Coffee and...part 8 :-D

Hi and WELCOME (and/or Welcome BACK!)

Here's my usual message...
"Our door is *always* open to anyone who cares to drop in and sit a spell, If you have any special goodies to share, just put 'em on the counter with the rest of our absolutely, positively, NO-cal supply! We'd Love to taste them! :-)"

Here's the link to our last session:
http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/484899

Spring is getting closer to our kitchen! Tell us what you're planning for your garden this spring.


~julie~

So this is where everyone has disappeared too. I can't keep up! everyone is doing so much stuff. I started another Victorian Style lampshade a couple of days ago - they take hours and hours to do. It has kept me rather busy, but it also makes the fingers sore, (lots of hand sewing - (no hot glue on a Victorian!!) )so I've got to give them a break. I decided punching the keyboard is slightly easier!
See y'all in the morning.
Carol

Welll it looks like up for the for the day so I've started the fresh coffee - its Mocha Java this am. one of my favourites. Not much of an eater in the morning but can whip up some quick French toast with Maple Syrup ftom our bush if you would like.
Here all this time I've been thinking it is just me who had MIL angst. Well at least that's what she told me. It was so good to read others' feelings about their MIL relationships. Mine told me one day "Oh, I thought I got my son back.......and then you came along" Nice and friendly like isn't she.Still feeels that way after33 years.
Darius you are working up a storm - is it to get out of Dodge as fast as you can? Why is the kid getting the Master Bedroom? Did I miss something in all my lurking?
Thanks for the visit and the ear.
Dianne

Dianne, what a surprise find you here, how nice, am having coffee and dumking it with Darus' biscotti, don't eat much for breakfast either.

I had a wondeful MILwho almost became my own since I left my own mother when I came to this country to marry my husband, Richard.
When he left Vienna to go hime I received a letter from her that started off with: "Good morning, Maria, my son wrote to me he met a girl while in Vienna and that her name is Maria , I hope to hear from you soon and according to Richard, who will be home soon, I will meet you one day for he wishes to marry you.........." She helped me in any way she could, introduced me to many people, took me shopping and most of all she was an avid gardener and taught me all iI know about flowers, shrubs and trees. I still have many flowers she gave for my own, than new garden. She also kneew every bird that resides in our neighbor hood. To this day I miss her.

An early picture of Richard, myself and his mother. Those were the good days
Maria
Maria

Welcome Aria, nice that you could join us. We welcome everyone and share our treats which have ZERO calories. Good to hear from Darius, too, and we hope she isn't working too hard. The kid got the big bedroom!! Whoa!! The only reason I can think of for that is so that she has to pass Mom's so she can hear her sneaking in late !!

I had stopped at the Good Feet store before I went to the podiatrist....hold on to your wallet, they are just as pricey as the podiatrist, and I'm not convinced that their sales people are all that skillled at fitting you properly. It is fun though to get the foot impression that they take, mine looks like a duck foot because they are so flat. I thought it was arthritis, but it turned out that that tendon that runs along the inside of your foot had stretched over the years to compensate for the "flat" was the cause of my discomfort, so the arch support really helps.

My step-mom, bless her sweet heart, always insisted that I wear "sensible" shoes which of course I detested...until I was 13 and just HAD to have ballerina slippers (a popular shoe style in the early fifties). They didn't hold up well, and the spring that year had me walking with a sole that went flap flap flap with every step, and my parent's response was "Well, you picked them". Fortunately summer followed and I wore NO shoes for most of it!

Plans for lunch out today with a couple of my old fellow conspiritors from work. We were lunch buddies for years, and one was my assistant when I was a supervisor, she later became a supervisor as well. I hired her because she was divorced like me, and was supporting her three kids. I figured anybody who could raise three boys on her own, manage a budget, etc. would be great at juggling work projects. I was right. Five years ago she had brain surgery, but none of her boys were able (willing?) to stay with her afterward, while she recuperated. She needed someone with her for at least two weeks, so I dragged her home with me....she had never had a cat, so you can imagine how surprised she was to have company in her bed at night!!

I'm not starting anything indoors this year. I've failed at it so many times that there's no point in disappointing myself again. As far as the top of the 'frig is concerned, that's where the "princess" dines and I can't picture her leaving nice tasty greens alone!

Not planning anything new or exotic for the gardens this year, just the usual crop of mums, daisies, rudbeckia, roses, petoonies (I love that wave and some have reseeded themselves in suprising locations) snaps, iris, tulips OHHHHH I can't wait for Spring!!!!

Sarv, I got my hair cut yesterday too.....this morning I look like I stuck my finger in a light socket!! I think the hairdresser got paid by the inch....scary! There went the last of my perm so it'll be a real challenge to get it to look like it did when I left the salon! DIL said it looked great, but she would anyway!

Went back to half decaff and half regular coffee, boy did I miss that caffeine jolt in the morning! So I'll have another cuppa and no treats because I'm looking forward to those haystack onions for lunch! oh....never mind, pass me one of Darius's biscotti.............

have one or two, meezer they are just a perfect snack at any time, Darius surely made a hit with me.
This week is school vacation that means I see my daughters more often, having lunch with
Maria one to day in the city , it will be fun, the weather is very nice, sunny but cool at 32', Had tons of snow in January hoping there will be no more of that white stuff, keep on dreaming, Maria.........
Glad to have found this thread, all alone drinking coffee is not much fun, so here I am, not just a lurker.
Maria

meezer - I must have the same hairdresser- I awoke and looked in the mirror and laughed and laughed - I must have stuck two fingers in the socket!! What a disaster. I just wet it down and will deal with it after I go huff and puff. Gonna add some highlights in it to make me look younger LOL

You wouldn't believe what I had for breakfast - leftover salmon patties - still delish!!

Gotta stop at the grocery store - we're out of yogurt! Can't live without it!! Isn't that silly.

Well, gotta get my butt in gear - the sun did peak out, but promptly went back under. Another gloomy day ahead.. Take care all

Morning! It's almost 10 am and my sister isn't back yet from taking the kid to school. She's usually back by 8:30-9:00, and we did all the errands yesterday.

BTW, the kid got the master bedroom because she has the only "real" bedroom furniture left in the house, the cherry stuff that was my mother's. My sister's furniture got ruined when the roof came down and she hasn't replaced it yet. Now she's decided not to replace it until they move. The house will show better with that room furnished with more than a twin bed and no other furniture.

We're making the kid's old bedroom into a sewing room and boy does my sis have sewing stuff! Plus she has all my mother's fabrics, threads, patterns, machines. Both of them sewed for a living. My mother was a dressmaker and my sister worked for a small company that did window treatments, bedcovers, etc.

I'm sleeping on the twin bed in the smallest bedroom which is the computer room now, and my sis on the couch.

Maria, I'm glad you are enjoying ther biscotti. :)

GOOD Morning *everyone!*

Nice to see Carol, Diane and Maria found our new session...I'll have a piece of that biscotti, sounds perfect at the moment. Nice and light and *crunchy!* Yummm

You girls with your haircut stories make me nervous. My appointment is at 2:00 this afternoon. LOL

M5...I remember those 'ballerina' flats we wore in the 50's...real well! I even had the same experience you had only I glued some shoebox cardboard inside to cover the hole I'd worn in the toe. And you know what? LOL My parents told me the same thing "You picked them out!" AND when summer came...it was barefoot for me too. (And here I thought *I* was only one who had that happen. hahahaha)

Carol, I'm glad you took a break from your 'shady' pasttime to visit us again. (LOL sorry...couldn't resist that) I've often thought I'd like to try my hand at making lampshades but I never really had a frame that I could take apart. Now that the internet is available, I could probably find the supplies a lot easier than 15 years ago.

Diane...I suppose you now know that you're *not* alone with the MIL 'put downs' "Welcome aboard!" LOL (If you're still offering, that french toast *does* sound pretty good...maybe I'll have a piece of that as soon as I'm finished with this biscotti.)


Maria...that's a lovely photo. Is that your MIL on the left? You're so fortunate to have a MIL that's also a helper and a friend. I'm so glad you decided not to lurk any more.

Good Morning Darius...hope your sister is home by now. I always hate it when someone doesn't make it home by the time *I* think they should have. Dh used to walk in the door at 4:17 on the money every single day for 8 years. I remember the one time he didn't. I was beside beside myself. (You can about imagine how I was with my kids. LOL)

swallowing the last gulp of my coffee here...think I'll go down and see how my seedlings are doing and maybe a plant a few Japanese Morning Glories (just to see if they'll germinate, mind you. :-D)

Later...
~julie~

Well, it's almost 11:00 am and she's still not home. The Fla Hwy Patrol does not have a report of a car like hers in an accident in the area, nor by her name. I don't know what to think.

Whoops, she just came in! She'd been to Wally World looking for a few things we couldn't find yesterday. I told her the next time to leave me a note.

Whew! Glad to hear that she's home.
~julie~

Now I'm ambivalent about the fact she's home. On one hand, I'm relieved she's okay and on the other hand, she's in a very foul mood. Tired from staying up half the night, plus she lacerated the webbing between thumb and forefinger in two places so it hurts to do any work with it. 3-4 days ago she stepped on a rusty roofing nail and refused to go get a tetanus shot. I don't know why some folks don't take better care of themselves, but I guess I'm just as bad in my own way.

Oh dear, doesn't sound like a fun day your way, darius. She'd be wise to get that tetanus shot. All tht construction work going on..... and when was your last tetanus shot, darius? LOL Tell her to take a nap in the bedroom, at least she's out of your face then.

Coffee's done. Really need to do something constructive, guess I'll go wash dishes. uck! :)

Darius, get your sis somewhere to get a Tetnus shot NOW!!!My dad had lockjaw in 1955 and it could have been prevented if he had had a tetnus shot. You need a new one every 10 years to be current. Trust me I know, I would never want anyone else to go through such torture as my precious dad did - make her or take ke struggling and screaming to get that shotWhen was yours last updated Darius?
Dianne

Boy, I'm with Kooger and Dianne...BOTH of you *need* to get tetanus shots...but she needs it *now*! I guess one thing to be thankful for with surgeries is they give you a tetanus shot whether you need it or not. :-)

I just got home from my hair cut...so tomorrow morning it's *my* turn to have the "Hair from he!!" :-D

My new Garden Gate magazine was in the mailbox when I got home. Maybe I'll skim through it while DH gets his haircut...then we have to go into 'town.' I think we're having KFC for dinner tonight. Mmmmm Extra Crispy. Funny how when I was working I hated 'fast food'...it all seemed to taste the same. Now that it's been nearly a year without it, it sounds pretty darn good.

~julie~

Darius, I think you and sis should both take a day off, (maybe even from each other) go out for lunch, loaf, take in a movie...anything but work. You've been slaving away ever since you got there and a break would do you both good. AFTER she gets her tetanus shot.

Julie, we must have had a similar childhood. Those were the days when parents expected their children to suffer the consequences of their choices, not like now.

Lunch was great, but now that I've had my fun for the day I need to get out the Dyson and get the cat hair off the carpet......looks like somebody had a little disagreement because MOM left them alllll alone....such spoiled brats.

Here's the haircut, sure doesn't look like it did yesterday!! Oh well, it'll dry fast! Can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. LOL I even dressed up and wore my good sweats............mwahhahahahaha

Hi again. I brought some bread pudding, love the stuff....and always eat too much of it if I have one sitting around. Just tea for now thanks, like I said, I've already had too much bread pudding.

Welcome, Maria, it is always nice to have somebody new join us. Since I don't know you, and maybe some of the others don't either, would you give us a little more information about yourself?

Somehow I missed the new link yesterday and wondered why it was so quiet in the kitchen.

Darius, it does sound like both you and your sis need to take a break, and I hope you will do that.

Haircuts? nope, not me. I have mine long and wear it in braids almost all the time. I guess you could say I have reverted to my childhood. My sister and I both had braids when we were little, well, until about 5th or 6th grade, and now we both wear them again. It's a practical style for living on farms, and we really don't care what other people think about it. Does that mean we are eccentric? We also don't dress in style. We look and sound so much alike we are always confusing people in town in places where we both do business.

This morning I helped my neighbor load cattle to be hauled to the auction. One was quite wild and snorty and we half expected her to go over the fence or over one of us but we got her in the trailer without a lot of trouble, put her in the front section and got the rest of the load together before she tore the trailer apart. She was not a happy camper! We have another beautiful day, no rain in the forecast, freezing nights and sunny days, not what it should be doing in February but I will make use of it. It's getting close to 2 o'clock here so I'm going riding. See you later. Bye for now.

My last tetanus booster has been within 5 years. Being in construction for many years, I always tried to stay safe at least from preventable disasters. Thanks for being concerned!

The kid has gone to church with friends (in a black mini-skirt and a hot pink halter top, LOL) and I'm taking myself away from the house by myself a bit. May not be out past dark thirty in an unfamiliar town and my night vision but at least, a break.

Stove and 2 unfinished pre-hung doors got delivered a few minutes ago so my work is cut out for the next 2-3 days. Thankfully I don't have to finish the soffit and fascia. :)

Oh Darius...please be careful.....Maria, I'm glad you stopped by too. We have a nice group, and I haven't gained a pound since hanging out here either.

For those of you that have heard me bragging about my DGD in the Navy...she sends "give my love
to everyone at daves garden ok. lots of love and big
hugs."

I want to tell you how sweet that Kooger gal is. I had mentioned that the Widowed Support Center could use Baby Afghans and RIBBON.....to refurbish all the stuffed animals we give to children each year...gave away 5,000 last year...and each one of them had been washed and new ribbons...and new eye if needed....

Well, Laura sent me a nice big box of ribbon for the Center....The ladies will be so pleased. We only work on our "critter program" on Wed of each week, and I didn't go in today due to sickish tummy....but they will get them next week. Thank you so much, Kooger!! (raising my root beer in salute to Kooger!)

Mary...be sure to stay out of the way of those mean critters...not like our sweet little critterrs I work on each week...LOL Remember, you still have little lambs to help deliver!

Here is a picture of the building that the Army lets us call home...it is very nice...big kitchen with stove, refrigerator and dish washer...copier and computer...pantry.

Then a big room with tables and a desk and CRITTERS....then 2 bathrooms and a wee little laundry area...The DAV had their eye on it but the "ladies" always manage to have the right "Brass" for lunch now and then....LOL

Here is a picture of the last BRASS we entertained...all Chaplains....and the lady (Jo Moore) has been working at the Chapel for so many years ...and so many Chaplains....that when she retires in a few years it will take about 3 people to replace her!! In the background in bookcases you can see some of the Critters we have worked on....as storage room is at a premium at the Center, we bag them up periodically and The Knights of Columbus stores them for us.

Jo, how do you wash the stuffed animals so they are clean and do not mat? Will it work on one with a longer fur?

meezer5, I think you haircut looks sporty. Very nice.
darius, how old is your sister? I am surprised you have a sister who has a teenager.
Today and yesterday were in the 70s and just beautiful. When I opened the door this morning to step out and take some deep breaths, the air smelled a little like watermelons. Weird but delightful.
I got home from work at 4 p.m. and went back out with buckets of composted cow manure and dumped some on my pinks. I also gave them a shot of bone meal. A whole flat of them were given to me by a local garden center late last summer. I have given her some brugmansia cuttings, rooted. I put half the pinks at the front of one of my terraces and the rest in the planters in front of the community center. It was so nice to work outside, but guess what! We are expecting snow tonight! AAaaaaaaaaagh!

Betty, my sister will be 56 in April, and Jessica (her only child) will be 18 in October.

Glad I'm here and not at home for snow!

Darius....we wash every kind of stuffed animal imaginable...and yes, we wash the long haired ones too. We have had a lot of "kitties" that have long hair...in the washer and dryer they go...may have to brush some of the fur afterwards...but most of them are fine.

M5...I forgot to comment on you hair cut...I LOVE it...it looks very good on you. Jo

Jo, is there a specific kind of soap? My neice has a pink platypus I gave her 16 years ago that she'd like to keep but it's getting ratty.

M5 - hair looks just great! You have a nice face for a short cut. :)

darius - whew! knew you were a smart gal...lol

rr- you're welcome! already got that box filled with other 'stuff'. Did you laugh real hard at the funny lopsided spools? bet the other gals will... :P

Maria - glad to see you posting, I keep up with the night owl group too, but don't post a lot there.

Hi to everybody else.

I'm kinda stuffed from supper yet - had country style pork ribs and carrots with brown sugar and butter and mashed potatoes with butter, sour cream and parsley. Yum! Yum!

I'll grab another cup of coffee and head out of here. later all........ Laura

HI Maria and all, please pass the biscotti, the French toast and the bread pudding -Quick. I got on the scale this AM-had been watching what I was putting in my mouth (those chol. #'s!!) and I was UP 2#!! Argh. I was aghast.
I seldom get on the scale and it will be a long time before I get on again!!!
Darius, hope that you sister got a shot, a booster might not be such a bad idea either. I had one after a 7 year interval. Better safe than sick.
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Must be the time of the year for hair-do's. I cancelled my perm appt. wanted to give my hair a rest (and then maybe color it). and went to a barber. She does the (wonderful hair of the (hunky) doctor in preventative cardiology) and he passed on her name. Great haircut at 1/2 the price and a quiet, friendly place. I am trying to get my hair a bit longer-short bob style -we will see; I haven't had straight hair for over 25 years. May be cute (with a lot less gray-gotta love L'Oreol).
Get to pick up the special paint brush tomorrow and will see if the information on HGTV helps me make the closet pretty or, if not, will take suggestions on how to use the linen-weave brush as a garden ornament.!!
Have to pop in and say hi on the other forum and then upstairs for a cuppa.
Hugs to all.


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Darius...we get a big box of detergent at Cosco or Sam's Club. Even the battery operated stuff mostly comes out OK...although we seldom send them on with the batteries in them...we take them out and sew them up. Jo

Thanks, Jo. I would have thought some special handling, soap, etc.

We'll give it a try. :)

Bought a bookcase at Grate and Barreel via catalog. saying some assembly needed. I don't know what they mean by some, I would call it total ! the package contained several slabs of wood plus tons of screws.
I have never been smart enough to follow directions as to how to put things together. Had to call my SIL to do that nasty job but only had time to dd half of it will finish the rest tomorrow. Won't do that again, much easier to go to a furniture store and get one completed.
Maria

Maria, I know what you mean, even though I am very good at assembly, LOL. I just hate to do it.

I'm on the opposite end of the spectrum, I enjoy putting those things together! Ha Ha!

Well, waaaaay past my bedtime but I've been surfing in a quiet house and do not feel sleepy (unfortunately). I'll regret it tomorrow but it's the first quiet time to myself in 2 weeks and I'm now bored, having caught up on all my threads. I seldom get bored at home (although I do miss seeing people face-to-face living out in the boonies) but I also have a tv in my bedroom there to combat boredom.

A long-time acquaintance in Winter Park is going to meet me late Saturday afternoon for an early dinner out after my morning of yard sales! Not sure how far Winter Park (maybe an hour and a half or so?) is but we'll meet kinda halfway. I'm hoping for a good Greek meal, or Cuban... foods I cannot get at home. :)

I may change it to Tuesday/Wednesday as my basic belief about restaurants is that weekend nights are overbooked, the chef overworked and therefore the quality down. If I'm gonna pay, I want it to be good.

I put my home phone on call forwarding to here and today my oxygen supplier called. She said she needs to come check my condenser and recalibrate it if necessary. I told her she'd better pack a lunch as it would be a long ride, LOL. (We'll do it in a couple of weeks when I get home.)

All of y'all have been talking haircuts. Mine, since I had a fit and cut it all off down to 1/2 inch on Dec. 1st is finally growing back. You'd think it would all grow at the same rate, yes? No such luck; I'll need the back trimmed long before the front. It's about 2" long now and I don't quite look like I've had chemo, LOL.

And 'they' say, don't eat out on Monday, you get whatever was left over from the weekend in a different form. Not too appealing! Yard sales , green with envy, it'll be a couple of months before we start here. Usually mid April. well, I better hit the day. Night!

Busy day for all of you! Thanks so much for the hair comments, I always have this delusion that I'm going to grow it out really long and make a braid down the back but it gets to a certain length and I lose patience and WHACK!! it's gone!! Sometimes I go to a local beauty school and let the novices do it, but this time I went to a salon and got a free herbal mask, chair massage, along with the cut. It's so easy when it's short, and I hate messing around with it. I do envy Mary's braid though. I wore braids all through grade school, and when my step mom was feeling ambitious, she'd do french braids which raised my eyebrows at least an inch, because she made very tight braids! Sometimes she'd have me bend over and she'd start them from the nape of my neck and then cross the braids over on top of my head.

One summer she got the brilliant idea to henna my hair, like she did hers. I had been running around in the sun all summer and had a streak of sunbleached hair which turned bright pink! Now you know who started all that punk hair stuff...way back in 1946!

Seems my main chore this week is eating. Skipped dinner last night after having lunch out, but had treats at a Partylite sale, so that didn't help at all. Today is lunch with my DD and DIL, at the Pie Place again, and I have a retiree function that includes dinner this evening. I might have to go grease up the treadmill when this week is over.

Those porkchops sounded awfully good though...haven't made them for a long time since I've been getting those nice pork tenderloins which have so little fat, but I kinda miss gnawing on a bone!!

Hey nobody thinks that's my natural hair color, do they? LOL I haven't seen my own in so long I'm not sure what it is. Except lotsa gray....and I agree, Loreal is a lifesaver! I'm going to try to skip perms for a while, because if you do both, your hair really takes a beating. Darius, taking a fit is exactly the way to describe how I feel when I get inspired to cut off short again!! My DD was thinking of doing that a while back, and I think it looks great but I'm not that brave. And why can't we all look like Diane Keaton and Gloria Steinem who I think both look fabulous for their ages. Bahhhhh.

Maria, if I were closer I'd help you put that bookcase together, I do like to do it. It's like solving a crossword puzzle from the NYTimes. When I buy something like that DH just rolls his eyes and says, you bought it....but I do it myself. My coffee table from Target has a little wobble however, and I'm not about to disassemble it and do it over, so it can just wiggle away for all I care.

Laura and Jo, refurbished animals for kids, what a lovely thing to do. I have a big plastic tub in the basement full of Beanie Babies, and I think for Easter I'm going to pick up my two littlest grands and go to Children's Hospital and let them pass them out to the sick little ones. One of my less intelligent collection frenzies....LOL ... a day late and a dollar short.

Waiting for Spring.............sigh. C'ya later, have a sunny day !

Morning all. A fantastic beautiful sunny day or so it looks throught the window. Was out with the dogs and it is darn cold - close to frigid.
We are having a big breakfast this morning so please join us if you are hhungry. We had a Dark and Stormy night here last night around the dinner hour. My "perfect" white GS Stormy somehow in less than 15 min while we were at the wood pile ate the whole breast of turkey my DH had so carefully carved out of the huge Christmas bird I cooked. You know the feeling your mouth is all watering and set for this perfect taste and Bang.... it is going to taste soup.Turkey is my favourite meat and I was so anticipating all those turkey sandwiches this week. Stormy spent a rater sleep, smelly night and wasn't allowed to sleep at the foot of the bed as he usually does. Let me tell you soup and turkey are no where near alike in taste.
Have a great day all.
Dianne
Happy to hear you are meeting an old friend Darius and for Cuban food ..... drool!!

Been up since 5 am now on my second cup of coffee and a biscotti so have some as you can see Darius was most genereous.
You are so right, Meezers, it is like a crossword puzzle and I don't do very well at those either but if some one calls out if I know what that could be I usually know it, guess it must be the print in front of me LOL. My SIL is coming later to finish the project, will show you pictures of it
Talk about hair, i never go to a hair dresser, my hair was very long till a week ago down to my waist but it got to be such a job to comb it after a wash so I cut off about ten inches but stiil had enough to put it into a french twist, I think I had that kind of hair do most of my life, braids while young and wrapped around my head. I can not do this any more, since I had to be the caretaker of my husband for several years he had PD I was very stressed out causing to lose half of my hair. I am naturally blond but in the sun shine i can tell how gray it actually is, I think it is funny when people say I don't have a gray hair!

Beautiful day,lots of sunshine but the temperature is only 19' brrrrrrr,
can't wait for spring either
Maria
PS was interrupted started to post this an hour ago
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I think Asheville and south (here) missed the snow. I've got gardening fever so badly, that I can't quit looking out the at work. It felt so good just to dig up brugmansia stumps and throw Black Kow and bone meal at my pinks (which are blooming)!.

Hi everyone! WoW! Just look at the activity going on in here! It's super!!

Not going to take the time to reply to everyone right now, even tho I'd like to.

I've been working on my database this morning and really have the itch to get my hands dirty. :-D ALL those plants I have will be needing a place to call home in a little while and I need to have some kind of a plan worked out. Otherwise, I'll have the grandest 'patchwork quilt' of a garden you ever saw.

Does anyone here keep 'maps' or other memory saving devices of their gardens? I mean to say...What kind of 'system' do you use to keep your plantings organized? (And don't tell me you're just "putting it in" anywhere you have room. hahahaha

I'll take a screen capture of my database work screen and show you all what I've been developing over the winter. I tried several 'off the shelf' kinds of software...I hated it ALL! (Dang! I shoulda saved my money and spent it on plants that would croaked! I'd have gotten more for my money...that's for sure. LOL)

Well I'm off...sorry I couldn't stick around to gab a little longer but that dirt pot is calling my name. :-D

Later
~julie~

but Julie, I am going to tell you : I stick them in where ever I have room LOL