house full of peeps and animals (fun fun) ate too much... as usual...lol

Hi Everyone!

Looks like we've all awakened from the Trytophan comma. LOL Hope everyone had a good one.

Glad to see you back Cue. We miss ya.

Here's what I've been doing. My tunnel of love. LOL Well just half.

Is this guy cool or what. Check in later. If I miss you have a good night.

Are the leaves purple on that photo serat53? What is the name of that plant? It is great. Thank you for posting.

Ahhhhhhhhhhaaaahahhahhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!! WOW you know you are killing me don't you Seray?!? Your greenhouse is so neat and organized with beautiful plants not like mine with clutter and jam packed all over the place. Wow, those look great. And what is the cuties name? You know I gotta have one!!!!!!

That's a begonia. See it in the background. Red and Black Goth! LOL

Seray, thank you so much. I knew it would be something that does not grow here. Maybe in my next life I will be somewhere besides the SW desert. Do not get me wrong, I love it here. I get cold if it gets below 80 degrees.

They love AC and make great house plants skwinter. That's the only one I have and the more I neglect it the better it looks. I'm going to try to do leaf cuttings and make a bunch. Wish me luck. If I succeed I'll post the lot and I'll send you one if you holler. I will tell you I'm a newbie when it comes to propagation so chances of success are probably better at the slots. LOL

Are you kidding. I have so many coleus cutting in my garage garden, if I succeed, I will have over one hundred plants to go somewhere and I do not have an idea what I am doing. But the gardeners on the coleus thread are very understanding and give their knowledge freely. I also have other cuttings and my delight has been getting some cutting to root that I have not been able to find the plants. Have fun. Remember, this is suppose to be fun.

LOL I have over 100 daylily seeds that I hybridized and can't figure out where I'm going to put them to germinate. That's not counting all the black plants I need for the Goth garden. I need veggies so there's the tomatoes etc. And then I want a cut flower garden and need to germinate those. Let's not forget the Arisaemas, the Amorphs, the stratifying Sarracenias and the bat flowers.

Yes we're on the right thread. This one is for crazy people!

hahahahehehehahahahehehehehahahahehehehehahahahahahahah, we're all NUTS off Arejay's big tree. She did this to us. We can blame her, I haven't seen her on in a while so I guess it's safe. Her and Cue. They always doing something to run us amuck. It's their fault.

You think she knows she created monsters sending us all those free seeds? LOL Headed to moose lodge is my guess.

NAY, I know where moose lodge is, she wouldn't go there. Not with all the creatsters there.

YOU mean moose lagoon. Not moose lodge.

LOL Maybe

Well she could be hiding out up there. My guess is she went looking for sunshine- like Florida or some exotic warm place to have fun.

Why didn't we go with her?

hi all,

i only have a few minutes, my 19 year old overdosed yesterday and had a massive heart attack, we found out when the heart surgeon looked at him he had a defect in the heart, the left coronery artery is on the right side. which collapsed due to the overdose causing such a severe heart attack. his blood pressure drops fast with out meds, he has a balloon in his heart to help pump the blood, the heart attack was so severe it has weakend the heart. he started having kidney failure, but that seems to be better today, has a fever of 103 yesterday now it is 99.9.
PLEASE say prayers for him, i am off to the hospital just came home to take a shower and pick some things up
blondie

Poor Blondie, we are all praying for you and your family.
Uh-oh, you did it with that Begonia. I got to find me one like that. I'm not keen on Datura, but I do have a Datura pod, if anyone wants seed, You know the procedure: send me a d-mail. Brugs, I got brug starts up the Kazoo. If they all make it I'm going to be in a jungle.
Guess I'll put them in the back pasture. What fun, never knew what fun was before I joined this wonderful group.
Charleen

Blondie prayers for your son and family. Hope he recovers soon.

Latest update on my cousin....he's doing better but still needs a new liver and they are still evaluating him for one. Hope he's able to come home for Christmas.

Off to crochet the day away which just happens to be a rainy one.

Blondie, I'm sorry and will be praying for your son. If there is anything I can do please let me know. I love you girl and pray all will be better soon. Bless you all.
RRM, it's that green thumb you have going wild. You got the touch. I mostly make stuff go brown.
Mindy glad to hear your cousin is better and will keep praying for him for a complete recovery.
Our preacher was given the opratunity to be over the baptist convention missions stuff-can't remember exactly but was a high honor, anyway he moved to Atlanta because of it,and his daughter got married shortly before that and thanksgiving she committed suicide. I don't know what happened but they are devistated and would appreciate any prayers.
Sure hope everyone around here is good and having a good day. It's beginning to rain now so gotta go and will check back as the rain lets me.

So sorry to hear about your son blonde, Hope and pray he is on the road to recovery, and Mindy, glad to hear cousin is somewhat better and hope they will be able to find him a transplant.
I am a little in the dumps this time of the year. All of the GKs are to big to buy for at Christmas or rather to picky about what they get and it has taken all the fun away for me and all so I just set here wishing that I could go back in time and have a beautiful Christmas again. I miss it so much.

Flower, do the kids have cell phones? Give phone cards, or batteries for the game machines or CD's they like- use the imagination and get creative. Doesn't have to be expensive. Go to pawn shops and look for stuff they like or flea markets, you would be surprised at what all you can find there. Check with their parents and see what stuff they have mentioned they like. Bake cookies for each one with it's own decorative tin to put them in. Make a different kind for each one.

Oh mekos you just don't know my GKs, They have just about everything they could possibly want and that doesn't make it any easier to buy for them. They are also picky about what they eat so I don't try to do the cookies and stuff. Parents have just got them so spoiled it isn't funny. The littler ones I don't have much of a problem except the one and she has gotten into the expensive stuff now too . She is only 9 and she thinks as big as the 2 oldest ones. Which are 20 and 19. One in 2nd year of college and the other the last year of high school. I usually just give them a gift card and then the little ones I buy for. But it is still depressing for me. Why can't they all be little at Christmas? LOL

I know what you mean. We use to be happy with anything we got and were happy to get it, now kids just EXPECT and you better get it. Not the same values anymore. Parents do spoil them too much and it hurts them in the long run when jobs fall off and die or parents split and it's harder on everyone connected. It totally kills what Christmas is all about in the first place. For the modern day kids, Christmas is just a holiday to get gifts, nothing about the birth and celebration of our Saviour.
Maybe you go back to what it is really all about and it will all work out in the end. And you will enjoy Christmas again like it is suppose to be.

blondie - prayers for your son and your family! I'm so sorry that this has happened. Please keep us posted as you can, ok?

mindy - glad your cousin is doing better. Prayers for a complete recovery!

I know what you all mean about Christmas. My guys are still kinda little (10 and 8) except the teen (16 - bleck!). All their friends expect this and that and my boys hear that, but they are pretty good boys. They are not too spoiled. We try to teach them the value of a dollar and that things are not what is important and all that. It's hard though when this society is all about gimme gimme gimme and you are what you have. It sucks really. I remember my dad making my sister and I things for Christmas and that was the greatest present ever!

Loca, that is how I grew up. Mom made our clothes and were beautiful. We got a new pair of shoes once a year and we were so happy to get that and always got fruit in our stockings with nuts and a candy cane. As I got older and a sister was working and helping out we got more but it was always a surprise not expected or asked for. I think we appreciated it more back then, because we knew what it was all about and wasn't a give me this or get me that kind of thing. Now, we buy for my kids and grands, but we pick a family in the neighborhood with kids who are not going to have a good Christmas(maybe no jobs or just layed off, or death in family and that is what they will remember about that year so we try to make it better and we buy for them so the kids will feel the love of Christ in Christmas. If you don't know a family personally ask at the social services or salvation army or food stamp offices for needy families in your area. Or ask about adopting an old couple without family,for sending cards and letters to for the year-adopt one and make their year. There is always a way to find the real meaning of Christmas and find the JOY you once felt. We do it every year. As bad as we have it sometimes, there is always someone worse off than we are and you can find them if you just look around. Look for families who had a house fire and lost it all. They need help. Let your kids adopt a child for Christmas and let them use their allowance to buy for them or make something for them. Go to a nursing home and adopt a grandmother or grandfather for Christmas- some don't have families and are all alone.

At times I get really disgusted at the thought of Christmas. All this meaningless plastic crap that comes from Walmart and Kmart is supposed to make everybody happy, yet we're all expected to spend big money on this worthless junk. The best Christmas gift ever would be to declutter my house!

Al

So AL, put everything you don't want out on your front lawn and put up a sign saying free to a good home and Merry Christmas. It will be gone in a hurry. Or donate to good will or salvation army or a childrens group home. Lots of ways to lose the stuff you don't want and d-clutter your house. Some charity places will come collect it anyway and you wouldn't have to move it out. There are always lots of ways to FIND the true meaning of Christmas.

Mekos, you've got some seriously good ideas here! Thanks for the insight. Truth is, I can live better without most of this junk.

Al

This message was edited Nov 30, 2009 1:06 PM

My kids all have fond memories of feeding the homeless on Christmas in south Phoenix. There is a street there called Van Buren that is a hot spot for crime and prostitution and there are scores of homeless folks who live in the parks and panhandle on the streets. It's really sad. When the boys were real little we started making food - homemade burritos with meat and potatoes and veggies and cookies or whatever we could afford - and driving around these neighborhoods handing out "sack lunches" to people on the street. We usually were able to include socks and a soda or bottle of water and the kids would make little Christmas tags that said "Jesus loves YOU" for the bags. If we were having a blessed year sometimes we could add McDonald's gift certificates too! To this day the boys still talk about it and as the holidays approach they can't wait to do it all over again - lol. It was a little scary at first - these are rough areas - and some people would look at you all crazy like you were up to something. But it's become a tradition in our family, one I hope the boys will continue when they grow up!

Blodnie, your family and especially your son are in my prayers!!

Oh the Joy of Christmas is in you all you have to do is look.
Close your eyes and look inside you'll find that place that brings the Joy
And be able to share it with those you love.
Yes, the kiddies want whatever they can get after all they've been taught to expect
Sit them all down and say my heart isn't in this give me give me give me
Ask them to name 3 things they think Jesus would consider the best gift of all
If they don't want to participate no problem tell them you aren't going to be giving them gifts just love and an example of what Christmas means to you personally
To find the Joy of Christmas again you'll have to make the effort to change what is to what you would like. Take them to a Christmas play you dearly love, go caroling just once, give unto others you feel need the comfort of Jesus's love . Think your young ones are pretty good but feeling the pressure of peers? Ask them to plan a Christmas outing to help someone else with their friends.
I love Christmas though I have no little ones to spoil of my own. I love making gifts to make those I love smile or laugh (toys for the grownups are fun LOL especially if you give them something from their past) I love baking Cookies and sharing them minus the 5 warm from the oven.
Now where did all that come from LOL I just started typing what was popping up in my head and I'm not going to delete a word.

NICE Mindy!!

Blondie prayers for your son! Let us know if we can help in any way.

Glad your cousin is better Mindy. Waiting can be the hardest of all.

Hugs to all of you. May the day bring peace.

If I threw my stuff in with yours Al we could probably furnish a house. I still have stuff from my Mom's estate that I haven't been through. No telling what's in there.

No Mindy deleting it would be a shame for what you believe in and for what you do for others. I try to give a little each year to the salvation army and a few others around so that helps make me feel a little better about it all.

Now this is what Christmas is really all about. LOVE from the heart.
Does anyone know what the very first Christmas present ever given was?

Tell us, Mekos.
RRM

I have asked this question so many times and most people say the gifts the three wise men brought or something else but the first gift ever given for Christmas was God's gift of His SON JESUS CHRIST. That was the very first gift. The reason for the season. The gift of love, hope and life. He loved us, and still does, THAT much. And so many turn this day into the give me, give me, give me, time of year. Comercialize it with expensive gifts. Most will be tossed aside or out or exchanged for something else anyway and for what? More stuff. It's really no wonder with all the pressure of how to get money to pay for all this and that or got to work all the time to buy more and have less time raising the kids or spending time with them, other drug dealers and peer pressure will be there to step in and here comes teenage sucicides, adults stealing, lawlessness, all the loneliness and hoplessness around the season. It's hyped up as a gift giving holiday. It is suppose to be the celebration of Jesus's birth. Celebrate HIS love and give from the heart, not the pocketbook.
I love the way you taught your kids, Loca. That is the true meaning of Christmas. It doesn't have to end on one day make it last the whole year. It's not difficult when it comes from the heart.

Amen sister!