Thank you for sharing this letter Sharon.

Thank you Dave and Trish for making ATP home for me.

Happy Thanksgiving to Everyone

Sharon

What a wonderful tribute to both Dave and Trish. I too feel ATP is home.

I wouldn't know what more to say to express what we all feel.
Thank you, all.

We have much to be thankful for now.

Well said, Brenda. Well said.

My sweet wife has some very serious health challenges and I care for her around the clock. Our tastes in T.V. differ so she picks the channel and I visit ATP and cubits at all hours of the day and night. I love plants and taking pictures so my son or daughter will come some times and I will visit a nursery with my camera now and also take pictures in my own and friends gardens during good weather. Sharing these pictures and adding some to the data base helps pass my day as does seeing all others pictures and discussions. Finding out an ID is fun. Heartfelt thanks Dave, Trish, and all of you who contribute. You are anonymous friends.

nap said:Well said, Brenda. Well said.

Ditto!

There is much to be grateful for.....Thanks to Dave and Trish for creating this wonderful site for us ( and still allowing us to play on Cubits, as well). Thank you to the many people who have contributed articles, photos, plant IDs, and forum topics for us to all get acquainted (or re-acquainted).

Some of my on-line friends have become friends in real-life...we share plant/seed orders, have lunch together, and meet at plant sales. How wonderful is that???

None of this would have been possible without Dave and Trish. Thank you so much--you have expanded my gardening world in ways that I could not possibly have imagined.

A heart felt note, Brenda. You've said the things I wish I could say.

Brenda, my dear friend, your heart is showing. You've written such a luscious, honest piece on our journey and the love and support we give each other and to Dave and Trish and the family we've come to know. Well said.

I remember the very day I met you at my first, and your first, DG swap at Loreen's (R.I.P.). What a treat! My pleasure to know you. We've lost some good friends along the way but there are more good times ahead!

Thank you for this "Thanksgiving offering".

Brenda, you are just a darling!
Yes, thankful for Dave and Trish, appreciative of their care of "us", and encouraged by their values, famiy, and future: you put it so well.

Happy Thanksgiving all US folk and general good wishes to those of elsewhere too.

Brenda, as everyone is saying but I must chime in: well said! It's been a struggle and I miss some of the people from DG but the many more friendships I have made on cubits and ATP have been huge blessings~

You have a beautiful way with words.

Thanks to you all... for being part of my life. I was thinking that now might be a good time to reach out to our old friends from all parts of this journey, and expand our circle. (That's what I say when I'm with friends and another comes in, and it's time to shuffle chairs around... just expand the circle!).

p.s. Susie, I remember that day, too. I was overwhelmed by how much you all knew, by your graciousness and acceptance of a 'newbie', of the amazing plants I was learning about. And especially, by the spirit of the gardeners. It found me that day. Thank you, my friend.

Brenda we also say that: widen our circle!

Brenda, what a wonderful letter and tribute! Dave and Trish, thanks for this wonderful new site where we continue to grow together.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Thank you Brenda, for a wonderul heart felt letter and tribute to Dave and Trish!

Brenda - what a lovely tribute to Dave and Trish and your words say what is in all our hearts

Brenda your letter brought tears to my eyes and my heart was filled with emotions. My journey started at DG and was a short stay before moving to Cubits. It all has been such an amazing adventure. I really didn't know Dave and Trish until Cubits, but soon came to love and trust them. They have come to feel like family to me.

My life has been a constant widening of the circle, so ATP feels like home to me, with many gardening sisters and brothers present in this wonderful place.

So much to be thankful for, thank you for the letter.

Who could be more grateful than myself, we now have the best of both worlds where we can do our own thing on cubits, as well as get involved in ATP. There was a time I was lost in the woods, waiting for this great gathering once more of like minded friends.

You have said it all so well Brenda, but as I am who I am I can't help but say my own little piece!

I've been a little late coming over to ATP, now the change of season is giving me more time and I am jumping back and forth to both sites! Given more winter time I will also be contributing to the plants database, a fresh start which is even better than before. Not only because of the extra knowledge I have gained, to which I have to attribute a good deal to Dave & Trish for providing DG in the first place, but this site has gleaned all the little or big things which people wanted in a gardening site with Dave & Trish continuing to do their utmost to do what is requested.

For the eternal humanity and generosity which Dave & Trish have shown, we are all so very grateful.