I know what you mean! I started on That Home Site, Building and Kitchen Forums in 2004 and am now focused on my garden. Since this is my first winter as a retiree, I'm spending WAY TOO MUCH TIME on the forums! Addicted, too.

i do the same thing in the winter. no worries- come spring you'll get too busy to check. oh, you'll miss it for a while, but it'll fade. and the threads aren't as active then, so i think it happens to all of us. the one that will saty active is the swap thread. gotta ck that a couple x a day to keep up! :) enjoy the break now- spring's not far away! tam

I can't help because I check in here and on two other sites at least twice daily. Morning and evening. It's just taken the place of tv for me.

I get addicted in winter too. Gotta stay connected with the plants we miss so much! -Ais.

I think I work harder in the garden during the winter! I confess to kinda liking cold weather over hot and there seems to be fewer mosquitos this time of year which is a plus. Once every seedling is in the ground and all the landscape fabric is in place and the mulch applied I sorta sit back and wait for harvest. But now I am busy mixing soil, cleaning pots, digging new beds, sowing seeds in the hoophouse and shuffling plants in my limited workspace. So I wear a few more layers and ignore the loss of sensations in my fingertips.

I am blessed (or cursed) with a job where I get to sit all day and monitor a computer for design jobs coming in from other states - some in different time zones. When the work shows up I have to get busy and crank out an ad for the client but for the most part I sit and wait (a kinda "hurry up and wait" sorta job). So I am allowed to play cards or surf the net or email anyone and everyone as long as I stay near the system and drop everything when a job comes through the pike. This is how I found GardenWeb and why most of my posts occur during working hours. At home I rarely go near a 'puter, I'm outside all the time. Don't get me wrong - I still need the 12 steps - but I ain't looking for a cure.

Same for me as TraingleJohn. Hurry up and wait. Sometimes I check out this site once an hour. Depends how bored I am. But I'm also starting several things from seed for the first time so I spend alot of time researching.

Since I'm not growing anything from seed, I'm working on my wish list for spring planting and hardscape. With our setting, it is usually very pleasant in our cottage garden. With passive solar, our stone front porch can actually be quite toasty on a sunny winter day. Our neighbors probably think we're crazy sitting out there without jackets when it's in the 30's! Note to self: get an attractive thermometer for the front porch to gauge the temp difference!

If we've got all this time inside, maybe we should post some more topics!