Seed Snatchin' V... Show Us Your Stash!

8ft, I'm sure she loves your lovely spot, your yard is so pretty!!!

thanks....
I guess my 'stash' will be growing soon. Stupid Park's Seed catalogue came in yesterday. There's some must haves and yet I don't know what I'll do with them.

whoa is me...

Right! Hey I went to a meeting yesterday and this lady had the most beautifull Albutelons, pink, ruffled, so I deadheaded some when I went outside, yippe!!!!

I have seed overload!!! Its when you have so many but WANT so many more! Ohhhh my brain!

He must suffer from very low self esteem!!!!!!!!!

Now I have to go pee!

I should never, AND I DO MEAN NEVER, stop in to check this thread at work!

8ft- you are absolutely hysterical! You sexy thing you! You can cover my back and go dumpster diving with me any time. They'd take one look at you and offer you money too!

I came across quite a wonderful 'seed' yesterday.

Cultivar - 'Ethan'; Species - grandson; Genus - Son; Family - Startz

Just call me 'Noma'

Ooooooh! What a sweety! Great find! Bet you won't be trading that one! Congratulations!

How beautifull Dstartz, Congratulations, no I think that's a keeper!

Awwwwwwwwwww!

They always smell so wonderful and I love the way their toes spread and those little gurgling sounds they make before the big sigh when they fall asleep.

Merry Christmas to you dstartz!

oh thanks Equil... then again - people wanting to give me money must be a good thing, right? what a fine provider I'd make.

Dstartz - Congratulations!!
and I'll provide a community service announcement here : you've got about 18-24 months to get rid of any gravel or lava stone walkways or mulches, if you have any. Or start saving to just mulch the entire yard with like material. :p

Dstarz, we could probably calll you putty. What a doll.

8ft, what's the either, or on the gravel? Sometimes I don't quite understand.

I didn't get it either.

ok speaking in tongues I guess.

I was suggesting that when Ethan gets about 18 months to 2 years old, thats about when it's fun to start kicking and throwing rocks. So, if you've got areas mulched with some kind of small stone and don't want it in the grass and gardens, get rid of it or mulch the entire yard with stone.

did I tell you my day job isn't a comedian?

I thought you meant he would be eating it. You know, gravel = bite-size rocks.... : - }

Oh... they stick it in their mouths...
and they stick it in their ears...
and they also stick it up their noses.
Young kids love doing a lot of things with rocks aside from throwing them.

Darn, you gotta be quick with them at that age. All it seems to take is as long as it takes to sneeze or blink an eye and they seem to find some oriface to stick a nice little rock in. Fortunately, most of us watch them like hawks at that age anyway so they don't get a chance to really ram them in far.

mine used to throw them in the pool, over and over, kept forgetting he got in trouble the last time. Oh, and dirt, oh no my DH sitting here reminding me when our DS was about 2yrs, putting toilet paper in the toilet and throwing it allllll overrrrr the WALLS in the bathroom and hall, lol lol, glad those days are behind me now, but I wonder what he may do next, Ya never know, he's made it to be 12 yrs!!!!

I have cats that have a field day with toilet paper. To this day we don't put rolls on the dispensers as the cats will take them down to the bare paper tubes in a matter of seconds. We have to put our toilet paper on the back of the toilet. Sometimes guests who have never been here before do us the favor of putting the roll on the holder which always results in a mound of paper on the floor. Everybody else who has been here even once knows to use it and set it back where it can't be shred. Now the kids.... they use it to wrap around their heads lately running around calling themselves the Taliban.

At one point I had 22 aquariums online since I didn't have a yard living in military housing. It seems like I always had a bucket of gravel sitting in one corner.

Something possessed a 3 year old to see how much of it could be stuffed in the VHS tape player.

Having a "grainy picture" got a whole new meaning. sheesh....

Beautiful little one Donna!!!! I am with everyone on the throwing things... My 3 yr old is (unfortunately) getting pretty good with his aim now too... Doesn't really matter what it is either!!! Last night it was WATER - from the tub. Went like this - Brandon, do NOT splash mommy... *giggle giggle SPLASH* - Brandon do NOT splash mommy AGAIN.. *giggle giggle SPLASH* - guess you get the pic? :0)

Anyone ever have a grilled cheese stuffed in their VCR? I think every boy we have ever had has pulled that shot. We moved the VCR up up up up up!

8ft, what do you mean by 22 aquariums online? We have one decent sized aquarium and every once in a while somebody drops a chunk of bright gray gravel down to the bottom. Sticks out like a sore thumb and when I ask who did it... I get a chorus of "I dunnos" and "Not me". I find all kinds of interesting foreign objects thrown in my ponds. Water is a kid magnet.

Welll... not a grilled cheese yet but I do have a new stereo in my car thanks to all the pennies put in my old ones' cassette player! Bad thing is that NEW stereo in my OLD car blew my rear speakers! LOL The domino effect!

I haven't had to hear from ole 'not me' yet - I'm sure my time is coming though!

equil - like plants, the collection of aquariums kept growing. Especially since I discovered I was handy at breeding fish and the local pet shops snapped up all the Angel fish since they were bred and raised in the hard lake Michigan water. Plus, in housing I wasn't paying for water and electricity. So - at one point, 6 of the tanks were 35 gal that got 75% of the water replaced every day. Each one would have a couple hundred angel fish from dime to quarter size.

Pennies in the cassette player? You got me on that one. A 3 yr old will learn how to say "not me" soon enough. Don't rush into anything! As far as your home... I tried to childproof mine BUT... the children still got in! Where did I go wrong?

8ft- Angelfish! My favorite! I love the way they float around. I have only two but I have had them for about 5 years. They are pretty good sized. How long do they live?

The angelfish "courting" dance is amazeing. Haven't the time available to give the kids the temp. etc needed to survive (pity).

hahaha! Equil! I think that myself too! We have those door things on the inside - maybe I should have put them on the outside doorhandles!

The really funny thing is 2 months after I got the new 'aftermarket' stereo which by the way was $150 vs. Honda replacement of $900 (I still can't believe that..) the new one was STOLEN out of my car as it sat in my driveway. Broke my window and viola! I don't live in a horrific area either - makes me wonder who knew who at the stereo store if you know what I mean...

I don't know angelfish BUT I have a 3 year old Beta. Anyone know how long they live? :-)

Off the top, I don't recall life expectancy for angels or beta's but 3 and 5 are good. You're doing something right.

Once we bought and moved to this house 10 years ago, all I kept was one 55gal tank. The only fish I kept were a pair clown loaches, 3 silver dollars, 6 giant danios, couple of chain loaches and an unusal pleco. Old age has caught up with them. A temporary visitor ate one of the clown loaches. The Silver dollars were the first to start dying off around 4/5 years. The Danios have died one at a time in their 8th year. The tank was 13 years old with silicon starting to pull out of the joints and an irreversible case of red algae so I just tossed it and have put a new one online downstairs. It had been an old folks home. The one little pleco of unknown age and my original clown loach, stunted in growth but now 12 years old were all that was left.

maybe it was the bata's dance that was so involved? been so long now - haven't had an aquarium in years.

hmmm 8ft I bet it's not arid in your house!! lol Fish are cool - I want to get my son a tank when he's a little older. Something easy.. 8ft - my ex had a 180 gal saltwater tank that he and his dad built. You could lay down in it it was so big! It was gorgeous up until he started his own business and then bit by bit everything died. For shame!!

ncgardenaddict... the little thingies on the outside won't work, they'll break a window to get back in at ya! And what's even worse... they bring friends when they get older so then you'll have even more standing in front of the frig with the door wide open staring blankly into rammed space filled to the brim with food saying, "There's nothing to eat". Nothing they like to eat is what they should be saying. And none of them can oull a door shut tightly behind them and none of them can take their shoes off before they come in and none of them can hear a word you say because they're all deaf from cranking the tunes so high the whole house vibrates! I'm thinking the 3's are the glory years. I have a beta on my desk at the office and it is about the same age as yours. I have no idea how long they live but mine os going strong nibbling at roots and I only feed him 2x a week.

8ft, you have how many tanks at home right now??? The word "inline" is referring to how many tanks you have running off the same filters and such... correct? Our angels lay eggs on the slate we placed in the aquarium and inevitably, somebody in there eats their eggs.

Typo.. I mean 'online' just "nesbonics" for operational. :)
New 55gal is breaking in down in the guest room. I threw in some danios, 3 fancy goldfish as sacrifical lambs. If they live fine, if they don't I'm not sweating it. You're going to ask why. Because you cannot be sure new fish aren't coming with disease from the pet shop which is why you should normally have a sick tank set up to quarantine them for a week before adding to your regular aquarium. In case you have to treat for ick, fin rot, etc..
I've got a 35gal the senior citizens are vacationing in until the 55 is ready. Although I did break in a new aquarium with a Discus one time. All you gotta do is ensure you're changing at least 10% of the water, every day for a week. (I do it for 2 weeks, then 25% once a week for a month). That and do NOT overfeed. They should always be hungry.

If you want to hatch the next batch of eggs all you need to do is have a small airpump, a little 5 gal tank or something big enough to hold the slate. As soon as they've finished laying the eggs, pull the slate and place in the hatching tank. Have the air pump with an airstone on it positioned so the airbubbles are flowing over the slate. (Like the parents would do) AND you're going to add methylene blue (used for ick) where you can see through the tank. I forget howlong, 2-3 days, they'll start to hatch and then you'll put charcoal in toe of a nylon stocking and hang suspend over the the airbubbles. The charcoal will remove all the methylene blue fast. Lastly - you're going to need to hatch some brine shrimp to feed them babies for awhile. Remember 'Sea Monkeys' ? That's them.

Our DS was too quiet one evening, and we werent close enough to know what he was up to, and that was a couple of weeks after the toilet paper thing, he was using his little beach bucket in the TOILET, and throwing the water all over the bathroom, he got a BIG time out and scolding, We had to pull the carpet up in the hall, that was a real disaster, had to remove the bathroom floor,and put down real tiles ahead of schedule, lol

I read off what you wrote to my husband, he's the bird and fish man around here. He indicated that sounded good. Maybe we will try it just for the heck of it. Thanks 8ft! How come you chose goldfish instead of zebras to break in a new tank? Just curious. We do use a quarantine tank for our outdoor fish. Inside, we have had no need as we haven't had any death in years and therefore no need to add to the community. Now watch, one of our beloved angels will keel over in the next month.

And hanna1, that is too funny. Don't you wish you had a video for that one?

Of course - who said this? "Children are a strange experiance, you spend the first three years of their life teaching them to walk & talk, And the next sixteen years telling them to sit down & shut up". I think it was Bill Cosby?

LOL!

And too true!

so so true!!!!

LOL! Cute story Annie!!! Hey Equil - that's funny about your Beta - I feed mine twice a day!! Ha - guess we are both 'doing it right.'

8ft. - any fish picks?

By the way - I really am going to post some snatchin' pics Weez! Just got to get my lazy butt upstairs to load them! Maybe this weekend...

Nicole

equil - 2 thoughts in choosing goldfish to cycle the 55gal. a) goldfish produce a lot of waste (ammonia) which is the first thing needed to start the nitrification cycle. b) they are basic cold water fish anyway, so there was no need to add a heater right off the bat. cooler water will slow the growth of algae. Without a heater the tank will be around 65 degrees in this bedroom. Later I'll add the heater and move in a couple cool plecos.
Plus - the calico shibunkin (sp) and the 2 red/white tri-tails were COOL. :)

Nicole - I'll get a shot of the tank I'm cycling and will see about scanning a couple of pics from the aquarium days.

Anyone petting they're betas yet? They can become very personal pets.

Well, I thought my snitchin days were over until I saw another really nice birch tree. The seed was out of my reach so I had to ring the doorbell and ask the owner of the property to help me. Such a nice TALL man he was! No photos of the event though. Sigh.

Equil, that was very brave and clever of you. It goes to show that you've got to be 'assertive' when you are snatching seeds. My actual seed snatching is about over for the season here. I still need to wade out into my son's woods to collect some highbush cranberry seeds, but I'm letting them stratify on the stem for now.

Guess I'd better start looking through my photos for some of my old seed snatching adventures to add here. I can't let all the folks in the warmer climes give me seed snatchin' envy!

I've got Blueberries, I thought they would be done for the season but not, yeppie!!!! Never to late of pick seeds here, with our weather it goes on all year long, many lilies are just peeking thru right now, and still much in bloom!