Desperate Plantwives

The local post office is hardly the hotbed for romance around here but I cannot see any resemblence of any of the guys to Brat Pitt and the gals are not vying for honors with Julia Roberts or the gal with the way big puffy lips BUT every time I go there I see:

Women sending plants away to other homes
Women receiving plants from other homes
Women buying stamps one at a time as though they know something their doctor doesn't
and men staring at the women, hoisting up their trousers or scratching their seams.

I'm not really sure who is going "Postal" any more. Is it the customers or the staff who are obliged to say, ten times every ten minutes, "Do you want that to go ground or first class?". It would drive me to drink.

The plant people are the ones with a language all their own:
"I just sent off 'Mouse Ears' and I'm hoping for 'Thumbelina'"
or
"Your three hoyas are bigger than my four hoyas".

They go from the post office, probably go home and rewrap and then it's back to the post office again. This has to go on every day. How they live through Sundays I'm just not sure. Do they ever put a plant in the ground? or in a pot for the porch? Can't say.

But I do know that the men never talk about their plumerias the way the ladies do!

ROTFLOL

That is just too cute!!! True also!!!

Judy

*LOL* All this reminds me I have to go to the PO Tue. to mail of books to Tam and seeds to MSJen.

I can't wait until August when the men get talking about the size of their tomatoes as if that improved the taste! No matter how they slice them I've never seen anyone bite into a one pound eight ounce tomato sandwich. I can eat them by the pound but to put a whole tomato between two slices of bread is not something I even want to see anyone do.

About August here and they can do all the talking they want, I'm gonna be inside under the a/c. It'll be too hot to even go pick those Big Boys!!!

LOLOL

Ya'll are too funny! Just don't hold me 'hostas' for too long, 'cause I've got a trading reputation to protect. ;)

Donna

This is just too funny, but your right, And I know who that woman with the puffy lips is for sure LOL And why are they so puffy anyways, botox or something? they really make her look funny. he he.

I have to go to the p.o. monday. The lady who works at the p.o. has been out to my house plant shopping, my mailman has raided my mint garden.

Kathy Ann, Change of plans, post office isn't open on Monday, holiday.

Sorry......

:^)))

Well, my DH thinks I'm crazy ... I got my very first trade the other day. I can't stop going outside to look at the "babies". They all look sooo happy, and I can't believe I actually have received my first plants in the mail! I'm all excited about getting my trade plants off in Tuesday's mail. this is all so new to me. My deck looks like a jungle. I've truly been bitten by the garden bug. I'd like to take this opportunity to say thanks to all my DG friends!

Molly - maybe someone won't get their plants as soon as you would like and maybe it did change your plans but please don't be sorry that the post office isn't open on Monday. I'm sure you didn't mean it that way, anyhow. God bless all the fallen heroes!

l01 - I can understand your excitement. Russell, my main man at the post office, keeps giving me packages and boxes. It's like Christmas every day! That's how I get to see the local color up there and watch the men scratching their seams. (That is what they're scratching - right?)

Got my planted yesterday: thanks to all - you know who you are, especially Marie_ and the Olsons.

kathy_ann - I'm sure it's something by injection but they haven't mastered doing brains by injection yet so just what is it with the lip thing? Hey fellas - do you really want those supersized lips or do women just think you do? I thought "fat lips" were the sign of a fight and now you see them in the cookie aisles, on nurses, etc.

Pirl, I think I must have mailed out at least 70 pkg of plants last year and received almost as many back. My mail man is always very interesting in seeing what I've gotten each time. He is fascinated with the way daylilies can be sent barerooted and grow. This year when he saw one my first daylily bloom, he asked " Is that one of those things with roots you got last year? No wonder you love them!"

Susan

Susan,

Please don't get me interested in Daylilies. I have enough addictions.

Judy

Sorry Pirl,

I lost track of the purpose of this thread, I'd had a beer or two last night when posting and logic kicked in.

That'll teach me to indulge in the Bud Lite and post.

Molly
:^))))

But Molly did you wake up with super big lips?

Judy, this ones for you. Don't stare at it longer than 15 seconds or you will be infected with the dread daylily addiction.

Susan

Pirl, my lips have never been thick or fat. It didn't become fashionable until after I turned 45 and by then, I have no desire for botox, collegen, boobie implants or any of that "stuff".

Oh, except for implants in my mouth, I still need the choppers to chew a good steak. If I got teeth to put in a cup of water by the bed, I'd end up spilling it every night.

LOL
Molly
:^))))

Susan that beauty you posted is what drives us to deals and to post offices!
The name of it is . . . . . . . .

"Destined to Be Seen". Pretty isn't it? Getting to be a fairly common one and lots of catalogs are offering now, but I still love it.

Susan

Susan - thanks and my compliments on a fine neighbor, colorwise, shape, etc. for it with the scabiosa. You've certainly got the knack but do you have big lips - as in supersized!

Only in the winter when they get very chapped and swollen. Not very sexy!

Susan

Looking at the Daylily, my heart started to lust, but the brain said the body is tired. Therein lies the problem, which is solvable. I have vitamin b12 liquid that you just drop under your tongue. I got a good dropper full and under it went. Holding it for to the count of 60, I was screwing the top back on the bottle when I saw a bird on the label. I just put Parakeet vitamin drops under my tongue........
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tastes the same.

You poor lil tweetie! ;)

Oh no, Judy!! You may have a totally new addiction now: Parakeet vitamins! Are you flying yet?

Susan

LOL y'all are as nutty as the "Coffee and " GOBs. BTW there's a big party coming up....check the thread

Toolateforme. I already stared at that daylily for a full minute. Now I've got the urge, the need, the desire, where can I get one or a hundred? Help..............I'm not sure I can handle another addiction.

The story by judy reminds me of dear departed Aunt Alice who took out the spray for her hair and the one for moth protection for her cushions: you guessed it! She wondered why her friends at lunch were wrinkling up their noses!

Chirp...
chirp...
chirp...

Hmmmm, that's a very pretty song, judycooksey! But, I can beat your story! You see, we shop at Sam's and buy those real BIG bottles of fabric softener, oil, etc. One day, I told the DH that I didn't like the brand of softener we had bought the last time ... to go check to see what kind it was ... and be sure that we didn't get it again. He came running out of the washroom and went hightailing it in the kitchen ... pulled out the vegetable oil and cried "THANK GOODNESS!" For those of you who are unaware, I'm blind ... and got the bottles mixed up. They feel very similar, and the oil was in the washroom and I'd been using it for fabric softener. It doesn't work at all! Before you get too excited, though, ... I didn't put the fabric softener in the kitchen. That's why he was so relieved! *giggle*

LOL! Sounds like something I'd do and heck I can see.

Yeah, well ... the DH says there's never a dull minute around here! hahahaha!

BTW you'll have mail sent out Tuesday. Already boxed up and ready to be sent.

Saint

Oh my, IO1, that's quite a story! Kinda reminds me of when my little brother brushed his teeth with Brylcreme (a hair gel)... lol... poor lil guy went to Mom afterwards and told her he didn't much like the new toothpaste. *smiling*

Yep, the DH said he thought he had lost weight cause he hadn't been able to keep his britches up ... then he found out they were just sliding off cause I had oiled em! *big smile*

LOL

LOL you better be glad you didn't catch yourself on fire when ya put em in the dryer.

I've had a dishwasher since I was first married in '62 unlike my mom who never did get one. In '68 while shopping (normally he did the shopping, not me) I saw "dish washing liquid" and thought it would be easier than the powders. I poured in what seemed to fill the area for the powder and started it going while I went out to garden. I came back and there was suds covering the entire kitchen floor and headed for the wood floor in the dining room. I opened up the dishwasher and felt like I love Lucy as the suds just mounded up, more and more and came at me. With Lucy it was the bread with too much yeast in the oven. Quickly I managed to get to the vinegar and poured the whole quart in the dishwasher and turned it on again. Now I had vinegary smelling suds coming at me! I got a broom and opened the doors to the screened in porch and was brooming out as fast as I could but the suds kept on coming. I opened the door to the basement and started brooming the suds down there. Even with the dishwasher now OFF the suds was oozing out of it! I carefully went outside and got the hose and hosed the suds down the basement. After a few hours I mopped up the floor (very clean by now) and dried it with towels so afraid the vinyl tiles would pop up. That night my then husband came home and said how nice and fresh and clean the whole place smelled. Little did he know!

*G* did ya ever fess up to him?

Pirl,

You get the Lucy Award!!!!

Judy

Yes, in fact, I did tell him. As long as he had no part in the mess or the clean up and could retain his position as "King of the Couch" it didn't affect him.

Looking back at the 28 year marriage I think the longest he ever stood on his two feet was for the wedding ceremony!!!!!!!!!!

lol...