My passies survived 2 days so far. Someone said that they will have transplant shock for a few days. They are still green, just a little wilted. I think these will make it. Yay!

Ok...It's been a really Slllloooooooowwww And boring night at work, and I"ve just printed, copied, cut and taped over 200 seed envelopes. I went a little crazy...

Now tell me...Just WHAT in the HECK am I gonna do with 200 seed envelopes??!!? AGH!
Anyone need any??? :O)

Bunny, just toss them in the drawer/box with the plant markers, sharpies etc.

Here is your confirmation# 0307 0020 0004 7273 5831

Melanie: Don't say "package" someone may get the wrong idea!LOL! Your liatris is nice and tall. I really like your gargoyles!

I found this crazy little guy in my garden yesterday. His wings bi-fold. Reminds me of a Stealth Bomber.

Found out the name of my daylilies. The Pink bi-tone is Final Touch and the other was Sammy Russell. Thanks for the info on Tinkers!
Tracy

My boss asked last night why I was on his computer...I told him that mine wouldn't let me access some info..he's like, What info? And I said...Oh, just a group swap I'm in that was talking about hairy balls and naked ladies..

Um, yeah...that went over real well. Luckily, he has a great sense of humor. (and I showed him the thread & pictures, so he'd know what I was talking about)

But what makes it REALLY funny, and this is why I have a blocker on my computer, is that I work at a CHRISTIAN TV STATION!!!!! LOL Oh geeze, I could get in trouble if I ain't careful!! :O)

Your 'package' is on it's way. USPS # 03062400000028160053

Hope you like it.

Rocky

YAY!! Looking forward to my BOX, Roxanne!!!! Whoo-Hoooooooo!!!

I'm gonna be gone for a couple of days. Another daylily outing with my gal friends. fun...fun...fun!

Rocky

I am mailing your package out on Friday. Have to wait until payday ya know.

I am having trouble with my silly item! Ugh. I am usually so good with silly.

I found this growing in my yard today. Isn't she gorgeous?

Here is my new bromeliad.

That is pretty much all that is blooming except my orange and yellow canna, and my butterfly weed. Oh, and my butterfly tree.

Here is a picture of my crazy cat after playing in the water. He loves the water. The caption on this photo reads
"Mom, can I borrow your hairdryer?"

Hmm...either a kitty or a chinchilla. OR bunny. They're all cute. :O) But I'm not allowed any inside pets (not counting all 8 of my birds!..which, come to think of it, is probably a good reason for not having an inside cat...)

Oh, and your flowers are pretty, too!! :O)

He is my Bengal that I got in March. His name is Kairo. He is my little prince. He has heart issues so I treat him like a baby. Next month I find out the extensiveness of the heart problems. I am so nervous. Half of me does not want to take him to find out.

I have 4 animals, and they are all indoor. Two cats, Kairo & Willow, and two dogs, Furf and Trigger. Wouldn't trade them for the world.

I hope other things bloom soon. My glads and my hosta that I got in the last trade are doing great!

Hey guys...my divorce will be final on August 3rd. I know none of you knew about it. I had to wait until he turned everything in to make sure it was really going to happen. That being said...I will be changing my GW name here pretty soon. I hate my name.

Ok...funny story time. Two of them...

Kairo likes to play with feminine products. He chases them around the house like a stick and plays fetch with them. Well, here I am with my monthly visitor, and he had taken all of them out of my purse. (Yes, he digs through my purse like a child...and I mean DIGS...until he finds what he wants) So I had to go to the store while I was at work because of the little theif. He did this to me twice in 2 days without me knowing until it was too late.

Then...I'm sitting here...and I hate to ruin this suprise, but I had gotten fishymamas a small windchime. I guess he thought it was his because he was carrying it through the house, and then brought it to me to play with him. He keeps us entertained around here that's for sure. Yes, I am still sending it fishymamas...but it might have kitty cooties on it. (just kidding)

We can save the ice cream for later. *wicked grin*

Speaking of feminine products....my 16 month old has a fascination with them...she gets into the box, and will have them unwrapped and up her nose.... Or stuck to her head. Which ever ones she gets into first!!
She's the one that also likes to wear my undies.
And this may border on the inappropriate...but here goes:

Let me reassure everyone....THEY WERE CLEAN!!! lol :O) She likes to get into the panty drawer and for some reason..she will never wear my cotton ones. Don't make a fancy enough cape, I suppose.

:O)

Laurie, I understand completely about wanting the divorce, and best wishes go out to you dear, my 1st husband was a lying moron, and I couldn't get out fast enough.

Bunny, she most likely likes the silky feel more than cotton, you could try a blanket with satin edging and see if that makes her sence of touch occupied (my sister dragged around my mum's silk teddy EVERYWHERE... even church as her "wubby", I finally convinced her to let me sew the silk into a small throw pillow.

HNB---Sexy undies.....

Thanks for the laughs tonight girls.

By the way...my new GW username is autumnfairy. I will start using it in the next swap.
Did I tell you girls that I make fairy wings and I dress up as one? Here are some pics of me last year...this year is going to be better, I am adding to my costume. This is where my new name came from. My fairy name is Oaklie...the Autumn Fairy.

Thanks for the tips, girls! I honestly never considered that it was a sensory thing with the undies....She does have a blankie that I made her with a satin backing, but I packed it away for the summer. Hhhmmmm....so it DOES make sense that she'd go for the silkies.
Wow...Ya'll are so smart!!! Even after 5 kids, I learn something new every day!
Just goes to show ya...Ya never stop learning until you're dead! :O)

Laurie,
You are a lovely fairy. Congratulations on your divorce!

Diene,
One or more terrapins/turtles has been decimating my tomatos again and we have been lurking around the garden early and late, picking up the offender and moving him to the edge of the woods every time we see him. (That's as dramatic as our animal control get's around here.)
Last night around dark my son came in and told me that something was wrong with the one he just picked up. For one thing, when he picked it up, it did not tuck it's head under it's shell, and it felt awfully light.
I did not think about it last night, but this morning, the one that you sent me in the last swap is sitting at the end of the garden at the edge of the woods. I can't wait to torment Zach with his "strange" turtle.

Salvia Hot Lips

Daylily 'Cinnamon and Lace'

Monarch Butterfly

Red Spotted Purple Butterfly

So, my home computer crashed last night. Having a problem getting on to the internet. That is so frustrating! I have to call them when I get home and see if they can fix it.

Nut - I love the hot lips!! My coral nymph are the only ones that are blooming right now, and I absolutely am in love with them! Can't wait to try other varieties!!

Galium - the butterflies are beautiful, and so is your daylily!

Yep - my kids have always loved running around in my panties too! Too cute! They are all old enough now though that it doesn't happen much anymore (except for my 2 year old once in a while!)

WooHoo! My Velvet Queen sunflower is blooming! How pretty! Can't wait till more start blooming!

Laurie, I love the fairy costume! You look abslolutely Beautiful! Congratulations on the divorce. I wish you years of happiness, peace and tranquility! Every one of us deserves those things!

Nuthatch: The hotlips are very pretty. Now you need to find a "Hawkeye" or "Frank Burns" to your garden!

Galium: The butterfly pics are great! The blue/black one is amazing!

Becki: Beautiful Sunflower! How tall is it?

Well, it finally rained here for a whole solid day! I was ecstatic. Yesterday was a true soaker. We really needed that. My lawn had become extra crispy. There is nothing like walking across the grass and hearing crunch, crunch, crunch. We have a well for all of our water supply to the house and Monday had some scarey moments with sludge coming out of the lines after the water had been running for a while. Everyone, please say a prayer that we don't end up with a dry well this summer. I don't think I could handle having to sink a new well.

Galium - the box came today!! Thanks you SO VERY MUCH!!!! She sent:
A sheet of garden humor - definitely made me laugh!!
Daylily "Little Grapette"
Daylily "Happy Returns"
Blackberry Lily
Coreopsis "Zagrab"
Echinacea "Magnus"
Echinacea "Doppleganger"
Snowball Bush

Everthing came looking beautiful and moist - perfect! Thank you galium!! As my garden is still fairly young, these will make perfect additions to it! Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Becki

Well, at the risk of being redundant...the only things blooming in my garden are my roses. :O)

Yellow rose is blooming again

The pink one is finishing up

I don't usually like marigolds, but planted these anyway. :O) I couldn't believe how BIG they got, they were supposed to be the dwarf ones.

We have butterflies like CRAZY right now. They love the petunias.

And the kids found a good use for the broken mower...Daddy took the motor and blade off, and now they're pushing each other around on it. We've got a big hill behind our house, and they are taking turns riding down that. (daddy's idea) My 6 year old son flipped it halfway down, and ended up sliding the rest of the way...he's got a nice streak of road rash from the forehead to his belly button. :O)

And everyone that drives by thinks...."Look at those poor hillbilly children...Ain't got no toys..have to use the lawn mower..."
...Lol...
One guy actually DID get upset..until he realized that there wasn't any danger. No motor, no sharpies.
Geeze...Like we're THAT dumb?? lol :O)

Thanks for sending so quickly, Galium!!! :O)

'Queeny' Mixed Baby Hollyhocks - they sound beautiful! Thanks!

Now..the question is... I'd like to find something that flowers..preferably a shrub or something similar. Something big for along the foundation (it's in the back of the house). But obviously, it needs to be shade tolerant. And it would have to look good with my day lilies & roses. They're in the sunny part of the flower bed.

And for the front porch, I was thinking Clematis, or something that would climb the pillars..But are those shade tolerant?? Is there anything like those that would be?

Does anyone have any ideas on plants?

Yep, our yard looks like hillbilly heaven here with all of the toys scattered about and the kiddie swimming pool in the middle of the yard. Wait until they drag out the slip-n-slide. The Aunts and Uncles have spoiled my kids with so many toys that there isn't enough room to store it all. Just cleaned out the garage last week and we still can't get trucks and toys all put away at the same time! Argh!

Here's a Magic Message plant I received in another swap from Debbya. It actually worked! One side says THANK YOU, the other has XOXO.
Pretty neat looking, anyway! :O)

Laurie, you make a great fairy!

Tracy - THAT is what your message plant was supposed to look like. Did it ever grow?

My daughter decided to play "gardener" today. First, she took the shears and CUT all my daylilies...then, she decided to transplant them. She dug up and pulled up nearly ALL my lilies!!! And then to top that off, the DOG ATE THEM! Seriously.
(stop laughing....I'm really not kidding.) I guess they tasted good to him, or maybe I just haven't fed him enough lately. ANYWAY. These were the lilies I just received in a trade a few weeks ago..my pretty red lilies. So what if they didn't have a name. They were RED and PRETTY.
And she even helped me plant them! I've been teaching her about the flowers, having her help me plant them and feed them, trim them, water them.....I thought that would help her understand.
I guess not.

SIGH

I'm going to go eat some frozen hot chocolate now. Diet be derned.

:O(

And I just got a call from my hubby (I'm at work now)....the baby snapped my yellow rose in half!! She was trying to smell the flower, and it's taller than she is..so.......
But sweet husband of mine put a splint on the stem, and has it propped up and taped up (well, I think he said he used rubber bands....and I wouldn't be surprised to find duct tape on there somewhere...)

I'm telling ya.....I don't think I'm gonna answer the phone again. He'd probably tell me that the cats ate my petunias. Or the boys used my watermelon for batting practice.

Ah phooey.

I am so sorry about your plants. I hope that your rosebush makes it ok. My dog broke my freesia and my calla lily. I was so mad.

I just spent the last hour on the phone fixing my computer with technical support. The good news is that it worked!

I do have good news. The Primerose Canna seeds I planted a few weeks ago are starting to sprout. I was soooo happy to see that. I heard that they are very hard to propagate from seed. But I did like the forums said, and filed the outer coating until I saw white and planted it. I also kept the soil very moist. This is my first plant that I have grown from a seed! I am so excited!!!! New babies! The funny thing is that I looked at them yesterday and I didn't see anything. Maybe they just wanted to suprise me.

Also, I got a big bucket of wildflower seeds on clearance at Garden Ridge for $3.00! Can't wait to plant them somewhere.

Vela: Sadly, this is another story of kids getting their hands in the dirt. I had been checking on it, watering it. Nothing was coming up... I dug down a little to see if someone had snatched it out of the granules... Yay, it was in there and starting to emerge from the casing... So, I covered it back up, watered again, placed back on the window sill. My precious Sprayflorus Emma Rosius had, at some point, decided to dig a little more in the plant in the can. The next time I checked it the casing was there but the green emerging seed pod had disappeared! Jack told me Emma did it! No one can find it. I was pretty mad. She's 2, doesn't understand or won't answer when she is in trouble and being asked "what did you do with Mommy's plant?" Sigh...

The kids have loved watching it unfurl...and were really excited when they saw the words. One kid said "I think it's thanking you for remembering to water it, Mom." :O)

Here are a couple of pictures that I snapped when we were at the zoo a couple of weeks ago.

My five little monkeys

A picture of me and the hubby after Ice Cream at the Ben & Jerry's stand

Emma telling the paparazzi to get out of her face after she ate her chocolate ice cream cone

The bears were all out and milling around. Usually they are hiding every time we go.

This was making me crack up. Ya know how our kids can drive us nuts with all of the Mom, oh mooooom, mom, mom, mom stuff? WEll Mom and baby giraffe were having such a little spat as that when we were there. It was cracking me up! The baby kept wacking mom in the throat with her head over and over and over again! I was laughing so hard because it reminded me of when danny pokes me in the butt when I am on the phone! Mama giraffe finally hauled off and wacked the baby in the head with her little antlers! I busted up!

Sorry to hear about your daylilys. If they were cut to the ground (roots not pulled out) they will regrow leaves. If the roots, little bulbs were pulled out, they won't return.

It's storming really bad, better get off line quick before the computer gets zapped.

Deb

Tracyvine, nice pics at the zoo. The captions were great!
Have a great day, folks!
Alana

Oh well...I'm still trying to feel halfway human. I've only had one cup of coffee (don't tell hubby)....I think I need 3 or 7 more. :O) Worked until 3, feel asleep around 4, been awake off and on all night, and finally fell out of bed around 8.

Just one of those nights where I couldn't turn my mind off. Ya know? :O)

And my morning isn't working out so well....I just poured salt in my coffee.

Oh, Blech.

I am also attaching a picture of the bouquet I made from the flowers the rain smushed. It is disheatening when you grow these things for months and they flower two days before they get wiped out by the rain. Oh well, they look great in my living room and everyone that stops by is stunned by their size.
Hope everyone is well. I will be posting more pics on Vela's picture thread later.
diene

Melissa - I hope your day is getting better! What a lousy time you are having! I hope things brighten up soon! You must get exhausted, working till so early in the morning, getting up a few hours later, and putting up with 5 kids!! How do you do it??? I have a hard enough time keeping up with the 4 that are still at home (well 5, but one is just staying here during his college break, so he doesn't count as a young one!) And I usually get at least 6 hours of sleep a night! (Well, I try...)

Now to the BOX!!!!!!!!!TADA

Got:
Hosta
Abelia evergreen with pink flowers
Evergreen groundcover for a shady area
Dianthus Chedder Pink
Peony Bowl of Beauty

Silly Items
Hillbilly Hearing Aid
Book-Living Somewhere Between Estrogena and Death by Barbara Johnson
Diet Cookies (Plastic)

also got a bottle of nice smelling lotion and some bath items.

Great Box Thanks so very much. Had a good laugh, there was also a real funny picture on the outside of the box, all I could think was about the postal people who had seen the picture, chuckled all the way home. Was a dead animal in the middle of the road with road stripes painted on it with the caption "Lazy City Workers" Not to worry everthing was still alive.

This is what I got girls:

Pink Cleome
Salvia Rhea...really like this one
Blackberry Lily...always wanted this one...tried to grow from seed....no luck
Cockscomb
Red Cardinal Vine
Dwarf Yellow Canna...How did you know I liked those? :o)
Salvia Lady in Red
Maroon Glads...I love glads...they make me glad! I know...that was cheesy....You did send me that cheese book. LOL!!!
Yellow LA Iris...tried this one from seed...no luck
and....
PINK NAKED LADIES! What a huge bulb this one is....geez...I had to search for a pot big enough until I can plant it in the ground. (It's been raining again)

Non plant items:
Some cool sweet rock...this seems to be an incense of sort that you burn
Some I Love Lucy Vitameatavegamin...these are red hots...I love those...
And....my funny item....
The Stinky Cheeseman book...I have never read this whole book, but I have heard of it. I can't wait to read it tonight.

Also, everything was packaged very nice, and the plants were not very limp at all. There was still plenty of water in the little packages that you made.

She used wet paper towels, and two layers of saran wrap. That seemed to work very well.

Everything I got I just love. I did not have any of these.
Thank you for such a wonderful box Melanie. I just love it.

Fishymamas,
I decided I am going to put your box in the mail on Monday so it does not sit over the weekend...also...I still need to find your funny item. I hope that is ok....

Glad to know you were able to pick up your box, Nuthatch! I hope you enjoy everything! Sorry that there weren't more plant items, it's been raining so much here that everything has either rotted or just not sprouted at all.
(or has been dug up by my daughter!) LOL :O)

Laurie--So glad you liked everything in the box. Glad everything arrived safely and in good condition. Many happy hours of enjoyment. So glad you did not have any of what I picked out.

Enjoy....

...Whew...Ok..let me catch my breath.....(gulp)

GUESS WHAT I GOT???? *drumroll*

.........DAY LILIES.....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YAY! Again! YAY!! over and over Again!!! YAY!!!

*breathe again*

Awesome, awesome, AWESOME!!!

Ok. I'm sufficiently calm enough to list the contents of my box. I think. Please blame any typos on my excitedness. :O)

Daylilies:
strawberry candy (I was just being jealous of Poison's!!)
dragon's eye
scatterbrain (how appropriate!!!)
Fairy tale pink

Iris:
Bewilderbeast
immortality

Miniature rose- Ring of fire (this looks SO great beside my orange climbing rose!!!)

Creeping phlox

Daylily seeds

And my silly item was a great little yellow pen with a smiley face on top! It has a feather boa type thing on top, too! (I would take a picture, but my daughter ran off with it...I"m gonna have to hunt her down...) :O)

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!! Roxanne...You have just made me an ecstatically happy woman!!!
*****HUGS******

Oh, and my daughter is helping me plant all of these, so maybe she'll appreciate them a little more. Maybe. :O)

Naked Lady Blooming

Front Gardens

Hardy Hibiscus

Bunny, glad you got your daylilies! Maybe they will take some of the sting out of your losses this week.

Nuthatch, that pure white hardy Hibiscus is wonderful!!!!!

Nuthatch: The white hibiscus is absolutely beautiful! Very crisp! LOVE it!

Well, I was very excited today to find one of my lilies have bloomed that I have been WAITING on for far too long. Unfortunately, it bloomed right after being beaten down by this rain that I have been praying for. I love it. I haven't had it bloom until this year and don't have a clue what it is but was blown away by the color of it. So, I propped it back up and snapped a pic to post for everyone. I hope you like it!

If anyone knows it's name please let me know.
Tracy

That is a beautiful lily, Tracy! I love the ones that are so colorful that they almost look fake, ya know! :O)

Can anyone tell me what this plant is? I have it in a pot right now, because I"m not sure if it CAN go out side. The flower is a dark lavendar (looks lighter in the picture), and somewhat resembles a spiderwort flower...but the spiderwort I remember from growing up always had green leaves.

Well, when the computer started downloading, there was a complete picture story of how my camera got upstairs!! It is so FUNNY, I couldn't quit laughing.
First, a picture of my desk (mess and all), next the floor, then the first stair, middle of the stairs, looking down from the stairs to my computer desk, at the top of the stairs, in the boys' bedrooms (which I can now see how messy they are, I can't go upstairs because of a bad hip, so i have to take them on faith when they tell me their rooms are clean!), in the boys' closets, 3-4 pictures of toys, one of a pair of feet (got'cha!!!)

And then there's this picture. I have no idea what it is, but I thought...Hmmm...I've seen stuff like this in art galleries!! :O)

It's nice to be able to laugh at my kids instead of getting upset at them...I've been upset all week, first with Aubeni getting into the med. cabinet and opening up all my contact lenses (a years worth!) and putting them in the bathtub, then with the flower thing..and there was something in between those, but I'm blanking it out...post tramatic stress amnesia, I guess. :O)

ANYWAY. That pic made my morning.
Hope ya'll have a great weekend!!!

I forgot to tell ya'll about the surprise I had Friday morning!!! My FIL and his new wife watch the kids on Thursday nights for us, (both DH and I work that night), ANYWAY. That night they brought pizzas for the kids with peach cobbler for dessert (homemade!) which is neat in itself, cuz FIL cooks, not his Wife!! lol And the kids don't get pizza very often at all..
And when I got up Friday morning, I noticed that FIL had mowed our yard! (cuz we haven't got a mower, he brought his own!) and he had bought 4 stepping stones for my flower beds!!!
WOW! Very pretty ones, with butterflies on them!!
I was soooooo tickled!!!!! Yesterday was a DEFINITE improvement on my week! :O)
That was the SWEETEST thing!! He's never bought anything for us before, let alone ME, the lowly DIL. :O)

Michele---------------- Next time you see that chocolate calla, GET IT !! by golly!! Ya only live once!! So what if it dies, at least you enjoyed it!! :O) If I see one down this way, you can bet I'll snatch it for ya! :O)

i'm gonna start to keep the names of everthing, or at least try to, LOL now all i have to do is try and get the names of the day lily's that i already have, at least that's what i think they are, they haven't bloomed yet, but they are kinda in the shade a little.

Good for you! Sounds like you got some lovlies!

medontdo-I sent out your Dragon Fruit Seeds also.

Well, my daughter did it again. Took off with my camera. Guess I'm gonna have to keep the thing locked up, seems a closed drawer isn't enough. Duh. :O)
But, she was just trying to take garden pictures like she sees mommy doing all the time, so I can't be TOO upset at her.

I thought I'd show you the better ones. :O) Although, she did have some EXTREME close ups of the cat...but I thought you'd rather not see them this early in the morning. lol

Here's her view of the marigolds.

And her picture of our pumpkin.

Elijah wanted to share his caterpillar with you..even curled up, it's as big as a ping pong ball. But more hairy. ICKY.

My first morning glory!! (I know..but I planted them late, they are from seeds that I got from Melanie when I first joined!!) :O)

And....my Orange rose!! I just can't help but show this off, it has people staring at it!! It's the bright spot in my yard, for sure! And this is it's 3rd bloom! Can't wait for more!! :O)

......Cover your eyes, Melanie...I know it's still painful.....

Miraculously, all the plants in question survived. Names have been changed to protect the innocent. (Salvia now prefers to be called Sylvia. Balloon flower goes by Baboon now.)

Got my funny item finally....I hope you like it Fishymamas!

Laurie

Matt and Lindsey

We were all so proud of my niece Kayla for making it down the aisle. She was so nervous being the flower girl! Her Daddy met her at the end of the aisle with a big Smooch!

I hope all of you had a great weekend!
Tracy

Oh... I drove past one of my neighbor's homes yesterday, and saw that she has beautiful burgandy hibiscus!! I don't know her real well, but I MIGHT get ballsy and ask her if I can get some of her seeds when they ripen! I don't know many of my neighbors all that well, but I guess I know her better than most of the rest of them, so maybe it won't be all that bad to ask!!

I'm finally back. Boy what a week!

I told you about spending a couple of days at a girlfriends and going to tour some more daylily gardens. It was great!!! Even if it was 95 degrees and 70% humidity.......talk about a sauna!

My friend is doing some remodeling and is eliminating a 'Florida' room......she gave me 6.....count 'em 6 sliding glass doors. What am I gonna do with 6 sliding glass doors you ask? Well, hopefully I can convince my DH to build me that greenhouse I have wanted for 30 years. After all....I've got the glass! Sounds like a plan to me.

The minute I got home we took off to Virginia for the weekend to visit the grand-baby. I guess I should stop calling him 'the grand-baby'......he's 5 years old......but he's the only one and is likely to stay that way. Why can't they stay little forever....He is growing up entirely too fast.

Hazelnutbunny: I am soooooo glad you liked your box. If I could have found a bigger box I would have sent more lilies!!!

Well, I got a lot of reading to catch up on, so I better get started.

Rox

Here's the list I have so far, correct me if I'm wrong:

Chrystal to Laurie - received
Laurie to fishy
Diene to Galium
Poison to Medont - received
Medont to Rocky
HNB to Nuthatch - received
Dirt to Tracy
Tracy to dirt
Debbya to Chrystal
Rocky to HNB -received
Galium to Becki- received
Fishy to Debbya - Sent
Becki to poison
Nuthatch to Vela - Sent

Am I missing anyone?

Dirt and I will be exchanging after she gets back from "Hippie-ville". I think she gets back around the 3rd. If you want to close the swap without us that will be ok with me. We can post the results on the next swap or something.

Laurie

OH Bunny, MUST you remind us of the postman boogie? LOL!

YAY!!!! My box is coming, my box is coming!!!

Laurie!! WOOOHOOOOO new hostess with the mostess!! You said it, YOU'RE IT GIRL!! (I won't be able to join, but I'll stop in and say "hey")

Poison....Halloween theme sounds neat!! And, by the sounds of it, there is going to be an August swap with Laurie as the hostess, so that means you're up for the next one! LOL!! Killed the next two swaps with one stone!

This Make New Friends swap has been a great brainchild Diene! So glad you thought of it!!

Loving the "sneaky kids with camera" stories...I have had a few picture stories myself....the worst was when the kids totally trashed their rooms and then took pictures of it...that was back before I had a digital camera...so I had to get them developed. The people handed me the pictures with a look of disgust on their faces like "I can't believe this woman lets her kids live like that" LMAO!! I mean that room was TRASHED....I was horrified!

"HAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!"

Now, I'm more along the lines of a '67 mustang shelby 350 fastback. Or a brand new Honda Odyssey van. :O)

Yeah, I've matured a little and gotten more expensive in the process. SIGH. Kids will do that to you. :O)

It won 1st place in show at Norwalk Raceway's Ford Fanatics car show last year. My cousin will be taking Ted out there to do some drag racing before the end of summer. I figure if he has a fast car he should stretch his legs at a track instead of next to some guy at a red light on the street! I know this may not be the popular opinion but I would rather he race it in front of us in a controlled environment than behind my back and be afraid to tell us when he gets into trouble. Being a teenagers mom... Rollin' my eyes, sighing, praying that it all turns out ok!

Tracy

Okay...Now on to the D'OH!! Files.... There's a few, so I'll number them.
1) I got some Balsam seeds this spring. That's how they were labeled, balsam, no pictures. So, hubby and I get excited, picturing balsam PINES! YAY! So we plant several, and when they sprout..I'm thinking...wait, that doesn't look like any pine I've ever seen! So, after some research, we decide we actually had IMPATIENS! :O) So....I've been waiting for these things to bloom, waiting...waiting...waiting....thinking they would bloom at the top, like most other flowers....but getting REALLY frustrated cuz they haven't bloomed yet. Then, this morning, Aubeni tells me.."Mommy, your flowers have flowers on them!" I look, and SURE ENOUGH! Right there at the base of the leaves! Little white flowers!
D'OH!

2) I have always thought 4 o'clocks were vines...similar to morning glories. So when I planted them this spring, some in pots, some in the flower bed, I was getting upset because there were all these "weeds" in the soil! My seeds weren't sprouting, just these nasty little bushy things! GGrrrrr! Then Melanie sent me a 4 o'clock in the last trade, and it STILL DID NOT register!! I've been waiting for this thing to start climbing and stuff....So I think, maybe it's stunted, and I need to do something. So, more research, and find out....these are the things I've been pulling up!! No WONDER my seeds haven't sprouted!
D'OH!!

3) Next...I planted some tomatoes and peppers in pots back in May, and set them next to my hubby's shed. AND FORGOT ABOUT THEM! I just found them this morning!!! Poor things are still alive..just very VERY wilted!
D'OH!

And that is all I"m gonna list this morning. I've got many more, I"m sure we all do...but I thought I'd let ya'll laugh at me for a bit. Anything to brighten up a yucky Tuesday! :O)

Here is a pic from trionnursery.com along with their descritpion:
EQUSETUM HYEMALE HORSETAIL

A rush like survivor of the Dinosaur Age [Carboniferous age]

Slender , hollow 3 to 4 ft stems that are bright Green with Black and Ash colored rings at each joint.

An Effective plant in garden situations near water

Stunning look of Bamboo on a small scale

Can you guys please pray for me? I was not looking for a new job, but one just popped in my lap today. A staffing agency saw my old resume online and e-mailed me. The job is $7.00 more per hour, for a multi-million dollar company. I hope everything works out.

It does not require relocation...in fact, it is only 8 miles from my house.

Good Luck Laurie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Vela: Too funny! Two HR weanies in the same forum! LOL! Ah, but I am retired now... I remember all of the hopelessness weeding through all of the applications and resumes! Ugh! Traded resumes for actual weeds! LOL!