Barbra, I am glad you are feeling better. Your gardening passion will come back. Its all the meds and pain. I was like that after my surgery too. Especially with the heat. Let me know when you are feeling better if you need anything replaced. I'm sure between all of us we can fix you up when you are ready. You might be surprised what will revive when you feel like taking care of it again as well. Things are tougher down there than you would think. Take care.
Kristy

I'm glad to hear that you are able to walk around a bit Barbra. I echo Kristy, if I can replace anything for you once you feel well enough to garden let me know.

I'm working on an October (maybe 16-21)vacation to Rockport and if all of that comes together, let's do lunch if you'll be in Rockport at that time.

Pam

I hope you feel better Barbra....

Barbra,
Good healing wishes and prayers coming your way.
Hugs,
Karen

Hey Girl!!!! Soooo Very Nice to see you posting!!! Up and around already?? You are doing great then...You know once you work past this you will be back on your hands and knees diggin in the dirt!!! You are always Welcome to anything I have just say the word!!! I am hoping when you are ready I can deliver them in person!!!

Hugs!!!
Kylie

Welcome back, Barb!

Glad to hear you are doing well. Let me know if I can help with anything on the coast. Mother nature has culled anything that was rare here but I will be glad to give you replacements of anything I have. Just come and point and I will dig it up and plant it for you.

Jim

Jim that was really sweet of you. Same offer goes to you. I know this drought has been rough. If our whole summer is going to be like this last 105 or better all week I will croak along with the plants, lol. It was downright balmy today. Must have only been 99 degrees, lol. We had a cold front roflmao.

Hi barbara! and welcome back it is always nice to hear you are doing so well after surgey,now what would you do differently if you had to do it all over again?, besides not having surgery.How would u prepare? don't worry about the plants we can always replace them. The important thing here is that u are on your way back to recovery even if it seems like a lifetime ago that u felt good those days are coming slowly but surely I will pray for u and a speedy recovery. keep us posted. Marcie_new

Thanks everyone for the wonderful offers, but I think I will be ok plant wise, I still have the large yard plants, I just lost everything in the greenhouse or in pots.

Pam, when I get back to work the end of July, I will check on what days I have off, and let you know when I will be down, it would be great to have lunch together, bring pots and soil, I think I still have plants to share, we are going down to Rockport tomorrow, so I can see my plants, its been over 5 weeks since I have been down.

Kylie, I wish you could come down, I would love to meet you.

I am kinda scared to travel, but excited at the same time. I sure hope that we have a wounderful weekend. It will seem strange, not to be able to do any gardening, but it will be nice to be able to get out of the house.

I hope everyone has a wonderful 4th of July weekend.

Barbra,

Girl you just take it easy and enjoy the trip!!!
And you need to take us all up on offers!!!!!You know we all always have more than we need.. ;0)

Kylie

Welcome back, wishing you well!
Susan

Be careful or we might all take you up on it, lol. John's birthday is in Oct. and he really wants to go redfishing this year so hope we can get down that way. Be glad to bring you anything you need as long as I don't have to mail it. I hate that place. I'm checking into getting one of the weighing things so I can send stuff from the shop. We have too many people mailing packages here for just a couple of clerks to deal with and it takes an hour or so to mail one box.

We just got back, yesterday, I was able to sit in a chair and water, it was just great. My neighbors at the coast came by, and offered to water for me, when I am not there. I guess they miss all the pretty plants.

Kristy, let me know when you are going down in October, and if its a weekend that we will be there, you and John can stay with us, we have room. My husband loves to fish, and if you do not want to go fishing, I will take you to the Corpus Botantical Gardens. They have plumeria that are hugh trees, its something to see.

I would love to trade plants with you in person. You would be able to pick what you want. You are welcome to anything I have. Right now, I am just trying to keep what I still have alive, nothing is blooming, everything looks bad. I think I have lost all but one of my double brugmansia. Jim, was right, they do not do well down here, but I had to try.
Barbra,

It would be amazing if we could all go down at the same time and plan a barbeque or something! We always camp at a state park and they have charcoal grills and big fire pits that we love to use for grilling over wood coals. Jeff is the whiz kid when it comes to grilling, aren't all men? Both of our birthdays are in October and the weather is wonderful on the coastal bend that time of year! We are still planning the date for our trip, so if y'all want to try that, we're flexible!

Pam

You will not believe this, but I forgot my password, and was not able to sign on, I just remembered it this morning. I go back to the doctor on Monday, to see when I can go back to work. I started driving yesterday, and will try to go and peak at my schedule, I sure hope we can all get together in October. Barbra,

Barbra I am so sorry that I could not send you my well wishes, Prayers and hugs earlier.

It just sounds like you did exactly what you had to do and God works in mysterious ways. Before you know it gardening will be a joy again!

I am with everyone...it would be SO great to MEET each other in person!!

HUGS

Lucy

I went to work, and wrote down the days I will be in Rockport, in October. I will be there on 10-01, 10-02, and 10-03, and will come home on 10-4th, also I will be there on 10-15, 10-16, 10-17, and will come home on 10-18th. Please let me know if any of these days match when either one of you are there. Barbra,

I would really love to go. We can bring our boat and rent a big RV thing for me and John and Freddie and Kyle so we can bring the dogs with us and not have to board them and we have a generator with flood lights we can use on the pier or a jetty to draw in the fish and can drink smoke swear and be merry and not bother other folks, lol. We won't be fishing day and night and can go to the botanical gardens one day as well. Freddie find out if kylie is willing to go and John promises to catch fish. He will wade out with his cast net and catch bait and have a blast and we can all have a blast with the plants, I do have to fish long enough to show him up and then go plant looking, lol. Jim can tell us some good fishing holes I bet. Just let me know. We had sort of made plans for that last weekend the 17th but haven't booked it yet and can go there any time. Its a lot closer so if you can all work it out for each other I say lets go!

Those days should work for us too! Oh, I meant the 15-17. We are planning to stay at the campgrounds in Port Aransas right between the jetty and the pier. Maybe we could all get together for a cookout on the beach on one of those evenings? The more the merrier, I say!!!!

Pam

Kristy, that sounds great. I just talked to Gary, and he will do a brisket, I will make the sides, and we can all eat at our house. It is beautiful in October, with all the hummingbirds. We have hugh oak trees, so our place is just full of them. I would love to trade plants in person with you and Kylie, this is like a dream come true, to meet all of you. Linda, lives just down the street, on Copano Bay, she is usually post here and also on Gardening in Texas, she has a beautiful yard full of herbs and tropicals, she is into orchids. Her neighbor is Billy, she has a hugh shade yard, right on the bay, she has plants I have never seen before, and she loves to trade plants. I will check to see if the guy who sells desert roses at the farmers market will be down that Saturday, you will not believe the beautiful desert roses you can buy for $5 to $10 each, he has so many diffrent colors to choose from. Gary has a collections of them in is Island bed, they are just beautiful. He also sells a plant that grows in the trees, they are just beautiful, I forgot the name, but is is a form of bromaliad, they do not freese in Rockport. The bromaliad plants do freeze but these do not. I can take you and Kylie to to Turners Nursery, to check out their oleanders, Jim, just posted he just brought some of their plants. I sure hope that you all can come down, and that Pam, will also be able to join us. Barbra,

SOOO!! What weekend are you thinking of??? Kristy and my Hubby both have birthdays in Oct and we were talking about going fishing.. Maybe we could buy the two of them a trip there and just hang out and nursery hop or just visit.. Kristy that room could get crowded..LOL
Pam said something about it a couple of days ago.. I guess I need to check in a bit more often..
Pam and I are going to the Farmers market this week.. I am very excited..AND YES GIRL!!!! I SWEAR..

Kylie

I think Kristy, said the weekend of Oct 17th. I can check into the price of a day fishing trip on one of the party boats from Port Aransas, Oct. is such a good month to fish. I would love to just sit and visit with you, but I think Kristy will want to do some fishing. I think we can do both, Corpus has Turners, and Fox Nursery, and the botantial gardens, Fox nursery and the botantial gardens are on the same street, so I think we can do all the nursery hopping in one day. We have an extra bedroom, so if anyone wants to stay with us, you are more than welcome.
I do not know if they will have shrimp in October, but right now you can get fresh table shrimp for $5 a lb, and there are probably 10 shrimp to a lb, they are hugh. Jim, would probably be able to get a better deal, on shrimp and oysters, since he knows the folks down there, but we just buy from the little stores that sell them. Barbra

OMG!!!!!!! LOLOLOL...Kristy will shop and let the Hubby's go.. Pam is Hubby a fisherman????

Kylie

My hubby doesn't fish at all! We usually hang out at the beach and the bay, taking pictures and watching for dolphins and pelicans. I always go birdwatching too and we take the dogs to Lake Corpus Christie for some freshwater fun since they aren't wild about the sea water. Oh and beer drinking every night! We're planning on bringing the dogs, but it's sounding like we better look into boarding them with all the activities! We got shrimp last October from the Pollyanna, a fishing boat that docks at the PA Marina and they were great. Jeff and I both have birthdays in October, the 17th and 23rd âº

Barbra, I sure didn't want to impose on your home, I thought the beach would make for easier cleanup. I'll leave it up to everyone else. I really hope that Linda and Billy can join the party!

Can y'all believe that I'm still at work?

Pam

I'm looking forward to the Farmer's Market too Kylie! It is one of my favorite places in Weatherford!

Pam

We just got the computer running again, it had to be reinstalled, it was knocked out due to to a power outage last Saturday night. I sure hope that we can pull this together for October. I went outside yesterday and started taking cuttings from some of my plants. We can still have the Bar-b-que at our house, I think everyone will enjoy all the hummingbirds. Pam, bring your camera! I hope there will be as many hummingbirds as last October. Barbra

Computer problems must be common this week! I had to reinstall Windows and spend hours on the phone with AT&T to get back online! Barbra, I'll bring the camera for sure!

Pam