Digging for buried treasure !

17 years ago

A week or so ago I went to visit a hosta friend I met from the Hosta Forum, Westy1941.

She and I have been writing back and forth for quite a while and found out we have many things in common ,not just our love of hosta. Our names both begin with C, we have bithdays in the same month and we were born in the same year! We even got married in the same year. How about that!

This was a visit to see her garden after she had come to see mine. I almost didn't invite her as I had seen pictures of her garden and it was to die for. Mine is much more simple and "hand" made. Well, after me thinking I'll never have to see this person again if I don't like her so why not have her come, she came, we met and bonded immediately.

I call us the country mouse,me, and the city mouse ,her. She lives in the "berbs", me in a more rural setting.

After much worry I headed for the city mouses home 6 hostas to share that she didn't have. Her garden was wonderful as I knew it would be.

As we headed to visit a local nursery we passed a home that had free chairs and made a u-turn to go back and look at them. As we drove back, there was someone else looking at them and we feared we were too late so rolled down the window and asked if they were taking them. No was the answer so we quickly loaded the 4 chairs into the car and spead off for more adventures! My only problem being the reaction of my husband when I showed him the chairs! Men don't understand these things!

The nursery was a relaxing way to spend time together and see all kinds of shrubs and plants to wish for.

After a nice lunch at a local Greek restaurant we headed back to dig plants from her garden. She mentioned that the area was filled with many rock deposits and we decided to go hunting for some.

We headed to a construction site and pails in hand started looking for rocks. It was a blast, the icing on the cake,kind of experience. The only problem being that we had nothing to dig with! We found some broken off lath and used them to uproot the half buried treasures.

There we were, two ladies who were the age of the rocks we were looking for, having a childhood flashback digging in the dirt. We couldn't have had more fun if we had planned it.

A car full of rocks, chairs, and plants later, I bid my new found friend goodbye and headed West to meet my husband at the local football game. The home team won by such a wide margin that I left early leaving my H there to finish watching the game. After all I needed to unload all my treasures before he got home.(Why is it necessary to be a little sneaky?)

All H said the next morning was: (1) the car was full of dirt, well maybe a little dirt(2) what was I going to do with more plants? put them in the ground what else (3) was I going to leave them there , they, the chairs, were still on the sun porch. Give a gal a break!

Everyting is put away except the rocks and I'll tackle them soon and find just the right place to put them.

Moral of the story: Country mouse can go the the city and have a good time.

Connie

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maryann_____chgo
17 years ago
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Sounds like some Kodak moments there. Meeting up with hosta friends is always a good time.
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ken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
17 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
there is a reason they call Hosta .. the friendship plant .... i think you know why now ....

ken
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Carole Westgaard
17 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
This is the City Mouse (she keeps forgetting I was born so far north in Minnesota that wolves ate country mice for breakfast). Connie's the girlfriend I never had - it took a passion for Hostas to find her - wait, she found ME after I reassured her I wasn't an axe-murderer, but that's another story.

Westy1941
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Janice
17 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
I love this story! I can picture myself right in there digging with you for rocks. I love rocks and I have been known, on occassion to take advantage of another man's trash! LOL I am constantly begging my DH to please stop and let me load up rocks. He did once, so far this summer and I did good!!! He sat in the car, acting like he needed to be a "look out" or something and yet we were in plain view on the edge of a new shopping village, where they have been escavating for more legs of this shopping paradise. If I were "stealing" them, which I would not knowingly or purposefully be doing, I certainly would not have chosen to do it in broad daylight in a parking lot! LOL

Okay, we HAVE TO hear the axe-murderer story now. You've left us with a "cliff-hanger"!! You can't let us dangle long, can you??

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hostasformez4
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17 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
Janice,

I'm a rather nieve person as well as a very trusting person.

I know the world can be a big bad place so when I told my 2 adult sons I had met this person on the internet on a forum their eyebrows went up to say the least! After I explained to them it was a hosta forum and that I had lurked a while before I made my first post they were relieved.(When did I become the child and they the adults?)

My sister on the the other hand(She's older and thinks she's wiser.) was very concerned about C and wanted lots of details saying the person could be an axe murder or worse for all I knew about them! So that's how C got her nickname!

If you think about it we were both taking a risk, small though it may have been.

All is well. We've enjoyed our 2 meetings and hope to even go to a hosta convention together some day.

Connie
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Carole Westgaard
17 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
I know this should be on OT, but I'm too tired to change places. I had to move stuff and cover stuff and basically run around in a blizzard today IN CHICAGOLAND. My Hostas are goners. But, I really AM an axe murderer, Connie, et. al. I MURDER ROOTS. WITH AN AXE.

Westy1941
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Janice
17 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
LOL well done, both of you--I've thoroughly enjoyed reading of your adventures
in getting to know one another via the "internet" and more specifically the Hosta Forum!!

Thankfully, my encounters with forum folk has been very positive to date!!

I have to confess to being a bit crazed about certain aspects of my garden,
as well--I'm boiling nematodes when discovered and poisoning voles (sadly--but necessary)!
However, the poisoning part is totally against my nature and if it weren't for the fact
that they could completely obliterate my hosta, I would never even consider doing that!

So, I'm a "murderer" myself!

janice
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sassy7142
17 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
Connie, you said, "We met and bonded immediately."

And Westy, you said, "Connie's the girlfriend I never had."

That is just so awesome. What a great story.

I hope you two will be lifelong friends.

Thanks for sharing your story.
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i_dig_it
17 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
What a wonderful story! I am so happy for both of you. It sounds like such a fun day that you two shared. Nothing better than making a new friend and one that shares the same interests makes it even better.

Janice - is it possible for you to get yourself a cat? They do the vole control without using poison. I have two that live in our garage and roam the yard daily hunting voles....or maybe they're shrews, I'm not sure, I should take a look at their teeth I guess, lol.
If we lived closer, I'd loan you a cat, lol

Janet
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Janice
17 years ago
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Oh, thank you, Janet! I do have cats--two. but they are "house-cats" only!

I use to have cats that came and went during the day, but I would worry, so much,
if they didn't show up by "bedtime" and we do live in a plat with busy roads nearby!
I decided, I prefer to know "where they are" at all times!

One of them two, is a "Ragdoll" breed that knows no enemies so would not know to defend
itself against an aggressive dog! Our Lab and these two cats think they are "kin" and play
together like you wouldn't believe!!

I have seen a cat "lurking" in and out of our place, but I'd eventually wind up "taking it in"
if it came too often, and I do not need another indoor cat!! I also love my squirrels
and chips and birds so I do not welcome a "hunter-cat" for those reasons!!

Too bad they can't be trained to be "prey-specific"! LOL

janice
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