Sounds like some Kodak moments there. Meeting up with hosta friends is always a good time.

there is a reason they call Hosta .. the friendship plant .... i think you know why now ....

ken

This is the City Mouse (she keeps forgetting I was born so far north in Minnesota that wolves ate country mice for breakfast). Connie's the girlfriend I never had - it took a passion for Hostas to find her - wait, she found ME after I reassured her I wasn't an axe-murderer, but that's another story.

Westy1941

I love this story! I can picture myself right in there digging with you for rocks. I love rocks and I have been known, on occassion to take advantage of another man's trash! LOL I am constantly begging my DH to please stop and let me load up rocks. He did once, so far this summer and I did good!!! He sat in the car, acting like he needed to be a "look out" or something and yet we were in plain view on the edge of a new shopping village, where they have been escavating for more legs of this shopping paradise. If I were "stealing" them, which I would not knowingly or purposefully be doing, I certainly would not have chosen to do it in broad daylight in a parking lot! LOL

Okay, we HAVE TO hear the axe-murderer story now. You've left us with a "cliff-hanger"!! You can't let us dangle long, can you??

janice

Janice,

I'm a rather nieve person as well as a very trusting person.

I know the world can be a big bad place so when I told my 2 adult sons I had met this person on the internet on a forum their eyebrows went up to say the least! After I explained to them it was a hosta forum and that I had lurked a while before I made my first post they were relieved.(When did I become the child and they the adults?)

My sister on the the other hand(She's older and thinks she's wiser.) was very concerned about C and wanted lots of details saying the person could be an axe murder or worse for all I knew about them! So that's how C got her nickname!

If you think about it we were both taking a risk, small though it may have been.

All is well. We've enjoyed our 2 meetings and hope to even go to a hosta convention together some day.

Connie

I know this should be on OT, but I'm too tired to change places. I had to move stuff and cover stuff and basically run around in a blizzard today IN CHICAGOLAND. My Hostas are goners. But, I really AM an axe murderer, Connie, et. al. I MURDER ROOTS. WITH AN AXE.

Westy1941

LOL well done, both of you--I've thoroughly enjoyed reading of your adventures
in getting to know one another via the "internet" and more specifically the Hosta Forum!!

Thankfully, my encounters with forum folk has been very positive to date!!

I have to confess to being a bit crazed about certain aspects of my garden,
as well--I'm boiling nematodes when discovered and poisoning voles (sadly--but necessary)!
However, the poisoning part is totally against my nature and if it weren't for the fact
that they could completely obliterate my hosta, I would never even consider doing that!

So, I'm a "murderer" myself!

janice

Connie, you said, "We met and bonded immediately."

And Westy, you said, "Connie's the girlfriend I never had."

That is just so awesome. What a great story.

I hope you two will be lifelong friends.

Thanks for sharing your story.

What a wonderful story! I am so happy for both of you. It sounds like such a fun day that you two shared. Nothing better than making a new friend and one that shares the same interests makes it even better.

Janice - is it possible for you to get yourself a cat? They do the vole control without using poison. I have two that live in our garage and roam the yard daily hunting voles....or maybe they're shrews, I'm not sure, I should take a look at their teeth I guess, lol.
If we lived closer, I'd loan you a cat, lol

Janet

Oh, thank you, Janet! I do have cats--two. but they are "house-cats" only!

I use to have cats that came and went during the day, but I would worry, so much,
if they didn't show up by "bedtime" and we do live in a plat with busy roads nearby!
I decided, I prefer to know "where they are" at all times!

One of them two, is a "Ragdoll" breed that knows no enemies so would not know to defend
itself against an aggressive dog! Our Lab and these two cats think they are "kin" and play
together like you wouldn't believe!!

I have seen a cat "lurking" in and out of our place, but I'd eventually wind up "taking it in"
if it came too often, and I do not need another indoor cat!! I also love my squirrels
and chips and birds so I do not welcome a "hunter-cat" for those reasons!!

Too bad they can't be trained to be "prey-specific"! LOL

janice