Bonehead, have you tried clicking on the YouTube link instead of trying to view it on ATP?

Woofie, I was finally able to watch it on my Nook by using the YouTube link. My main computer would play it but without sound. Just usual computer frustration...

Great video and congrats to all!

The cool thing is Mike and Zuzu actually know each other, he has visited her twice!

Congratulations to all the winners of acorn piles!

Congratulations to ALL of us, for the comments added make us all winners. Aw, heck, who am I kidding? We're ALL winners because ATP is well, ATP!

Thanks to Zuzu, Paul, Dave & Trish for making this *extra* fun!

Hi Trish! Waving at you. It's great to see you in front of the camera again. Hi Whitinger kids! It was a fun video & great seeing you all. We were missing the oldest & youngest girls though.

Calif_Sue said:

The cool thing is Mike and Zuzu actually know each other, he has visited her twice!

Mike's a great guy. Many of you probably know him. He's been a member of our DG/Cubits/ATP extended gardening family for 10 years. He was RepeatBloomer in DG and changed his screen name to Mike when he moved to Cubits, where he created the wonderful Nature Photography Cubit. He moved to ATP with the rest of us from Cubits.

He's a deserving winner of this contest. He always writes well-composed comments that are useful and interesting.

So glad you had a deserving winner, Zuzu!

Enjoyed this contest so much! Congratulations to all the winners!

So am I. And I'm so glad your name was drawn, because you were another deserving winner. There actually were about 10 people who excelled in this event.

I won't divulge the 10 names, but it gives me great pleasure to report that all 4 of the winners are in my top 5, so the drawing was extremely satisfying to me.

I'd say ALL the winners were "deserving" ! This contest was a great idea to get more awareness about posting comments, let's all keep working to make this database the absolute best!!

@rickcorey -- "I could imagine a plant giving an acorn to someone" -- I think only an oak tree could do that

zuzu said:I won't divulge the 10 names, but it gives me great pleasure to report that all 4 of the winners are in my top 5, so the drawing was extremely satisfying to me.

Oh what a tease!

No kidding, still THANKS again to zuzu, Paul and Trish and Dave for making this event happen. We're all enriched for years to come from this.

Now, to figure out what to do with all my acorn riches. . . .

Great contest! And very successful (no help from me but I was pulling for everyone!)

Enjoyed the video/drawing, too. Those young'ns sure are growing!

Thanks, Zuzu! I'm delighted to know that my comments were valuable! Poor DD had to deal with a mostly-absent Mom while I spent a week cranking out 170 of them!

I'm very excited to have won - thanks so much to Dave, Trish, Zuzu, and Paul for creating the contest and providing the acorns. I can't wait to use them!

More importantly, I plan to keep on writing comments to go with the plant descriptions. Now that I've started the habit, I may not be able to stop! And of course, the positive reinforcement of all those acorns should help, too!

Thanks again, everybody!

You already had been contributing lots of comments before, Catmint, but you really went to town this week!

thanks, Zuzu! yeah, I went through my whole plant list looking for things to say! So, now I guess I need to get more plants so I'll have more comments to make!!

Catmint20906 said:thanks, Zuzu! yeah, I went through my whole plant list looking for things to say! So, now I guess I need to get more plants so I'll have more comments to make!!

What a great excuse to buy more!