Definitely not the news I wanted to hear. Weeks are the only decent roses to be found around here w/o having to go online to get. Not that I even have room for any more roses, but still.

Zuzu: I loved you story about the snooty woman. You deserve an award for your restraint ! Some people's ignorance can be other's entertainment. Right ?

Steve - Ladies like that client should be beaten with a George Burns cane. Or Tequila Sunset's cane. Either one, they're both evil w/thorns. What a total bee-hotch.

So, did this thread jump to page 2 for everyone else too? Weird.

Sue - No, I've never seen any Cubits go to a Page 2.. even the really huge ones from MamaJack. Always been a single page.

Hmmm, so only on my computer, very strange.

Ahh, Toni, this is page 2 for everyone now as of today! Here's Dave's explanation.
http://cubits.org/cubits/threa...

maybe mine's broken? I still see 1 page. AH! I went to a really long thread in MamaJacks & saw that it skipped to page 2 when I hit post 101. OK, makes sense.

Each member can set theirs to however many pages they want to see at a time as Dave describes it on that thread so you must have it set to 100.

Steve: "AMEN" to the last paragraph in your previous post !!!

Here's another example of unwarranted snobbery I experienced:
Last year when I had my garden on a local garden tour, this uppity woman was here for over an hour snapping pictures right and left.
At one point, a group of visitors had gathered around and were asking me what ferttilizer I use on my roses and other blooming plants. I explained that since my soil is (fortunately) very good (for the things I do grow) and that I don't "feed' on any regular basis, I have pretty good results with my "hit and miss" feeding. I also was adament that NONE of my roses are anything unique or rare, etc. and that I just grow what "works" for me and my environment...and that I'm definitely NOT a hardcore "rosephile"...I just like what I like and that's it in a nutshell.

I told them I just use a generic all purpose fertilzer for everything and it seems to work fine for what I want. This snobby woman stood there the entire time shaking her head in silent dispute and I was getting extremely irritated with her, but decided to confront her privately after this little group dispersed.

She immediately came over and said (in an extremely rude and condescending manner), "You REALLY shouldn't be using chemical fertilizer. It's HORRIBLE for the environment and the water table......blah blah blah..." ad nauseum. to the point that I wanted to slap her upside the head...so I just walked away from her figuring I wasn't going to continue the conversation and risk causing a scene.which was already brewing.

Then she followed me and started in again and I finally said, "You're entitled to your opinion, which I'm not the least bit interested in hearing... and this isn't the time OR the place for you to lecture me...and besides...for someone who is so aghast and offended at my gardening practices and the "potential hazards" they present, you sure have spent an INORDINATE amount of TIME and FILM taking pictures of everything, didn't you ??? "

She just looked at me and walked away in a huff.

Mine skipped to page 2 as well.

Good one Mike!!!
Default is 20 posts but for some it's 100 and I am sure Dave will explain why it's different for some.

Mike - WOW, you have the patience of a monk. I probably would have asked her to leave MY garden.

I suddenly have a choice of pages - never noticed before! Is this an exceptionally long thread?

And it keeps telling me I haven't read it yet.

So good to see you here, JD. I gave up on public showings of my garden after the first time. It was too stressful. I would sit bolt upright in my bed in the middle of the night (which, for me, means a few hours before noon) and remember a rose bush I hadn't deadheaded or a hose that would be visible on the day of the tour.

Porkpal, the pages is new as of this morning.

Mine was set to 20 also. Go to 'your account' / 'preferences' / '....items per page' and set to 100 then save changes.

It's working better already. The smaller pages actually are good for my slow set up.

Great story, Mike. I agree with Toni, I'd have been tempted to have her arrested for trespassing! Except sometimes I'm just as bad.

I'm the guy with the camera on every tour. The gracious host is busy offering helpful tidbits of information regarding the history, provenance, and special cultural requirements of every specimen. And I'm off apart from the group trying to get a special photographic angle on the plant. Or whatever.

DW and I went on a tour of a very tall castle in Saumur, France a long time ago. The tour guide was kind enough to speak to our ad hoc group of five or six tourists in perfect English. But we weren't allowed to take photos. Or whisper quietly to each other. And each time we moved from one room to the next, the guide unlocked the door to the next room, we would all enter, and then he would lock the door again. So we got the sense of being imprisoned in every single room of a very well appointed medieval castle. It was the longest fifteen minute tour I have ever been on.

That was to keep you from doing what I did once which was to discover the servants' passage-ways and escape into the walls of the castle to start my own tour. Fascinating!

They just don't build houses like they used to.