Waistie Garden Pouch Give-Away
You Know you are a gardener when…
1. You want to dead head other people’s flowers ~like at the Dr.’s office.
2. Your receive potatoes for your birthday~ and they are in a gift bag!
3. You need to work in your yard all day….and you are happy about it.
4. The Gardening department is your first stop at the home improvement store. 
5. Mosquito netting over your hat sounds like a good idea to you~ Damn gnats!
6. You don’t care how you look while wearing that mosquito netting over your head.
7. In addition to the mosquito netting, acquiring gardening apparel of any kind feels like a wardrobe boost.
8. When it hasn’t rained in a while, and you finally get a good soaking rain ~ you imagine your plants just sighing with relief….. and you are so thankful for not having to water.
9. Your teenagers and/or their friends actually notice your garden AND remark at how nice your yard looks.
10. Strangers stop to ask questions about your different plants ~ and you know the answers.
11. Your favorite shoes are waterproof.
12. You are nodding your head because you can relate to most of these reasons…
Have any others? Let me know!
I will be sending out a Waistie Garden Pouch from Garden Shoes Online to one of you who comments with a good one! I will have the staff at gardenshoesonline.com pick the winner from your comments.
September 6th, 2009 at: 11:39 pm
lolz whenever i come home late or borrow the car from my dad, the first remark is “which plants are you buying these days?”.
September 6th, 2009 at: 11:44 pm
Those are hilarious! I needed the chuckle today. Thanks for stopping by my neck of the woods. You should come back and enter the drawing (a couple of posts back). Thanks for leading me to your blog! Looks wonderful!
September 7th, 2009 at: 5:06 am
hahaha…! so true..! can’t stop smiling…great post, teresa.
September 7th, 2009 at: 10:12 am
Thanks for the good laugh this morning. And thanks for visiting my blog – it’s always nice to hear from people and to discover new gardening blogs to read!
You know you’re a gardener when….
… a visit to a nursery turns into a plant ID session – and if you don’t know the plant you just have to read the tag.
… “I’ll just take a quick look around the nursery” turns into “Ooooh, I just have to buy that one – and that one – and, wow, that one looks great too – and….”
… you know both the botanical and common name of every plant in your garden, but you have a hard time remembering the names of all your grandchildren.
… mud season is your favorite time of year because it means things are finally starting to grow again.
September 7th, 2009 at: 2:36 pm
You know you’re a gardener when, tender plants aren’t your only concern. You also bring ladybugs inside for the winter.
These are always relevant which makes them so much fun. Nice dahlia and bumblebee.
September 7th, 2009 at: 6:28 pm
Dirt under your fingernails!
Somehow gloves don’t seem to stop it.
September 8th, 2009 at: 12:18 am
You know you are a gardener when you’d rather spend money on plants than new clothes. I always hope for gift cards for my birthday so I can buy plants with them.
I was nodding my head and to all of them
September 8th, 2009 at: 7:42 pm
Nice one. I wish I can think of something, too!
September 9th, 2009 at: 12:53 am
Very fun post and I CAN relate to all of the above.
I really like the burgundy painted chair in the photo. Looks so pretty with the setting.
You know you are a gardener when half of the yard lives inside for the winter.
September 9th, 2009 at: 7:43 am
I nodded my head as well, through all of the above, For me (a woman who lives to eat), it is when I head out to the garden in the morning with my cup of tea, and don’t look up, till my husband says at 5:00, “Are you going to garden all day?” This is when I realized that I haven’t eaten all day, AND I didn’t even notice!!!
September 9th, 2009 at: 6:03 pm
your child, at age 3, yells out the car window, “Moonbeam Coreopsis!!!”
Your sister buys you the coolest gift ever, a shopping bag that says, “Hosta la vista, baby”
It kills you to stand there and not pull the weeds in the sidewalk while waiting with your kid for the school bus to come.
September 9th, 2009 at: 8:13 pm
All of these are soo goooood! You guys definitely know what I mean!
September 9th, 2009 at: 8:23 pm
Oh those were good Teresa! But the comment by Wendy about the three year old and Moonbeam Coreopsis brought out a giant guffaw! I haven’t tried the mosquito netting, but have started putting cotton in my ears to stop them from buzzing around in my ears. Now what to do with the nostrils! HA
Frances
September 9th, 2009 at: 11:49 pm
have you been following me??? lol
September 10th, 2009 at: 9:33 pm
I don’t have anything to add but #2, potatoes in a gift bag, made me laugh out loud. I consider my dirty fingernails a badge of honor.
September 11th, 2009 at: 8:36 am
I love it! I can relate completely.
September 15th, 2009 at: 9:46 pm
You get lost in the garden on the way to get the morning paper
You wonder if there are seeds in the dirt under your fingernails
You begin to refer to garden catalogs when people ask what books you’ve been reading
September 15th, 2009 at: 10:53 pm
Thanks to all of you for your fun additions. We all notice the same stuff about ourselves. We must be true gardeners! I will announce the winner on Friday, September 18th. Thanks again for visiting and participating.