What, you may ask, does this have to do with the Seed Exchange? Every year I give away thousands of seeds for postage. I give plants away too, even had a box of iris at the curb with a free sign on it last night. I created and planted a 75 foot long flower bed this year for the historic society with no budget. I've been collecting, cleaning, and packaging seeds I had planned to offer within the next few day, but now I'm so P.O.ed that I can't be bothered to put myself out for anyone. So if you like orange flowers or bold and bright daylilies, I'm not offering them after all.

I'm sure, given a little time, I'll get over it. I expect I'll even be out gathering hosta seeds in a week or two when they're ready, but right now I'm just MAD!

Shannon
God Bless

Rebekah

If I come across any blue bottles, I will save them and contact you.

Come to find out, this person had stolen more than $1800 worth of items from vendors all over the show. She had us for about $80 worth, but she was right under our noses packing the stuff up. We never noticed a thing. THANK GOD for the other vendor who caught her. Anyway, she'll be doing a minimum 1 year sentence...she is now a felon.

I know it's tough, but they will get theirs sooner or later. And one way or another, they will be paying back those blue bottles. You may never know it, but someone upstairs knows what happened and will make sure they pay for it.

Keep your chin up.

Toni

My garden club put to gether a HUGE gardeners gift basket and sold tickets on a chance to win to raise money for two large planted urns to go next to the door of our new historical museum and not two weeks after we placed them,they were gone...off the corner of a busy intersection.

Someone took my rake last year after I propped it up against our mailbox and went in for lunch....How sorry is that? Now I spray paint my small tools handles hot pink. They may steal them but they'll have to use them in the dark.

Peggy

Jim~ I'm still chuckling over that.. that is soooo much the type of thought that would cross my mind..lol Assisting the Karma police.. .just a wee bit... :P

Hugs,
Wendy / sassyb...

We have put a driveway alarm on our mailbox and at the side of our house to warn us if someone is walking on our property. My husband heard someone talking outside our bedroom window last week at 3am. Our neighbor next door was gone so we knew it was not them. The neighbor across the street told us her son's car alarm went off at 1am that night, then we learned there had been break-ins on the street behind us and 3 streets over as well. I remember when I was a kid we didn't even lock our doors!

Seems there are people who think that if they want something they can just take it.

Peggy

I'm glad, though, that no one broke into your house! There have been a bunch of break-ins and robberies where I live. It's sad though that we can't have special things without worrying that we'll become a target for them.

I'd love to ship you a bunch of blue bottles to make up for your loss, but I can't. Something I could do for you, though, if you contact me and tell me where you live, is I will call around to restaurants for you, and get one or more of them to save blue bottles for you! In theatre I used to do this, to get Dom Perignon bottles and the like. You could do this too, but some people are more shy about it. I'd be happy to do it for you. If your blue bottles were special and antique, this of course won't replace those. :(

Option 1. Post a sign on the tree stating that the spot is under video surveillance for trespass and theft, and that offenders will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

Option 2. Get a "game camera" which takes photos when motion is detected, and will also take photos at night. Turn those photos into the sheriff.