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WOOO first post!!!! Let’s talk about school
Parks, Gardens, and Backyards?
My family as a magnolia blooming in our backyard, it looks loverly from here.
2-Oooh yes, let’s. We have a HUGE garden.
(1) The Back to School thread is still open.
3-So do we.
My family lives in the country, and our ‘backyard’ is about fifty acres of varied woodland. It’s awesome.
How about favorite board games?
I dunno. I’m bad at this…
Gardens is good!!!
I like gardens for a topic. That sounds good.
Gardening sounds like a good topic, although, it kind of is out of season……..,
And the Our Reclusive Garden’s thread is still open, we can talk about botannicals there.
Ehmm… Just Friends? (cue GAPAs making a new Just Friends thread)
Holidays/Parties? My friend’s grandfather’s girlfriend is having an Anime/Manga party. I’m going as either Sakura from Naruto or Rikko from Absolute Boyfriend. (Or one of the Lucky Star girls… can’t decide…)
10-Yes, it kinda is. I suppose we could talk about growing pumpkins….
Gardens! 10. Yes they are kind of out of season now, but that’s okay. I like my garden. It has this big wall around it on one side, the side of our garage on another, the side of our house on another, and a very tall fence on the last side to keep our nosy and annoying and evil neighbor from spying on us. We have very tall orange cosmos all around, a couple sage bushes, and a mostly dead grape vine. Very nice garden to read in.
I suppose we could save the gardens topic for the spring, but that’s not for a while… and it’s not like it changes how we talk about gardens. I dunno.
11 – The Reclusive Gardens thread isn’t to talk about gardens, it’s to be in a virtual garden.
I think the current topic should be gardens, unless we want to discuss… KoL. Hee hee.
Ooh, two BIG magnolias now! Hrm, I think I shall send in a picture of my grandma’s rose garden.
I sent the foto. It should be in your inbox about now.
My garden encompasses most of my front and back yards. My mom is an obsessive gardener.
Gardens are absolutely loverly. I had one when I was five, I had squash and corn and cucumbers and tomatoes. Then, we moved, and I didn’t have space for one anymore.
18- Oh that’s too bad!
We had a huge garden before we moved. It had pears, beans, raspberries, asparagus, various types of squash, corn, tomatoes, pumpkins, beets, potatoes, and who knows what else. We also had a cherry tree, a peach orchard, an apple orchard, and numerous blackberry bushes growing around the property.
We moved and rented the house out to someone else, and he has kept the garden in great shape. Sadly, my dad cut down all the peach trees two years ago because half of them were dead from disease. Our peaches were known throughout my school. We still have the apples, though, and hold an apple-cider-making party every October.
My new yard is… a yard. Well, not really. We don’t have any grass; instead, we have tons of trees, bushes, and paths. We also have a small cabin at the back. It’s a big yard, but not huge.
There is a small space for a garden, leftover from the previous owner, that is about 3ft square. It’s overgrown with wild strawberries now. The only vegtables we grow are cherry tomatoes out on the deck.
We still go back to the old house to harvest some stuff though. We just went about two days ago to get blackberries for a cobbler. We ended up getting those, plus pears, apples, a cucumber, onions, squash, and frozen fish fillets.
Our flower garden is a random mishmash of lovely flowers. We have lilies of some sort, one rose bush (more like a stalk, really – we get exactly two roses every year) – the kind that opens up, not the long-stemmed kind that has a more cylindrical shape, a bunch of crocuses and daffodils, and a bunch of other flowers whose names I don’t know. Wow, this is a wonderful opportunity to relearn those names. One of them is sort of daisy-like, and some years we’ll get goldfinches that eat their seeds.
Recently (in the past few years), my father has decided that it would be great to grow a bunch of our own fruit. So we now have a peach tree (we thought we had two when we bought them, but it turns out that one of them was a nectarine tree), two pear trees (no fruit this year, and probably not ever, but they’re very pretty all the same), an apple tree, three blueberry bushes, a few raspberry bushes, a strawberry bush (it’s too small to have very many fruits yet, but the few berries it produced were heavenly), two big rhubarb plants, a few tomato plants, a few pepper plants, and assorted other fruit and vegetable plants. Everything is delicious.
Our garden is really big, but this year it didn’t really produce much. Our entire crop of onions-two and a half BEDS!- produced an amount of onions that could fit in a tall glass. And the biggest onions were about big enough for you to maybe make three bites out of them. If you wanted to take three bites out of an onion. Which I don’t.
Our tomatoes didn’t do anything at all. Oh well. We did get a lot of blueberries, though.
21 (THF): Remember when Dad tried to grow beans? It was at least five years ago, and he set up these fence-things for them to grow up. I think they did okay for a few years, but then tons of poison ivy started growing up the vines, so he gave up.
And then, there’s the time we had pumpkins grow in the garden because the compost didn’t get hot enough to kill the seeds….
We grew tomatoes and they didn’t come out this year.
But the peppers did.
24-Pretty much the same with us. I think this just isn’t a good year for tomatoes.
GAPAs, did you get my foto? *impatient*
We’ve been getting a fair number of tomatoes… fewer per plant than is the usual, but still a healthy amount. And of course, the tomatoes we’ve gotten have been delicious.
23 (Pan) – Yes, I sort of foggily remember the beans… and of course the pumpkin crop is vividly planted in my memory.
26 – If you use ph instead of f, it doesn’t take much longer and is far more rewarding.
Gah! I don’t remember what I was going to say!
24/25- we have already started canning tomatoes. we are besieged by tomatoes. The watermelons are not so good this year. *sigh*
We have one garden in our yard, one down at [the local college’s name] Farms and my mother tends two or three others as a volunteer. I’d tell her to slow down, too many beans and such, but it gets her out of the house all the time.
I tried to send this before when the site was down…
We have a bunch of flower gardens, an herb garden, a vegetable garden, and a dwarf conifer garden. I have my own rock garden
Did you get my photo? Didja? Didjadidjadidja? *whiny and annoying*
photos?
who cares about photos? Hey!!! lets make that are new topic!!
25- Seriously? My cousins have a small patch of farmland and they have tomatoes coming out their ears. It’s scary. They gave us an entire shopping bag full of tiny tomatoes. And they tasted pretty good, too. Did your get enough sunlight? Tomatoes are late bloomers and need LOTS AND LOTS of sunlight.
28- Tomatoes. ugh
Gardens? *doesn’t relate* *sneaks away until the topic changes*
31. Yes, photos might me more interesting, I’m getting a bit bored of gardens.
(Runs to hide before pied by garden enthusiasts)
I am sick of peaches.
I have been eating peaches.
and more peaches.
and MORE peaches.
THEY NEVER SEEM TO GET LESS!!!!!
*groans*
35 – YOU CAN’T HIDE FROM GARDEN ENTHUSIASTS! MWAHAHA!!!!! *PIES BUBBLES* *PIES PEARY MOPPINS FOR BEING SICK OF PEACHES AND FOR BAD GRAMMAR*
How could photos be more interesting than gardens? Talking about gardens won’t fascinate us forever, I’ll admit, but photographs? Sheesh.
Okay, I love tomatoes, and peaches, and practically everything else you can grow in a garden. If it’s grown well, that is. And I love flowers. And I can never tire of lying down in a garden or nature of any sort. But these people have a point that I didn’t think of when I said gardens was a good topic – there really isn’t all that much you can say about gardens. Perhaps we can have some sort of subtopic to discuss? The horribleness of non-organic pesticides, perhaps?
Whoops, I forgot to . Hehe.
37) Sorry for my grammar.
32-Huh. That’s weird. What part of the US are you in? I suppose a no-tomato year doesn’t have to be nationwide.
Does anyone else know what a Jerusalem artichoke is? We haven’t harvested ours yet, but last year we had so many that we had to keep them in a bucket in the garage over the winter, and when we went into the garage in the spring it smelled like something had died. Ugh. Hopefully that won’t happen this year, though.
35) Bored of gardens?!
I have 2 gardens. One, (this is the first year I”ve had it) is a vegetable garden. THis spring, it produced plentiful amounts of squash, cucumbers, peppers, and tomatoes (cherry, Better boy, and german johnson), whitch are still producing. This fall, my Dad and I are thinking that we might try some greens.
so all the water developes in certain places, which just happened to be away from those plants, so they didn’t get as much as the others *is guilty*) or bug issues. Caterpillars. They are nuisances.
I also have a flower garden. It’s doing quite well. I have several hostas (which for some reason haven’t bloomed this year. Probubly has to do with those evil caterpillars last year, arg, I hope they don’t return), a small forsenthia, several marygolds, and a few more types, whose names I can’t recall. I do have some nice pink ones that are doing quite well and a kind of ground covering plant with numerous white blossums. I also had 4 large bushy flowering plants, but they died. Either from lack of water (my garden slopes a little
Did I tell you guys about my caterpillar problem last year? Well, yall know how hostas are…….. Well, these caterpillars I think just wanted to spite me. So, what they would do is, they would crawl up a hosta stalk and nibble off the section right between the stalk and the leaf. So, the leaf would tumble to the ground, now seperated from the stalk. Then, the evil bug would just leave the plant like that. Wouldn’t even eat the leaf that it caused to drop! I would wake up the next morning and that had happened several times, not just to one leaf. One hosta practically dead in one night, and the stupid caterpillar DIDN’T EVEN FINISH IT OFF! It just left it to die! I would set up a watch outside with a book beside my garden to try and catch it. I almost killed the thing once, but it got away.
41-Those are some evil caterpillars.
37- yes, let’s. That’s a good topic.
37-I guess we could. But is there really that much to say other than “non-organic pesticides are horrible” with various capitalizations and exclamation points? I think we need another, totally unrelated topic.
Hmm. Let’s see. How about, what animal are you most like? I’ve used that as an icebreaker about a billion times before, and it works like a charm
HELP I did not mean to say that I meant to say I SAID lets talk about photos.
45) I’m not really like any animal……
I guess a giraffe??
Because I’m really tall..
45-I’d like to say I’m most like a cat, but in reality I’m probably more like a polar bear. I’m tall, not skinny, and I like both wrestling and playing.
I’m not sure if I want to talk about gardens OR photos.
How about something like………
Hmmm……..
Let me think about that.
I think I’m most like a cat.
GAPAs, do you think this is worthy of a topic change?
This thread is supposed to MORPH come on!!!
Yes, GAPAs, change the topic!
I do not think this is worthy of a topic change, because it’s not so much a discussion topic as it is a question that could go to the Polling Place – especially since we have spent such little time on gardens. I also do not appreciate your impatience, the GAPAs do an awful lot for you in giving you this blog, and are probably just waiting for approval from more of the bloggers. I love the question, but I don’t think it’s right for this thread.
What do you want for a topic then? Gardens is getting a little boring.
55 – If you think it’s boring, don’t post until it changes (which I think will happen relatively soon). I think we should stick with gardens for a bit longer – we haven’t been on it for that long.
Okay, how about we discuss orchids? They’re a nice flower, and extremely interesting. Or window gardens? I think window gardening is completely different from, erm, not-window gardening, and it’s also quite interesting.
We do need something else to talk about. How ’bout…… ummm……. interesting places we’ve been to?
Hm… Gardens are interesting, but I’m not really patient enough. Although I do weed the driveway/lawns/shrubberies (lol shrubberies) quite often during the two-month summer.
Well? Interesting places? I’ve been to the Bahamas, New Mexico, Cuba….. Please, guys?
Those of you who don’t want to talk about gardens can always stop by the Hare & Hedgepig, have a cuppa and a scone and talk about whatever you like. But it’s impolite to badger people who are in the middle of a conversation.
60-Sorry. Was that for me? It just seemed to me like a bunch of people thought that gardening wasn’t an interesting enough topic, and I was trying to suggest something else. But I’m fine with gardening, if that’s what everyone else wants.
Wait! Wait! Wait! Before the chameleon morphs, I need a garden comment.
Ahem.
My mom is an insane gardener. She won the ARCH Historical Society Gardening Show and Contest for like… 5 years in a row, now? Basically people come to our house and she gives them a tour of our garden, and I have to hide out in my room blasting music and firing styrofoam darts at the Strange Bottanical Oglers with my brother and his Star Wars dart gun. (Don’t get me wrong, I love my mom, but I could swear some of the people from the New England Garden’s association are pedophiles. They are CREEPY!)
Anyway…
I’ve never been farther from Southern NH than DC, so… no really interesting places. (Though I did take a virtual tour of Forks, WA on their website… and looked at sattelite images of the Muse printing press on Google Maps…)
(61) No, it wasn’t directed at any one individual. This thread was created for those who wanted more extended discussions on a subject. It’s not expected to change every couple of days.
I want to grow peppermint in our garden. And basil. And… parsley! And garlic, and onions, and potatoes, and beans, and almonds, and lemons, and mangoes, and butter, and truffula trees, and… *overbar*
Although it probably doesn’t seem this way (partly because I’ve never really had an opportunity to show it (Pan will probably be surprised when and if she reads this)), I love gardens and gardening. I love flowers, I love how they compliment each other, and I just love nurturing plants. I love having a bite of a good fresh bright red tomato, and I love watching the tomatoes grow from little flowers to hearty fruits. I love breathing the wonderfully clean oxygen in a garden. I love sticking my hands in the soil. I even love the satisfaction of weeding, though I hate the idea of pulling living, breathing plants out of the earth. This is the primary reason why I’m trying so hard to keep the gardens topic for at least a little longer – I just love them so much. I understand that there isn’t all that much to talk about, technically, but I hate hearing people say that. I could talk about gardens forever.
Yay!
My garden is doing pretty well right now! I’ve got a few late bloomers thought. Our rosebush JUST BLOOMED! Anyway, my fruit is starting to ripen. The crab-apples are still a bit green.
65- NO WAY.
63-Oh, okay.
More gardening stuff: We grew broccoli successfully for the first time this year! In all the other years we tried to grow it, it either didn’t even sprout or got eaten by bunnies. But this year it worked, and it’s the tastiest broccoli ever! I don’t like broccoli, or at least not more than the average 12-year-old kid, but for broccoli, ours is really good.
I frankly confused about what to talk about.
64) I agree, I could talk about them forever too, but if everyone else wants to talk about something else, we shouldn’t hold them up!
If only I could figure out their suggestion.
What animal am I most like? I don’t know. Maybe a bluebird. Yes. Probubly that. Although, I do love red pandas. *dies from cuteness*
Phtography? I like photography! I am especailly good with capturing light. Those are usually the focus of my best photos I think. I also like shooting from odd angles, such that strange patterns that you would normally have never noticed appear.
Interesting places I’ve been. Wow. I lot of places. Ummmmmmmm. OK. I’ll just name off my vacations.
Disney World.
very pretty) & Milon)
Washington DC
Williamsburg, SC
Savannah Georgia & Charleston SC
Quebec, Newbrunswick, etc.
London
Newfoundland
Out West (Circle around US…… main places= Mammoth Cave, Yellowstone, Grand Canyon, Arches, Brice Canyon, Zion, Badlands, 4 corners, etc.)
Ireland
Wales
Paris
Italy (Rome, Venice, Florence, Pompei (actually we stayed in Sorrento
OK. Ummmm. I think I got em all!
68-Whoa. LOTS of places!!!
68-Whoa is right!!!
Interesting places I’ve been:
Um…
Williamsburg
Jamestown
other historic places along the east coast from florida to dc
Washington DC
Niagra Falls, Canada
London
Canterbury
Paris
Luxembourg
Germany–only for a day *sniff*
London (again)–specifically, London Eye, Tower of London, also went to Leeds castle (no, not in London, but in England)
Wales
Scotland
Disney World
that’s about it, I think.
More interesting places:
Maybe I shouldn’t have brought this up. The most interesting travel-related thing about me: my family goes to the Bahamas every year to spend three or four months on a boat. Now before you get all jealous, let me explain a little better. The boat is a 37-foot sailboat which has approximately as much floor space as a shed. We don’t have electricity unless we run the engine, which means that we have no fridge and electric lights only rarely. We carry eighty gallons of water with us, which might sound like a lot, but considering that we fill up our water tanks once every three weeks or so, it’s really not a lot. We have very few books, no internet access ( 
), and our only means of communication is a satellite phone which works about ten minutes a day.
Canada, the Everglades, Wyoming (dinosaur bones!), umm….
Still jealous?
I’m not jealous
I”m envious. Or are those the same thing? Anyway, I been to very many interesting places 
I have been to south carolina when a hurricane was passing through. Is that interesting?
37. Pies a certain garden enthusiast.Yes, horribleness of unorganic things seems more interesting than flower beds and such. I like gardens, but there isn’t much to say about them. And yes, I admit it, photos aren’t that interesting either, but I was desperate for a more interesting topic.
(runs to hide from garden and photography enthusiasts in the Cyclopes’ cave, in a corner, clutching the bottom of a smelly sheep for dear, erm, lack of pie stains.)
Hey! What about Greek mythology?
I rarely travel anywhere, besides New York/Florida to visit my grandparents every few days, and we haven’t been there in ages. Oh, and I traveled to DC this summer.
Most of my travel is soccer tournaments, though.
Please don’t get me started on Greek Mythology. I know about every single Greek myth there ever was.
I love photography! Photography, botany, and mythology, and sometimes writing are my favorite things in the world other than The Beatles and music (and of course Muse and MB).
Interesting Places. Hm.
Australia
China
England
Ireland
Greece
Italy
Canada
Mexico
Peru
Egypt
India
Camen Islands
Singapore
Cambodia
Thailand
Chile
Austria
And a bit more. My grandpa is going to take me with him to Japan, he has to go to a meeting there. And I’ve been to 32 states.
73-It’s pretty much the same thing. But whatever.
74-Yes! Greek mythology! I love Greek mythology!
When the Harry Potter theme park opens up, I’m going down there (parents optional) with a friend to freak out about the Harry Potterness of it all.
My parents want to take a 3 week long road trip to my aunts and uncles in Kansas. Personally, that sounds like hell for me, but they’re all pumped about it.
78–TAKE ME WITH YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!
Aws, yous didn’ts gets my’s photo posteds! (s)
69)
76) That’s so cool that you’ve been able to visit all those places!
I’ve always wanted to go to South America, especially Brazil, but my parents have always avoided countries such as that because of unrest in that area. THey’ve especially avoided places close to the Middle East, not that that caution helped us in London. I mean, my Dad wanted to take us to Turkey, but my parents determined that that would be a little too close to the Middle East for comfort. 
Japan sounds cool! I hope you have a good time!
78) Theme park?!
Wow. They certainly are shooting to get their monies worth aren’t they?
I’m afraid that the Harry Potter theme park will be too commercialized. But I’d still like to see what it’s like (not actually go there, but you know what I mean).
I have been to these countries for a significant amount of time:
.USA
.Canada
.Mexico
.South Africa
And I would love to add an Asian or European country to that list.
Within the USA, I have been to:
.Boston and surrounding areas (birthplace, but I’ve also been more recently)
.Petoskey, MI
.Ann Arbor, MI (very little actual time there)
.Columbus, OH and surrounding areas
.Washington, DC
.Maryland very close to DC
.St. Augustine, FL
.Philadelphia, PA
.Pittsburgh, PA area (where I live currently)
.Undoubtedly some other places I haven’t thought of
So really, nothing that interesting on that list.
I’ll post the places I want to go later.
When I grow up I want to travel to Germany to see my relatives. I had asked my gramma if I could start up a pen pal relationship with another a girl who’s relatated and is about my age. I’ll start next time I go there. Maybe Leafy and I can write together! Ooh, that’d be COOL!
Places I’ve been.
Countries:
USA
Japan
Philippines
UK
Mexico
Canada
I HAVE been to these states:
Alaska, Arizona, California, Connecticut, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin
I MAY have been to these states:
Delaware, New Hampshire, New Mexico
Oh, dear, I completely forgot about Arizona! I’ve been to Phoenix, Sedona (both places I didn’t much care for), and really all around the state’s canyons and stuff.
78- I’ll come with you, if you pay the airfare.
81-Yeah, I really want to go to Brazil too, but it seems like the only thing people will tell you about it is that the developed areas are just like the US and the nondeveloped areas are sure to give you some kind of mosquito-transmitted disease.
It’s not fair! I want to hear good things about Brazil!
Countries I’ve been to:
USA
Canada
Bahamas
Cuba (I’m being kinda repetitive here)
States I’ve been to:
(in no particular order)
Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire, New York, Florida (everyone’s been to Florida), Wyoming, New Mexico, Arizona, Texas (very briefly).
And I’ve changed flights at/driven through a bunch more.
Countries I’ve been to:
USA
(sad, I know)
States:
New Hampshire (duh, I live there)
Maine
Vermont
Maine
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
New York
Connecticut
New Jersey (just driving through)
Maryland (same as above)
Deleware
This doesn’t really count as a state, but Washington D.C.
87-Not everyone’s been to Florida, I haven’t.
Just look at THF’s list for where I’ve been. Subtract Arizona, and add several cities in PA, OH, MI, VA, WV, NY, and NJ.
And, don’t forget about Morgantown, WV, THF. *ducks incoming flying pumpkins*
87 – I’ve been to Florida, but I wouldn’t have if I hadn’t relatives in St. Augustine.
89 – Gosh! I forgot! I asked myself “Have I been to WV?” and I said no. Okay then.
88- It’s a district.
(89) That was almost a year ago! Another Pumpkin Drop is coming up next month. Hm….
92-Wow, you’re right! What’s going on with that? Are we involved? *Gets excited*
Red-tailed HAWK
92- I have a feeling this won’t be held on the west coast, and I’m not going to the east coast soon… crap. But maybe I could hold a pumpkin drop, but where…?
92 – *gasp* You’re right! We should make a thread for discussing it and for making a better protection design! Well actually, last year’s design was fine, and the pumpkin looked flawless. But we still have to come up with a different one. Yeah! *heads over to suggestion box* And even if no one but Pan and our family (and me) goes, it could still be a MB project.
94 – I believe the one Robert is talking about is in WV. Sorry, Zinc. And Leafy.
I want to go to:
Paris (for food research, not for fashion or whatever)
Iceland somewhere
Sri Lanka
NZ (I think it’d be cool)
Xin Xiang, China (see the first post of the China thread)
South Africa (again)
Brazil
Argentina
Most of these are “just because” places, but that doesn’t mean I don’t have good reasons for wanting to go.
I think that’s enough for now.
79- Sure!!!! We can squeal at random things in the village/castle!! (OMG, look at the authenticity of that end table!!!!, etc)
86- It opens in 2009, so you might be able to save up for airfare. If not, (and if you can actually come with me) I can probably mooch off some cash from my dad.
We could have a Harry Potter kokon at the Harry Potter theme park!!! ^^
96- Really? And, by some miracle, you could help my convince my parents to let me go to the east coast next year? And agreed, we should.
States I’ve Been To:
New Jersey, California, Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Oklahoma, Washington D.C. (Doesn’t really count, but whatever), New York, Virginia, Florida, Utah, Idaho, Montana, Maine, Maryland
And I may have been to Texas, but I’m not sure.
Hi! *checks in* *can’t think of any response*
78, 96- I’m coming too! It probably will be VERY commercialized, but whatever. It’s Harry Potter, therefore it is good.
92- Ooh, cool! The last one was before I came to MB, I want to help this time!
RE: Travel.
I have been to:
Countries-
USA
South Korea
England
France
Spain
Portugal
Canada
A commonwealth of the US, but- Puerto Rico
States-
Virginia
New York
Connecticut
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
New Mexico
California
Ohio
Massachusetts
Maryland
A district, but- Washington D.C.
[Not Florida, though. Hmm.]
And many others, just in passing (MANY others, considering we drove from VA to NM). Also, I can’t remember a bunch of these places, as the last time I was there was around age 4 or so. Heh.
My dad’s been to probably double the amount of these places- including Germany, Japan, China, and lots more obscure places… something about “business trips.” Hmm.
97- Yeah, sure!
100- Splendid! (And agreed; anything Harry Potter is good).
100) I don’t know. I’m imagining very corny rides. The park has the potential to have potential. bUt it also has the potential to be embarrassing to the awesomeness of the books.
102- A Gringotts cart ride! A tour through the Chamber of Secrets! A Room of Requirement with interactive stuffs! A dressup area to put on robes! And you get a free wand when you enter the park! Ooh la la!
96- It’s been bumped up to 2010 at the earliest. COME ON, listen to mugglecast!
103–me wants, sounds so fun (although probably is horrible, like the movies…..)
Oops! I forgot to post this photo Zinc sent while the topic was gardens. These are her grandmother’s roses:
103- w00tw00tw00000t!!!
104- My computer won’t let me!!!
105- yeah, maybe…
106- My mom loves it!!!
Travel still??? Oh, and the Harry Potter thing sounds realllllllly lame.
108 – Can you please be less negative? If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything.
((That’s what I’ve been working on lately; my temper has gotten me into trouble))
103) A free wand? *gag* What about a race against Voldy ride? Or….. a flying broomstick ride? *gag* Rode dressup? What about the Triwizard maze? *gag* They really are going for their moneys worth.
106) OH!
That’s so PRETTY! 
106- That’s through my grandma’s bedroom window, where she took the photo. Every bush has a person belonging to it. The purple ones are mine, the pink ones are Gwyn’s, the red ones are my mum’s, the orange ones are Spike’s, and the yellow ones are Aunt Dorothy’s, wh really isn’t my aunt but she’s a friend of the family. I was one vacation when it bloomed. Usually my rose bush has one or two. Right now there are no roses for me, just more leaves.
I went to Bandon, OR, in August. That was ‘stremely fun. Everyone that you randomly started talking to on the street were pleasant, happy people. There was a really cool little bookstore that I spend a lot of time buying books from. Great food, great people, great books.
110 – Meh. That sounds DELIGHTFUL.
112- Holy Crap! I went to the absolute same town in OR! Did you go to the candy place that had like fifty diferent free samples? It reminded me of a town in Maine that I used to go to when I was little. There were fish shops and tourist-type attractions everywhere. I was there because I was driving from Coos Bay to Redwoods NP.
What exactly are we talking about now?
Travel.
I have been very few places in the US of A. I have been to New York city, Buffalo, north Dakota I think. umm… that’s it. I’ve been to England twice, Ireland and France. i’ve been all over Canada, minus the territories and Saskatchewan, Alberta and a couple maritime provinces I hope to visit in the near future. Anywyas, I llike traveling.
116) Oh. I think we’re veering off topic.
My people are anti-travel and I’ve never been further from southern NH than DC, so… I really have no business talking on this thread.
118- I think on the morphing thread that is a GOOD thing not a bad thing. Or did you mean it as a good thing. This thread has 120 comments and only 2 topics!!!! We need a new one.
120 – The thread is supposed to morph, but not veer off topic – the people are (or one person is, if it catches on) supposed to make a conscious decision to change the topic completely. Also, the August thread had at least 250 comments and only two topics. In general, each topic has an average of at least 70 posts or so. 120 comments and “only” two topics isn’t really that much.
Well, if you think the thread should morph, I have a good topic: Freedom. We’ve been discussing freedom in Language Arts class, and it’s been great.
I don’t know how to start a discussion, though. Or if anyone else has something more to say about travel. But I can give you the question Mr. W gave us:
“To what degree are you free?”
Also, we were reading “The Allegory of the Cave”, Plato, as a sort of discussion prompter. If anyone wants to read that.
So, does that sound like a good topic?/So do you guys think it’s okay to change now?
114- I didn’t go to the candy shop (no idea there was one) but there was lots of fish shops, for sure. I have a few pics on my phone of the fishing boats at night.
Bandon is probably the funnest place I’ve been, excepting Cape Blanco OR, which is my favorite place in the world, even when a hurricane strikes it.
If you only knew…
120- 120 comments is NOTHING, dude.
121) Ooooooooooooooo. That’s a hard topic. I like it.
Wait! Before we switch!
While on my family’s big group vacation to Oregon (yet again
), my cousins stayed up in the game room playing Uno, watching movies, watching TV, playing Dead Man (or Dead Girl, in M and I’s case), and playing really old video games. This is basically what we said to each other-
“You suck.”
“Sucks to be you.”
“You’re sucky.”
We also threw pillows at each other. M fell into the TV and she got yelled at. Then we all got yelled at. Luckily, she didn’t do any damage. A few days afterward, we couldn’t bring in anything edible.
Wait! Before we change:
We’re going on a Disney cruise MEA weekend.
I want to go to Europe, particularly France. I don’t know why, but it’s always entranced me.
OMG! I’m so EXCITED! :smile:My Dad says that he thinks my family might go to France again this summer!
So I can practice my French! Unfortunately, we don’t know if my sister will be going because she’s in collage and she mght want to go to summer school so that she can get her full majors in. 
Always up for a rude entrance. especially after I’ve been gone. Lets talk about airsoft!
Ah, yes I forgot. I also come by the moniker of T-Bags now. Going back to school and how it sux may also be a good topic.
There’s already a Back to School thread.
129) Are you a newbee or something? *pies*
131-Could you please stop calling Neophytes newbies? I detested it when I was one. ‘Phyte is fine, but newbie or n00b is rather insulting and makes some ‘phytes (my ‘phyte self included) feel unwanted, left out, or just plain irritated. Thanks.
132- in my opinion n00b is insulting but newb is fine.
(128 ect.) burnzkid = Locke = burnzkid’s new name (3/2/07)
actually burnzkid is my twin brother, and I have been doing this for a year and a half now, so no n00b would not be a respectabel term to call me by. oh. cross country running rulez. and so does choqit.
So. Locke=T-Bags=burnzkid’s twin
can we have a manhunt thread? I have some awesome set of rules if we have one.
135-7 i don’t think we have been introduced. I would shake your hand, but the pie I am about to throw at you currently occupies both hands. In the meantime, i know that good things come in 3, but that doesn’t apply to posts. stop triple posting por favor
132)
I’m sorry. I will sign the “phte” pledge to never call anyone a newbie ever again!
I like calling them newbs.
138- Much agreed.
Well, anyway, I think we were talking about changing the subject. I’m all for THF’s idea on post 121.
so what is the topic now? freedom? travel? what?
142- Freedom, I think.
We’ve been discussing freedoms in English class as well, though not officially. We’re reading books on “loss of innocence,” though, and whatever books they assign us with that theme have freedom pretty closely interlocked with everything.
I.E. Farenheit 451. It’s for “loss of innocence” because Montag learns about actually living, but freedom could work too- people don’t have freedom to read, speak out, etc., but mostly they’re just brainwashed.
/end barely on-topic, grasping at straws- type- ramble
Wow! This thread is being slow! I thought that I hadn’t been on here for a while!
OK! So, the question is, “To what degree are we free?”
Well, I’d say we are free to the extent that we don’t violate anyone else’s right to be free. Right? *trys to get discussion going*
No one really is “free”. After I saw that greek myth post, I skipped the rest.
I wanna talk ’bout greek myths!
oh man.
here’s the thing of it; i started mbing a long time (like 6 months of sommat) ago, an then i quit because my parents are all strict about computer time and it takes FOREVER to read all the posts, but now i’m back. i probably won’t be back for long though because this is my feiend’s (sorry friend’s) computer.
b.t.w., i considermyself a neophyte/ newb, and i don’t relly care what y’all call me.
it just occured to me that now that i’ve poured my heart out over my trials with museblog, i have nothing to say.
i’ve been to ecuador, mexico, and the us, and now i’ll stay on topic.
hey, not to start a pie war or anything, but what IS the spoony topic???????????????????????
oh, right, freedom.
it’s interesting but i can’t think of anything to say about it at the mo.
toodles!
Being ten years old, I’m not mature enough to say much about freedom, so I’ll just talk about the places I’ve traveled to. I’ve been to Hawaii, the Carribean, California, Florida, and a few other places.
148- *gives Dave high five* I’m ten as well. I travled to China, and that’s about it.
Dave–just because you’re ten, doesn’t mean you aren’t mature enough to have something to say about freedom. Age and maturity are not necessarily as linked as some people imagine–I’ve met plenty of immature people here at college, and have also known many mature individuals younger than me (such as most of the younger MBers).
You’ve been to Hawaii? And the Carribean? No fair–I want to go to Hawaii! And the Carribean sounds awesome, too…..Of course, i can’t complain too much–I’ve been to plenty of cool places (see post 71, if you’re interested).
149- Thank you!
I’ve always wanted to go to China. Especially the Great Wall.
150- I thank you too.
And to tell you the truth, I really don’t have much of an opinion. The whole concept of whose free and just freedom in general kind of confueses me.
Wow, and I thought I’d gone to a lot of places!
151: Yeah, I know what you mean (about not having much of an opinion). There are plenty of topics (such as politics), that everybody, especially much younger MBers, seem to have very strong opinions on, and I have almost no opinion on the subject…..
As far as having been lots of places, give it a few years–when i was your age, I’d never been out of the country. The farthest I’d been from home was Florida (ok, so distance-wise, that’s rather far–I live in Alaska. Although right now I’m “living” much closer to FL than AK. In case you haven’t gathered, I’m currently attending my first year of college.)
Okay, the topic needs to change right now, and no offense, but I don’t want it to be freedom (I can see it becoming confusing to follow and boring after awhile).
WorldWideWeb, anyone? On Youtube, there’s this hilarious video of a guy making prank calls. Just search ‘prank calls lipstick’; almost guaranteed (sp?) to make you wet yourself. And they have pie references galore!!!
(153) Freedom is boring?
153- Have you seen Fred? He’s incredibly hilarious. I like watching videos of puppies
153- I wouldn’t necessarily say it’s becoming boring – then again I do find it slightly hard to follow. Maybe its my age, maybe its not, but why don’t we change the topic.
Hey little Sparta what is with all the fight,
Little bitty kitty want to bite, bite, bite.
Idk why I just thought of that. The video rocks, though.
153–you only get about a dozen results when you search for that….which one is it?
If you mean the first one….I didn’t think it was all that funny.
Woah, has anyone ever heard of Jeff Dunham? He’s this hilarious ventriloquist. I was watching his one video called “Spark of Insanity” and I couldn’t stop laughing at this:
It was so funny! You have to see it. And then he has a ton of other hilarious shows you have to see.
Walter (puppet): I think my house is haunted.
Jeff (ventriloquist): Why?
Walter: My wife is there. I open the door and all I hear is “Get out…”
Jeff: It sounds like you two had a fight over the phone.
Walter: Yeah. She started yelling at me, so I hung up.
Jeff: Oh, that’s not good.
Walter: And then she called right back and yelled “DID YOU HANG UP ON ME?” And I said, “Yeah, did it sound something like this?” Click.
And one time she started slapping me and yelling at me.
Jeff: What did you do?
Walter: My mother had always told me “When your in a tight situation, just imagine what Jesus would do.” So I tried to turn he into a fish. I stood there going “Begone SPARTAN! Hello SHAMOU!”
154- No, I’m just saying that it could get very confusing very quickly.
158- Ummmm… wait *checks youtube* Okay, search ‘ryckmmat’ and it’s the 4th result. (there are varying quality versions of this particular video.)
Fred is funny. Although, now I’m confused as to what we are discussing.
Search ‘ flakkebjerg efterskole riots ‘ on youtube. Very fun.
?? I’m confused… somebody explain?
No wait… I got it!
Snaps is the name of the game, *snaps*, the name of the game is snaps. *snap, snap* *claps hands on legs* *snaps*
*pause* Does anyone know?
People should watch the movie P.S. I Love You. If you haven’t you are a son (or daughter) of a big buffoon.
I want to go to Montana.