My request for who is still in DG

Springcolor,
Rarejem and PNWMTN built their cloners, so they will have better tips than I can give you. Call me and we can talk about using it though. I am having a difficult time today typing because I am having a shaking day and can't hit the correct keys, Dang.

Lynn, I'm so sorry you're having a bad day. Hang in there. Go sit in the massage chair for a while! (((hugs)))

Yes, hope you day has gotten better.

Summerflower has been terminated by DG administration. See the free, swap and trade forum. Rick did you see that.

Sorry, forum is swaps, trades and giveaways

I am freezing up here in AK and am enjoying it immensely! My boats diesel heater quit and all i had was my electric blanket. But ooooooooohhhhhh how nice! Just how do you get out of bed?!

I'm waving!!!

I'm new! I garden on 2 acres. Pretty obsessed about it. Looking to meet local gardeners who share my passion. I've been out digging in the dirt (pulling out some grass that was inadvertently planted in my vegetable garden) for the past 1 month. I've started tons of perennial and annual flower seeds indoors also (see blog). Getting baby chicks next month (ordering 25, but only need 15---anyone want to go in on an order with me?). Adding tunnels to start some cool weather crops very soon. 2 units of compost to be delivered in a couple of weeks once I get that pesky grass dug up. Busy, but love being outside in my garden this time of year when the weather is cool. I love to plant, but hate to harvest unfortunately (loathe August heat--what's wrong with me?) ;-) I think January is a great time to pull weeds and amend garden beds.

I'm still here - took a break once the freeze in November shut everything down, but am now feverishly scanning plant catalogs and trying to justify more purchases :0

Can't wait to get started on some seeds - may have to jump on the winter sowing (half assed PNW style) thread. Glad to see/hear all your voices again.

And Gwen, so glad you stuck with it and got that artery dealt with! Phew!

Hi kosk0025. Sounds like you are really ready to go for this year. Wish I had a little of your energy. Welcome to the PNW and hope you enjoy it.

Welcome to kosk0025 - you sound very high-energy for sure. I can't even manage to get my small city garden weeded.

Hello Kosk. It must be short for Koskolinskimeyerhussein. Lol welcome. You must be starting a new garden

Steve, are you back home now or still in Seattle? I'm so sorry to hear that Charlize is not doing well. I get the CaringBridge updates and today's post brought tears to my eyes. No little girl should have to go through this. I'm praying it can all be behind her soon.

Thanks for the welcome! My gardens are 2 years old, but most of the beds are formally landscaped (shrub, barkdust, tree barkdust shrub, barkdust, shrub). Trying to "Cottage Garden-ize" the whole thing, which will take years. Goal is to not see a morsel of barkdust someday. I've used Facebook to try and talk gardening......but I have realized that I have zero friends who garden. Looking forward to using Dave's Garden instead for the gardening stuff.

Kosk - you've come to the right place! I am a fairly new gardener, having begun a few years ago and then joined DG. I have gotten so much information and inspiration from the folks here, and made some nice friendships. I still consider myself a new and uninformed gardener, but I'm learning!

Welcome Kosk. My only friends are the ones who I met here at DG. They are great!

I like the filled up Country garden look also. My weeds are hidden!

Welcome, Kosk. Sounds like a great plan.

Ya Buddy, Still here.

Still here never post here much, Am busy I have lupines and Delphienms up and going. I also have something that looks like petunias on the way up in mass they are a mystery to me I think they are to small to be Foxglove but I can't say I have ever seen foxglove so maybe who knows lol.

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I just got home last night from Seattle. It was a week of battles with Charlize dealing with the lack of having choices at 2 and the frustrations of pain and proceedures. I worked hard to encourage her and helped my daughter to survive this week. I am exhausted and need to rest. Life can be soooooo tough and it takes a super human to deal with what my daughter is going through. Keep praying all.

Praying daily, as is my 4 and 5 yr old SS class.

Sofer I know well on continual pain but I am way older than your daughter. So sad she has to experience and endure this. It is equally sad that you have to endure this contiual barrage of stress and anxiety as well. Sorry hope a turnaround is in the making.Ernie

Welcome Kosk! I too am envious of the energy you have already expended in the garden this year! You will enjoy this forum... the people are great, and it is usually quite a bit more active when the outside world is more inviting!

Kosk & summerflower, I live about 45 minutes away from you & am in Salem all the time for quilt guild meetings & church services. Maybe we can hook up!

Summerflower got the boot from DG admin.

Oh, whoops. Is that common these days? I've been in the Antarctic for the last 5 months, I suppose I've missed a lot in the real world.

Nice to hear from you again, SK.

Thanks, bonehead! Happy to be back myself, and happy to see you again.

Also trying to figure out how to reclaim a garden onto which apparently a record 100" of rain fell this last year.

I am here, now and then.
We spent 3 month in the Okanagan this winter.
Boy its good to be home.
I have a sore paw, maybe I stretched or tore some ligaments... its purple and yellow and black and swollen right now, but no broken bones, so thats good. So I am walking slowly.
I guess my spring will be slow starting!

This winter I finally opened up my Moms stamp collection she gave me 10 yrs. ago. Its really interesting me, and since thats all I can do right now, thats a good thing! I am waiting for a bunch of sleeves I have ordered to show up.

Summerkid HELLO. Missed you. And how did you manage to get down to the Antarctic?

Ditto, to what WW said, SK. How DID you get to Antartica? Very interesting!

Glad you have something to keep you interested whilst your paw is healing, Enyeholt.

Ha ha, cooking!!! It was a tremendously wonderful experience -- I highly recommend such a jaunt.

Fantastic adventure. Glad to have you back.

Would be glad to meet up in Salem, summerkid! I have lots of plants started and extra seeds. Too many.

Well it is good to see all the faces of who is here. SummerK thought you died. Good to have you back. I think a lot of the more recent "bootings" are previous "booted" with new names. I would love to spend a winter in the Okanogan. That is why I live in Montana. LOL
Well I for one am never going to the Antarctic. Because last week I fell off the slippery dock in Petersburg AK and spent over 15 minutes in 39F water until I was hauled out. I had locked my arm and it froze to the boat cleat to keep my body out of the water so they could return me home. Fortunately someone heard my call and hauled me out. No ladders on the docks in AK and I had taken my boarding ladder off last month so I had no way to get back on the boat. I told my story on the radio and many fisherman thanked me for the story because many have lost men over board in the cold water. They appreciated me coming back to tell how I got out.

Good grief Sofer - glad you're ok.

OH, that is just harrowing Sofer - and there should be some place for that to be a TV show, or show segment. My word!!! My father used to do boat repair in Kodiak. Sorry he is no longer with us, for I am certain he would have many comments about your experience. Equally, a cousin who has crossed the bridge had a fishing boat in Petersburg. Be safe, dear DG friend!

Wow---glad you're okay, Sofer.

Can someone elaborate on this getting "booted" from Dave's Garden? I assumed that the no longer actives just hadn't paid their subscription fees. What does one have to do to get "booted"????? profanity? something worse?

I understood it was not following through with promised trades, exchabges, etc.

Yes, that is correct PNWG. It was over on one of the other threads.
Just returned from Pullman and a liitle skiing at Schweitzer with my two son's. What a great ski area! Hard to keep up with 19 and 21 year boys.