knolan thread

Think I would save the babies too! The stick can wait. They are really cute.

Who needs a laugh?

Just got home and checked my mail. I've been waiting for a box from another DG'er who lives in Canada. Well, got the box with a big old tape on it stating it was opened for inspection by US Customs....agriculture. Inside, no plants but a nasty "Mail Interception Notice" stating prohibited material was removed and destroyed. Geez, they were just little succulents!

Well, at least they could have taken it home and planted it! Jeeze!

That stinks! Poor little plants, they were the innocents!

That's why you don't mark the package "live plants"

Well, the package wasn't marked at all. I did send her one and it made it okay but I marked the package "glass ornaments" and "fragile". Can you believe the nerve??????

I think they have succulent sniffing dogs now.

ahem....public forum.

Yeah it's those dang dogs! I think they randomly pick packages that are not marked or that look suspicious. It's the luck, or perhaps the bad luck of the draw. I guess you are lucky they don't send the plant police to your door! I think you may be safe w/ seeds, although not always practical.

There are a few good reasons for these laws...and I know that you don't want to hear it, but insect infestation is a big issue, especially for the agriculture industry and then there are plants that grow nice and reasonably in one place but take over another and through the entire ecology of a place out of wack- although I have never heard of any place being over run by crazed succulents. LOL. Sort of brings to mind an interesting picture doesn't it?

Kristi sorry that you were the one that lost out on the deal. :-((

well, who would think there was something wrong with sharing a snip of your plants? Oh, the rebel in me is just coming out again.

Yeah April, I actually do understand the reasoning behind it. But goodness gracious! Their plant nazis. Crazed succulents - should be made into a "B" grade horror movie.

Unless you get some high paying actors, quite possibly grade "C".

No it's worth a B, really I can see the story unfolding...succluent cuttings innocently being mailed to another country when quite by accident they are irradiated! The package gets delivered to an address in Sugar Land TX and sits at the front door because the homeowner is at work. Actually she's on her lunch break, shopping at a local nursery. Anyway, the sunshine hits the box and the cuttings begin to grow in response to the warmth of the sun. By the time the poor, unsuspecting homeowner arrives home the package is empty, there is slime all over the front walkway and the neighbor's dog is missing....

That's riveting! I can't wait for the next chapter. I think Charlize Theron? should play the homeowner (Knolan) and maybe Sean Penn the husband, or is he too old? I just hate it when the dog always gets it. If only she wouldn't have gone to the nursery, she always has to go there.

Oh, can George Clooney PLEEEEEEAAAASE play my husband? Can't wait for the next chapter....hehehehehehehe!

My brother (the detective) is laughing at me so hard right now he almost wet himself. What if customs comes to get me?

I promise, NO Nurseries for the rest of the week! Think I should just stay at home and wait?

Yes and she dawdles!
Sean Penn is good, I can really see him in the part and he's such a good method actor! And to add to the problem, just before the cuttings were mailed they were misted w/ ..............SUPERTHRIVE!!!!!!! AAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you insist you can have George Clooney- just so long as you don't ask for Brad Pitt or Johnny Depp...those guys belong to me!

AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAHHHHHHHHH! Not Superthrive! Be still my heart. Goosebumps all over,

OK April, then you're in the movie too. You all are. OK....we'll make starts out of you. As long as I get Georgie, ya'll can play tug of war with Braddy Boy and Johnny.

I meant "stars" ...there goes that spelling problem again.

Well I have to be on the set in one way or another, I am the writter; think I need someone to be the succulent expert, they aren't my particular area of expertise.

fly you keep your dirty little finger off Brad & Johnny!

Wwweww! I thought you were going to turn them into plants, you know plant cuttings, plant starts! I was wondering how to work that into the story line.

Oh yeah...Johnny Depp. K, I think you should go to work, 'business as usual'. If you stay home you'll just go crazy, waiting. I can still bake that cake, chocolate right? When you get to the pen, we'll get a collection and buy you some George Clooney stuff; posters, coasters, maybe some toilet paper with his picture on it, stuff that will help the time go by. And April will finish the much awaited sequel. Me? Oh, I'll be hanging out on DG like always.

Oh no, Fly......you HAVE to be in the movie as well. You can be my next door neighbor who bakes the chocolate cake for me (with the file). And Clooney toilet paper sounds awesome. I'd like a pillow case too, please.

LOL! exactly what sort of filling are putting in that chocolate cake?

Sorry fly, your dog's the one that has to be sacrificed, but it's for the sake of the movie! and Kristi's marriage to George Clooney!

That would be a , ahem, file (to wittle away at the bars).

April, think we could make the dog stay just turn it into some kind of plant/monster dog? Everywhere he uses the restroom, another monster plant grows.

Will I get any speaking parts? I secretly want to be an actress.
April will probably need me to help direct.
We'll make the best out of a bad situation, you know what they say...'when you're given lemons, make lemontinis'.
I think we can manage a pillow case.

Sure we can turn the dog into a plant monster, good idea using him to overpopulate Sugar Land area w/ all these monster plants! Oh what will the Sugar Land Garden Club say? LOL.

Oh yeah I am for sure going to need help directing but you are more than welcome to audition for a talking part...but no screen test w/ Brad or Johnny! Thought you could put one over on me! Well you have to get up pretty early in the morning to fool me!

I'm obviously older than you guys, but would have jumped on the bones of any of those fellas, I tell ya!!

How about if I get to have Richard Gere (I think he's in his 50's) - and we get to dance? I have two left feet, but in a movie, that could go away, right???!!! Don't know how we would fit dancing into this particular script, but please work on it!!

You guys are making me laugh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh Murmur, we'll come up with a special part just for you and Richard Gere. April is quite creative and I'm sure she can make ya'll dance, perhaps in irradiated slime that might give you two right feet!

The Sugar Land Garden Club will lose their hats and gloves on this one. Those poor gals.

April.....you're going to be jealous....I rented "The Libertine" with Johnny Depp and I'm watching it tonight! He's supposed to be a VERY bad boy in this movie.

Murmur glad you're on board w/ this one. I think I might even get Robert Redford to drop by, he's still on my list! And yeah those 2 left feet, consider them gone as I will those extra few pounds I have been packing for the last few years.

As for you Kristi, put your ear really, really close to your PC's speakers...are they there.? no, really, really, really close...closer...good keep them there..NNNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

Well I feel better, thanks. Don't tell me how the movie ends or anything, but oh my god, tell me if it's good, please?

Perfect! Slime is right up my alley, especially the irradiated variety . . . and I want to be thin and sexy. (Hmmmmmmm . . . I wasn't slim and sexy when I was young - think it could happen now? Must think positive!)

Oh, yes . . . Robert Redford . . . how could I forget him? And then there is also Sean Connery who is undoubtedly the sexiest man in his age group (or even several younger age groups) that ever walked the earth.

But I'll stick with Richard Gere and the dancing.

Ouch! April, you blew my ear drums off! I won't give you any of the juicy details but I'll give you a thumbs up or a thumbs down.

OK, we have parts for everyone but Ceejay. Should she be the heroine that combats the monster slime poop? Give her a big water gun looking thing that splurts "Master Blaster Plant Disaster" or something along those lines. And make sure she wears holsters...like Miracle Grow water guns. I think Fly should be in cahoots with her devious dog. And Murmur should be an unsuspecting dancer taken in by an evil Richard Gere that turns into some kind of carnivorous plant.

Oh, and throw Bob and Sean in there, definitely. Our ratings will hit the roof!

Hey who's writting this movie? Ok Sean Connery in, CeeJay in, Murmur and I much thinner and sexier than we were in our prime! I am really liking this thing!

DH is going to be checking up on me soon when he hears me laughing uproariously! And it's okay if Richard Gere is evil - I always did have an attraction for "bad boys!"

"Master Blaster Plant Disaster???!!!" Holsters . . . Miracle Grow water guns . . . I am in hysterics!!!

Yeah now if we can only get the money to pay for these big stars!

ooops, sorry April.....I got carried away.

Who needs money to lure those guys when there's all us sexy babes? They'll volunteer!