You visit a friend’s home and start pulling their weeds!

You offer your friends manure tea instead of iced tea!

You look at your compost pile and it makes you feel all warm inside!

Your idea of a hot date on a Saturday evening is in the garden hand pollinating plants!

You compost your old shovel to add Ironite to the soil!

You start packing "Weed-B-Gone" in your purse!

You run your fingers through your spouse’s hair and think it needs dethatching!

You replace your shampoo with Miracle-Gro, water thoroughly, and keep a record of the new growth!

You wake up in the middle of the night and make a note of which plant should be moved where!

You hear someone say "crap" and your first response is to grab a shovel and say "Where?"

Your kids cringe and hold their breath whenever they are in the car and you drive past a garden center!

You plan your family vacation destination around the nurseries you want to visit!

You go say hello to your garden before you go into the house after a vacation!

Your friends and neighbors all hide as soon as the first sign of a zucchini appears!

The ER doctor comes in with your X-rays and you ask him how badly the daisies were hurt when you fell into them!

(Source: Website "Garden Humour 20-20-20")

Don

Still laughing!
Janice

jill

"Out here already getting a head start, huh?" and all of them laughing.

So people I don't even know think I'm a nut case, it's not just family and friends.

~Bunnycat

Although He is the Lord of hostas as well! hee hee

Deanna

You know what else is funny--I wanted to be sure of where I thought I knew He is referred to in that way
and did a word search at BibleGateway.com and when I typed in the exact phrase I wanted to find, and
clicked, and it came up "NO RESULTS"!!! I thought--NO WAY!!!!
Then I rechecked what I had typed and guess what-------you got it---I had typed in
Lord of Hosta!!! Gulp!!!!!

They are one of His great creations for sure! Maybe in "The Garden" the first one was Hosta Plantaginea or
Hosta Royal Standard! Any one been gardening long enough to have "been there" to tell us which one? :O) LOL

janice

I'm so ready for Spring!!!

janice

And Janice, when I was reading about the "Lord of Hostas" I was in Psalms.

Deanna

One of the biggest complaints my visitors (non gardeners) have when they set in my garden with me is that I keep getting up and pulling a weed, fluffing mulch or such. They tell me to relax! I tell them, I am relaxing! I like to look after my sweeties. . .
and. . Yes, I DO have to set on my hands so that I will not pull weeds in others gardens. . lol

Sidney, looking forward to someday roaming Heaven's Hosta Patch with THE Master Gardner/Lighting System of Heaven

And, Sidney, I even have to nip the seed pods off daylilies in the landscaping
of the Red Lobster we frequent and other places of business I find myself entering
and leaving from who also have them growing in their surroundings. It's a compulsion
and my husband is constantly telling me to "leave them alone--their not yours"! Sigh!!!

janice

Glad to see your "light" shine! And, again--WELCOME!

One "candle" to "another",
janice

I didn't get online much last year because I was working on my garden paths. We had strong wind storms in the spring. My friend had an old hickory tree fall on her barn. The barn was totally destroyed and she had to put up another barn.. The old barn was made of those old half blocks. She was going to dump them and I asked her if I might have them. She was so happy to get rid of them that she stacked them up and all I had to do was go after 600-700 half blocks. You know the old saying . . someone's junk is another's gold. . .I was in hog heaven. . lol

Thanks for the welcome. . I missed everyone. . .you all know how to support one so well in an addiction. . er. . a. . collection. . .

Sidney, face up towards the Sonshine

I love how you said "all I had to do was go after 600-700 half-blocks!" Good grief! I know your back
had to be aching and hurting you doing that and then "doing that" to finish your project!

I'm paying the price, right now, for not seeing any task too much for me to tackle! I may have a torn
rotator-cuff,(to be confirmed by MRI next week) to have repaired in a few weeks! Sigh!!!!
I need to accept the fact that I'm not half the woman I use to be, in strength and ability, but yet,
at least as much as a 25% more in size! That much is very apparent, though!LOL and GROAN!!

I showed/trained/raised horses for thirty years and I never realize I was just training myself for hosta gardening. . lol
We used to put up about 1500 bales of hay a year. . I hated hay season. . lol
I sure am glad I did that sort of stuff now though. . it helps me in my old age. lol... .
I moved six truck loads of dirt, 12 loads of mulch, and all those bricks last year. My neighbors think I am crazy. . all that work. . in the hot weather, too. On top of that, I go out in the mornings in my nightie and take pictures of my plants. I'm trying to discpline myself to dressing first so I don't have to duck behind things when a car goes by. . .lol. . besides that . . you know you'll pull a weed or two . . maybe move a bucket or rock while you are out there. . I've ruined more nighties that way. . .

I know what you mean though. Nowadays, I pace myself a whole lot more, look for better ways to move things, etc. I just knew I needed to keep moving and I didn't like the idea of walking these old country road alone. Soooo I took out the roto-tiller and broke up some side yard. I started to notice hostas. .. well you know what happened after that. . lol
My honey likes it because one acre of yard he used to have to mow is not there anymore. . . I'm fixin' to take more off his hands if I live long enough. . .lol

Let me know how you come out on your doctor appointment. . .that's got to be very painful for you. I dread that sort of thing happening. . .

Sidney, sending hugs and prayers your way

Love hearing about your hosta journey!! :O)

I am scheduled for an MRI next week--I'll let you know, as I know! :O)

Thank you so much, again!!

janice

P.S. Another "detail" of prayer requests is that WE will be paying for (and have been since Feb. 1st),
all expenses incurred with this shoulder/arm situation. We changed insurance
coverage from a Cobra Plan to a private plan two days after seeing the doctor about my
problem, so they have disallowed any expenses relating to it!! YIKES!!

Another opportunity to see divine intervention in the meeting of those financial responsibilities! :o)

Janice, you are in my prayers as well - for the $$$, the pain, and last but not least - the timing - in the beginning of gardening season! Bummer!

Holy cow, Sidney, you are an iron woman! I feel pathetic just reading about your feats! Nice to know you're a horse lover as well. I had that addiction when I was younger, and I keep praying for some land, so I can expand my gardening addiction, and renew my love for horses. :-) I cracked up on your nightie antics! I'm glad to know I'm not the only one who sneaks out in my nightclothes to check on my babies and ends up seeing something that needs to be done, etc etc etc.

- Deanna, also looking forward to someday roaming Heaven's Hosta Patch with THE Master Gardener

Oh how true!! And another opportunity to become a "valley of Baca" to another sojourner. One thing I know sure. . is that the One you lean on has never been sued for "non support!" Twenty five years ago I was so sick that the quality of my life was in question. I asked the Lord for a word, a mantle of hope to wrap my self in. Later that day I was leaning on a rake (I shouldn't even been out there in the first place) Two bible pages blew by my feet. I bent and picked them up and circled was "Psalm 118:17.. . I shall not die but live, and declare the works of the Lord." Most people think you are nuts if you tell them this, but I tell you with my hand raised that that is exactly what happened. My health started to steadily improve from that point on. Today I can put in a good days work for an ole gal. . lol
I have put you and Lindabeth on our prayer groups list. My heart goes out to you two both right now and will stand with you in prayer. It's always darkest before the dawn. I'm reminded of that when I see hosta Dawn's Early Light. . .I put her in a special place of early morning sun. . she is a special hosta to me.

Deanna. . .you made me feel so much better. . another hosta lady that runs out early morning in her nightie to see her lovies . . .Isn't it strange how fast time passes before you realize you have ruined another nightie. . lol
I get in the house and honey says, I see we have another "hosta nightie" for the rag bag? Cheeky man. . .but he sure can make a mean omelet. . .

I'm pledging to do better this year. . .

janice (known to have ruined sleeping attire, as well, in my early morning hosta-hovering!)