3rd Annual SO CAL RU MAY 19, 07

You have funny, quirky pictures. I can tell you are a character. l`m laughing with you, not at you though.

ha ha ha ha....

thanks everyone... I hope to find out tomorrow and finalize all this... I am so excited to meet you people!!!! I need some adventure! and traveling all the way cross country by myself would be great... I am not kidding .... I used to travel way more but nursing school was just way too expensive to allow any other thing...

now is just to find a hotel....

and yes Steph, let's go to see roses.... and I agree we can talk about minis forever!!!

speaking of snow.... there is tons of ice outside ... I was ready to transfer all my new plants to the sun room.... oh well, maybe next week!!!

have a great night!!!!

Here's the pic of Chandelier Tree drive-thru tree so my van won't fix go thru so I did drive back up and took pic:

(It's in Leggett, CA Drive-thru tree park)

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If any of you need to have me update the food thread, let me know, I guess e-mail would be best.
Rusty, love traveling with you, so to speak. Looks like you're having a great time!
Kassia, it's going to be great to meet you.
Frogs, that's a great picture of Fiona, she looks so pretty! Can't wait to hear her play. Maybe I can bring my piano and we'll play a duet!

Well, I m in Fontana, CA now and stay motel for 3 days I need a big break rest! LOL...

I did took alot of pics in Fort Bragg, CA.

Anna

well, the plans are coming along just nice... I have a place to stay and I am getting my tickets.... really cool!!!!! I can't wait to meet you wonderful people from CA!!!!

You're very welcome to the RU this May and I hope all will be there...

P.S. I m making photos ablums for what I has done on trip. It's fun there.

Anna where are you staying? I have to go to the sanfernando valley tomorrow or i`d try to meet you. We always stay on Hospitality in San Berdu, fun all the restaraunts are right there and all. Great Cassia.

I m stay at Best Western in Rialto on Valley Blvd. near Riverside Street.

Kassia,
I'm so happy that you are going to be able to come to our wonderful RU. I promise to make you very welcome as will all the other great people that will be in attendance. :-)
Many of your Rose forum people will be there too. Wait until you see all of Pam's roses...ok, Don's too. lol

Look forward to meeting you soon.
Donna

oh you guys !!!!! I am really excited... my first tripo to CA... some of my co-workers are concerned... they were asking me yesterday : are you going to go to CA to meet people that love plants???? and I was laughing ... sure I will go... what can they do to me, feed me to the carnivorous plants???? and one of them, met his current girlfriend on the internet!!!! so I told him, I am not going for a date... only for good company, good food and good gardening... the only danger is that I may like the perfect weather and like some brazilians decide to move there!!!!! I don't think CA is ready for me yet!!!!!
my sister Christina told me to make sure I look around... like go and try so we can all move there... so I guess I am going to spy the land!

Kassia...I told my daughter when we lived in Fl...."Go visis t your sister in AZ on your vacation...fall in love with AZ and we'll all move there"....she did....and we did...I love it here in the South West.

If you need a ride from San Diego...let me iknow...but I hope your friend will come with you...we'll make her into a DG'er too. Jo

You will love it in California... It's big good time for fun to see all of it...

Anna

Ok... I emailed and called Alicia yesterday... and she said she would call today so we can finalize things...

Steph will take me to the RU and put up with me... Friday and Saturday... and sunday I am coming back....

and I will get to water her roses!!!!! and see Higgy.... and talk minis!!!! and drink coffee!!!!!!! and I hope some ice cream also... I told her "I will WEED for food" lol....

now is figure out Thursday night.... if Alicia can go out for dinner and we can visit it will be great.... but if not I just have to find a hotel for one night only.... and walk around town and don't get lost!!!!

so I am 99% sure I am going!!!!! I am doing the snoopy dance!!!!

I really look foward to see you people!!!!!!

Kassia....I'm sure you can bunk in my Granddaughters house with us...we'll flip for the bed....but her couches are very comfy....I know she just moved into a 5 bedroom house...but wheather she has funrished any of the extra bedrooms (besides two) I don't know yet. Jo

you guys are so very generous... I am touched...my friend Alicia didn't call yesterday... I know she is a busy branch manager for Oce Imagistiscs... but maybe today... either way, this trip is so exciting!!!!!!

I got DrDon's 2 books... I sent him a dmail... I am begging for an authograf.... even if the only books I could find are used!!!! lol!!!!

what books? Did he write gardening books?

yes... he wrote 2 books that are out of print so the only ones we can get are used ones...

Trotter, Donald W., Ph.D.

Natural Gardening A-Z
The Complete Natural Gardener: How to Create Your Own Garden Paradise

I didn't know that!! Also...I didn't know his last name is Trotter.....I am sooooo out of it! LOL Jo

Don that is so cool. So ebay ha?

I got the books at Amazon!

I got book from Amazon too! lol...(First Edition printing book)

Hope Don will sign book when I go for RU...

I m leave tomorrow going to next stop Phoenix, AZ for day cause I heard weather get bad raining! geez!

I hope I get home by March 27 or 28...

Anna

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How fun Anna banana. You guys, my gopher problem is out of control, every day I have a new way to trap them that fails, they are a giant colony or your gophers are here on vacation.

My gophers certainly aren't vacationing at your place. They're busy at home. I lost 60 roses between January 1st and March 1st, and then I stopped counting because it was just too depressing. The odd thing is that my cats are catching at least one or two a day, but it doesn't make a dent. I wonder if they're hunting in my neighbors' gardens instead of doing their work at home.

oh Zuzu, I am sorry about your roses... the grass is always greener on the other side!!!!

It's okay, Kassia. So far I've managed to stay ahead of them. When they kill 60, I buy 70 more. The absence of gophers is one of the big pluses of my planned move, though. People say a hybrid tea won't live more than 3 years in Florida, but I've never even had a guarantee of 3 hours here.

Dr. Trotter - LOLOLOLOLOLOL

Holy Moly girl...no wonder you're so set on moving !!! Thats a LOT to lose in 2 months. My sincere sympathy.

I am playing taps on bagpipes for your departed roses. They got about 9 or 10 of mine last year and several this year that i transplanted after they ate them to near nothing. I didn`t cage them so they found them again in the winter. i cage it all now unless it something they hate like my virginia creeper and crepe myrtles and rabbits are now eating my froze oleanders , wierd ha?

Kassia I am so excited for you to come see sandiego. When you see how small the yards are though you will want to cry. The newer homes are so close together you can see your neighbor through the window. Wait until you see dr. dons ranch. It really is beautiful, and on the way there you drive through grape fields.

Ice cream is a must. There is a local company out here that sells rose icecream and they are organic, you can get it from henrys or some albertsons. Tell your friends not worry, Im not scary, hehe.....

steph

Ooh he lives out by the vineyards? I just talked about them at the home and garden show today.

I CAUGHT A GOPHER TODAY , I FORGOT TO TELL YOU. It was so cute though and big, I fed it well. I felt bad and hoped it didn`t suffer but now I want more.

Well, I m at now Flagstaff, AZ and it darn so colder to 29* ggeeezzzz bbbrrrrr also it pouring raining quick then stop!

Dawn.....one down....you must have the technique now. I gotta tell you though...I'm kinda fond of the one at my house who comes to eat with the birds and bunnies. But I do everything I can to keep my stuff away from them. We were on our way to Solana Beach yesterday and made the mistake of stopping at a lumberyard to check on something and they had whiskey barrels....on sale! $15 each....had to turn around, go back home 20 miles, get the trailer, load up on barrels. I love being able to just plop things in them without having to worry about the gophers.
Sherry

Anna, watch out for those flash floods. You're getting a little of everything on this trip!

I heard on TV weather about in NM, and TX also OK too!

Sherry how funny, there is no way in the world my dh would care enough to go 20 miles back if we were on our way to the beach. funny. I need to figure a way to keep things alive in my barrels? So far have not caught another gopher. I can see why you think their cute. they are a little cuter dead.

goodness gracious Zuzu.... if I had to buy this many every year I will have to take heavy meds to stop crying....
maybe you can plant some decoy roses??? like some plastic ones.... and put some milk of magnesia around it... so the gophers will nible and get the runs.... and maybe they will run away from your yard....

how come you guys have this bad problem with gophers???

Kassia, It's the 'down' side of California....gophers. Also, don't judge too much by the weather when you get here......to pay for our glorious (usually) winters....we have 'May Gray' and 'June Gloom' in San Diego area...overcast. Hopefully, the sun will shine brightly for you while you're seeing it for the first time!
Sherry