Dear Megan,

((((Hugs!)))

I'm praying that you get your beloved urn back! And if anyone took that home by mistake, I would be more than happy to pick it up and deliver back to Megan.

E-mail me at msmmetz@aol.com (3 m's) if you ended up with the urn.

Please, please let's get the Olive Urn back where it belongs!!!!

Marilyn

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bumping this up again, fingers and toes crossed for Megan

Awwww. I hope you get your urn back. I know what it is like to feel sentimental about an object and to want to retain a family heirloom...

Heather

The only thing I received from my maternal Grandma was her China, probably acquired from S&H Greenstamps. (Remember that?) She chose a beautiful magnolia pattern. I love that china, but gave it to my sister because she has daughters and a place to properly display it.

Hope you get that pot back, Megan. Good gardening people will recognize how important that pot is to you.

I keep checking this string in hopes of seeing a post that you got it back Megan.

I also have heirlooms that aren't valuable to anyone but me, like a set of silver-plate silverware that my grandmother got, piece by piece, when she went to the bank each week. It was some kind of gift for showing up, before they gave away toasters I guess.

It's not fancy stuff, or valuable. I've seen similar stuff at Goodwill.

But just thinking that I'm using fork or a butter knife that she carried home in her purse each week makes me happy. (I didn't really know her, but from what I've heard, she wasn't about to throw away a perfectly good fork, and I guess she had a purse for going to the bank - it apparently accommodated knives and forks that her unknown granddaughter might someday cherish not for their monetary worth, but for their history.)

I so hope you find it Megan!

Susannah

Thank you everybody for your kind words. I truly do hope my urn comes back.

As much as I love sharing plants and information, I will not allow strangers on my property again. Unfortunatly, after really taking a good look around, there are other things missing as well.

I don't who the person is that decided it was "take whatever I want day" and I hope it is not someone from here. It could have been anybody that showed up for the sale. Stealing is very bad Karma. So to the thief, I forgive you. You must have needed my things worse then they needed me.

I know most plant folks are amazing,generous,honest people.

Peace.

Megan

You have a wonderful attitude about it all. But I still hope you get your urn back. Actually, I hope so even more because of your generous attitude.

Megan,

I thought long and hard about this today. Whoever the thief was must have a mental condition, something like Winona Ryder's shoplifting deal around five or so years ago. That chick has beauty and talent, everything going for her, but a need to steal. Who can explain or understand that?

Almost 30 years ago, I lent my only form of transportation, a Ford pick-up truck, to an acquaintance who was moving. The truck was never returned. I still have the truck's Title, and still remember what the Dade County policeman said to me: "Dorothy, you're not in Kansas anymore!". When my d Irishman moved here from Missouri, my one piece of advice to him was "Trust no one". Sad. Sad but true. Ah, Florida.

There's a deep down feeling you're going to get you olive jar back for your grandchildren and great-grandchildren, Megan. It's wonderful that this will occur with no hard feelings toward anyone involved. You rock!

With respect to children, I stopped by by sister's house after work. All seven of her grandchildren were there. When it came time for a photo shoot of the young 'uns in front of the fireplace with the stockings hanging down, little Hannah (four years old) stuck two blown up balloons up her shirt. I laughed so hard! Then she started crying out of embarrassment. So I took one of those long thin balloons somebody had blown up, rubbed it on my sweater and plopped it across my chest. Hannah cheered right up and three or four of us started experimenting with friction (the hair raising kind being my personal favorite).

Susannah and Megan, I swear even though you don't have the family ties that bind you, you'd have fallen in love with and laughed out loud at that 4 year old Dolly Parton! She really stuck out in the crowd!

I don't know which one of those grandchildren will receive Grandma's S&H Greenstamp china, it isn't my decision to make. This evening, I secretly hoped it would be balloon booby Hannah!

She always makes a big show of smelling my roses and peppermint. She leans over the plant, takes a big whiff, looks me right in the eye, wrinkles her nose and exclaims "PHEW!" I can't wait to show her the Geranium (machlata?) you sold me! (I just call it the Dr. Seuss plant, and love it to bits.)

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Megan,I also keep looking at this thread for I hope you get the urn back. Like it has been said already,you are
very generous with the way you have reacted. I treasure
heirlooms for they are ties that binds us. As we get older
these things have a greater meaning.
Here, hoping your urn finds you,Megan.
Felix