Hello to everyone - - - so sorry to be delayed in getting the BE's received, posted! :( Long story made short, I am at my parents home helping take care of my father - - - more details later, just please add him to your prayers.
Thanks so much,
Belinda
Seed Swap for Hummingbird Lovers
Not yet? i am worried. It was mailed on Friday. EEEEEKKKKK. Maybe I should have mailed priority. BTW, check and let me know if I have sent enough packs and stamps. I found one lonely little prepared pack under the couch, I thought that I counted them, but maybe I did not. I forget how much postage I put in.
Don't worry about us - family comes first - ditto pamsue
karen
Belinda, Hope things go well with your father. It is times like this we need to evaluate what is really important in life. It reminded me of this poem.
The Garden of Daily Living
Prayers and reflections from an Irish gardener in Galway
FOR THE GARDEN OF YOUR DAILY LIVING PLANT THREE ROWS OF PEAS:
1. Peace of mind
2. Peace of heart
3. Peace of soul
PLANT FOUR ROWS OF SQUASH:
1. Squash gossip
2. Squash indifference
3. Squash grumbling
4. Squash selfishness
PLANT FOUR ROWS OF LETTUCE:
1. Lettuce be faithful
2. Lettuce be kind
3. Lettuce be patient
4. Lettuce really love one another
NO GARDEN IS WITHOUT TURNIPS:
1. Turnip for meetings
2. Turnip for service
3. Turnip to help one another
TO CONCLUDE OUR GARDEN WE MUST HAVE THYME:
1. Thyme for each other
2. Thyme for family
3. Thyme for friends
WATER FREELY WITH PATIENCE AND CULTIVATE WITH LOVE. THERE IS MUCH FRUIT IN YOUR GARDEN BECAUSE YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW.
bless you.
Thinking of you today! Hope all is well.
Kelly
Belinda - I hope your Father is doing much better. You and your parents are in my prayers. :-)
Did you get my envie? (I didn't know if you are home or away.)
Thank you to ALL of you for your love and support. I am back home today; gathering my senses & then back to my parents. Cyndie, that was put SO well and perfect for my family right now. I appreciate you sharing that with all of us.
As for the BE's that DH put in my "seed" room while I was away, these are the ones that I received:
bluespiral
cyndiehook
kaykay1010
pamsue
beckygardner
Are there any more on the way? I plan on sorting and seperating the ones I have today before I leave again; and then hopefully, by the time I get back home on Friday - the rest will be here. Please do let me know if yours is on the way - - - because by this weekend, I plan on having them all ready to go back in the mail the following Monday.
If anyone needs to contact me; please feel free to email me at bkstarnes@earthlink.net. I get all my email via BB - - - thank you for your patience and understanding. I can tell you that I have seen LOTS of GREAT hummingbird seed that I know all of you will LOVE! Take care.
ttfn,
Belinda
One last reminder to those still missing:
1. rwmedic
2. robynznest (dmailed me last week.........will be here soon) Thx!
3. moretz
4. sheran
5. dirtfloor
6. Tokoro
I hope to hear from you guys, soon! Thanks again and have a nice week!
Belinda :-)
sorry about this but my computer was down and just got it back today please forgive me will get my seeds out soon,i cant do it until next week ok? my mom is going home!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! this weekend so i have to pack up all her things that she has had here for the past 3-3 1/2 months but will get them ouit soon as i can ok? very sorry about this thxs
mine r packed up and ready to go out tomorrow thxs for waiting on my and sorry for being late
moretz
mine went out today sorry for the delay
thxs for doing this
Bumping this up. Summer has finally arrived in Maine. We had the perfect weekend in Maine and I have the sunburn to prove it! LOL. I now have to fill my hummingbird feeder every few days. I can't believe how hungry they are. Hope everyone is enjoying their gardens. Cyndie
Got my package Saturday, wonderful seeds and beautiful pacages, I loved it all Thanks all. Heading out to weed before it rains harder.
Robin
got mine and loved it thxs everyone good jobs
Got mien today and loved seeign the different creativity on the packages. : )
it was so cool!!!!!! Thanks everybody.
Got my package today. There were so many beautiful pictures. I got a lot of varieties I have been lusting after in people's garden pics. Thanks so much to everyone. A special thanks to Belinda for making it happen in spite of everything going on. Everyone should remember to post pics next year of how much your hummingbird garden has grown. This swap has certainly helped grow mine. Cyndie
I, too, received my envie today! And it has so many different varieties of seeds! Some I have never heard of and can't wait to try! I still don't have hummers in my yard .... but hopefully with all these seeds ..... I'll have some great plants/blooms to lure them in!!! Everything was wonderful! Thanks to Belinda for doing this swap. I hope all is well with you and yours, Belinda. (Do let us know.)
THANKS everyone for sharing your hummingbird loving plant seeds! I can't wait to start sowing them! Happy Hummer Watching! ~Becky~
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i got mine yesterday and it was so kool and the packets and seeds where great! thanks everyone for shareing and the wonderful creativity!!
thanks again belinda for another awesome swap!!!! i don't have any hummers yet either lol but i got comeing to the other feeders-doves, cassin finches, cardnals, chickadees and house wrens, every morning and throughout the day. the finches are the only ones i've seen at the hummer feeders. don't seem to be but a few around this year for some reason but i'm hopeing for at least one to stop by sometime.
hugs,
silkie
GREAT to hear that you guys received your BE's ok - - - - so sorry for the delay............these Texas floods have been a death sentence to our farm. Please keep my family in your prayers.
Many thanks,
Belinda
Belinda, sending positive thoughts your way, too...hoping that things get better.
I don't mean to be smart-alecky, but have you thought of farming aquatic plants as a minor side line for backup in rainy years? Lilypons ( http://lilypons2.adconn.com/index.htm ) is near us, and they draw upon a nearby river to maintain their ponds. On one half, they've made a series of water gardens as ideas for visitors/customers, and on the other half - our favorite - it's wild, with New York Ironweed and bindweed and jewelweed and joe-pye-weed and water iris wild along the banks with the most incredible array of cormorants (I suspect), gray & green herons, egrets, frogs, etc. Watery "fields" of lotus in July of all kinds perfume the air all around.
Y'all better get out your wet noodles - I deserve a flogging for not reporting in when my seeds came and thanking Belinda for doing this and everyone for the pretty decorations and seed of such gorgeous hummer favorites. This was a great swap.
gf!! hang in there i hope all is well, please keep us posted how you are doing. just wanted to let ya know i got some new babies!! i got me some white silkies yesterday to raise again so i'm tickled. i'll send ya a d-mail soon and catch up some with ya.
talk soon,
silkie
Anyone hear from TexasGardenMom (Belinda) lately? Been asking on the other forums and no one has heard from her. I hope she is ok. Paul
Hope she isn't in that are a that had lot sand lot sof rain and think some areas were flooded out for awhile in certain parts. Have you trie d to send her a dmail?
im so sorry about this,please forgive me ok? i have had alot of things going on around here,cut my knee with 4 stitches took 3 out friday and have to go back tuesday to get the other one out and then my daughter got sick did 3 tests on her and still dont know why she got sick then hubby cut his finger and needs stitches but wont go get any,then had to help 2 cows have calves,and then found out the other week that one got killed and dont know how so please forgive me for forgetting about this,have you already got done with this?do i still need to send mine or is it too late? plmk and i am very sorry about this!!!!!!!!!
Moretz... Sure sorry to hear about everythign going on with you and yoru family. Sure hope things settle down for ya a bit. I know life gets hectic sometime s and when it does it seems things just pile up on top of each other. Hoping for better times for ya.
so am i still in or have you already sent them out to everyone? if you have that is ok thxs
Moretz... I don't know. I think it kinda ended in like the begining of june or July. Think everybody has already doen gotten their stuff. I don't really know for sure cuz Texas Garden Mom was the host and she sorta missing and praying the floods didn't do her or her family in. Sorry I can't be of any help for your question.
np here i understand thxs though