For the game I will guess:
January - 1
February - 1
April - 1
July - 1
October - 1
November - 1

Susan, you guessed Fabruary. My daughter in law has a bday in March.

so far-

February 1 Beth

March 1 Susan

Kim, forgot to mention your guesses were off a bit.

You all are certainly welcome ti try again. Not much actuvuty so I hope everyone is ok.

Suddenly suffered a locked shoulder last night with extreme pain when i do any movement. Have no idea what I did but I am extremely dissapointed. I heated my greenhouse so i could work at winter sowing today. I can’t do anything! I am going to turn it off and hope this shoulder cures itself. Ugh

January 2

Feb. 1

March 1

April 4

July 2

Oct 3

Nov 3

We got out the generator today and bought gas for it. Weather is supposed to get cold and snowy Sat. & Sun.

I hope you feel better soon with your shoulder there Margo. We are really cold here today too an expecting up to 10 inches of snow from a storm that is on its way. They are predicting electrical power may go out and I hope it doesn’t.

I have been working a lot of hours and my husband just gave me the mail from yesterday and today and my birthday surprise from Margo arrived!! It really made my day. I was in a gloomy mood with all of this cold winter weather.

Margo, thank you so much for the beautiful donut birthday card filled with seed surprises Thyme Orangelo, Mammoth Basil and Nadapeno Peppers! And a wonderful $20 gift card to Cracker Barrel! I love everything and I had been eyeing the Thyme for a bit and haven’t tried this variety of basil before. I never considered the jalapeño with no heat, the nadapeno but I am so looking forward to growing it and making mild pepper poppers. All three were great choices for me! I appreciate the gift card so much and will use it closer to my real birthday when it is a bit warmer out. It was so nice of you to remember that I mentioned how much I liked it in a previous post. Thank you again for everything. You really made me smile today.

I mailed my partner’s birthday gift out today just before noon. It should arrive by Thursday.

Take care everyone and I hope you have a great weekend.

Well, I got some stick to everything snow today

Not a lot, but it is so pretty

Beautiful Beth. I know we are supposed to get snow starting tonight

Susan, so glad you enjoyed your birthday surprise.

Beth, we are due some freezing rain then snow. What is hitting Susan is swiping up this way a bit and we are on the border of 1-3 to 3-5 so bring it on Mother Nature. My son and dil from South Carolina went up to Brevard, NC snow chasing and bit did they find it. The grandkids 5 and 8 are having a great time.

Shirley, you hit three months!

January 2 - myself and okdest daughter

July 2 my grandson and son in law

Nov. - 3 a granddaughter, daughter and daughter in law

Just April and October left

I'll try 3 for April and October bith

Sorry Beth, both are wrong

I hope everyone escaped the really rough weather that has been passing through the country. We received a bit of sleet before a couple inches of snow fell. It’s quite pretty.

So far I have the following sent and received unless I missed something. If I did, please uodate us.

Susan - sent and received

Margo - sent

Beth

Shirley

Kim

Still need correct guesses for April and October.

Guessed correctly

Beth - February

Susan - March

Shirley - January

July

November

We got slammed with 12 to 15 inches of snow here.

I am going to guess
April 2
October 2

I will be sending my surprise Bday box out tomorrow and will email you the tracking Margo, I have not received anything yet. We only had cold rain and major winds 45-50 gusts so tons of limbs down. I do not miss the lake effect 120 inches yearly when we lived near Syracuse NY. God bless you all, stay safe.

I will guess April 5, and October 4

Susan, that’s a lot of snow. We ended up with 3 inches but higher temps will probably melt most of it tomorrow.

Susan, you guessed April correct. My husband and daughter in law have April bdays.

Correct guesses

Beth - February

Susan - March

April

Shirley - January

July

November

Just October left. I will have a tie breaker if needed.

Susan really did a bang up box for my Birthday. She sent a whole BIrthday Party in a box! 4different colors of Hyacinths and some species (Tarda) tulips for the garden Morning glories that I love and I only have Grandpa Otts so these will be a nice addition. Sugar free gum, butterfly decorations A great little calendar and log book for passwords ( fantastic idea)

AND!!!!! an amazing butterfly, solar, windchime. I have it outside now charging up in the sunshine ( while it lasts)

Susan, I am blown away I have not had this much Birthday in years. (Maybe, this year, because it will be the b i g "80").

Oh, the little white lacey tote that I have everything stashed it is included. This has really made my day, week, month. Sending big hugggs

Wow Beth that arrived so quickly. I just mailed it on Saturday. I am so glad you liked everything. I hope you have many years of new springtime blooms from them and I thought the butterfly solar wind chimes were too cute to pass up. I tried to send flowers in the many colors of sapphire, your birth month gem. And the morning glory also is sapphire and your birth month flower. Enjoy!

Great package for Beth, Susan. It sounds like Beth loves it and you really made her day.

I am glad you didn’t get too much snow Margo. They are saying we may get more over the weekend but I don’t think we will since temps will be in single digits.

It is such a great theme this month to celebrate all our birthdays Margo. I can’t wait to see what everyone receives.

I will try again for October. How about 5?

Here is a picture of the butterfly, waiting for it to become dark

Susan, you guessed October correct as well. All 3 of our boys were born in October as was my youngest granddaughter. I do have to mention we would have had 6 but my oldest daughter gave birth to an Angel but I didn’t count her but we do always remember her.

Now the tie breaker for Shirley and Susan. My daughter in Arizona is pregnant and is due in a month we do not have birthdays to celebrate. The one who guesses it correctly wins.

Beth - February

Susan - March

April

october

Shirley - January

July

November

Birthday surprises sent and rec’d. Please correct if I’ve missed one.

Smitties - sent

Susan - sent and rec’d

Beth - sent and rec’d

Shirley -

Kim - sent

I will guess May for the tiebreaker because that is my birthday month.

I mailed on Friday

Thank you Beth, I edited that post.

Susan, that is not the month.

Received my awesome birthday package from Kim today. The box had some wonderful comfort items such as

hot cocoa

cake in a mug (love warm cake)

M&M’s

Kim also sent a jounal that will be used to journal my gardening projects and progress. In the adorable card, I found garnet tomato and chocolate stripes tomato seeds as well as redman super cactus zinnia seeds.

Thank you for such a creative and thoughtful birthday package Kim.

Susan and Shirley, still waiting for guesses on the tie breaker. Susan you can guess again

I will guess June

Glad you liked it, I was trying to think of January gifts, so I was thinking journal and Garnet, and I sent chocolate gifts since you said you loved chocolate cake. Is there a list anywhere of OBF favorites, I know there used to be so we have a better idea of what to send?

kim, I thought the garnet seeds were great and wondered how you knew I loved chocolate, LOL It was really a great box.

Kim, you got it. Congratulations. Will get a prize off to you soon.

My daughter is due June 9th. Their first boy will be four on Valentines day. They find out tomorrow what this one will be. Big brother says it’s a boy.

June is one of my favorite months too! It is the month I married my sweetheart of 20+ years. Congratulations on your upcoming grand baby’s birthday! I’m sure she will be very loved. And what a nice separation in age between the two siblings. I am so happy for you and your family.

Wow congratulations Ruth!

Just not to confuse everyone, Ruth won weekly Bingo with FOTESS and I mistakenly posted it here but came back to delete it.

Big brother was right, it was confirmed today that my daughter is carrying a healthy baby boy. Once he is born, that’ll make 4 grandsons and 2 granddaughters. I can’t wait although they live in Arizona. ai thankful for facetime.

I haven’t seen a post frim Shirley in several days so I hope all is ok. Hopefully she will stop in soon.

Smitties - sent and rec’d

Susan - sent and rec’d

Beth - sent and rec’d

Shirley -

Kim - sent

Whew Margo been so busy, thanks for checking on me.

I received my box from Beth and love my Birthday gifts.

Bought some clementines for my feeder. I dearly love my birds and keep them fed.

My card is so beautiful and hope to plant my Sweet Pea Royal Family seeds soon.

My Birthday pkg will be mailed tomorrow!

Beth, nice gift. Love feeding my orioles.

Shirley is mailing her package tomorrow. As soon as that’s received, we’ll declare this swap over.

I appreciate you all joining in. Margo

Shirley, so glad you like it. It was fun shopping and looking for ideas.

Margo, this was a fun Idea. Thanks to you too.

Margo nothing like those Grandbabies. I have one just 3 weeks old, she is so precious.

My oldest is 32 and now this one 3 wks old. 2 Grandsons, 2 Great Grandsons and 2 Granddaughters. Life is good.

My pkg should arrive tomorrow, the PO said two days.

Sorry so late but I've been potting bulbs for market and all my orders were received at

the same time. So many new plants in the catalogs but I promised myself no more plants

to plant in the ground. Getting old and can't take care of all of them.

Supposed to get really cold here tomorrow, Sat. and Sun. Some chances of snow flurries.

Oh well it is January.

Congratulations Shirley. I’m so tickled with all my grandchildren, I just wish they lived closer.

Thanks for the update on the package. Once we hear from Kim, the swaps are complete. .

Tracking Number: 9505513247162026246484

Your item was delivered at the front door or porch at 7:01 pm on January 28, 2022 in NEW BERN, NC 28562.

USPS Tracking Plus™ Available

Whew thought I had the wrong zip but looked up 28562 and it says Trent Woods

Hope you received Kim

Thanks Margo, trying not to visit much with all this Covid but getting lots of pictures of her.

Waiting for word from Kim and this swap will be a wrap. Thanks to Beth, Kim, Susan, and Shirley for joiningNing. It was a small party but I had fun and I hope you all did too.

Susan, I’ll let uoou know about your prize.

Thank you for hosting a fun month Margo. I loved the birthday party idea. Had a wonderful time and I loved all the gifts everyone received. Such a great way to pass the time during January. Take care everyone!!

Hi received my awesome box from Shirley ty Looking forward to planting the awesome Daylily bulbs and seeds😊Ty Margo for hosting!

Well everyone, it’s a wrap! Thanks for joining in and i hope everyone enjoyed their birthday packages. Stay warm!

Susan, your prize is on the way

Thank you Margo and thanks again for hosting such a fun month.

Thanks Margo! That was so fast. I love email! I appreciate the Baker Seed gift certificate! What a wonderful and generous prize! Thank you again. I have some items I have had my eye on and this comes in handy for me to be able to purchase!