Beginning now to 12:00 p.m. CST Tuesday. I will sent a nice fat box of really nice varieties of brug cuttings to 1 maybe 2 people for postage. You must have Pay Pal as I am no long in the financial position to go with the honor system due to financial position Hurricane Katrina left us in and heavy medical bills from on going medical problems I am having. Expected postage amout is 8 dollars. If it is not that much I will return via first class mail the overage in whole dollar amount only, no loose change. I will not charge additional amount if I go over that.
I will ask 5 people(Kell, Trish, Gloria, Kay, & Ada) that know me best to vote for 2 people(first & 2nd place) they feel meet the object of this contest which is
Tell me about me lol
(I am not looking for praise here please)most people know what a genernous person I am
If there is a tie I will make the decision for the tie breaker
Please do not enter if I have contacted you already to sending cuttings to you for the kindness you did me in helping me start over in our new home
edited to add rules and add estimated postage.
RULES
You may look through old post, ask other members about me if you don't know me, look through my albums.
You May Not ask the Judges for info or you will be disqualified
No entries accepted after 12:00 p.m. CST I will post contest closed at that time
This message was edited Nov 14, 2006 12:09 AM
Super Fast Contest
Well I don't want to enter the contest because I don't have paypal being the main reason. However, I want to be the first to tell about you. You are one of the most generous people that I have ever had the pleasure of meeting. You came to the first Ga. Roundup and I could not believe the brugs that you brought. I mean you covered a hill side with the plants you brought. You must be a super packer for all of those plants to come from Mississippi to Georgia. Then I met you again at a former members house in Newnan. I walked away with some cuttings of hibiscus, that later died because of me, that I really wanted bad.
I do know you had arm trouble and I hope that has cleared up or getting better.
I hope you are getting over Katrina and things are looking up.
Thanks for the offer for the person that does get in.
Jim
Donna
you are a super nice person who recently has had her share of bad luck
and - your also a darn good gardener :-)
i am not entering the contest
Dick
I do not know you personaly, I have read your posts, I know you belong to the Audubon Society, you love hummers, and butterflies.
You know an awful lot about plants, a great trader, an honest, and generouse person.
Doris
Oh WOW Donna, you are such a kick. LOL. I know you have such special brugs too. 2 lucky people are going to be so thrilled. Good luck everyone. And you got Dick to post so you should get a prize too.
LOL you all. Please I am not looking for praise here. I have been a member 4 or 5 years now and just wondering what people have learned about me as a person. haven't been on brug forum much in over a year as I am just getting restarted with them thanks to so many members here. Just looking to repay much of the kindness the great people here at Daves have given me. Sure wish I was still able to send out a 1000 cutting like I used too.
Hi Donna,
I know you are a bird-watcher,as I remember a great picture of you in a camoflage outfit with only your eyes showing! Very cute and very hidden from the birds!Ha!
You are a great photographer, Nature Lover, gardener and your first brug was your Monster White Brug., that got you into the Brug. addiction .You also have a Hawaiian Double White that is to die for!!
You started over after hurricane Ivan hit your yard and again when your home was hit by Katrina and you had to find another home and start a new garden.
You love butterflys, birds, plants, and animals.
Your health has not been good this year.
You have many friends on the forums who sent you plants to replace the ones that Katrina destroyed
Your SS# is_Well enough said!! Ha!!
You are definately a regular on the Brug forum and always contribute worthwhile threads.
You also have shared your plants with lots of Brug. lovers!!
Bonnie
Donna... we both had been in DG about the same time. i have read practically all post and threads u have in all forums, looked at all the sites of ur former garden/s. thru the years, i have admired ur passion not only in brugs but mainly for wildlife.
i am not good at showing public sentiment or recognition, therefore i do not know how to express what kudos others had or about to give u.
i had experienced being homeless at the same time seriously sick the past 3 yrs.... the very reason why i have not been on board to post @ DG until very recently, plus i lost the majority of my plant. it is difficult for me to express my desire publicly the wish to be able to begin my passion in gardening - the only joy in my life inspite of the hell i've been through.
i hope u understand where i am coming from and the desire to be considered as a candidate.
humbly,
ma vie
Oh My, I think you have a winner! Who could know more than that! The only things I knew were already said. Bird watching, Katrina, Sharing plants, And I have see you on other sites. I have only been here for a year so I have been here as long as you have been gone. I look forward to getting to know you better!
Caren
Donna, I know that you are a butterfly identifier extraordinaire. You know bflys very well, their host and nectar plants as well as other interesting tidbits. I am always anxious to read your posts and see your pictures in the butterfly forum.
I just looked at your web page and was amazed at how many pictures you have accumulated: wildbirds, baby birds, shorebirds, zoo birds, flowers, insects.....pretty remarkable.
So, kudos for all the pictures and information you so generously give on DG.
I hope over winter to add greatly to the bug and plant files when I have plenty of time on my hands lol
Donna is a special "person". She gives generously and is a true friend!
WTG................good luck to all.
Gloria
This message was edited Nov 13, 2006 9:42 PM
So true Gloria!
I just heard that Jamie, that new variegated brug with the yellow flower that Gary found, is going to be in the winners' box. I think it was a sport of CG. Now that is so exciting.
lol don't go telling all my secrets now. There will be some really nice new brugs in the box as well as a few old ones thanks to my friends that got me all hooked back up with them
Well now I have a grandson that asked me last week why all my flowers had names. And then he asked why there wasn't one named Jamie. I told him there was one but I didn't have one yet. That's his name. HUMMMMMMMM. Well maybe I better get a paypaler on here. LOL
Lol, Jim!
Donna, I know that you are not looking for praise, but I think that by reading these posts it can't help but to find you, lol.
I think that is apparent through your many threads and posts, that there is nothing about the natural world that is insignificant in your eyes, from the moth with the face only a mother could love to the delicious sight and smell of a brug in bloom. Your attention to the details, and your experiences have provided a wonderful journey for me and other Davers, who truly enjoy your passion for sharing what you love about this life through your pictures, your words and your one-woman round-ups.
It is impossible to write what we know about you, Donna, without all of these words of praise.
So just enjoy, lol! I know it makes everyone very happy that so many helped you out when it was time to start over.
Like the Wizard said, "A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others."
Jackie
This message was edited Nov 13, 2006 10:36 PM
I do not know you, and I'm sorry that I don't. I have read your posts and know that you are a caring and loving person. The legacy that you have is said in the words of others. In just these brief posts it is oblivous the type of person you are. Remembering what a country lawyer told me one time,"you are what your are because someone made you that way". God bless you and that person. Elaine
come on now I have some really great brugs to the winners. Only 1 1/2 hours left to enter. I have Miss Emily Mc Kenzie, Bonnie Jean, Variegated Jamie, Pink Velvet, Autumn Treasure, Mountain Magic, L'Amour just to name a few. I have Adeline for the First place winner and hoping there is another piece in my bucket for the 2nd place winner too.
OK I'll post on the behalf of a very nice Mississippi Lady who says she isn't good with words. I would want her to have the cuttings.
"To describe you I'll use "B words": birds, brugs, butterfly garden, big heart, budding friendships, believer in God, believer in mankind and bounces back "
Judy
This message was edited Nov 13, 2006 11:51 PM
Oh Donna, those are so hot and so PINK. I just had Adeline bloom here and she is huge double PINK. And you have a great orange one too and even the yellow variegated.
I really think you didn't give enough time for people to see this. Anyway you can hold it over till 1 or 2 tomorrow? I just know some people will be so sad they missed the chance though your entries already are great.
O.K I will give it until noon tomorrow. So expectant winners be watching. My P.O. closes for lunch and then at 4:30. really need to ship tomorrow as we are going to have extremely bad weather wednesday and I won't risk leaving the house.
Donna you are very generous. Even when you have traded all you found a few more amaryllis for me.
I never heard you whine about hurricance Katrina and what she stole from you. You kept on going and was very blessed by DGers for it. You always have a kind word for everyone, and you enjoy all of Gods creations.
You are an amazing addition to Daves Garden.
Sandy ^8^
If by miracle I should win I would like the cuttings to be sent to another DG'er of my choice.
.... This is what I know about Donna:
She loves her family
She is a fabulous cook
She loves gardening
She is a wonderful wildlife photographer
She loves Birds
She loves Butterflies
She has a heart the size of New York city and she would give you the shirt off her back. She is definitely generous
She is compassionate. If you need someone to lean on and to talk to you can always count on her
She does not allow people to influence her concern and love for others ... No matter what
She is sensitive
She honors her word
She loves to go places and do fun things
She suffers with pain and can no longer go everywhere and do everything. Sometimes she feels like she just can't go on. Still she always pulls through and has the will to live and move forward in her life
She still suffers due to Katrina but has never given up. Every gift great or small is considered a blessing by her.
She is a strong willed Woman's Woman.
She is full of good things!
Good grief ... this feels like an obituary ... ha! Girl, don't you dare :)
Wow. Don't think I can add anything to the above. I only know you from the threads you participate in and we once had a trade back in 2004 when I was raising cats(insect type,LOL)
Jan
Donna be careful when you step off that pedestal that Vicki put you on. It could be a long way down....LOL!
This message was edited Nov 14, 2006 8:36 AM
oops forgot Vicki knows me very well too. She should have been a judge lol. I can say the same about Vicki as well
everyone if I was still able I would send cuttings to all of you. It is such a waste to have to throw them away. I just can't do that kind of volume anymore. I am going to pot up as many small cutting as I can so maybe in spring for the plant swap some of you can get some or for postage as i am up to it. Sure wishing I had a new Hoop House right now lol. DH refuses to build me one.
Lord my ears are still burning Miss V.
Gary it will be a long way down lol. Var. Jamie grew beautifully for me and I have been giving away pieces here and there over summer and the winners of this contest are going to get a nice cutting too
Donna, you are one of the most generous people I know! If you pick Jim (Georgiaredclay), I'll send the paypal for him.
I am not picking. I want this to be fair and no one feel like any favoritism has played apart in people that win. I have a panel of 5 judges, people that know me well
entries are closed and I await the judges decision
Good luck to all.
Darn, and just when I finally found your picture too, LOL
oh noooooooooooo!!!!! we havea 3 way tie. Gonna call DH at work and read the 3 peoples entries and have him pick 2. I will consider the first person reaching the final tieing score as first place and the other as second. The boxes have the same exact cuttings but first places has larger cuttings
Yall are toooooo funny.lol...
O.k. after many interuptions on trying to read the entries to DH over the phone he has chosen Vee8ch and Lady Blue please send me your addy Bonnie and MissV please tell me who to send the winning first place package too. I need to head to P.O. as weather is getting to look bad
Congratulations to the winners. But knowing Donna's heart, to those who didn't win I bet she figures out a way to make you all winners also. You were all correct about how loving and respectful she is towards everything that is alive.
And well deserved they are!!!
Judy
I won!! I won!! I won!!!Whichever place!!!! I won!!!Yea! Yea! Yea! Oh boy, Oh boy!!!
Bonnie
Yes, yes, yes! Thank you so much!
Donna, I would love it if you could please send the cuttings to a very special DG'er that sure could use something happy in her life since her precious husband recently passed away.
That would be Ms Sandy (ilovejesus99). I'll dmail her with the wonderful news. Again, Thank you so much :)
Love v
good she is in addy exchange. Oh geesh I didn't know her husband passed away. I haven't been on much here