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Thought it would be helpful (and kind of fun) to have a place where someone can vent about any topic that peeves them, not limited to the garden. No profanity, of course, or religion or politics. And no replies are necessary, the object being that merely blowing off steam will help.

My first entry does have to do with my garden and mail order suppliers. I ordered a fancy and expensive yellow tree peony a few years ago. It came and was the puniest thing I'd ever seen. I called the company, who told me to plant it and see how it did. Needless to say, it did not survive the winter. Another call did bring an immediate offer of another plant, which I accepted. After 4 weeks of nothing, I called and was told that they had no stock left of my plant. They sent me another yellow tree peony, one cheaper and not as pretty as mine, and a credit for the difference. Last year it gave me one lousy looking flower, This year it gave me one beautiful flower. However, apparently the non-tree peony root stock has also given me 5 buds that look like they will be white. I'm really pissed, and will call to complain again. Now I have a really weird looking tree and bush peony combo, and not something a breeder would like to achieve.

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The can of worms has entered the Tiki Hut!
This should get to be an interesting thread.. :)

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No religion or politics?!? (2 of my fav subjs)

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Last week my big brother fell off the roof and had to go to the hospital and that really had me scared! =( he got fractures in his hand and his leg and has to stay in bed a lot and thats okay but now i have to do everything. i didnt even get to go to my friends house last night and i had to water the gardens and help clean up HIS room and help clean up the shed and i dont even have any time to play video games. i really hope he gets well fast cuz its summer and i wanna have fun.

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Why was he on the roof? :lurk:

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well it kinda lost steam because religion and politics are the only topics people want to fuss about..

ok what about this. you have only general knowledge about a certain engine. all of the dealerships in your area have gone out of business. no one will touch your car because they're not familiar with it. you take your car to a person who is supposed to be a specialist and he charges $1,300..you agree because after all he is a specialist and you shouldn't try to fix it yourself because if you aren't familiar with it. you may get hung up on something. after the third day you start questioning whether he is really as good as he says he is. you then find out he probably knows as much as you do. he ends up taking a week and two days and talks about charging you extra to repair things that are clearly his mistakes..

after everything is said and done you find out he wasnt the only person besides yourself who could have done the job, in fact there was a shop across town who would have done it for $800.00 and their shop has ase certified mechanics. they would have guaranteed a 2 day turn around.:ha:

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He was being chased by a huge dog and the roofers had a ladder so he climbed up to get away from it. when the cops find out whos dog it was they are really going to be sorry they left there dog out running loose cuz they will have to pay for the hospital bills.

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Commercials that are inordinately louder than programming. Volume leveler doesn't really work, so you have to be quick with the remote. Soon I'll start DVR'ing everything so I can zap the commercials!

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I agree with the commercials. Another thing I realized is that every channel I turn to seems to have commercials playing at the same time. I guess thats just a coincidence, but it still annoys me.
What annoys me even more is when professionals get plant names wrong. Mandevillas and allamandas arent the same plants and neither are bottle palms and spindle palms.

And Im tired of all this rain. April Showers bring may flowers, but my plants dont even have flowers anymore because the 4 inches or rain we got last week destroyed them all. And today felt like March.

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Just come out and say it. Who do you think you are anyway. What's your problem

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Im not use to doing this much,its like im complaining but I think this is so funny. I have a gardener that mows my lawns. They come on Mondays. I dont have much in the front of my house. Four queen palms and a few elephant ears. My grass usally gets real green fast I hate to brag but its actually greener than anyones on the street. What I do have in the front looks nice.Any way the people across the street from me cut there lawn like a golf course they started getting there lawn guy to come on Mondays too now. They cant stand my lawn looking so good ! :08: She noticed my lawn was getting greener than theres I saw her out there starring at my lawn she ran in and got somthing and started spreading it all over her grass. LOL. They act like there trying to get the best lawn award. She always ask me what do you do to make your lawn look so good. I just smile. My brother says that im Mister green thumb ! :lurk: When there trees start going dormant and the leaves start to fall they go out with long polls and start trying to make the leaves fall before they fall on there own its so funny. I guess I should be happy they do take care of there place. :lurk: Any way I guess I can look at it as entertainment !

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Boy am I getting sick and tired of people who make post after post,as many as 15 in a row.It's rude. It pushes other peoples post down to the bottom.Why not give other people who don't post much a chance.It would be nice if there was some way to stop some people from posting so much,and being rude, when someone with a legitimate
comment to there post is told they don't know what their talking about.

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I just noticed this forum doesnt have a fights section. =D i had a special project one time and got stuck in a fights thread with another kid for 2 days! My project was late and the fights mod wouldnt even let us out when we agreed not to fight anymore. She said we had to have a positive solution. grrrrrrr!

This time wasnt as bad but i didnt get to go anywhere and had to stay home and just play video games. I dont get that i have to stay home all day!
But mom got me another banana tree to grow so that really helped. =D

Btw, sorry i had to remove some "thanks" but it wouldnt be right to thank posts if members are having issues with each other. Its not polite not to thank people for participating, but this time i think it is.

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It's like diarrhea of the mouth or something

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Can I vent now :ha:

My Trachi pulled and they are suposed to be hardy.

On Albums; I have posted one or two since joining and I believe they are a great Idea (albums). I also happen to like how the albums Images show in the bar on refresh. Does it really matter who they belong to?

This is a great place to be, I am thankful to banana.org for the space they allow us. Here we are not charged, are not limited on size.

Stop moaning, life is too short.

Peace.
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I usually view the "new posts" when I access the site, that way if anyone has made a new post I'll see it regardless of post after post after post after post being made.

Regarding 'hogging' the picture bar, I usually upload the pics to my gallery where they can be viewed if desired. I really don't need them to be in the picture bar, but don't know how to avoid it. If I want them in a specific thread, I will put them there. I would prefer my photos don't show up in the picture bar at all, and if anyone wants to see 'em, go to my gallery.

(in other words... I don't see what you folks are complaining about :nanadrink: can't we all just get along?)

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The intent of my post was not to complain about someone who post to much.That's not my business is it. That's the job of the moderators .My suggestion to anyone who has a complaint, is to contact a moderator not someone who thinks they are.

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I agree and i think everyone else does too. This thread should be about Real Life vents and NOT for vents about other members. Vents about other members can cause fights and then nobody else can use the thread. And the thread should be for everyone. =)

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I always go to new posts because there are far too many to catch up with,

An outdoors vent:

Ummm..the weather makes me vent, it makes me very angry indeed. I moved here last year and its so windy due to the long drive. I swear someone will get the back end of my tongue if my Maple trunk busts.

I am so angry I am waiting for another bungalow.

One plant species I care deeply for are my Maples. Obviously I care about the others and my baby Ensete but my old Maple is my treasure above all else.

Don't you dare break my Maples.

:lurk:

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Dude... ya mean you're not doing that already???
Its' the ONLY way to watch TV!!! ;)

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I NEVER intended this thread to be a place for members to bitch about other members. That is so totally against my concept of this site. If it doesn't cease immediately I will simply remove my thread. Then you'll have to do it somewhere else, not under my name.
Thanks for everyone's cooperation.

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I only have one thing to vent about today and thats a belly ache. =( but that was my bad because i got in the fridge and ate too much ice cream and jam without permission. Im never going to do that again.

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I loved this vent.....still laughing..

Hilarious and just like neighbours to be so jealous.

Kevin, you greedy...now suffer.:ha::ha::ha::ha::ha:

Venting today about hotel price hike.

I was supposed to go to Belgium tonight for a weekend with my son and his partner, the hotel has hiked up the hotel price so not going on principle.

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Im greedy if its blackberry jam! :D

wow thats a ton of emoticons. I had to climb up in the treehouse to get my cap and cut my arm. :(
It's two cuts from my hand to my elbow and they sting. and i crashed my skateboard and scuffed up my knee and it stings too. but thats okay now cuz we have strawberry shortcake yes! =D

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I had another vent but i decided this isnt the right thread for it. so i will just vent about my arm cuz it hurts and i cant sleep. but im really tired so maybe i will anyway.

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My, will you ever learn Kevin :ha::ha::ha::ha::ha:

Go to bed and just rest, what does momma say..oh never mind, wrong thread...HAHAHAAH

I could really vent today but its not for public consumption.

:bananarow:

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Momma???? lol. btw, I dont even have a treehouse and I didn't put my cap up there. but i know who did. *evil grin*

I dont like commercials either. I have a VCR to DVD converter and it works with HDV and camcorders too. It even works with iphone and ipad and I can use it to upload youtubes too. =D
DVRs are better but thats another way.

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My Basjoo flowere @ four (4) feet tall.
My neighbor still mows part of my yard, and does so with the lowest setting so it looks as scraped up as his yard.
I never have time to visit the org because of work and my new homestead.
Some arse from the electric company turned his truck around in two rows of my spaghetti squash.
My wife bought ONE (1) spaghetti squash, and realized after getting home with it that the crazy thing cost $10.00 !!! This is why I saved the seeds and planted them all over the place.

My compost won't hold water anymore.

I fell asleep on the couch today, and slept til' after 7:00, so I missed most of my Saturday.

There are too many 'New Post' for me to even consider looking at, so I chose one, and leave the rest to pile up.

My camera is kaput, so I can neither share the cool things going on in my new place, nor super rotate the pics for HBL ;)

Tiny beetles have invaded my tomatoes.

I have some things to vent about current global relationships, but Salty said not to.

Got a dozen Coronation sussex eggs from a friend, and only one hatched.

The weather is so hot, I fear that my Jericho, Grand rapids , Nevada, and Victoria lettuces will bolt before they make it to the hydro.

It rained on the wood I salvaged, and warped some of it. Meanwhile, we are still in a drought. A drought with flooding. :P

I dug up another batch of P. Lutea for Frank (Bigdog) and they fizzled before I could get them in a box.

Wow, nice thread, Howard! I could do this all night.

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Also, the armadillos here which were like small VW beetles are now like VW buses complete with roto-tillers in the front, and plows in the rear.

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lmaoooooooooooo

Bad hair day then?

:08::nanadrink::goteam::birthdaynana::waving:

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I am doing the same thing!! Spaghetti squash is crazy expensive!

Howard... The volume level of the commercials makes me insane!

Bob... We overwintered in our workshop for the first time and after a winter all wrapped up in a plastic tarp and swimming pool solar blanket we opened it all up and found mush. Sooo disapointing but this winter we'll try again in the basement of the old farm house on the property with no plastic covering and see if that works. This photo is last fall of some of them, when we were still full of hope and happiness.


I don't have a picture of the mushy result.

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Plastic does'nt sound good, it could sweat, also maybe no air circ.

For a lot of my non-banana plants I use Fleece. I use it on a Cycas too, it may be ok for a banana. You can buy jacket fleece.

HTH

:waving:

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Yup! It's exactly what happened!

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Got my chainsaw stuck in a tree. It's still there, like Excalibur.

Spent an hour trying to position my greenhouse frame over my NFT tables, only to decide to use boards with the posts that are already holding it up.

Last week I tried to burn the branches, cardboard, and what-not in my compost area. The wind picked up, and I decided to put it out. I sprayed it for 30 minutes. There was no more steam, no more smoke, nothing but a big ol' mud hole. TWO days later, it caught up and burned half my pool area . I lost a lot of grass, all the velutinas, Orinoco, and palms were toasted. My wife called the fire dept, and they used my garden hose to put it out.

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Sorry Pete but this made me laugh out loud! :ha:

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I agree, spaghetti squash is pretty expensive (and pretty hard to open!). I also planted seeds everywhere. Im not very good with growing edible plants (I think I used to get an average of 10 tomatoes a year before I just gave up trying to care for such ugly plants). Squash is a bit nicer looking and its in an area that needed a ground cover plant, so hopefully it will prove to be an ornamental and an edible!
And Im really hoping for fruit from one of my banans this summer. I was originally thinking my Ice cream banana might get it done, but its been 2 days of 85F heat and the newest leaf is just starting to emerge. My saba and one of my basjoos are VERY competative. I just gave then both plant food today. They are working on one leaf a week! By Late June I might already have 6 foot tall plants (they are about 4 feet tall now).

Not really much venting, just a lot of hopes for the yard.

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A chainsaw stuck in a tree? lol. never wrap banana plants in plastic. check that.
i have a ton to vent about! 5 of my hot peppers arent growing very fast. I had to go to my aunts and i took my media player but i cant do that cuz its not polite and had to listen to $%^&* music! Is that polite if i have to listen to that! No!
theres a ton more i could vent about but maybe not now. Were home now and I can listen to anything that I want to listen to!

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OH, MY............word!!

Sorry to hear that Lagniappe :03:

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@ CookieCows, Lagniappe, and Bob. That really blows guyz! i saw a site that sells banana plants and those are expensive. Good luck with your next plants.
I dont have much to vent about but i have a cold and i dont feel very good an i cant go anywhere. =(

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A huge tree fell on our neighbors property so I couldnt go skate! one of the chain saws wont work too and Im using an axe to help chop it all up and stack it and its going to take all day! =(

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:nanadrink::waving::goteam::lurk::08:

Enjoy Kevin!!

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Yesterday all my plants (even my hibiscus) were wilting in the 95F heat. We were very close to breaking a daily record high! Now tonight its going to get down to 51F which is only 3F degrees away from a RECORD LOW! I cant wait until the days are in the 80s and the nights are in the 70s. Fortunately it looks like we will be getting that kind of weather next week (and it should probably stay that way for the rest of the Summer).
It has also been very windy and I have been picking plants up all day. And my fig has been leaning pretty badly lately so I didn't need 45 mph winds to make matters worse!

Complaining is a lot of fun :)

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I did! We had a epic party after we got it all finished.

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I got some splinters but thats all okay now.

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I am venting today Kevin,

You never invited me to your epic...HAHAHAHAH

:waving::waving::waving::waving::waving:

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You can come to the next epic if you bring the monkey too. =D
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My fingers hurt and im trying to play video games! A girl showed me her cat too and now my nose hurts. I cant pet cats cuz im allergic.

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You mean my baby Orangutan?

Leave the video games and rest that finger, or it may drop off :ha::ha::ha::ha::ha::ha::ha::ha:

Tell the girl to lose the cat...:drum::lurk::ha:

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Oh yeah Orangutan. I forgot. Its just where the splinters were on my fingers.
She lost the cat. I just didnt want to lose the cat and the girl. =)

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It's almost 30° WARMER in Wisconsin than it is out here in CA. It's been raining so much my beard is turning green.
The grapes are the size of a pin head & I've had only a handful of loquats get ripe enough to eat.
I'm packing my @#$%^&* bags... :mad:

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:lurk::lurk::lurk: I know what ya mean ! Im tired of this cold wet summer ! Maybe will have a long hot summer once it starts if it starts. Oh well guess its good dont have to water. :08: