Good move, Al. No deadheading needed when you do that.
What are your DG and NE Forum stories??
*sheesh* !!!!
And did you join us on NE right away, Amy?
I, also, snuck through the backdoor of PlantFiles - looking for that darned Indian Pipe. Simultaneously, my dh asked a work colleague (biochemist/college professor) about it, and he looked it up on DG the same day! I decided to snoop around the site, and was quite delighted to see an NE forum.
My two closest friends moved away in the past few years, who were both gardeners. (Please, put away the violins!) I have other acquaintances, but I have to admit - I think DG/NE is my "significant other" now!!!
I've always been a stickler for correct spelling and punctuation, so I'm glad NE does well in that area. Funny sidenote: my dh is worse than me in this area - he actually keeps books such as "The Correct Usage of the English Language" in the loo for his bathroom reading!
If he is a science prof too, it's not surprising!
No, but he's a chemist!
That explains it. Scientists and engineers are notorious being horrible writers.
No, unfortunately, that doesn't explain it - he's meticulous about the English language. He's even been told many times in his life that he should have been an English professor himself. When we started having kids, he was determined that they weren't going to talk like all the other "proper Bostonians" around. Didn't work!
Which reminds me, about 20 years ago I was living in Belgium (lay missionary work). A missionary from Texas I met said he knew I was from Boston. When I asked how, he said that people from Boston put R's where they don't belong, and don't put them where they do belong! (All because I asked him which "arear" of the country he was from.)
Okay - I misread. When you said he's worse than you, I thought you meant he's worse at grammar, usage, spelling, etc.
I had to proof just about every piece of paper that the other engineers would put out. PhD's were the worst.
I was just thinking that there's really not much time to go browsing on other forums. There are so many threads, and conversations, right here in the NE! In fact, sometimes (like now) I juggle a few too many threads and have to go searching for the ones I want to talk on. I'm talking alot tonight because Ugly Betty is a rerun!
It's multi-tasking!
Or quick fingers
I came across DG when looking for info on plants and the site kept coming up. I did use the info I got from it and after a year I started checking further into the site and here I am. I joined and then pirl invited me to the NE forum cause she had vacationed in the Lake George area and knew of Glens Falls. I don't remember what sites I first went on (don't remember what I did yesterday) but I think the NE forum is the greatest and where I spend most of my time. Everyone here has become a special friend and gardening has become a secondary activity on DG. I love the discussions that develop (if I know what you're talking about) and we've had some good ones. It's the best when everyone has a different opinion cause we're all different - it makes the forum very colorful and diverse. I do visit other forums such as container gardening............ Um, there are others I just can't remember them right now!! Eleanor
I accidentally found DG a couple/three years ago and used it almost entirely for Garden Watchdog. I began check out some forums: perennials, composting ,water gardens but didn't really feel connected. I noticed that there were regional forums but none for around here and I requested this forum and with the support of Anitabryk2 and Pirl, it came to pass. Now it's so big I hardly ever get anywhere else.
How about the VICTORy Garden forum?
Sounds like a few people weren't able to sustain at sustainable alternatives.
I found DG last January 6 and instantly knew that I as a newbie I needed access to the kind of info generated.
What I did not expect was the generousity, kindness, thoughtfulness, of DG members. This has been particularly apparently recently, when DH had some health problems.
I really love the RU where I got to meet on-line friends face-to-face.
2Zues - where are you on the west coast? I grew up in North Van and lived in Kamloops from 1977 until 2002.
Driving in the snow on the coast can be funny - or even scary - people have no idea how to drive! I used to drive each week from Kamloops to UBC while getting my Master's.
What I would give now to live in zone 7b. :-)
Seandor - Cheryl is 7 hours away from Kamloops.
well, Vancouver is 4 hours away - so you are on the Island 2Zeus?
She's probably walking her dogs, Seandor. (Yes, she is on the island!)
She walks her dogs at 7 am on a Saturday? I am still in my bathrobe!
And I am in my pajamas! If I can't garden it doesn't matter to me.
Well, 2zeus is a lucky person to live on the Island - eldest daughter now lives there.
I will probably arrange to retire near her hehehehe.
Pirl was joking, I'm rarely up at 8am - being a night person, I'm usually just going to bed at 2-3am.
I live in Port Alberni, which is about a third of the way up the Island, and is a bit of a time warp. 'Course, the island as a whole is a bit of an alternate universe, as you know, since your daughter lives here.
Thanks to Victor, it's snowing again today. Lightly, but with determination.
We may get snow tomorrow, Cheryl.
Yes! Port Alberni! Are you old enough to remember the Good Friday tidal wave (hope not!).
We love telling people on the East coast that the height of west coast sophistication is the goats on the roof in that tourist "mall" on the side of the highway in Comox! :-)
Do you have to drink a lot to see goats on the roof?
No - there really are goats on the roof! My mistake it's Coombes BC - not Comox.
Anyway, if you scroll down this website you will see lots of great images of the Comox region and a close up of the goats.
The goats are on the roof of a kind of emporium, fresh produce and farm stand.
http://www.oceansidehaven.com/activities.html
Very nice link to a lovely spot. We were there in '94 but missed the goats.
Gee, pirl - I think it's time you and I went back to Paradise!
I'm old enough, but wasn't living here then. A friend who did live here told us that he'd been out drinking that night, (before he got married and "became a changed man") and arrived home in high spirits and reeking of alcohol, went into his dad's room, and tried to wake him up, telling him that he thought they'd had some kind of huge rogue wave or something, there was a boat in the middle of the main street!
His father woke up enough to smell the booze on him, and convinced that Vic was just drunk out of his mind, refused to get up and look, kept saying "You're just drunk and imagining things! Go to bed!"
http://www.drgeorgepc.com/Tsunami1964Canada.html
Goats On The Roof And A Tidal Wave - make a good country-and-western song, eh?
I was a kid at the time, and I remember being soooo perplexed as to how poor Port Alberni could be sooo damaged as it was in such a protected port so far from open ocean. I guess the inlet just acted like a funnel. It was amazing that no one died.
Actually - I think you are on to something - maybe you should try your hands at song writing during the winter!
Something about feeling a "big surge coming on" and old goats that are high.
What a wonderful place you live, 2Zeus! I have never been to that area of the world, but WILL make it there in the next few years.......loved the link to see the goats on the roof! Gotta go there! Michaela, what a great place to get an education!!
No high old goats on this forum, surely?
Sounds nice 2zeus! And your snow is coming to us tomorrow. Yuck!
Michaela, sounds like you've got the lyrics started right there! I wouldn't mind Kenny Chesney coming up here to sing the lyrics for us in his tight jeans! He's a big Red Sox fan anyways!
Do tight jeans increase one's singing ability?
Our snow is "sticking," too.
That's an island way of describing that which is not melting as it lands, and always said in tones of great disgust, as in "Well it's not snowing very hard yet, just a few flakes..." "Yeah, but it's sticking!"
Our version of a heavy snowfall:
You get off too lightly. We're going to have to complain about this, Cheryl. Upstate New York gets the "lake effect" and they have a few feet of snow cover for months.
2zeus ~ that photo is incredibly beautiful!!