Why I Post So Frequently

I know I am on this BB a lot and wanted to sorta tell you kind folks why.
My DH works 2nd shift and I am alone for 10 hrs. til he gets home. Have no kids or friends close by to occupy my time. I do have other hobbies but I really love Daves and all the great people here. I have learned so much here!!! I work days and during the week I am on the BB a lot. On the w/e, I am with my DH or gardening when weather permits.
Yes, I have no life!!!!! Aren't I pathetic????? Any other DG-ahloics out there????

Yes, yes! Me too! I'm very worried that all my plants will die because I will be tapping away in here instead of watering, feeding, pruning, mulching, etc!!

Well, okay. I won't neglect my garden- I love the time out there, and taking pictures of the progress. But I know what you mean. I work during the week, don't have a husband, my son is going to college part-time, and is just always gone the rest of the time. The cats are company, but...

I have loved learning from everyone here, and getting to know them, too. So don't apologize for posting so much, keep it up! It's good to meet you!

Good for non-frequent posters like me there are more frequent posters like you !

not pathetic!! i am rather addicted myself. if i'm not staring at my plants, i'm staring at the computer!! honestly! most days i just walk back and forth between my garden and all my houseplants and my laptop. so i completely understand!

art_n_garden says it for me too!! I am retired, just a little disabled and live alone with my two Doxies and a cat. I have lived here for less than a year so don't really know anyone other than my DD who lives 5 blocks away and works. Growing plants is a new obsession and the computer is an old familiar friend. I discovered flowers and DG at the same time. Now I walk between my beautiful nature world and my computer which is my window on the real world. LIFE IS GOOD!
Pati

Amen!

Well, I'll be pathetic with you, LOL I'm addicted, I've got to say, since I came here, I've switched so to speak, over to this place, it's a fantastic friendly atmosphere, that keeps me coming back. you know I've never posted that I had SASE's before on the OTHER forum, I'm overwhelmed by this place. This place just brings out the good in me I guess. wait amin, that sounded bad. LOL I hope that came across the right way, It makes me want to just share here. know what I mean. I'm here alot, and I do get nothing done at home LOL so! berrygirl, you stil think you got it bad! LOL

kathy_ann

Berrygirl, we are cut from the same cloth, I think. Howie works second shift, too, and I am a homemaker. The only kids we have are the four-footed variety. We sleep late and then I'm on the computer off and on from noon until 3 or 4am! ;) I need to get outside now that it's spring and "get the stink blown off me" as my friend Amy says.

It's great to see I'm in such good company!!!
GW, we too, only have the 4-footed kids- 3 dogs and 2 cats.
My dear DH just went to bed so I'll prob. be here a while yet. It's so good to have a place to come to isn't it.

Yes! DG's a home away from home (or within a home). We've made such neat "real life" friends through this site, too.

Sounds like you have a very full life to me :) just additcted to DG as we all are! LOL

Another addict signing on lol ;)
It's just such a lovely place to come and share experiences, hear other peoples' and learn so much!

My boyfriend thinks I have a serious problem. Plants and DG. He just shakes his head every day when I walk into the house with some new plant or seed packet. I'm beaming of course, and he just doesn't get it. I'm glad all of you do! Mere

Guilty.. i plead the fifth.. computer , flowers.. it is keeping me going giving me hope to beat this once more..(c.).. blessings all.

Many of us post here alot, for one reason or more than one reason or another. We all have alot in common, and form friendships here, as well as get great advice for our hobbies. You are definitely NOT alone! :)

We live in the country and my DH is gone for a 10 hour work day plus overtime. Our kid is grown up, my friends all work full time and I hate housework plus am disabled so I love to sit here and "chat" with my cyber friends. My garden is not weed free and never will be by any stretch of the imagination. Yup, I guess you could say I am addicted too.

You're right on there, Pond.

For some of us, I guess, who love to garden but no longer are able to without a lot of assistance, this site allows us to "garden" in the old armchair. It makes me feel a part of gardening again.

I never have had gardening friends. My friends just always had other interests. My mom and former SIL used to garden and talk about plants all the time, and they were always bringing something new to share with me. I really miss them.

You guys & gals help fill that void for me.

Thanks a million. You'll never know how much I love and appreciate you all!

Judith

Besides, I love weeds! They're just "native plants," you know, and I'm always searching for those. Less work, more fun!

Ah, yes, weeds are the ultimate native plants- no muss, no fuss, they can take care of themselves. Basically, the difference btween weeds and "flowers" is opinion anyway.

My son (22) is considering having an intervention for me, due to my addiciton to gardening and now DG. It think its DG that put it over the top for him. :)

My addiction to DG could have potentially gotten me in trouble at work, but since I got my home 'puter, I get no housework done, much to my DH's chagrin!!!
Glad to see so many folks share my obsession!!!!

Hey, some addictions are OK! They can even be good for you.

An addiction is supposed to be a habit that you can't control, that is bad for you. Now how is gardening and DG bad for you?????

Now, if you stayed on DG constantly, for 24/7, it could cause you problems. I mean, you'd have to have a chair that flushes!

Hmmmm.......I've actually been thinking about that.

Course, it would also have to bring you already prepared food that you like, too!!!!!!!

Who needs to change into clean clothes, or bathe anyway? You just have to do it all over again? It's like making the bed. What's the point? Waste of time, eh?

Now your talkin'. You're my kind of person, JudithI!

I know there are some of us out there!

I mean, I've always known I'm different from some folks. But, in my older age, I've come to enjoy it, relish it even!

"I've always known I'm different from some folks. But, in my older age, I've come to enjoy it, relish it even!"

Absolutely! My Biology teacher in high school signed my annual, "Someday I'd like to meet your drummer."

I can't find it right now, but there is a verse in the Bible that says something like, "For you are His peculiar people..." When I read that, I thought, "Aha!"

Ooooh! I love that!

Isn't it nice to be one of God's "peculiar people!"

That's got to be in the OT. I'm gonna have to do a search.

Thanks! I needed that!

I found it! Twice no less. Does that mean we're twice as peculiar?

Deut 14:2
For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.

Deut 26:18
And the LORD hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people, as he hath promised thee, and that thou shouldest keep all his commandments;

Thanks JudithI, I also thought it was in the Old Testament. Yes, I will claim to be twice as peculiar! :)

I love what your biology teacher told you, Maggiemoo. I take it he was referring to what Henry David Thoreau wrote?

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."

Great quote! And I love the Bible reference, too.

gw, yes, that is exactly what my biology teacher was referring to. I was always amazed at people who would read it in my annual and wonder what he meant by that, missing it completely. I guess that's just public education for you! :)

I seem to remember telling that I marched to a different drummer somewhere in a thread quite some time back and Kimberly responded with where that originated. I didn't know that before then. My mother was always wanting to live in a place like Walden's Pond and I took after her completely. She loved nature and gardening and I walked right along in her footsteps.

Do you live in a place like Walden Pond? I would love to have more country around me - meadows, woods, ponds, etc (I did once get to live in that kind of setting, but wasn't interested in gardening at the time- what was I THINKING?) I have a noisy 4-way stop at one corner of my back yard. Oh well, at least inside the fence I have my own paradise. :)

I grew up near Chicago and there was a show on TV called "Different Drummer". I don't remember what the show was about, just that it was on public TV, I think, and low-budget, but they always quoted that during the opening credits. It really stuck with me! When I read it later, I said, "Ooooh! So that's where they got that!" LOL

You are a very well read young lady, Kim. You have so much knowledge in that head of yours. You have a fantastic memory also.

Maggie, my place is like that but only in my head! LOL! Life is what we make it!

I make it as much like that as I can but it is hard to ignore the sounds of the neighborhood. We practically have to shout at each other sometimes when we are working in the yard. It is hard to talk over the noises on the busy highway nearby, the airplanes, helicopters, central heating and cooling units, dogs barking, and in the summertime, the noises of the lawn mowers all around. My yard is on a small neighborhood hill and from my patio you can view the Opryland Hotel and Opry Mills shopping mall. When we moved here "centuries ago", the surrounding area was farmland and Rudy's Farm of sausage fame, had buffalo grazing in the fields. A local dairy had cows grazing in fields all around and the land that is now the Opryland Golf course was a dairy farm. It has all changed but my back yard, which is surrounded by a 6 ft. wooden fence is still Walden's Pond without the pond. LOL

Elena, you DO need a pond with a water fall so you hear some pleasant sounds, well part of the time anyhow. Your neighborhood certainly has had major changes.

Mary, we have a friend who is giving us an old bathtub to use as our water resevoir. We are going to use that and an old slide that my son had (he is 32) to make a waterfall that the water will come down the hill (slide that is covered in rocks and wind up in the resevoir. I want to have a ledge at the top that the water will flow over and make lots of noise. I will tr to post our results when we finish. I have this all thought out in my head so that we can start it soon but it may need lots of revisions before we finish. I also have two large birdbaths with water pumps installed and have plans for two more. One will be a pump with water flowing in a bucket and the other one will just be a plain little fountain. I also have a wall hanging fountain on my back patio. There is lots of running water but it doesn't have a chance with the noises that abound here. The only thing that might work would be something akin to Niagra Falls. LOL

I must admit this is a great conversation. I have been walking to the beat of a different drummer;my whole life.Who wants to be a rebot like everyone else anyway.I like to be the "peculiar people!" twice. Neat. I have a mind of my own and am very proud of that. My Mom says most people are Sheeple. Just follow the leader even if the leader walks off a cliff and go through life as they are instructed to do;the worst part is they really don't seem to mind or care. Sorry, but I just don't get it. Most of all I refuse to do it. Thanks for having this chat and thank God for Dave's Garden and all the great people that live/visit here. Jody

It is a pretty neat site, isn't it? And the people are great, very kind and supportive. And we inform one another, sort of like putting all the pieces, which are inputs from members, together into a greater whole.

We often go through life thinking we are the only ones who think or feel the way we do. It's nice to receive confirmation.

I'm not sure if I march to a different drummer, or follow someone with a different musical instrument altogether. Maybe a French horn, or a cello?

How about a diggery do for being different??? Not sure I could match to that either. LOL! Not sure how that is spelled. It is the horn type instrument that the natives (Can't spell Ab-a-rig-o-ries) play in Australia.

Being different is certainly a lot more fun than being a carbon copy of everyone else. I have always compared folks who have to be just like everyone else as being like lemmings in the fact that they would just plunge off into the sea together if that seemed to be the thing to do.

This message was edited Apr 18, 2004 8:37 AM

LOL. Jody