Glad you stopped in. Always nice to see old faces drop in and let everyone know what and how they are doing. Hope to see more of you on the forum. Jay

Welcome back.

I am sorry to hear bout your mom.

Come back and visit with us when you have the time.

Dawn

OMG Dawn you are still around..LOL.Thanks I'm just glad she didn't suffer bad. Mom's B-day is tomorrow. I was thinking of you. I was hunting Datura seeds and thought of you. I'm moving closer to ya..LOL..well OK not that close. We still have alot of work to do. there was no gardens at the new house and Rich has been working hard. But I am really hopeing to get back to yappin and trading with all the great people here.......THanks Jay for the nice Welcome.

Yep. Still here. Still talking gardening. Some things never change.

I know tomorrow will be a tough day for you, but I do hope that you are comforted by all the memories of happier times with your Mom. I lost my Dad in 2004 (on Father's Day, of all days) and I still think about him every day, and I still miss him. Since he was a gardener, I think of him often when in the garden. At first, those were painful memories, but now I find them more comforting. Someone you love never really leaves you, you know, because you carry all those loving memories in your brain and in your heart.

It is so hard to start over at a new house from scratch. I don't think I could bear to start over from scratch again, but then, we moved here with the intention that this would be our 'forever' home for as long as we live, and nothing has changed in that regard.

If I had any datura seed, I'd send you some, but since my datura reseeds on its own, I don't bother saving the seed. I can save you some seed this summer for you to plant next year, though.

I've got some datura seeds!!! Dawn - I can send them to you to forward or give them to you at the Spring Fling to forward.

njdjs - I don't recognize your screen name (I'm kind of a "newbie" but not). I still send my sympathy about your loss. It's hard. I'm going thru something similar. Yea for you on the load of iris because one can ALWAYS use more iris bulbs! Put me on your "trade list"!?! And like I've said, I've Datura seeds aplenty.

Paula

Thanks Dawn. I know mom is always on my mind. Its really weird tho. I have a kind of peacefulness of moms death. Never really felt this way about a death. Mom always told me when its your turn to go the good lord has your name in a book with the date and thats when your going. Plus I was there holding mom's hand when she passed. It was really hard and I miss her a bunch but the feeling I have is she is so happy. another weird thing. She had a house plant, when mom passed that plant looked dead. Rich took it home and watered it and later that day it looked fine. Now on moms birthday on the 18th there was a big bud on her plant. YES its hard to move and start over with no gardens. we been picking things up here and there and its looking better.

P-mac thank you. I haven't been here in a long time. Don't know if I can make the spring fling but thank you so much for the offer. I did go to one of the flings and we had a blast. Met alot of great people. I took pictures and just happen to pass by a couple the other day in my computer.

THanks so much for all the great thoughts. Ya never know I might get back here sooner with all the great people. Might find somethings I can trade..lol