DG Junkies

I guess I should be embarrassed... I came home from the KYRU to 62 updated threads in my thread watcher! To be fair, though, I have to say some of those remained from the several days without power after Ivan's visit that I hadn't time to read before leaving for KY.

Other DG Junkies out there?

This message was edited Sep 29, 2004 10:42 AM

Yep! DH asks me what I do in the computer room so long every night - or worse during the night. I actually thought he was asleep.Seems alot of those I love to talk to are on the west coast. Perhaps thats because I am sleep so little.
DG has to be the best site that I have found. I feel safe, loved, cared for and also that I might have something interesting to say. It's almost pathetic to say but DG is my social life. I live over a mile into the bush and LOVE it.
From DG I have learn so much about flowers and veggies (Thank you Shoe and Ernie), that people out there do care whether they know you personally or not and tonight we had Karrie's Lime Pie for the second time. Hit the first time - this time it was a homerun!!!
So Darius, you are not the only DG junkie. Thank God for the likes of us. Later tongiht I will send you the Marsala Biscotti Recipe. I have not forgotten, just no time - I have to check all my DG Threads!!!
Dianne

We are supposed to have a social life somewhere else?

im here starting at 7am to 11pm off and on each and everyday-sure makes weeding hard to keep up on!

My DH once told me he'd rather compete with a naked guy. Does that count?

it's the first thing i check when i get home from work and check it several times. go out work in garden until 7 then i get on dg until i go to bed. i am not addicted to dg, daylilies or hostas. belinda

This message was edited Sep 27, 2004 8:55 PM

Well, they say admitting you have a problem is the first step to recovery! heeheeheeheeee I AM definitely additicted! I spent way, way, way, way too much money on plants this summer.

BUT, I learned a lot, my yard looks tons better, and I had lots of fun. I guess it was worth it. Next year I will buy fewer annuals, and concentrate on TRADING now....

What is this thing you call a social life? Never heard of it. Im on DG usualy right after the kids go to school and check it last thing before I go to bed, dinner has been known to be late many times and constant trips to the yard to check some info I read about or to take pics of something Id like everyone to see.
I have not found another website that can make me feel such a mixture of emotions, from laughing so hard Im wiping my computer down to wishing I could be there with someone to cry with them. If school had been like DG I would have been a straight A student and being sick as a dog would have had me crawling to the bus stop, especialy for the field trips.

I can stop any time I want to. . .

I think DG has become my "social life"! Which I will definitely need and appreciate even more after the November election! (I am totally over committed on so many levels!)

I just love this place! (sylvi74-I don't think I am as strong a person as you are!) :)

I know when my husband is on his computer and I am typing away replying on a thread and taking forever to finish, I sometimes tell him what I am doing.
Some people can get into a lot of trouble looking at porn sites or chatting with married partners. If all I am doing is typing in a DG forum, I think that is good.! As Martha Stewart would say " and that is a good thing!" LOL

I have met lots of friends on garden sites, I enjoy keeping up with my internet friends. Don't you all?
Sandra

What's this thing called Social Life? Oh is that the RU? DG Life is grand. :) Kathy

All I can say is thank God Howie likes DG, too! :D

hear, hear GW!!!

I've actually been thinking about requesting to have the Internet taken away from me at work. I CAN'T stay off here and afraid I'm going to get myself in trouble... However my computer at home is so slow, upstairs, and I don't have a free minute with my baby running around! Not to mention my DH - what are you doing up there? LOL I have already traded about 8 times with several more in the works. What a great site! It is feeding my gardening obsession! The only downside is the obsession is getting worse now that I finally have people to talk to! One more thing... How cool is it to be thinking of a plant - pull up the Database - look it up in seconds! Can't beat it!

Darius,
Before the recent storms/hurricanes I was a total DG junkie. I mean totally. I don't know what's happened since. Maybe I just feel overwhlemed by all of the clean up work that needs to be done. It could be my lack of access for so long and feel out of it. Or maybe I'm just bummed out over having had all of my plants cooped up in a dark room for a week during Ivan. That's not the worse part of it. Now I'm having to deal with pest problems. I have white fly like crazy and sooty mold on many of many of my gardenias. My passion flowers aren't doing great either. The hurricane ripped all of the leaves off the surrounding trees and now I have no shade for my shade plants (passion flowers). If the sun doesn't get my passion flowers, these darned caterpillars will. They devour these vines down to twigs. I'm so tired of fighting them off. I guess my lack of excitement over DG might also be that the season is coming to an end. Or it could be having missed out on the RUs because of the hurricane. We'll see if things pick up. Maybe you guys can help me get into the DG spirit.

I just re-read this post to myself. It sounds so down. I'm not really down just not into it like I was before.

BugFreak, what you are experiencing is only natural. It has been a rough and rocky road for many of you this past month or two and recovering is difficult and takes time. Hang in there! Seeing that much devastation and living in turmoil will dishearten even the hardiest of souls. That you are here and posting shows me you are strong willed and will soon have things back to normal.

Bugfreak- Remember that many of us here have experienced gardening carrying us through the worst times in our life. Hang in there- we are with you! XOO!!

Hugo, just wait until spring is around the corner... I'll bet you will find everything including your spirit has picked back up!

Darius, you always start some interesting threads, I don't know what I would have done without DG and my friends while I had my DH at home with a terrible illness. Their prayers and encouragments me to take care of myself helped an awful lot to continue working in my garden though I did not have enough time for it as needed. It also helped to get my mind off all this sadness for a while posting memories in another other thread Darius started in Grammas Apron.
Now I am alone still do not have enough time but what would I do without DG?
My husband is now under hospice care in a Life Care Home. I have no social life, only the visits with him during the day, he cannot speak anymore! When I am finally at home I read the various forums in DG, some of them make me even laugh! But I am waiting for that awful call.
Maria

Maria, Big hugs and thanks for you being here with us on DG. We are fortunate to have you here!

Maria, just consider us your home away from home... and your extended family.

I know this is a tough time for you; ultimately we will all face the same tough time, so you are not alone.

Part of the hard part right now for you (apart from Richard) is that you are alone in the house. How about trying some special things just for yourself? Some fresh-cut flowers on the table... and SET the table with good china as if there was company coming and eat there! ... a bubble bath by candelight, and drop lots of rose petals on the water if you have any roses left... drag out some finery you have been saving and wear it... and perfume... and some opera on the stereo and TURN IT UP!

Darius, Zany (and everyone else) you have all made me laugh and smile a little more as I read this. You have all reminded me once again why I love this place so much. Though things will continue to be very busy for me I shall stop in and check to see what is new here on DG. I just need to find some threads to jump in on. Thanks Darius for letting me post my thoughts here on this thread.

Aria,
I truely do feel for you. I can't even begin to imagine how difficult this all must be for you. I strongly believe that during times like these is when you should bring yourself around people as much as possible. Ideally in person but even here on DG works. Sometimes it seems diffult and takes a lot of energy. It is especially difficult for older people who don't even drive anymore to get out and about. Maybe you should have a small get together with other DG'ers in your area every now and then. I know I would be happy to stop by your place if you lived in my neck of the woods. I think now days our elders are too often forgotten. Darius gives some good advice. Though I know Aria, that most often it seems like such a chore to even just cook for one single person let alone set out your best china and dress up for the occassion. It's much easier to do all this for yourself while other friends are with you. I know the feeling. Often times differences in schedules here at home leave me home alone. During those times it seems so difficult to even thaw something out. TV (seemingly) becomes my only pastime. Try and organize something for yourself. I think you will find it quite rewarding. I would think that I'm not an exception and that there are other people out here who would be willing to meet up with you. All one needs to do is remember their grandparents. No one wants a loved one to have to go through anything like this alone. If you're ever in this area know that you have a friend to visit and a place to stay. Maybe a little "mini vacation" trip is what you need.

Well, I am not a Dave's junkie. Yeah right. I enjoy checking in, asking questions, chatting, the data base is Super. Loved the KYRU too.
I'm hooked.

BugFreak, I love your area. We have vacationed there at different times. We had planned on a fall break at Orange Beach! I am so sorry that you were hit so hard!

All of you that has never been to a roundup don't know what being hooked is. You read posts from and sometimes about the personal lives on Dave's and get the feeling of being a family, and then after a roundup it's not almost like family, it is family.

I did put cut flowers on my table but I have always done that. About setting table with best china reminded me of my Mother-in-law who did continue to do just that after losing her husband. She always asked me to go out in the garden to cut her three roses for her table, she also cooked herself a very nice dinner. I don't know if I can do this, I am always on the run seems to me the only time I sit down is when I am tuned in to DG.
Thanks for the invite, BugFreak, perhaps some day we'll meet. As for DG membersa from this area I don't know any who may have posted where I have. Two of the closest I am in touch with live in Maine.
Maria

Junky, yep you got that right Darius. It's taking me days to catch up on all these threads.

I still have two boxes of things I haven't unpacked since I moved here a month ago, the coolers and boxes from the trip are still waiting to be put away and my tote bag still needs to be unpacked from the RU.

My eating bar is full of various things, faxes, mail, tools, etc. I eat my meals in front of this thing. I don't usually let things clutter like this..........Yeah, I am a DG Junky

:^)))
Molly

Ditto GRedClay. I am excited, today I am going to another Plant Swap today. It is my local clubs annual swap. I hope to get more goodies. :)

aria, just hang in there. My husband died 10 years ago, after suffering severe illness and spending next 7 years in and out of nursing home. I took care of him most of the time but sometimes too much for me and he had to go back to the nursing home. So after he was gone i sold my too large house that was in the middle of our 80 acres of orchard and bought this land where i live now and have a beautiful view of surrounding hills and valleys.

And now I also have all these good people on DG to visit with. I do sympathize with you in your difficult time. And many prayers for you. Donna

I don't think "junkie" is the right term. I'll have to think about that. Knowing all of you is good for the soul. I really do have friends, and a loving family and now (over the last three years - ONLY THREE YEARS????), I've added all of you. Like Jim said, no longer 'just like family," but really family.

Thenk you, Rutholive, we had to sell our large farm house and a 100 acres 3 years ago to built a smaller one floor house to suit my husbands's needs, such as room for a wheelchair. I have now reconciled myself for the inevitable. It is very hard to take.
Maria

I am not addicted to Dave's Garden. I merely check it several times a day to see what's going on. And sometimes if I get up at night, I just take a quick peek. And I don't read every single forum. Or every thread. Just some of them. Well, all right, lots of them. And pictures, how can you not look at pictures when someone has taken the time to post them? I can quit any time. Like today. I'm sure I quit at least 6 times. If we had a power failure, I could find a library. It's not like I NEED DG. In fact I'm going to quit right now. Again.

See you in the morning. Or maybe later tonight. Wait, I need to check one more thread......

Hi Maria. I came up here for a DG fix tonight and your posts have me crying at my computer. I am so sorry. I don't know what to say. At least we all do have a place to come and talk to others, many of whom have gone threw similar experiences.
Heck just yesterday (at work again-I need to stop that) I revealed something on a different thread about myself that I generally do not tell people. But it seemed relevant to tell to try and help the other DG'r. Anyway, I hope to be here for many years and maybe even go to a roundup!

On a lighter note.. I received my first plants ever from a trade yesterday from -----(don't know if I should put her name even though I want to!) and WOW - now my DG obsession has just been turned up a level!!! I just hope she liked mine as much as I do hers!

Why I'm not addicted. I ONLY check in DG when I first get up - I do put the coffee on first. :>)) Then the first cuppa is a trip around the yard pulling a weed or so, when it's gone I have to come in for the second - which is just in time to check DG again and check a few threads. Then I only check DG during the hottest part of a summer day, and DG at supper time and just before I go to bed I must admit I'm on DG again. Why, I'm not addicted. My server went down and I waited a whole hour before I called in... I can't get my DG I wailed.
Why no, I'm ... well I'm just happy here. ~Blooms

Well, as I sit here laughing with some of you and nearly crying with some of you, my dh is sitting behind me wondering what is so funny. I'm like meezersfive........I'm not addicted......nope, not me.....just really, really interested. And being a stay at home mom makes it even worse........I don't have a life.

Hey I'm an 'against my wishes' working mom and I don't have a -life- either. At least as far as going out doing things life goes. However I did clean three different kinds of seeds tonight and planted about 7 things today! Now that's a life!!! Oh, and played with my dogs and kid too! And husband oops - must not forget!

I have to go out of town on business tomorrow about noon and won't be back home to internet access until Wed. evening. Talk about hyperventilation time. I'll be lucky if I'm still breathing by Wed.

Windy, you know what happened to Martha. Jeanette

I have to go out of town on business tomorrow about noon and won't be back home to internet access until Wed. evening. Talk about hyperventilation time. I'll be lucky if I'm still breathing by Wed.

Aria, I'm praying for you and just want you to know that I'm here for you if you need anything or just want to chat.