Re: Just Plain Fear

ain't that the truth. I went to Wal-mart today and picked up that plastic
sheeting I was talking about to do a makeshift coldframe for some of my
hardier stuff (I need the room in the greenhouse) and was glad to see that
they were not out of plastic sheeting or duct tape. it was running a little
low though. People amaze me sometimes.

Andrea H
Beaufort, SC
Zone 8b

----- Original Message -----
From: "Island Jim" <jsinger@igc.org>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2003 2:06 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Just Plain Fear


> right on, zem.
>
> i'm with marge on this. if you've ever seen the human condition in
response
> to a hurricane watch, you've seen some of the most bizarre shopping carts
> you will ever see.
>
>
> At 12:19 PM 2/16/03 -0500, you wrote:
> >In a message dated 02/14/2003 1:31:20 AM Central Standard Time,
> >mtalt@hort.net writes:
> >
> >
> > > .  My take is that people have no real clue what to do in
> > > any emergency, not just nebulous terrorist attacks, so they panic and
> > > go out and buy stuff to be doing something.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >Sorry I'm so late in replying to Marge's post.  (I've been busy doing
Master
> >Gardener volunteer hours.)  My attitude toward the whole thing is, "I
drive
> >on the highway."  I came to feel that way after I got an untreatable
cancer 8
> >year after getting radiation therapy to cure my breast cancer.  It's now
been
> >15 years since the first surgery and 8 years since the second.  I suppose
> >either could return, but (and this is my point) I drive on the highway
> >everyday and probably stand a greater chance of dying there.  I don't
> >unnecessarily endanger my life, but I am sure as the devil not going to
waste
> >a minute of it being afraid of something I can't do anything about in the
> >first place!
> >
> >BTW, I paid $1.61+ for regular gas on Friday.
> >
> >zem
> >zone 7
> >West TN
> >
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