INSOMNIACS place to talk in the wee hours

Chevy, I'll really impress you now: I did it on my iPad.

I take pics with my phone not my iPad because the resolution is better on the phone. But unless I'm on the road, I post from the iPad so I don't have to log in again. BCO has been doing a weird thing with posts lately, with the style ribbon floating up and down over the text. But I will take a pic with the phone and the iPhones and iPads have a feature called air drop that I can just drop a pic from one device to the other. Like this one:

Mombie-Zombie, welcome ( in case I have not said that yet ). Tell us how you chose your user name. Did the big C turn you into a Zombie. It turned me into, well it's early, I do not curse before 5 ish.....he...he... Congrats on the Hawaii trip. No advice there, I went on a cheap trip it Waykakki in 1975. You are married to a Plant guy. Ah, so cool. I love planting & growing flowers. Not organized with it, but it is beautiful.

Wow Wren, great info....I can camp !

Happy St. Patty's Day from the land of hot air balloons!

Wow, thanks to all who gave me cyber tips. I will spend my night hours trying them out and see if I can make it work for me. Yay! Thanks for all the great welcomes too! It's nice to belong. I'm still learning and trying to keep everyone straight. Hope I didn't miss returning any comments, questions, etc.

Jazzygirl--Thanks for the words about Hawaii. Those pics are amazing!! I'm so excited to get to go on this trip. I've been married for 22 years, in which time we've saved up to go to Hawaii THREE times. A family crisis came out of nowhere EVERY time and ate the money for the trips. So grateful we had that money for the problems, but we never got to go and just gave up. I can't believe we finally get to go! (LOL--I almost expect the news to report that Hawaii has sunk into the ocean!)

Holeinone--My user name is actually a nick name from my kids. LOL It has a two-fold meaning. Firstly, I am a life long insomniac. I have memories of watching my older sisters sleep while I played in my crib. And my kids have grown up saying "goodnight mom" at 5am as I'm saying "goodmorning child". Secondly, I often put my arms out and do a Frankenstien shambling walk as I come after my squealing, laughing kids--they know they will get caught, tickled and then hugged and kissed. One of the kids, my brainy one, said, "Mom, you look like a zombie!" I replied, "Nope, I'm The Mombie." It was a short step to becoming Mombie Zombie after that. Since this is a discussion board for insomniacs, I thought it only fitting to share my nick name here. Glad to hear that you have a green thumb. Soon as spring is fully sprung around here, I will post some pictures of our place. Our yard isn't amazing yet, but we live next door to hubby's folks, who have been mowing and manicuring (for 45 years) 8 to 10 acres of gorgeous prairie land that runs along a lovely creek in our back yard. Their property is like a scenic park, complete with trails, covered eating areas, tree-swings, canoeing, gardens and giant oak trees. Hubby and I want to add to it all by building a "secret" garden for the future grandchildren to play in and a Japanese style garden and a native tree arboretum. Gives me things to look forward to. What kind of flowers do you like best in your garden?

MombieZombie- loved the story about your name. I think you are really due and overdue for that trip to Hawaii. I think it is going to happen and it is going to be SO good too! Glad you liked the pics.

Also, there is a gardening thread that is new and I just joined called "Gardening anyone?" Come over there too to share your green thumb stories (and anyone else too). We have been talking a little but since it's early in the season for many in the US at least, we are a slow thread right now. We have some folks there from the southern hemisphere though (which means their fall.....)

Jazzygirl--Thanks and thanks. And thanks for the tip on the gardening group. I'll have to check it out tonight.

OK--I know this will confirm my cybertardness, but I have tried clicking on the icon to post a picture that is saved on my laptop. It's not working. Going to keep trying.

Wren44--Thanks for more info on Hawaii. You asked about my move. We only moved fifteen minutes from our old place, but we are west of the Cascades in a tiny town south of Olympia.

Wren44--Yes, hubby is excited. Our old place was gorgeous, but we were just elevated enough to make certain things hard to grow because it was colder and we had a water shortage issue that was super annoying. Now we are down in a large area of prairie with lots of water. We've already put in a huge strawberry patch and a massive row of thornless raspberries. We plan to put in quite a variety of veggies and fruit trees. We've made our own year-supply of freezer jam every year for 22 years. I'm excited because we have the space to raise chickens, a beef cow and maybe a pig too. I am looking forward to lots of organic eating! Hubby is a botanist specializing in native plant life of the Northwest. He has a further specialization in prairie plant life. This property has a wonderful variety of native flowers--trilliums, chocolate lilies, shooting stars, balsa root, lupines, larkspurs....It's going to be fun.

Sounds fantastic, MZ!! Enjoy. Rosie and I are Northwesterners, also. I don't know how many others on this thread are?

Jazzy, loved the balloon Would love even more to be back up in one again...

Cool, I love finding out that some of you are near my neck of the woods.

Hopeful--My hubby has a lot of family in your direction. S. Idaho has some beautiful country.

OK, this picture downloading thing is starting to really get my goat! I clicked on the picture thing. On my screen it gives me the option to drag a file or click on a thing that says "choose a file". I tried dragging. Didn't work. So I clicked on the "choose a file". It takes me to the photos on my laptop. I click the one I want. All that happens is the photo label shows up in the window, but no picture. I tried to copy paste too. I'm getting nowhere.

Morning all.... Wait.... FIRST I have this..

http://sureawesomeness.com/he-tells-his-dog-he-got...

Okay Mombie, try doing all that, but then click "open" or try clicking on the picture twice.... What are you using? Maybe that makes a difference.... You CAN'T do this on your phone.... can you? It also depends on a hundred other things... Like I can't copy and paste diddly when I use aol, except links! I can post links, but NOT pictures... So I have to go to Chrome, then find a picture from Google Images.... then copy, and come back HERE to paste.

And I love you talking about your kids! You sound like a lot of fun...

I have gardens too, but nothing compared to yours! DD came over yesterday, helping me clean up all the Winter leftovers, and putting my "stuff" out, and she finally said.... "MOM!!! YOU HAVE TO GET RID OF SOME OF THIS CHIT!!" So I threw away some things I found, just to make her happy. I DO have a lot of .... what is that name they call it when you have too many doo-dads in your garden? Something like "Chatskees" ??? Well, yes, I do that.....But I am trying to dwindle my chatskees down.

Yes, I would like a "secret garden" to.... but I just make "little area's" in places, and try and make everything "go" together... Ha! This is a picture from last year, and as you can see, I DO have a lot of Chatskee's... I have posted this before, so the other gals, just close your eyes...

But I'm just going to grow tomatoes, etc. in our side garden, and keep this one just for flowers & the Perennials...

Do you guys watch Dancing with the Stars? It is a good show this season... Some of the celebrities are REALLY good....

Here is one of my "wild spaces". Glads starting to bloom. I have some glads next to the stucco already 6 inches tall.

Morning to all, you can't believe I am up this early, me neither. Shoulder hurts like a witch, got me out of bed.

Hey ladies some confusion about guns yesterday. Yes I am perfectly fine well. Getting there. Was just saying I was to weak to nap outside with the sun on my face to try and protect myself if necessary. Feel safer with a gun close by. For my protection only !

Hole - What a pretty garden bed! Did you have a short, dry winter this year, too? (Love the very efficient coffee & doughnut mug.)

Wrenn - yes, I knew there was someone else here from the region. And no, you don't EVER want to hit Portland at rush hour (nor Seattle)!