Yes, a lot of the same folks are still around, but many are not. I remember your beautiful screen name. I was just looking at an old post the other day where you had responded. So old posts are here. Unfortunately, the Texas Gallery is no more.

We used to be able to find our old posts by searching for our screen name, but not anymore.

How are you doing and how is your garden?

Roselee! Greetings! So good to see you are still posting along with some others. It's been so long.... I'm not actively gardening at the moment but was telling a friend about this site and thought I'd check in to say hi. I was a bit sad to discover that the whole site was no longer very active (with some exceptions).

Do the old posts come up with key words placed in the search or how does one find them? I was recalling a post I'd made lamenting my terrible grasshopper issue which I believe included a discussion of chickens and chicken coops as a means of controlling the grasshoppers.

I had come up with a design to surround the garden with a chicken run that acted as a protective barrier for the garden to help control grasshoppers and other insects, The runs would connect with a shed that would open on the front side to the garden (with a place for garden equipment, etc.), while the other two sides would house the chickens. I had included a drawing with the post and hoped to find it again in the archives. Anyone come across it? I wanted to show my friend who is thinking about doing both a garden and chickens on his five acre plot.

What have you been up to in your garden?

Welcome back. I hope you stay awhile ... :-)

I typed "grasshoppers" in the search box at the top of the Texas Garden Web page, and then clicked the one that came up "on Texas Garden Web".

For some reason the search box will give you grasshopper discussions in 'Advice" if searched from a thread page.

There are 23 grasshopper discussions. Among the first few I saw a couple of posts by you about grasshoppers. You may find the one you are looking for by scrolling through them. Let us know if you find it.

I think I remember you. I remember the dragonfly but I am not sure about the wings part if you are one and the same or different. I am so bad at names and handles. Hello and welcome . Interesting concept about the chicken run.

Do the old posts come up with key words placed in the search or how does one find them?

Can still use the gardenweb.com domain in Google advanced search with multiple terms, including user name. The search: "dragonflywingz grasshoppers chickens site:gardenweb.com" appears to return your post even though the name was actually dragonfly_wings back then.

With the decline in GW search, this seems like the most capable option unless/until Houzz blocks the Google crawlers. Here's the full advanced search form: https://www.google.com/advanced_search

Thank you all so much! Lin barkigdogwoods.....I could kiss you......that's it!!!!!!!!!!!! How on earth did you find it? On Roselee's advice I read every grasshopper post I came across and couldn't find it. Wantonamara I remember you...long time! You traded me a black bamboo for, I think, a young native plum tree? Bostedo, thanks so much to you and Roselee for the search help. I'll keep those links handy. I will miss all the gallery photos.

It's been a warm welcome back. Thank you all.

I thought so. Some of these handles can be different by a letter or a number because someone in Houz has their name and then some can't get back to house with the same name because the name is taken by them but the AI still won't let them take it , so they change it a bit or totally. It's enough to make ones head spin.