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Sooo, I was driving through Missouri today and saw....

12 years ago

some lady dancing naked in her garden at about lunchtime. Anyone know anything about that??

Guess it really is the "Show Me" state!!!

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seedmama
12 years ago
LOL!
p_mac
12 years ago
OMG....YOU MUST HAVE BEEN DRIVING BY DIANE'S!!! (aka Owiebrain)

So...DO TELL?!?! How'd the rest of her garden look? DON'T TELL me you didn't notice. =)
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owiebrain
12 years ago
Ah, that would explain your black eye. Sorry about that.

Diane
scottokla
Original Author
12 years ago
I promise I kept my eyes looking straight ahead on the road (well, after I got the black one anyway).
carsons_mimi
12 years ago
...but what route did you take on the way home, Scott?
Lisa_H OK
12 years ago
and lo and BEHOLD, while you were keeping your eyes firmly straight ahead, what else did you spy, but a COUGAR!!!

:)

Lisa
soonergrandmom
12 years ago
Good one Lisa!
scottokla
Original Author
12 years ago
Yeah, I was initially going to say I saw not only a cougar, but a naked one in a garden dancing, but I thought that was not appropriate since I don't really know Diane.
Lisa_H OK
12 years ago
LOL.
Macmex
12 years ago
Diane, potatoes I planted from true potato seed (TPS) last year, all died. I'll be trying again. Hopefully, I can get some started in flats, in the coming week.

Great to see you on the forum. It's been slow until just recently.

George
Tahlequah, OK
owiebrain
12 years ago
Scott, not only do I have a very twisted sense of humor but I'm also nearly impossible to insult. :-)

George, sorry to hear about your TPS. Mine survived but the garden was so flooded for so many week that I found it very difficult to properly care for them and they were eventually overtaken by weeds. They lived but they didn't get a fair shot. I'll be retrying TPS in pots (or a more manageable spot) this year while the hardier pulled sprouts will go in the main garden.

Meanwhile, my own black eyes from my recent prance have begun to fade. ;-)

(Ooh, lookie! I'm still logged in!!)

Diane
ezzirah011
12 years ago
wasn't ruth stout known for doing that? Gardening sans clothes?

I hope there was no bugs.....ouch!
joellenh
12 years ago
Diane, you are getting ahead of yourself again. World Naked Gardening day is still 5 months away.

Jo

Here is a link that might be useful: Naked Gardening
Okiedawn OK Zone 7
12 years ago
Jo, There. Just what we needed. Proof that some gardeners are crazy. I think I'll make a note on my calendar to just stay inside on that day.

I have gardened in my pajamas sometimes though.

Dawn
slowpoke_gardener
12 years ago
The worst thing I can say about it is that is no way I can go barefooted, unless I can garden in a wheel chair.
elkwc
12 years ago
Dawn as long as you don't wear them to Wally World shopping you are ok! LOL. The reason I say that is a friend posted about how some Wally World shoppers dress and act on his facebook page recently. I commented about the ones wearing the pj's to shop in and got lit up by a few. Guess I'm too old school. Jay
ezzirah011
12 years ago
Jo - I am forever scarred by that website. I will inside on that day.

Jay - You are not old school, you have common sense, something in short supply these days.
mwilk42
12 years ago
Dawn- one of the benefits of country living. You just can't put a price on sitting on the patio in your niteshirt. Jay, I'm with you on the "casual" attire. I see people in their p.j.s and fuzzy slippers, in town and I just can't get past it. Has to laugh when I saw the link and read that I should write down what I do on that day , and my thoughts and all that, and send it to the local paper. Tried to think of what some of those locals might do if they read that in the paper. Not to mention that my folks would have the head-liner torn smooth out of their caskets if I did anything like that. and rightly so. Mom always cautioned me not to do anything that I did not want to read about in the paper. which meant not to do anything that SHE would not want to read in the paper. LOL
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elkwc
12 years ago
Mo I can accept the youth wearing "casual clothes" more so than I can the adults. And many are tacky dressed. PJ's are alright around the home but when you go to town you should wear the appropriate clothes not your sleep wear. Jay
mwilk42
12 years ago
absolutley! and it grosses me out to see the slippers that are SO nasty because they have been in the parking lot, etc. tired of seeing plumber's crack too.
LOL
mo
owiebrain
12 years ago
I wear my PJs to town most every time. Of course, I don't own dedicated PJs, just normal daytime clothes. LOL I just never got the urge to have twice the amount of laundry to do.

As for naked gardening day, I doubt I'd get away with it here. I really did garden naked on occasion (and not-quite naked more often LOL) in OK but we lived out in the boonies. Here, I have to at least throw on some shorts and a tank top. But at least I don't have to put up with scorpions and copperheads every six inches any longer. I like that trade!

Diane
Macmex
12 years ago
Diane, I made it through the entire summer of 2012 without seeing a copperhead. Can you believe it?! My theory is that the 40 plus Muscovy ducks we hatched, and their mommas were responsible. A black snake started eating some of the ducks' eggs, at one point. And if I read things right, the mother ducks led an all out persecution on snakes, after that.

George
owiebrain
12 years ago
Oh, wow, George! Nice bonus to keeping ducks, huh?

I'm still debating whether or not to add ducks this year. I just sent out an email this morning Kinder goat breeders up here, getting a feel for what might be available this year. What with setting up a new goat herd, I'm thinking diving into ducks the same year might just be a bit much. I guess there's always next year.

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