I just posted this over in the new Datura Forum but I wanted my friends here to see this:
I'm widowed because of Multiple Sclerosis! I've NEVER gone through a DIVORCE before, and it hurts. I'll miss my "In Laws" over in the Brug Forum, as I still don't own a Brugmansia Yet. I am trying to start seeds, but none yet.
My Biggest, and Most Heartfelt Wish Is This....."I just don't want the Kids to get hurt and suffer!!!"
May our Daturas And our Brugmansia Plants Continue an ongoing Wonderful Relationship!!!
Happy Growing!
Richard T
A Little Something for my Brugmansia Friends
What can I say, except "hang in there"
Yes Rich, hang in there my friend, all is well :)
Julie / BaBs
Rich, yes do hang in there and keep trying to grow brugs. Don't i remember that Gratiot is a small new town to you. My town is very small , 1000, and i live 4 miles west of town in the hills of the Cascades. It is still pretty cold nights here and all of my brugs are still inside. Good Luck to you DonnaS
I guess people are misunderstanding my joke about the Brug, and Dat Forums seperating. The Divorce was between the two of them. Sorry, I guess I have a strange sense of humor at 4am. Actually I was up at 3. But it was to be a joke. LOL or maybe NOT.
to funny Rich
I grow both so it's still a happy family here in my neck of the woods!
Bj
I caught it but when I saw what others were writing, I thought maybe my sense of humor was messed up. LOL!
Maybe it's just Midwestern Humor Brugie, LOL
i caught it before i was all the way through. hehe too cute.
I GOT IT! Well constructed 8ft!!
You DO have visitation priviledges, you know?
LOL Carol, this is Rich, not 8ft. Is it early in Hawaii? Have a good day!
Brugie I LOVED your email so true all the way, and I remember a lot of those things
Thanks Doris.
I THOUGHT I caught it also, but when I read the other's replies, I wondered if I misunderstood. I'm so happy that I didn't misunderstand.
Kay
PS. You have mail
I started reading the meat of the post, then felt like I just missed 2nd gear.
Went back to the opening line to clarify if you were quoting someone else or this was from you?
Reread the story again and found myself in a quandry: "What's the right thing to say in condolence or Good One Rich! Toss me another beer!! "
I started reading down through the replies while trying to make up my own mind. Sheesh! Felt like I've been horned at Moo-U by some guy in a paisely Moo-Moo drinking yesterday's beer with fungus gnats floating in it.
We gotta meet some time.
So sorry you were widowed, Rich.
It should be great fun having both forums. My only problem with all these new forums is is that I will never get out to garden anymore!!
Got Ya 8ft!!! But you forgot me eating lots of cheese too. LOL
Kell, it will be 7 years this May 29th. We had 15 wonderful years and I know things are better the way they are. It was rough in the end, affecting the brain and body. Much better off this way. I've grown from it, and since then, so it's ok. I just find it ironic that I end up with a cane and walker now, looking at a wheelchair in the future. I tell people my marriage to someone with Multiple Sclerosis was in part "Disability 101" for me. I've kind of been around the block sort of speak with disabilities so I'm (trying) to handle this one (mine) better than the last. She truly taught me alot about living, even though disabled. Blah Blah blah, sorry if I rambled.
Nah.. Never rambling when you are talking about someone you loved and who was worth loving
Rich, I'm trying to understand your disability; do you also have MS?
It seems you are handling it all with humor and honesty.
Am glad to have picked up on your thread.
Pollygardening, I'm sorry if I'm confusing you and others. My wife had M.S. and I now have something called Adhesive Arachnoiditis. This is NOT what I wanted this thread to be about but now that I started mentioning it, a "Specialist" accidently injected chemicals into my spinal column that were NOT suppose to go there. As a result my spinal nerves are progressively turning to scar tissue. It is/can be very painful at times, and I'm slowly loosing the use of my legs. Whine Whine Whine.... It was going to happen to someone! And there are those worse off than I. I do what I can to produce and find Joy and Beauty in Everyday I/we have. Gardening is God's gift for us to use to create food and beauty and I am only trying to do my part, as each and everyone of us are. So, back to the gardening.....
When I started this thread it was my attempt to Thank Dave (through humor) for creating the Datura Forum. But at the same time I was trying to say that the two are so related that they need not be seperated....Hence the "Divorce" and the "Children" part of this. Posts and Threads move down the list no matter where they are. All we need do is go and look at them. If a thread is interesting or important it tends to stay near the top. If on the other hand it's something more general or even very specific, once answered, it will move down the list, and I believe that is why they were seperated. Not that the plants were truely different and that a person researching one might learn from either or both.
I hope this clarifies what this post was about, and the disability part of it.
Polly, please don't take any of this personally if you feel/felt I was being direct. This was meant for any and all that I may have confused in any way. I'm sorry for any of that.
Most sincerely
Richard
You're a good man Charley Brown... uh, I mean Rich.
Better man than me - with the thoughtfulness and concern to clarify.
Me on the other hand, when I take a verbal turn into left field without using my signal I keep right on going. Sometimes intentional but most times just enjoying my own off-beat humour.
Of course I've been explaining myself (trying) and superbowl commercials to my DW for 25 years. I guess some things just don't translate into her native tongue very well. Thats alrighty though, at least she listens.
See you for a Bud-scussion this summer.
blaine
DG has become a really important part of my life, and those who share of themselves openly and honestly create a special trust with us all that helps us nurture each other.
Thank you for sharing -
Rich, I'd be happy to help by taking custody of any kids caught in the crossfire.....and provide them with a loving, stable home...LOL
Jackie