Hi Mick! (waving hello)

Welcome to the Oklahoma Forum. It is great to see you here. We really seem to be picking up a lot of new members lately, and the more the merrier!

Dawn

Howdy Mick.

Even introduced us to your family!

I am Jeff. I have eight dogs. Harley (also known as Booger Bear), Jake (also known as Jackson, Big Dog, and YOU S-O-B I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU JUST COCKED YOUR LEG UP AND PEED ON MY COUCH! but he can't help it), Hoss, Runtley, Booberry, Trubbadubbadoo, Fea, and Sweet Tater (also known as Sweet Tater).

I also have some feral cats, but they are all named GET THE HELL OUT OF MY GARDEN RIGHT NOW OR I WILL KILL EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU! But I guess they haven't figured their names out yet, because they never come when I try to call them out of the garden.

Welcome.

Great to meet you, Mick! I have 3 cats, too - George, Sam, and Bugsy. All rescues.

Are you way up NE, like near Grove or Miami?

Susan

Glad to meet you Mick, I am also a new member and really am enjoying reading the posts. All sorts of good info around here and some pretty good folks from what I am readin'. I consider myself a novice gardener although I have been at it for several years. We are retired military and I tried a few tomato plants nearly everywhere we lived with spotty success for the most part. My goal is to have a small solar greenhouse and keep dwarf citrus trees producing and supply us with produce year round. It's a lofty goal, I must admit, but it has gone from a 'dream' to a 'goal' so I AM making progress.

Jeff, I got a giggle at what you wrote about Jake. I have 3. One boxer and 2 bostons. 2 are getting up there in age and beginning to have the complaints that come along with being older and one is a rebellious teen. He gives us such frustration and such joy all at once. I find it impossible to stay mad at him more than a second. He devils the others to the point where they will loose all patience with him then leaps in my lap and showers my face with kisses. If I scold him he turns into instant baby mode, wanting to be cuddled and rocked. I'm a sap, I fall for it every time. The other 2 look at me as if to say, "You are SO puppy whipped!" There's just nothing like a dog, not to take anything away from cats. I like them too, except when they use my flower beds for a litter box and I sit in it, then it's "*7%$#)@#$ CAT!!!!, YOU HAD BETTER NOT LET ME CATCH YOU DOING THAT AGAIN!" And the cat looks at me and says, "You REALLY think you could catch ME, get real?" then slowly turns dismissing me with a tail wave and lays down in the sunspot and proceeds to clean his nether regions.

Hey there!

I'm new too, though I've been posting here for a month or so. I've been on the Minnesota forum for a couple years where I was trying to turn a tiny backyard into a productive garden. I learned a lot, but now I've moved here and hope I can still apply some of the lessons!

I have a husband, two small kids and no pets (yet). We'll be living on an acre between Tulsa and Bartlesville that's being built as I type. I'm eagerly awaiting the soil test results and hope I can at least get some heat-lovers planted in late May or early June... not sure if I'll have the opportunity, what with all the other stuff going on.

I plan and worry and fuss over details. Glad to meet you all and to be part of such a supportive community.

Jeff - I have two feral cats by the same name so they must be yours. Will you come get them please?

Welcome, Mick. You'll love it here. Some of us are here all the time, others more sporadically. But there's always something to learn and if you learn something that we need to know, post it. Dorothy

Worra nice welcome, thanks to you all. I've lots to learn but everyone has to start somewhere.
And what better place to start than in the garden :-)

Hello susanlynne48

You're right on the money. I'm between the two here in sunny Fairland.

Mick

Mick, that is such a lovely area of Oklahoma. I'm actually from southeast Kansas - the part that is not flat and barren. Love Grand Lake, too. Glad you're here on the forum!

Susan

I live in Dewey, just north of Bartlesville, and about 20 miles from Caney, KS, with my husband and grandson, dog "Sonny" and cat "Pearl". This is my second year growing heirloom tomatoes, and my first year giving wintersowing a whirl. Each year I learn so much. This is a good group, everyone's so friendly and helpful. --Ilene

Hi Mick - I am Carol and I am right next door in Grove and just can't wait to plant. Welcome to the Forum and you will find lots of help here. Carol

Hello, Mick,
I'm Pat and live with one grown son (he came back) in Stillwater. No dogs. No cats. Just goldfish in my small pond - and the darn raccoons.