I agree with Mittsy and distant! While I was going to art school I worked part time for my husband's fine gardening biz-it fit into my schedule however I wanted it to- which turned into full time after I graduated (now 3 yrs ago) lol. But the things you aquire are great. Unfortunately my hubbie has been doing this a long time and he was never a labeler-although he has amazing knowledge and memory, but I am working on cataloguing all we have! What a task. AND-I did not became an avid seed saver until...a few weeks ago when I joined DG. SO next year-oh next year should be great for seeds! When I was trying to identify a mystery plant ,I found Dave's, which I had used before but joining put it into a whole new light! Now I'm addicted! lol Anyway, when I'm looking in the shed and I find an old plant tag-what a treasure!! _Kath
CLOSED: Happy Holiday Seed Swap Season #2
haha a gardening business oooh - something I hadn't thought of.
Maybe I should sign up for an apprenticeship or something.
eh, no, no time. Four kids, and the oldest is 12. I'll start it in 10 years LOL
Spaceball on the move - trying to figure out what I've sent and not-sent yet. I still have the packets I wrapped up in Christmas paper, so I'll add this to the list of things to send :)
=Sev
I sent off my envie this morning, had the poor clerk at the po in circles as I was doing the math in my head to figure out how much more I had to add in stamps to make $1.30. I had 3- .39 stamps on it. He had to go and get a calculator to figure it out. I told him just add .13 cents. Then I said, I'll have to open the envelope because I didn't put enough return postage inside, I only have 3 - .41 cent stamps, again he goes to get the calculator. Too funny. I told him just give me a 7 cent stamp. He says I'll have to give you a 5 and a 2. I sealed it back up and he put tape on it so It should be just fine. How do they pass the civil service test? No wonder we have such problems with the mail.
My answer to that one mittsy is *'it's a male thing'*, no matter what they always get the jobs.
rofl I gave up and just prepped a box with a fiver in it. My stamp calculations varied too much!
--I forgot to put in a label for return, too. I'm an idjit today, sorry :/
-Sev
Sev I think I can supply a label :o) not to worry...
Sorry I have been scarce around here, but we have been busy with the great grandbaby and the greenhouse...
I have crocus bulbs coming this week that I am going to have to get potted up and out... Dh and I were out in the gh finishing it up. Its finally done, now I can PLAY *grinning*. I can't believe how nice it is outside, damp but warm... Also what is it with the lady bugs, they are everywhere, I haven't seen any all summer but now there going crazy...
For postage, just keep in mind that not everyone's seed packs will be the same so the return weight may be different. I really don't like the new stamp pricing the PO has... It really has the clerks all messed up lol. at least at our PO they are...
Well the baby is awake and I am going to go play with her b4 she decides shes going to sleep again...
As I receive each envie I will make it received in the first post with the date received. Mail doesn't run today so maybe there will be some in tomorro's mail :o)
Have a great day,
Connie
SO we've been busy back in the emergency room(now 4x there and 2 x at the regular doc in the past few weeks ) but now there's something wrong with Eli's stitches-a weird rash. They couldn't figure out what's wrong in th er-now we have to go to Dartmouth hospital an hour and a half away tomorrow. ugh! ugh! ugh! It has been STRESSFUL. Anyway, I've been slowly getting some things ready to send. Any other ideas of seeds that people are looking for would be cool-to try and fill someone's wants : ) As far as extra seeds that I have lots of (post back here if you want me to throw them in) Some cimicifuga racemose altropupurea:
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/86959/
bottle gentian:
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/1100/
and perrennial lanceleaf digitalis-I forgot to write down what it was and hollyhocks that I forgot to write down what they were
Mailing mine in tomorrow.
May I please have some digitalis and hollyhocks?
Thanks you,
Known as #12
cimicifuga racemose altropupurea and bottle gentian: for me please :o) #16
cimicifuga racemose altropupurea Please I am #4 thanks
Flowerhead, if lanceleaf digitalis is foxglove, I would like some as well. #3, thanks
I love foxglove, all colors are welcome. Sorry, my number is 13.
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flowerhead Bottle Gentian and digitailis please, I am #10.
Morning Karma and Mittsy-LOL up early as well :o)
Sounds good everyone- I won't be sending them out today-probably in the next few days-I'll let everyone know when I send them out so you can still post extras you want until then-Kath
Hi All, Just touching base before I go outside and get a few things done. It is suppose to be nice today and tomorro here and then crappy weather is going to hit. So I am going to go out and PLAY lol...
DH is already out and enjoying this beautiful day. Got my greenhouse done finally so will have a place to play when the snow flys. If you would like to see pictures of it, there are some from start to finish on the Michigan Forum :o)
Hope you all have a great day,
Connie
Hiya Robbi! 6:08 am is not early. . .LOL. I just thought about it . . .I'm number 3. . .my lucky number. So is 13. I got married 8 years ago on this very day! Let's see what kind of magic seeds I will be getting.
happy anniverary karma
Happy Anniversary Karma! Hope you had alovely day and a very nice evening.
Thank you Kathy and thank you Mittsy. I had a nice lunch with hubby and will be spending the evening alone with my son. DH has a rough week of exams and research papers due this week. Will have to wait until the weekend. Thanks for the happy wishes!
Hope you liked your anniversary present, Karma.
My seeds are on the way--ho ho ho &
my gift is too!
Tommie
Traci, what more can I ask for on my anniversary. . .brug cuttings and spider lilies!
Happy belated anniversary Lana, DH and I will be celebrating our 37th on the 20th. We usually go out to dinner but I am not sure what we will do this year. Hope all have a great day. I got to get busy and clean, my babies are coming home tonight :o)
Connie
Karma Happy anniversary (a bit late) from me too!!
I barely have time to sign on so sorry I missed it!!
Just getting my seed packs together so will be out soon!
Robbi
...
I was feeling old as a general rule lately, because my husband is 7 years younger than I am. But... Pepsi, you've been married longer than I've been alive! So I get to feel like a kid again, which is always nice. It's really interesting, the vast array of ages we have on these forums, and how well everyone gets along. I haven't seen that in many communities.
Pepsi, married for 57 years is huge - over 40 is huge! Someday I hope to be there. All the women in my family wind up outliving their husbands. My grandmother got re-married this past summer. Her husband had died when I was young, and she's married to a guy half her age - she's in her 80's. It looks like she's going to outlive him, too! I can't imagine burying _two_ husbands. If it weren't sad when it happened, it would just be comical. :)
-sev
Thanks Connie and Robbi. You didn't miss much. . .lol. Sev, I think connie said 37, not 57. Congrats Connie and happy anniversary to you in advance! Repeating Sev, you've been married longer than I've been alive! Awesome!
Bah, I've been moving furniture all day. 37 is still older'n me, though, so still a wow and congrats!
-Sev
lol Sev, 57 is even older than I am :o) btw, got your seeds today.
I was going to post earlier but the heating guy was here to open one of the vents we had closed off in the kitchen. While he was under the house he noticed a puddle of standing water, The drain pipe to our tub was rotted out. So we had to call a plumber :( He just left about 40 minutes ago. My daughter just gave her grandaughter (my great grandbaby) a bath. She is wide a wake now :o)... Going to try and keep her that way as long as we can, she has her days and nights mixed up so were gonna try to keep her a wake so she will sleep thru most of the am hours.... I hope it works....
Well you all have a great night,
Connie
ohboy, that's always fun. At least they figure it out in a few days or so!
I figure those nights teach the parents as much as the babies - don't play with the baby when it's nighttime, no matter how irresistably cute they are! LOL
It's hard not to. Those cute little smiles and big blue eyes and pudgy little fingers...
Dang. I'm milking. Figures. Another lesson to learn - keep yer mind off the baby if you're lactating and not feeding at the moment! (that's even harder)
-Sev
lol! Boy, I remember those days Sev! Mine are so old now though! I loved nursing though. I was a BFing counselor for a few years, until mine got older.
My son, Eli, seems to be on the mend FINALLY, by the way. We went to Dartmouth hospital on Mon so they could check out a rash on his stitches and they took a chunk of skin to examine (a biopsy they said-how unnerving!) and gave him 2 new stitches!! How weird is that!? Anyway-today rash is looking soooo much better. I'm thinking he had it done for nothing now, but better safe than sorry. It was a stressful few weeks! Four emergency room visits and 4 other various doctor visits in 3 weeks(and a whole lot of worrying!) Now we just need the stitches out, so hopefully just this last visit for a while!!!.
Connie-Should I say that I fit into "I'm younger than the years you've been married club" or are we starting to make you feel old? lol! That is impressive! We celebrated 16 years mid Oct. Being that I was only 19 when I got married I think it's impressive!! I woke up to snow everyone! I'll have to post pics from my other computer-this one always finds old deleted pics and not new ones! I hope seeds are going out today, but I'm not feeling well, so I'm not sure if I'll make it to the PO.-Kath
I call this snow with Kabota!lol the little tree next to the tractor is a dawn redwood.
re some birches in my yard
Pepsi-how old did that make you feel-LOL You haven't been married longer than I have been alive-now I feel OLD-LOLOL
My hubby is also younger than me Sev-see another thing we have in common-mine is not that much younger, but I still had to train him as he was wet behind the ears-LOL
I am trying to get my seeds together as we speak...does anyone want to look at my haves and tell me what I should add for these 15 packs? I want to make sure there is something good for everyone :o)
The view from my windows
Here's a pic of my front door. This is a rhodie that came from May Sarton's house(a famous writer/poet) Here's a cool link about her that talks about the Nelson,NH house [HYPERLINK@digital.library.upenn.edu]
The current owners added on to the house and dug this and an ancient laurel up and had them sitting out of the ground for weeks and weeks. My DH offered to put them back in the ground there or here. They thought about it and they're addition was not close to done-they let us take them both!!! I love the shape of this rhodie. We grow MG's up it, it's very pretty. The left tree is a Tolleson's weeping juniper, behind it is a small pond.
Here are some of the MG on the rhodie pics. Doesn't it make you feel warm?
And same view a few steps back
Very pretty but brrrrrr.
How about one more-a friend in the pond behind the weeping juniper
