jIM
If you "join: the Cubit, it will come up on your homepage.

Going to be a cold one tomorrow morning. Make sure you cover all your plants AGAIN!!! Is this winter ever going to end?

I must have joined cause I had no problem getting here. I still don't quite understand how one sees if there are new posts on a particular thread! But, I'll get the hang of it yet. I invited a neighbor to join and the poor lady found herself in some south Florida room with no one there. I'm waiting for her to bank on my door and ask what the heck did I get her into.

If you "Watch" the thread, that thread will pop up on your home page. Otherwise, if there is something new since you last looked, It will say "yes" in red on the left side.

If I hit "watch this thread" isn't that the same as Joining the the thread. I noticed that I hit watch this thread for butterflies, and yes, it does show up on my home page. it didn't show there were new posts, which there were. Probably something I'm doing wrong.

No. If you post to a thread, you automatically "watch" in and get notifications of new posts. If you are just following the thread without posting (lurking), you will not see any new posts unless you manually "watch" it.

I think I have it figured out, I'm getting a bit better at this. I can already tell that I'm spending more time here then on D.G. Guess that was bound to happen

How did everyone fair last night with the cold? It didn't get as cold here as predicted. As long as it stays above 38 or so, I'm happy.

Every thing looks OK in my yard, needs a lot of weeding, and since I haven't been working out there much, I notice my passion flower managed to reach out and begin to wrap around my young black sapote tree. I gotta keep a sharp eye on that thing. Some one warned me (In D.G.) that I had it planted too close to the tree, I didn't believe him. Live and learn huh. All of my desert rose seedlings are inside and I'm just waiting for it to get a little warmer to put them back out.

Jim, You remind me of a funny.......When I lived down in Lauderdale, I planted 4 passies by the back fence. (Chain link) 2 purples and 2 reds. The neighbor behind us had had their drain field dug up and renewed. They never attempted to re-sod or garden or anything. Frankly I was tired of looking at their wastelands.

Well, anyway, withing months the fence was full and lush with vines and flowers, obscuring that eyesore. A few more months go by and I see the vines have climbed up over the fence and attached themselves to the trees in their yard.

They also had attached to the cable (TV comcast or whatever). The cable fell to the ground. We had satellite so wasn't overly concerned about the outage. I called the cable company and told them the line was down. No one ever came to fix it.

By this time I am starting to feel a tad bit guilty for unleashing these monsters. So I got a ladder out, climbed up and started pulling down all these vines.

When I left that house to my not so dear X-SO, I took every plant I could reasonably dig up, leaving the yard looking like a bomb zone.......but I did not take the passies. He won't forget me any time soon.

Wow, I guess I'd better re-think this whole thing, I don't want them strangling passerbys, well, at least not ALL passersby! Do they have super big roots? gee, I never got even one flower off them yet, sort of like them to bloom b-4 I send them to flower heaven. ♫ ♪ ♫ ♫

Sorry Jim, I really DIDn't mean to scare you.

I forget which kind you have. Some of the hybrids are less invasive. Like Byron's Blue and such. But wait for a growing season, see how they behave, then make a decision. As for the root system, I don't know. I am in another world up here and still waiting for my passies to "get over it!" and grow with more vigor.

:^)))

Brrrrrr....I sure wish this cold weather would go somewhere else.

Hi Arlene : )
Good to see you. : ) Lil Brady is growing like a weed, and keeps me busy. He is soooo funny, too. He has started mocking people. Sometimes when I bend over to pick things up, I make a little grunt, as if it's hard to get back up. Brady is doing it, too. LOL Plus, I say Hmmmmm, alot. There is a room in our house that Brady had never been in, so the other day, I let him see what was in there. He walked in a few feet, stopped, looked around, and said, Hmmmm. Like....this is interesting, I've never been here before.

It's only gonna get better, I can tell. : )

Hi...everybody else. Hopefully, it will warm up soon, and we can start playing in our yards again. : )

Aren't they growing like weeds Lucy? Breelyn just turned the big 1.

Good morning all, 57° in Ft. Lauderdale area, maybe I can start moving my plants back outside. There's no wind so it's almost comfortable outside.

Have you seen the W/E forecast?

Here in Jax I found this

"... Rain may mix with snow as it ends this evening...

... Roadways may become slick and dangerous later tonight...

The rainfall event today may mix with snow as it ends this evening.
Temperatures are still expected to be above freezing and no
significant accumulation is expected... although a brief dusting on
grassy areas is not out of the question across portions of southeast
Georgia and the Suwannee River valley of northeast Florida.

A bigger transportation impact late tonight may be the possible
freezing of water on roadways... bridges and overpasses as
temperatures fall below freezing across southeast Georgia and areas
of northeast Florida along and north of the I-10 corridor."

However we didn't wake up to the predicted 31°. Instead it's 41°.
I just don't see it dropping 10° today. It is raining.
Tomorrow they predict 49° F | 27° F
Sunday 56° F | 36° F
Who really knows?

Darn, I just checked the ten day forecast, looks like a few more nights in the 40s. Will have to put off moving my plants outside.

Hey ya Sid, I can't get used to your new name......oops, did I let the cat outta the bag?

BTW, a couple of former banned members have been let back into DG. Wonder if that has to do with the new owners and Dave not being at the helm?