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No I don't remember her. I used to like the re-runs of Jack Lalanne. He and my dad were probably the two biggest influences on me always being into fitness, exercise and nutrition.

It was Julia Child for me!

Was Miss Louise on Romper Room?

That's what I was wondering. If so, then I did because I did watch Romper Room. I should have watched Julia Child. Would have helped now that I am learning to cook. So far no fatalities to report.

I watched Romper room and don't remember Miss Louise.
Fine Gardening is my favorite. I also get American Gardner (AHS), Gardening How To, and Gardening solutions. Used to get Garden Design, Organic Gardening (which ,I think, really went down hill) and several others. I received PPP as part of some promotion for a buck but I wasn't impressed. Can't remember it now.

Hey Dave. I agree about Organic Gardening. I got it for years and it got crappy a couple of years ago. Much slimmer too. I did not like Garden Design at all - too snobbish for me. Every ad was real high-end stuff.

Couldn't agree more. I think Garden Design is meant for interior decoraters not gardeners.

I agree about Garden Design and Organic Gardening. We got them both for years and they were each disappointing. Better Homes and Gardens certainly changed course over the years! Their gardening features aren't worth it, show the near impossible and then they attempt to sell measly plants for big bucks. Their home improvements are only for people who have $100,000. to renovate a bathroom and more for a kitchen.

Does anyone who belongs to NHG ever get anything to test? We never did.

I'll ask my son but I'm sure Miss Louise was the hostess on Romper Room for a few years - maybe very late 60's or early 70's.

I was going to say I have never heard of Miss Louise and I think I am one of the "younger" ones here. I used to watch it all the time. If Miss Louise was on that far back I wasn't even born yet LOL

You are TOO young!

http://www.tvparty.com/lostromper.html

Complete with a photo of Miss Louise!!!!!!!!

Okay, she does ring a bell. Dawn, how old (young) are you, if you don't mind? Pirl, I agree about BH & G too. Got that one for years and it got way too fat with ads and not enough garden stuff. The garden stuff they did have was not very interesting. I've been a NHG Life Member for a few years, and a member even longer. I have only gotten two 'products' to test, both worth about $5. One was a spray bottle and the other a plastic tree protector. Ridiculous!

Thanks. I was always curious who got to test the high tagged items.

Pirl & Victorgardener, I'm a lifetime member of National Home & Garden. The products I've gotten to test are a packet of seeds - which didn't grow, I packet of fertilizer (same size as the packet of seeds) I did get a gaget that you test the water level in plants. Right now the gaget that I got is one of the prizes you can win in one of their contests. The gaget is very hard to use. So I quess I'm a head in the game. I keep hoping they will send me a composter or tiller.

They tried to get us to resubscribe with a seed sized package of Osmocote! Whoopee!

they are trying to get me to renew my subscription too... with a pack of seeds.... no thanks... I love Taunton Press's books.... love the fotography....

ah I forgot Fine Gardening!!! really great pictures... but some things are so far from my reality...

I loved romper room but didn't remember the hosts' name, then... Sesame Street, Electric Company, Zoom, wasn't crazy about Mr Roger's(but I blew my first bubble gum bubble watching him) my favorite, of course, was Magic Garden! Who could forget the giggle patch??
National Home and Garden suckered me in by offering a trowel and shovel wth canvas carry case, it was midget sized, so now my 4 year old has some gardening tools. He was thrilled!!!!

I loved the Electric Co. My sister liked Magic Garden.

I don't remember either one.

I remember all of these programs - but only because my mom ran a home-based daycare. :-)

So did my mom - but just for us!!

What's worse - some of these shows I know because my eldest watched them . . . sigh. So I suspect Dawn could have been my daughter . . . egads, I'm getting old!

Do NOT go there! That makes me Dawn's grandmother!

And I'm Dawn's...uh, I guess older brother!

It's times like this that believing in reincarnation must be comforting - age simply become irrelevant.

Forget that, Victor - there is no way I could be your mother!

Since you can never come back in a lower form it's fine with me.

I was replying to Seandor and the reincarnation thought!

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Great quote from T. Jefferson : 'Though an old man, I am but a young gardener'. Gardening is the fountain of youth! Hopefully the fountain doesn't spring a leak.

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Victor - have you seen those ads for leaky people on TV?

So I guess no one can come back as a politician?!!

Depends.

Ah . . . education is the fountain of youth - at least for me! I started university at 29 - and then I had to take 3 years off for child # 2 - so it took me 8 years to finish my undergrad degree - so I think I should be 15 years younger than my chronological age - (however, even my chronological age does not make it possible for me to be your mother, Victor - and trust me, you wouldn't want me to be your mother! I am a no-nonsense kind of mom!)

For years, most of my friends were about 15 years younger than me.

well, I think there may be a distinction between a statesmen (statesperson?) and a politician. A politican has entered politics as a career. A statesperson has entered politics as an act of service.

A statesperson will quit rather than compromise his/her integrity

A politician wants to keep her/his job.

It may be time for all of us to go on the record and give our age!! I am 44. There, that wasn't so bad. (Hyperventilating.)

I am 52 turning 37

Actually, when I was 11, and in deep contemplation, it came to me that I must be 229, 729 years old (have no reason why) so, add another 41 years, that makes me 229, 770 this year. I think I look pretty good for a relic!

I think carbon dating might be in order then.

Can you imagine walking into the lab and asking to be carbon dated? lol

Not so far - fetched. Soon we'll be walking in and asking to be carbon copied!

Yeah. right. Like the world is ready for Victor 2. :-)

My apologies! You were right about Miss Louise Pirl. Wasn't Bill Cosby behind the Electric Company? When he was getting his PhD?

I'm the same age as Michaela, 52.

Victor, Pirl, Remember the NY kid shows? Wonderama with Sonny Fox and Chuck McCann. The infamous Soupy Sales show. Pre-cable, we were lucky in CT. Got all of NY's stations plus CT's