You are so clever Becky

Becky: I agree with Vic ... very clever! I need to try this one because I end up getting sidetracked when I'm outside and then forget to write it down when I come back in! I think I will purchase one of those small dry erase boards and mount it on the side of the shed on the covered deck.

Boeing has sales on unused equipment once in a while and I bought a classroom-sized dry erase board last year. Pretty sure I could fill it with garden tasks I need to do!

plantladylin said:Becky: I agree with Vic ... very clever! I need to try this one because I end up getting sidetracked when I'm outside and then forget to write it down when I come back in!

Great tip Becky.

O Becky, thanks for the great tip. And I just found a dry erase board that I was wondering what to do with it. Now all I have to do is find the dry erase pens that go with it.

I too have a dry erase board, wondering why I bought it, now I know. I know right where the pens are too, was a surprise! I have post-it-notes inside by my comnputer and never thought about what to use outside. Clever, clever Becky!

Thank you all. It's been a life saver for me. I get so distracted when gardening.... Oh look!

Great idea but I need to find a place to keep it out of the rain!!!

I often have a little notepad & pen around my potting bench (an old washtub) for lists like that, but those little pads tend to be migratory... A magnetic dry erase board would probably be more obedient!

I want to know, though, what is a gazinnia?? It sounds quite special. I think you made it up! (But just in case you didn't, I need to know about a plant that made your white board list!)

I think the plant on Becky's list must be Gazania ... but lots of them could be Gazinnia's.

Gazania's: http://www.google.com/search?q...

I googled "Gazinnia" and got a bunch of Gazania images... maybe it's the common name? It it's a misspelling on Becky's whiteboard, I bet it was deliberate... she has a creative sense of silly.

critterologist said: she has a creative sense of silly.

Yes, she does! Becky always makes me smile ... a wonderful gal with a great personality and I love her creative sense of silly!

Great idea, does the rain wash it off?

Oh Dear ...another guilt board!!! I a'ready have guilt in the kitchen and my office space. Gud idear Becky! Why should we feel happy in the garden arfter awl???

Gazinnia's are what folks in Phoenix call a plant that survives the heat. HAHAHA

I actually always spell it like that but truly know the difference.

You all are too kind.

"Obedient" Critter??? ...I personally KNOW that neither the notepads nor boards DO the work!!!

Nice tip but I'm a "Notepad in the pocket person taken to extremes". Yep, usually carry at least two in my shirt pocket, sometimes 3! And they are color-coded, too. (Red one is for "things to buy"...as in "red/deficit"!; Green one is specifically for garden supplies, etc...green as in plants/grass, etc. Blue one is for misc other stuff.)

However, I also have home-made blackboards in the shoffice, one is 18" wide and 4 ft long attached to a door. It's used for various notes, picture drawing (DD!) and I even have different colored chalk in a box nearby.

Shoe

You're such a geek Shoe and you know that's a compliment.

And your "extremes" aren't un-noticed. Hank has said so many times - I need to get one of those notebooks for my shirt pocket like Shoe has

I have no pockets but that's a great system, Shoe!