If you are talking about me I am still a forum member. I don't spend much time here. Curtis disappeared when he moved to Michigan(?) I wish he would have kept in touch. Ken is still here I'm sure. I am in touch with ademink (Andrea) outside of the forum. Remember her? I stayed at her house for the 2007 Convention in Indy. She runs an outreach group for the homeless and I stay in touch with her for that reason.
And if you are not talking about me - I sure hope the other Teresa shows up! ;-)

im still here.. but of course.. being winter.. the forum is a bit dead ...

ken

who you calling old timers? I resemble that remark....

Dead, Ken? C'mon. The hosta alphabet has been in full swing.

tj

Yes Teresa and Ken and Bruce.....I am talking about you all.....lol.....All are names I remember well. TJ nice to meet you as I do not recognize your name. I hope all of you are doing well and have very much missed my hosta friends and the good times we had here and on some of the other forums. Are you all doing any seedling growing to brighten your winter day? Do you ever hear from Janice? She was such a sweetheart of a person. Sorry to hear Curtis is no longer hanging out here......So what have you all been up to during my absence?.....:)

doing nothing at all - just wasting away in a heap of compost....

Bruce if I didn't know better I would swear you were not happy about that!

you know me too well.

While taking my granddaughter fishing last weekend at a lake I found myself looking for small trees at the water's edge to transplant back home, mainly a winter hardy magnolia which I did not find!

I do have a big project planned to expand some flower beds, which keeps me going! Ned to get through this cold snap and then I will order the wood chips and old newspaper to spread across the lawn.

Nice to meet you, Art. I've only been on this forum for 5-6 years, so not an old timer...well, not in forum terms, anyway.

tj

lol Bruce you sound like me......Seems like any time I travel somewhere I find something to dig up and bring home.....Have a lot of plants that have special memories attached to them.....Those big projects can be the most fun and most rewarding when they are completed.....I bet it will be beautiful when you are finished. Would love to see before and after pics!

TJ so many people have been here for years helping us newcomers and encouraging us. I remember so many people offered advice and friendship. So glad to once again have the time and opportunity to get together and hang out here.....

Teresa I found Curtis' email address and sent him an email. I hope it gets to him!

Oh, and by the way, Janice (hey-j) is still posting on occasion. As I recall my first contact on this forum with her and ademink involved the term monkeybuttface. Now, who here now remembers that term?

tj

I do remember it......But not what it was in reference to!......lol.....

Not an old timer...what IS monkeybuttface?

Monkeybuttface- n. A term of endearment.

Actually, ademink said she didn't mind being called mink for short and wouldn't even care if she was called monkeybuttface. Weeellllll...that's all it took to have Janice bestow her with a new term of endearment that ended up being bandied about quite freely. I used it myself by asking the monkeybuttfaces on the forum to clue this monkeybuttface (me) in on what was being discussed at the time as I was new to the forum.

I knew then that I would enjoy this forum.

tj

Kind of like the Superbowl commercial - puppymonkeybaby...

toymr2mk2, Apparently I'm not an old timer as I joined in 2010, about the time you stopped posting. I did (and still do) enjoy the advise of those you referenced above. Welcome back. As Ken noted, there are even more people posting in the gardening season, so if you don't see anything that interests you now, check back.

I just sent Andrea an email. Perhaps she will join the conversation and explain the terminology.

Been here forever. Back when Spike ran the show (late 90's?) before Ivillage bought the Gardenweb. Before Ken!!!!! Back when Hank Zumach began to post his pic of the day and got tossed off for using too much bandwith and we all went over to Hallson's Forum. Came back here to enjoy some back and forth with Butch Ragland. Since I am on the fringes of hosta growing I don't always have much to add. Too old.

-Babka

My oh my, Babka, you bring up some names of folks I haven't seen active anywhere for sometime, and I do hang out here and on Hallson's. I seem to recall Butch making himself person non grata on several forums and then set-up his own for a while, but even that's died I believe...Can't help but feel that both Hank and Butch are still into hostas but they maybe hang-out on Facebook somewhere, who knows. I have no real idea of how big hosta discussions etc. are on FB -don't do it myself- but going by the lack of activity -never mind it's winter, Ken- of both this and Hallson forum, not to mention the AHS forum, as well as mailing lists like Hostapix that an awful lot of that traffic has gone elsewhere....

Pieter

Pieter- Last time I looked (and I hope someone else can update all this), Hank got political , locally, and someone sabotaged his hostas (killed them), OR Southern blight reached Michigan. Papou learned how to keep records from Hank, and I was recall when he joined the forum. Butch became a radio politico guy and got kicked off some forums. Outspoken...yeah. Then came Ken...

People come and go and flame out. Gesila and Adamink and Moccasin posted often, buying hundreds of hostas. Remember "frankandjim" who had 200 hostas in a tiny yard and suddenly left???

Guess that Stuff Happens, I know that from personal experience when I went away for a couple years.

Guess we all move on to something else at some point...well, maybe except for Ken. ;-)

-Babka

I have been on GW forums forever, and started with the Hosta forum way back.......active but not nearly as active as the folks mentioned. Life and other things get in the way occasionally.

Ok people...you raised the dead! lol I can't even remember all of the monkeybuttface story - haha There were SO MANY hilarious times, it's hard to recall them all. I stay so busy with work and life, I'm not on forums too much anymore. I stopped hosta collecting but still LOVE them. I'm revamping the whole backyard this year so hope to figure out what I still have and don't have...maybe will make some purchases to fill in missing colors and will be back for shopping suggestions!

some of us go back to old fashioned letters in the AHS Round Robin..... before computers, yes, Matilda there was a day when we talked only in person over the phone or by writing letters in stone.

It's very nice to reminisce about the friends who have not been around. I remember Jean, Fenceberry, and Chocolates. I was also wondering about what happened to frankandjim after his sudden departure. Remember Buff, Connie, Carol and Joyce? I know Janice, heyj, moved after many years in the same home. I'm sure she was taking as many of her plants with her as possible. I keep hoping we'll get an update of her new garden.

If you are talking about Carol from the Chicago area I am still in touch with her. She moved to Colorado to be near her grandchildren. Left hundreds of hostas behind. I'm also in touch with hostared - Gloria from the Chicago area and Connie.

Wow I do remember a lot of these names!.....As well as some of the events mentioned......Also moved over to Hallson's for a bit when all of the stuff was going on!

I have been around since 2006 or so...ken, papou, yardmom, neverenoughhosta, manfred, Joyce, the other ken, Teresa, Susan, walnut, and many others were here chatting away as we were collecting and creating gardens....

Hello all my former Hosta Forum friends. I'm still taking nurishment in NW Illinois.

I haven't been on the forum for a few years. Not since we had 2 years of very dry summers and hard winters and I lost 50 + established hosta. During that time I also had to have Achilles Tendon Heel surgery which set me back and took time to get bad enough to need to be fixed and then the long recovery time afterwards. Trying to maintain 3/4 of an acre yard and garden takes time and age has a way of catching up to you. lol

I still enjoy my hostas, but have cut way back on how many I have. I gave away many and also sold to other hosta lovers.

It brought back so many fond memories to read the posts from past forum members. McTavish, Carole, Gloria, Jill, Janice, cAROL, Teresa, Badaka, to name a few, all wonderful ladies that I felt I had become friends with. All the guys, Curtis, Ken, Don and his lists, Dan the dentist, John from Kentucky, and many more not named were so helpful.

I'll have to drop in more often. Take care all and happy hosta gardening!

I haven't been on here much but used to post on a regular basis. I have been on here for years. It just isn't what it used to be.