Seed Snatchin' Part IV

ya'll should learn a database like Access vice the spreadsheet. The spreadsheet was designed for crunching numbers and performing statistics / calculations. I see the spreadsheet used all the time like a swiss-army knife.

The database is for creating and managing lists. Access has a bunch of boilerplate templates for creating libraries of music, books, things like that. Then you've got or can build a pretty menu besides. Store pictures, sort and link different categories.

Sounds like a lot but once you get your hands wrapped around the database concept it'd really expand your horizons as far as creating libraries.

hmmm sounds interesting!! I am not even sure if I have it on my home 'puter but I will check it out!

Bloom, yep, is not normal, no, not at all, my feet are so cold, even with them socks on, I'm wearing my sweats, and my fingers aren't working right, I'm gonna fix me some hot tea, I'll be back, gonna get my hot pad again for a minute!

Hello everybody. I'm getting a late start checking over here. hanna1, I hope you're feeling warmer today. That was some cold spell for your neck of the woods... colder than here, for sure.

8ft, yes, I am very interested in using Access. It would allow me to enter my photos, etc. It's hard to teach an old dog like me new tricks, but this is one stick I'd like to chase!

NC, why not use those little echinacea seeds to build a little matchbook house. They'd make great shingles!

Thanks for the info on milkweed, Weezingreens and Equi. I'd love to hear your method, equi. I have enough seeds where I could try different ways. I might post a thread, i'll let you know
Cindy

Did a little snatchin' this evening with which I need y'all's help.

My minister and very good freind, Jim, died unexpectedly last Tuesday and his memorial service was today. On the serving table at the gathering following were 2 chrysanthemum plants.

Between my love of Jim and my passion for chrysanthemums I refused to contain myself and took 3 cuttings.

I know this may sound silly to some, but would y'all say a prayer for me and my cuttings, please? It would really make my heart smile to have at least one of them growing in my garden come next year.

Grateful for your commraderie,

dstartz/Donna

Hey, I'll say a little prayer for your chrysanthemums. Good things should always come out of sad things.

prayers and blessings for you and yours.

Mums root easily for me and lucky you, you're down in Texas! Ever hear of Clovis NM?

Just think, everytime they bloom, You'll think of him!!! and that is good, Annie

8ft my parents eloped to Clovis, N.M. Sept 2, 1945.

OMG ! elope to Clovis... in 1945 yet? Lemme see, there was probably grain elevators, Santa Fe railway depot and the Ranchers and Farmers cattle auction. I was born in Akron CO and we moved to Clovis in '59 I think. Grew up there but adopted Corpus Christi TX as home then left and did the world tour via 20 years in the Navy, including 2 years out of Mayport.

Donna, I understand your wanting the little fellas to root. I still have a plant from my grandfather's funeral and I always think of him when I see it!

from my own yard but they were SNATCHED from old man winter.
When cutting back the new variegated daylilies I noticed what looked like plantlets trying to set on a few flower stalks I had left up. No roots but I stuck their butts in a pot and they eventually made it to the basement. Thought they were gone as the few original leaves turned brown and limp.

Looks like I've got some freebies though!

Cool!!!!

Excellent job - thanx for the pic !

I missed a photo op yesterday on the way to work pre-sunset mountains and clouds thing, Gotta start carring the camera all the time.

Guess what! Sugarweed invited me to come 'snatch' at her mother's house in Charlotte before it is sold. Will be there Sunday and I will be sure and take some pictures!! Ivory from Mooresville will be there too - haven't met her yet.

Should be fun!!

OK Weeze, 255 is getting slow, time to slide into a seed snatching thru the snow in a one horse open sleigh number V.
That's your job, so we're leavin it to ya.

I second!!!

Ok guys, It's way too cold out here today, 35F at 8am, brrrrrr!!!! we had our 1st light frost, had to warm up my car windows this morning to I could see out, but I bet in Pleasanton 7 miles away it must have been in the 20's, my poor aging Inlaws just moved to Walnut Creek a year ago, they're notttt used to this, and neither am I, I just went outside to do some light yardening, that lasted about 10 minutes!!!!!!
BUT, I took my Son to Kaiser again today, guess what I DID???? Yep, he saw the clippers and exclaimed "Here goes the Bounty Hunter", I'm still LOL LOL, inside on a window ledge were these really pretty pots filled with these really pretty plants all leggy, growing over turning brown, hummmm, I gave them a nice little trim!!! Then We got into their parking lot and wellll ALL these rows of Lavender going to seed, so I deadheaded a bunch, {;~)), The gardeners were busy slaughtering another flowerbed, so I just had to help out, right????? Don't know what kind it is, short with long skinny stems. I'm going to fix me a nice cup of green tea, be right back!

Hoo-ahhh!!


on the colder side, you could be a poor little sparrow that can't find her snow shovel!

Gosh, guys, my snow is washing away in the monsoon that started last night. Hey, I came back to tell you I started a Part V thead... don't want to leave you two behind again! http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/471815/

Had to post this, even after all this time. This is from the Castro Valley Round up from yesterday, Sept 24, 2005, Hanna in her new tee shirt.....teeee heeee.....

That's my blue dumpster! You're wearing my blue dumpster! How'd you do that? Is that an iron on? Inquiring minds want to know! Inquiring minds need to know! Good job! That is way cool!

Hey, Equal!!! I painted it...at the very last minute, only the only tee I could find. She can't wash it, and it's tooo tight being a youth tee (I gotta wear my granny glasses when I shop from now on) BUT, she now owns it. LOL!!!

Who is she? Tell who ever "she" is to gimme my dumpster back and that t-shirt would be just the right size for me. I am green with envy!

Equal, I am so sorry, totally missed that. Hanna1 - Annie from Castro Valley be a'wearring that shirt. She MIGHT be willing to sell it?

Oh bother, Annie's wearing it! How can you rip a shirt off the back of somebody you like???????

It's wonderful!!!!

Would you be willing to scan it and make graphics of it? Then it could be made into iron-ons or even posted at CafePress http://www.cafepress.com/cp/info/ and we could have it put on T-shirts and stuff.


Please, please, please?!?!? (she said on bended knees)

Hey Dee!!! It already was done on the computer. Let me know which version you want and I will email. Lemme dig em up and post them. I am working on my hunnies laptop (my computer went in for a complete rehaul) so they were backed up somewhere. Theres a rough draft in the middle of this thread, which is why I posted it here.

Equal, you are my kinda nut. Since it's small, she just might sell it to ya. Gulping here. If you buy the right size (and colour) tee, wash it twice, send it to me with postage and paint donations, I will make you one. It takes about an afternoon or so to make, letting the layers dry, etc, and between $5 and $10 worth of paint.

I can do that but I have a question, wouldn't an iron-on be considerably less labor intensive? I don't think my printer can handle an iron on but I have an iron...somewhere in this house... and I know it worked. Or at least it used to work the last time I laid eyes on it to iron on a Cub Scout patch.

Equil, sounds like you use ur iron as often as I do. Son needed it to attach little strip of stuff to end of countertop... had to 'hunt' for it.

Oh, I used to use the iron as little as possible but then I discovered that the dry cleaner sews on patches for $3 a piece so now I haven't used it in ages but I really do have one here, honest! If not, I could take a t-shirt and an iron-on to the dry cleaners and they could get it on for me.

Yes, that was extremely labor intensive, which is why I gulped.

You guys are on your own here, I have no idea how to any of the above. I would be more than happy to provide the artwork, heck, it's already done, just have to find them. A girlfriend who does promos (company logo tees, etc) said it has to be in a different format than a jpg in order to a tee shirt company to print it, and I THINK I have a program to so that format. Will have to research. Anyway, what ever format I can do it in, just let me know.

Let's get help from people who know computers? I have seen the iron on kits with the special paper at WalMart of all places a while ago. I think, I could be wrong, that it is just a matter of printing the image out on the iron on. Eeek, computers!

I found them!! Whew, I was having a bit of a heart attack there. How about a new thread in the Saving seed forum, Clepto tee shirts?

http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/547297/

the computer part is easy. Its the rest that boggles MY mind, lololol.....

Great work, ladyannne! These definitely need to go into production!

Equi, how soon we forget great folks in tha bus????? Nope, I'm not giving away my T-shirt, no way - no how, teehee teehee!!!!! Much too precious!!!! I almost fell down when I saw it, it is now part of my collection of T's, I can wear it now, will wash it in cold water in the sink, so there, na na na na na....na, frame it if I have to, LOL LOL LOL, Thanks again soooo much LadyAnnne, meeting you was the best!!!!!
So there! The rest of ya should have been at our Roundup!
Annie

Ah hem... that round up was in California or I would have gone!

Ya ha, you could a come! It's a small world, and ya could have brought da bus!