AnnaD2 (Florida)
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Posted:
So, Donna, what did your Thanksgiving meal consist of? What did you grow, raise, reap and sow in your garden? Whatever it was, I'll bet it was DELICIOUS!!!
Happy Thanksgiving!
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Whats for Dinner, Donna?
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DonnaS (Tennessee)
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Posted:
Anna,
Our dinner was very traditional but a little unconventional because it was at the Chattanooga Area Food Bank. We served many, many poor folks and then the volunteers ate the remains, which were pretty dern good. A group of the Master Gardeners went to a farm that had donated whatever we could pick and then we gave it to the volunteer cooks at the Food Bank. Yum Yummy. Thanks for asking and I hope that all of our family here on HOATalk had a great day too. Especially my Florida friends and Anna especially.
BruceF1 (Connecticut)
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Posted By DonnaS on 11/27/2008 5:24 PM
Anna,
Our dinner was very traditional but a little unconventional because it was at the Chattanooga Area Food Bank. We served many, many poor folks and then the volunteers ate the remains, which were pretty dern good. A group of the Master Gardeners went to a farm that had donated whatever we could pick and then we gave it to the volunteer cooks at the Food Bank. Yum Yummy. Thanks for asking and I hope that all of our family here on HOATalk had a great day too. Especially my Florida friends and Anna especially.
Anna,
Our dinner was very traditional but a little unconventional because it was at the Chattanooga Area Food Bank. We served many, many poor folks and then the volunteers ate the remains, which were pretty dern good. A group of the Master Gardeners went to a farm that had donated whatever we could pick and then we gave it to the volunteer cooks at the Food Bank. Yum Yummy. Thanks for asking and I hope that all of our family here on HOATalk had a great day too. Especially my Florida friends and Anna especially.
Donna,
Volunteering to work at the food bank on Thanksgiving sounds just like the type of thing you would do. Bless you!!!!
RobertR1 (South Carolina)
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Donna,
Now I hear you are a Master Gardener. How the hell old are you? You got to be 300 to have done all the things you do. We have a MG that runs our Landscaping Business for the last 20 years here. Can't say I am overly impressed with her. I think she knows her plants, etc., it's just she don't let that fact interfer with the "bottomline" of the business. Example is planting new plants and not assuring they are watered early in life here, letting insect infestation become much too serious before she starts to use corrective measures. We also have a large bowl shaped courtyard that the banks have been ignored and a spreading Liriope has taken over and at some point will have to be dug out. It has covered up lots of day lily bulbs and daffodil bulbs, etc. Some don't see this as a problem. Liriope is nice IF it is the clumping kind, this isn't. I have no idea of what it is going to cost to get it all dug out, and some of us are to the point we may start our own self help group and work on it little by little. Even then, you have to keep going back over the area dig out new growth. But you know all this. Maybe you also rent Goats and could send a couple down here, that ought to do it.
Happy Holidays.
Now I hear you are a Master Gardener. How the hell old are you? You got to be 300 to have done all the things you do. We have a MG that runs our Landscaping Business for the last 20 years here. Can't say I am overly impressed with her. I think she knows her plants, etc., it's just she don't let that fact interfer with the "bottomline" of the business. Example is planting new plants and not assuring they are watered early in life here, letting insect infestation become much too serious before she starts to use corrective measures. We also have a large bowl shaped courtyard that the banks have been ignored and a spreading Liriope has taken over and at some point will have to be dug out. It has covered up lots of day lily bulbs and daffodil bulbs, etc. Some don't see this as a problem. Liriope is nice IF it is the clumping kind, this isn't. I have no idea of what it is going to cost to get it all dug out, and some of us are to the point we may start our own self help group and work on it little by little. Even then, you have to keep going back over the area dig out new growth. But you know all this. Maybe you also rent Goats and could send a couple down here, that ought to do it.
Happy Holidays.
DonnaS (Tennessee)
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Robert,
I am 65 going on 50 mentally. Gardening makes people happy and nice(A Master Gardener saying) I have found that being a M.G has helped me in working with some association issues as well. I am a tree person, pruning, planting and diseases so when all of our live Oaks in Fl got a fungus, it was useful. AND we get to know all of the connections in the Stae AG systems.
As for you Liriope? You better form a team and dig. Take your time, take some spiked lemonade and lots of aspirin. You can save the lily bulbs and just stick them back in. here is a case where invasive flowers should never be planted unless they can go nuts--and they will. As you know, I post a few times about Xeriscape and ow we all will need to start using it more.
As for the Food Bank day-- there is nothing more rewarding. Our County has 153 M.Gs and we never run out of volunteer projects. I remember being poor and how giving back is the only way to go.
MaryA1 (Arizona)
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Donna,
You are truly amazing. Seems we're the same age but I surely don't have your energy. I worked the "food bank" at our home with only 8 for dinner and I'm beat! Today it's hot turky sandwiches w/gravy for dinner.
You are truly amazing. Seems we're the same age but I surely don't have your energy. I worked the "food bank" at our home with only 8 for dinner and I'm beat! Today it's hot turky sandwiches w/gravy for dinner.
AnnaD2 (Florida)
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Posted:
Amazing is exactly the word for Donna. I never know what amazing talent she'll surprise us with next.
You're a YOUNG 65 Donna!!!
I got on our board when I was a "young" 48 and now four years later I feel like I'm 80 because of it!!!
You're a YOUNG 65 Donna!!!
I got on our board when I was a "young" 48 and now four years later I feel like I'm 80 because of it!!!
DonnaS (Tennessee)
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Okay you guys, EEE Nuff! All that I can say is that what you put out is what you get back. There are so many like that on this site and sharing among us all is such a learning experience for us. Yesterday was a good day to stop and reflect, especially after watching the news so today we get back to business. Thanks to all.
AnnaD2 (Florida)
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Posted:
and after watching the news TODAY!!! I work at a Big Box Store that also plays the "Black Friday" game. Get the employees up at 2:00 a.m. to get to work by 4:00 a.m. to cater to 3000 people who tramble others to get one of three items advertised on Thanksgiving.
It's brutal and ridiculous; and shows the true nature of too many people in this country. It's the "all about me" and "me first" attitude; just to be able to brag to their friends how they "fought" tooth and nail and didn't care who they killed to get that one material thing.
Which why it's SO IMPORTANT to keep hearing and reading about all the good, decent people who really know what is important in life and what really counts.
People like you, Donna, and all the others who do the same.
It's brutal and ridiculous; and shows the true nature of too many people in this country. It's the "all about me" and "me first" attitude; just to be able to brag to their friends how they "fought" tooth and nail and didn't care who they killed to get that one material thing.
Which why it's SO IMPORTANT to keep hearing and reading about all the good, decent people who really know what is important in life and what really counts.
People like you, Donna, and all the others who do the same.
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