September 28 is Good Neighbor Day, and that is the theme of September's Swap. Sign ups will run through September 2.
Send your box Priority Mail with DC confirmation by September 15. Depending on what you choose to send from the 3 required elements the size of the box will vary. You will send your neighbor the following items:
1. Divisions/bulbs/tubers of two plants that you are growing. Neighbors share plants across the fence and we will be doing that with our online neighbors. September is prime time for digging Daylilies, Monarda, and lots of other perennials. An alternative would be to buy some bulbs for fall planting and divide them between you and your neighbor. That way you will both have the same plant blooming in your garden next year. As long as you send your neighbor 2 different plants/bulb types that you grow or will be growing with them, you will meet this requirement. (For bulbs, please send a group of bulbs. Unless it is a Giant Allium or Frittilaria, 1 bulb is not enough. Imagine one sad little tulip on a cold March day. For tulips and daffs, etc, please send 4 -5 of each type to equal 1 plant.)
2. Some product from your garden this year. This could be seeds gathered from a favorite plant, an ornamental gourd or dried flowers from your plantings, a preserved fruit or vegetable product from your garden, or something decorative or useful made from your garden�s bounty.
3. The recipe for whatever you would bring to our potluck if we had a harvest celebration together and everyone was asked to bring their favorite fall dish.

To play you must be a GW member in good standing and be over 18 years old.

Don't mention what you will be sending on the thread, but email me a nickname for your box that reflects the contents without giving everything away. These boxes should be relatively small so it should not be difficult to come up with a descriptive one or two word name. Play it straight or be coy. Once everyone has sent me the nickname for their box, the participants will select the box they will receive from the nickname without knowing who their secret neighbor is. The order of selection will be established by a game we will play at the end of sign ups. Please send me your GW name and real name and address before September 2.

In the meantime, I will post a game for a prize when sign ups reach 8 participants. I hope a lot of you will play.

Happy Harvest Neighbor,
Alana

Would love to be able to share a cat or two with a neighbor. We have the little kitten that ran out from the field and she has been inside for a month until we can get her spayed which should be in the next week or two. Now we have a very vocal male cat hanging around. He is very skinny and once stand offish is now a little loving kind of guy. He looks to be about a year old and once he is friendly enough, he will be trapped and taken in to get spayed. We have a low cost clinic up in Toledo that will spay/neuter stray and/or feral cats for 25 dollars. House cats are $45. If we get strays, we take them up there for spaying/neutering. We have done 4 so far and all four are now our cats. We already had one of our own so these latest two make it 7. I am sure the kitten will stay around but not sure of the male. I guess we are just suckers for strays. I just wish people would be more responsible.

Thanks Alana, this is a great idea and I am looking forward to it.

Margo

Now to think of a nickname.

Shirley

If we count Dan's "maybe" we have 8 players already. I will post a game when I get home this afternoon.

Have a great day neighbors!
Alana

Ellie

If/when we get to 12 participants I will post another game but I will be gone this evening (I hope) so I am going to post the game I have ready for today now. The winner will get to choose one of these:
1. 100 1.5 x 2.5 inch clear polybags with white write on strip.
2. Two packs of commercial Zinnia seeds including Lilliput and Dwarf Pumila Sprite.
3. Division of Daylily Bacon Ballerina.
The first person to answer all of these questions correctly wins.

Name these well known television neighbors.

1. This family lived next door to Archie Bunker for 3 years before �moving on up� to a deluxe high rise apartment and their own show.

2. Laverne and Shirley had this annoying duo to contend with.

3. Lucy and Desi had this couple for best friends and neighbors.

4. "Home Improvement" showed only the forehead of this neighbor.

5. Seinfeld was plagued by this loopy neighbor whose first name was Cosmo.

6. Darrin and Samantha�s nosey neighbor in "Bewitched."

7. "Family Matters" nerdy neighbor.

8. "Dennis the Menace" tormented this neighbor to distraction.

9. "The Simpsons" mustachioed neighbor.

10. She lived next door to Al and Peg on "Married With Children"

11. Girl next door on "The Wonder Years"

12. Red haired Martha Stewart wannabe who lives on Wisteria Lane.

13. And finally, PBS icon and gentle neighbor to children for over 30 years.

Have a good evening,
Alana

Do we watch too much tv at my house?

~Wendy

I am glad you joined us Faye. 1 more sign up and we will play another game.

Dan

dan

We are at 12 players. I am too tired to post a celebratory game tonight. I will post one tomorrow.
g'night.
Alana

What TV neighbor(s) live at these addresses?

1. 1313 Mockingbird Lane
2. 742 Evergreen Terrace
3. 001 Cemetery Lane
4. 518 Crestview Drive
5. 10 Stigwood Ave
6. 4222 Clinton Way
7. 301 Cobblestone Way
8. 623 E. 68th Street Apt 4A
9. 211 Pine Street
10. Venus 1234, Skypad Apts.

You may pick up your pencils now, lol.
Alana

I'll read the post later, Will send name later.
Off to work!!!

Hpe I'm not too late

1. The Munsters
2. The Simpsons
3. The Adams Family
4. The Beverly Hillbillies (Clampetts)
5. The Huxtables
6. The Brady's
7. The Flinstones
8. The Ricardos
9. The Cleavers
10. The Jetsons

:) Are these right?

Vina/flowergirl34
Shirley/sjc48
Rosemary/rosemctier
Dan/dan_the_mailman
Melissa/hazelnutbunny
Margo/smitties
Shirley/brittneysgran
Robin/Robin1962-2008
Wendy/Sassybutterfly_2008
Faye/nottougly
Beth/beth_b_kodiak
Carmen/gardencraze
Alana/poisondartfrog

That's 13 players. I will post another game at 15 players.

I may have to borrow that padded room, too. This past week has been a doozey....and it's not over. Still have sick kiddos, and hubby's leaving tomorrow on another business trip. *sigh* Toss that in with the broken down cars (yes, plural! why do these things always happen in groups??), regular homeschooling stuff, all the dr's appointments this week, and life in general.....
Yes, that padded room is sounding *really* nice right now.

ON the bright side. It's supposed to be a tiny bit cooler this week, so maybe I can get outside to do some desperately needed yard work. Playing in the dirt is always a good cure! :)

Vina/flowergirl34
Shirley/sjc48
Rosemary/rosemctier
Dan/dan_the_mailman
Melissa/hazelnutbunny
Margo/smitties
Shirley/brittneysgran
Robin/Robin1962-2008
Wendy/Sassybutterfly_2008
Faye/nottougly
Beth/beth_b_kodiak
Carmen/gardencraze
Heidi/hdiperna
Alana/poisondartfrog

BTW- The morning glories that you offered for sase are beautiful.
I posted pictures at the other forum.

Shelly

I'm thinking of a theme....I'm thinking of a theme...got it! Sending an email :)

Talk to you soon!
vina

Alana,will definitely get back to you before the deadline. Thanks Margo

We are over 15 players; time for another game. The first player to respond with the name of the person these neighborly quotes are attributed to wins. The prize this time is the winner's choice of
1. Petunia, Dreams Red 30 pelleted seeds
2. Petunia, Primetime Pink Morn 30 pelleted seeds
3. Petunia, Primetime Blue 30 pelleted seeds
(Have you guys picked up on the fact that I am planning a big Petunia year for 2012?)

Who said:
1. Love thy neighbor- and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.

2. Your first job is to prepare the soil. The best tool for this is your neighbor's motorized garden tiller. If your neighbor does not own a garden tiller, suggest that he buy one.

3. Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.

4. I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?

5. Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence.

6. Do not waste time bothering whether you love your neighbor act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.

Vina/flowergirl34
Shirley/sjc48
Rosemary/rosemctier
Dan/dan_the_mailman
Melissa/hazelnutbunny
Margo/smitties
Shirley/brittneysgran
Robin/Robin1962-2008
Wendy/Sassybutterfly_2008
Faye/nottougly
Beth/beth_b_kodiak
Carmen/gardencraze
Heidi/hdiperna
Linda/roper2008
Shelly/sred98
Alana/poisondartfrog

2. Dave Barry

3. Rudyard Kipling

4. Mother Teresa

5. Carl Sandberg. Ben Franklin said almost the exact same thing but it
was don't tear down the hedges! Lol!

6. C. S. Lewis

Fun quotes!

Shelly

IF we make it to 20 players I will post another game. We are at 16 now and you all are so good at this that I am having to work pretty hard to come up with games, lol.

Tired-I'll check in tomorrow. G'night.
Alana

Thanks so much!

Shelly

Love C.S. Lewis, and that quote is a great one!

Hurricane Irene is heading my way, so far mandatory
evacuation in low lying area's. I will most likely stay
here, but will probably loose power. The last hurricane
we had here in virginia beach I lost power 6 days.

Oh no, Linda! I hope you and your gardens come through without damage. Your MG's are beautiful. I just had a look. I had been looking for them on the Vines Forum.

I am working on a new game for tomorrow-not sure what time I will post it. It looks like Allie will get a little sister this weekend and things may get a little crazy.

Have a good weekend. East coasters check in and let us know that you are okay, if you can.
Alana

Melissa

Give the song titles that include these lyrics:

1. May your 40 acres soon be fields of clover.
Yes, indeed, and plant a wish
With every seeden by and by
The sun and rain will make an etching
Of a million little green fingers
Stretching to the sky

2. Howdy neighbor howdy get out and come right in
We'll make a bowl of gravy to sop your biscuits in
Boil a pot of coffee and bake a big fat hen
Cook another country ham to feed a hundred men

3. It's a neighborly day in this beautywood,
A neighborly day for a beauty,
Would you be mine?
Could you be mine?

4. Screaming young babies
No piece and no quiet
I got T.V.'s, saxophone playing
Groaning and straining
With the trouble and strife

5.Come on and shake my hand and let a grin do the rest
It makes you feel so grand to get your chin off your chest
I�m shouting; "Hi Neighbor! My Neighbor!
Time to play and say "Hi!"

6. Now I was walking down a dusty road
when along came a neighbor of mine.
He saw me walkin' with my head hung down,
he just had to stop and pass the time.
Neighbor, neighbor, floatin' in the salty brine.
floatin' in the salty brine

The first correct respondent will choose one of these:
1. Petunia, Ultra Rose 30 pelleted seeds
2. Sweet Alyssum, Allure Bronze 30 seeds
3. Petunia, Primetime Blue 30 pelleted seeds

Beautiful day here. Turned off our air conditioners. Seems so weird to be enjoying this weather while others are in the midst of destructive weather. My thoughts and prayers are with those in the east.

Margo

I need address and theme from:
Rosemary/rosemctier
robin/robin1962-2008
Carmen/gardencraze

I need theme only from:
Faye/nottougly
Shelly/sred98

Thanks!
Alana

BTW, is it the 2nd yet??? Why is it that the last few days before getting partners are always the longest?

-Dan

I need address and theme from:
Rosemary/rosemctier
Carmen/gardencraze

I need theme only from:
Faye/nottougly
Shelly/sred98

Vina/flowergirl34
Shirley/sjc48
Rosemary/rosemctier need address and box name
Dan/dan_the_mailman
Margo/smitties
Shirley/brittneysgran
Robin/Robin1962-2008
Wendy/Sassybutterfly_2008
Faye/nottougly need box name
Beth/beth_b_kodiak
Carmen/gardencraze need address and box name
Heidi/hdiperna
Linda/roper2008 need address and box name
Shelly/sred98 need box name
Kelly/kellyk49
Alana/poisondartfrog

Vina/flowergirl34
Shirley/sjc48
Rose/rosemctier
Dan/dan_the_mailman
Margo/smitties
Shirley/brittneysgran
Robin/Robin1962-2008
Wendy/Sassybutterfly_2008
Faye/nottougly need box name
Beth/beth_b_kodiak
Carmen/gardencraze
Heidi/hdiperna
Shelly/sred98 need box name
Kelly/kellyk49
Alana/poisondartfrog

Sorry!

Shelly