This was out of character for David Paul, so I hope it will not come to that, Dave.

Yes it was Ken. I am sorry for some of those words now and especially to Melanie. Thank you for removing that past message Dave.
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I'm not one to talk about personal issues as this is not a me thing. I hate making people feel sorry for me or burdening them with personal issues on a positive site for growing. If this helps though in explanation of that last unusual rant, it was likely due to this:

Michael, my very best friend who has believed in me and whom we have had a couple of successful business' is currently in the hospital and has been for a week. Its not going to be an easy ride for us and this is my time to realize very close and personally this amount of worry. This might even eclipse my own Mothers health situations and demise a couple of years ago. Michael has been in the hospital for a week with a tube coming out of his side, and has been diagnosed with Lung Cancer. Some of you may be aware that we have done everything together for 26 years and Michael is a non-complainer and wonderful person.

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This got me thinking about who our friends were. we do have a few locally, and mostly in other States, and never dreamed this would be happening and would not normally share here on this site this information. Then I thought to myself;...."Most of these folk here have never even seen my face, and it would be foolish to think they will like you any better if you're sharing sadness and don't agree with your life...

Wrong choice maybe, but its too late now!

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Be thankful for every day, and if any of you have any illnesses that are not given a poor prognosis thank God literally. If you have more minor illness', love those folk who support you and care for you now and allow yourself to develop yourself. These friends or family are not servants and we should talk to them and about them with the respect they deserve when we do. They are helping us even if they don't get our interests as much as we would like. Its clear to me more now then ever that;.......all of our time will change someday.....

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Thats all. I'm sorry, and keep growing while you can do it!
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I also apologize openly to another member who was kind enough to send some seeds, and I made the mistake of telling that member that their home was beautiful after Google mapping it. I have been looking for a possible next home here just in case I wanted to move and research properties hoping for a waterfront deal sometimes on Google maps.

I can't get the image Google has been showing of mine from years ago off the screen and while my neighbors are updated mine hasn't. Why does this matter to me? Because I've had a few folk tell me my place looks deserted and nothing like what I show in my pictures and website.

This is not a good thing indeed but realize It ain't going away. They did blur the house but the yard still looks like crap around the edges and have to deal with it. Thats life. I meant no invasion of privacy to the individual I Google mapped at all and was just thinking to take a look at their world. I received a treemail that was very unexpected and sad to me outlining how upset they were. If I thought I had done something wrong I would not have done it. I'm truly sorry to have upset this person too and still appreciate the seeds. Google maps aren't going away anytime soon though and I agree;.......unfortunately.

Well, apparently I missed whatever happened but I see my name mentioned in the above post. I'm just going to go back to the butterfly thread. I was trying to branch out here on ATP and post in some other forums, but now I'm thinking I'll stick to those I know. Later, folks.

I cover things I know and sometimes things I don't know. One never knows. I have always been able to tell a good tale and no one knew whether it was true or not.

Michael, Room 241/B at Florida Hospital in DeLand Florida. Its a fact Ken. And with that, Good bye.

Did I say, Trot any direction you like Melanie and press on.

@ Dave. Delete me from this site. I will not be returning.

O Lord.....not again

Man...............

@mellielong don't let one person dissuade you from this forum. This one problem member won't be troubling anyone here again.

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Dear Melanie, please do not let this incident keep you from this forum or any other. I can promise you that what happened RARELY happens on ATP and is always dealt with swiftly. I have only seen 2 other members who have been banned from this site. Surely you know how friendly the members are here. You are an asset to each & every forum/thread that you have ever posted on. I can only speak for myself but I always enjoy your wit, compassion, and intelligence. You were having fun branching out and learning new things and communicating on more forums/threads. You are also a great source of knowledge. I was having fun seeing you having fun.
So please, come on back Melanie, pretty please.

Maybe this thread could be locked, or better yet deleted. Leaves a bad taste to the whole Florida Gardening forum.

And on a different note, you can remove yourself from Google street view. I've done it.

How about we just get back to gardening? Since the situation seems to have been resolved, and many thanks to all of you on here for your support, and @dave for running a tight ship, let's just talk plants again! (If somebody really wants to start a "Part 2" thread, that would be fine. Or maybe a new one in honor of spring? This one is looooong.)

I'll get us back on track. Dad planted both my Sweetbay Magnolias the other day before he finished the last section of the fence. He's better at digging holes than I am. I still have to plant the other things I've bought, but I have a few plants that need trimmed back (porterweed, some pentas that amazingly didn't freeze) first. One of my weaknesses is that I'm not a very good garden planning person. So I'm trying really hard to take into account what size the plants will get and how much room they need and such. At least I'm not growing anything really new to me so I should know the size of a full-grown plant, if nothing else.

We broke our record high of 85 the other day in Tampa and I'm looking forward to it cooling back down just a bit. It makes it slightly easier to catch the butterflies when they're basking. Of course, come August, I'm the one that's wilting and I'm just like, "Fly away. I'm too tired to chase." As for today, I'm going to spend it in a cool movie theater instead since I got an email saying they're having a special $5 ticket promotion all day long! And I've been super tired for the last few days. I know I have chronic fatigue, but some days can be so much worse. Plus, I was due for my B-12 shot so I did that yesterday. Hopefully, that will kick in and I can do some gardening tomorrow. And I still need to order more plants online. I've been saying that for weeks now! Usually I don't have a problem whipping out that credit card and buying plants. Maybe I am sick?

Spring's around the corner !

The thread "Springs around the corner !" in Florida Gardening forum

Mellie GLAD to see your here !

Just to make you feel soooooooooo much better, Melanie and mj, it was sleeting like crazy here in NE Mississippi between 3:30 and 4:30 AM. The northerly wind was blowing so hard that the constant chatter on our bedroom windows woke us up. We now have about an inch of sleet and it turned to rain at day-break. Don't know why since the temperature is 32F. At this moment it has now started snowing hard and the temperature is supposed to continue to drop to 28F by mid-morning. We won't get above freezing today and tomorrow morning is supposed to be 18F. Everything from Jackson, MS north has closed down. There is going to be a ton of accidents and a low of power outages because of heavy icing.....

It looks like we will soon have another "winter wonderland"!

Im headed to the spring thread.
I did want to know tho, is there any way to give acorns without it being published. Someone deserves some acorns big time, but I dont want people drawn over to this.

On a weird note about the google stuff. I turned into my neighborhood yesterday and in front of me was this green and white car with a red soccer ball thing on top. DARNED if it wasnt a google car. Truth be told, I booked it home, ran the flowers out I had just gotten at home depot and put them by the front door..shut the garage door, dragged some mulch bags out of site, just in time for the car to make it by here. I cant say I ever thought much about those google maps till yesterday, but at least I got the front of the house pulled together before they got by Now...if I could just do that all the time.

I don't know Pam. Dave and Trish would know how to go about giving acorns without public notice. Perhaps contacting that person via T-Mail and then gifting her/him acorns at the T-Mail site might do that, but that's simply a guess. I have done that but never really looked to see if it was shown publically.

I've given acorns without notification but I don't recall what I did different. @Dave ?

Yes, just click on the person's username and then click on "Give acorns to so-and-so" and you can then give as many as you like and nobody will know except you and the recipient.