You can tell it's winter when....

[Joe]

.......people argue about nothing.

Please get onto the gardening topics.

Joe Ontario

[animaux]

Yeah, we have this every year. It's so much less argumentative than it has been in the past. This has become a great newsgroup over the years. Many of us have been here for almost a decade. Join in the arguing. I don't think anyone here has fought dirty in some time.

Victoria

[Shell]

Tis the season to be cranky? Must have been out in the traffic around the stores :) Shell

[omi]

Irrigation water is cold and water from the cold water tap is cool (in Phoenix)

[Mark Anderson]

I would love to be able to grow some of those poppies just for the flowers. The poppies we get here are wimps in comparison.

BTW: Does anyone know where I can get a California poppy seed mixture? The one site I was going to buy from doesn't carry them anymore.

[canuckistani]

OK....Joe in Ontario, here goes...

1: This is Dec 24 thus the Japanese cherry blossoms are out along Blanchard and Hillside in Victoria BC.... 2: Dropped by my garden to grab some lettuce and a few onions today.... 3: It rained. This means winter. Awful, really! 4: Stupid lawns are still growing, about an inch per month and that's without any form of fertilizer.

That better?

John in Victoria BC Canuckistan zone 8b

[NAearthMOM]

Yes it's been great here.

3 years lurking, 5 years posting. Some of my fave friends are from here. Bev, you (V), madgard, dolores, carlotta, I miss a lot of folks, I wonder about theresa mesa, alan, etc.

Love me "Come into my garden, my flowers want to meet you!"

[Shell]

So do I, I love huge red poppies :)

Don't know where to get a California poppy mix, sorry

Shell

[MLEBLANCA]

Emilie

[animaux]

Yeah, Theresa. She was from New Mexico, wasn't she? She had some touch emotional scrapes. I wonder too what ever happened to her. Which Alan?

[NAearthMOM]

The man who lost his wife...............

Weider or something like that??

Love Caryn "Come into my garden, my flowers want to meet you!"

[galyles]

Caryn, that was (is) Alan "Hawk" Widner. Last post to rec.gardens was in January 2001 when he left the newsgroup. He has been (and still is) active on other groups. A search for "Hawk Widner" as author on the Advanced Google newsgroup search archive gives the information. I remember him well!

best wishes Geoff (who's been around a long time here as well)!!

[gregpresley]

[animaux]

Oh, yes. I wonder about him, too. He was an artist? I seem to remember he did computer generated art of some sort. He just disappeared.

[madgardener]

[Joe]

I really didn't need that. But you know, it's a shame you may still have to cut your grass this time of year ; )

[NAearthMOM]

And ya better stick around Geoff!

Love Caryn

"Come into my garden, my flowers want to meet you!"