Re: Collecting - other than plants

> use someday, too.  The older I get, the more I'm learning the less I need.
>
> (I could have saved LOTS of money if I'd learned that much earlier in my
> life. LOL!)

Bonnie, I sometimes think that too, but those things we "wasted" our money
on in the past, I think filled a need at the time.  The collectibles I
purchased gave me a smile at the time but, though I still enjoy them, I'd
rather have a bag of fertilizer.  20 years from now, I wonder what I will
think is important.

I was just talking about this same thing with a friend today and we agreed
that one thing we wouldn't want to be without was a computer with internet
connection.

Kitty
neIN, Z5
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bonnie & Bill Morgan" <wmorgan972@ameritech.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 7:24 PM
Subject: RE: [CHAT] Collecting - other than plants


> Not boring, Pam.  I know you have a good collection of experiences. ;>D
>
> As for me, I do collect Anne McCaffrey books.  I believe I have every one
> she's written and I'm still craving for more.  I may have to start
> collecting her son Todd's books as he has recently begun writing with a
> similar flair as Anne's.
>
> I used to collect precious moments, but one can have too many dust
> collectors.  One case is enough.  I suppose I collect Christmas ornaments
> and decorations.  When we moved here over a decade ago, over half of our
> three car garage was filled with boxes of Christmas items.  It fills most
of
> our attic now.  I am thinking about paring some of that down as we don't
get
> the time to put it all up anymore with our annual Christmas Santa-ing.  I
> have a small but very good collection of Gardening books.  There is a
large
> collection of craft materials of various types (that I don't have time to
> use any more either) and a collection of pressed flowers I want to put to
> use someday, too.  The older I get, the more I'm learning the less I need.
>
> (I could have saved LOTS of money if I'd learned that much earlier in my
> life. LOL!)
>
> Blessings,
> Bonnie (SW OH - zone 5)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
Behalf
> Of Pam Evans
> Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 5:39 PM
> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Collecting - other than plants
>
> Spend most of my time trying to collect my wits!!   Not into "things"
> too much, sorry about that.  Pretty boring huh?
>
>
> On 7/28/05, james singer <islandjim1@verizon.net> wrote:
> > Used to collect Zuni fetishes, but gave most of those to my grandson.
> > Have two of Linares's papier-mbchi fantastic Day of the Dead
> > demons/dragons; I'd have more if I could afford them. Fossils,
> > including one of a fern [Neuropteris scheuchzeri] and several pieces of
> > petrified wood from Washington, DC, Arizona, Colorado, and elsewhere,
> > but also animal remains--fish, crabs, oysters, clams, dugongs, sharks.
> > We also have a fair number of onyx bowls, goblets, and vases from
> > Panamint Valley in Californa, Turkey, Mexico, and elsewhere. And, of
> > course, books. Two rooms with floor-to-ceiling bookcases crammed full
> > and unshelved piles here and there.
> >
> >
> > On Jul 28, 2005, at 3:49 PM, Chapel Ridge Wal Mart National Hearing
> > Center wrote:
> >
> > > I've collected various cat items over the years.  (what a surprise!)
> > > I have
> > > a shelf of cat related books.  I had a sore spot for Harmony Kingdom
> > > Cat
> > > Treasure Jests, Christmas tiles, and figurines.  Some Hagen-Reneker
> > > cats,
> > > too.  And various other cat figurines.  Most of these I've been
> > > selling off
> > > on eBay of late.  For Christmas I have a small collection of Dean
> > > Griff/Charming Tails winter scenes figurines that show raccoons,
> > > bunnies,
> > > mice, etc.  They are a tad too cutesy for every day viewing, but fun
at
> > > Christmastime.  Many of my more interesting cat pieces have come from
> > > my
> > > sister Maureen.  A cat print she brought back from Japan, cat stone
> > > carvings
> > > from Canada and Africa.  Then there are my 5 living-breathing cats.
> > > And the
> > > garden of course has a bit of a cat theme - small cat statues here and
> > > there.  I don't think I overdo it; not everything I own has cats on
it.
> > > Everything I own may have cat FUR on it though!
> > >
> > > So what do you collect?  besides plants.
> > >
> > > Kitty
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: <TeichFlora@aol.com>
> > > To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> > > Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 6:46 AM
> > > Subject: Re: [CHAT] Farms/chat
> > >
> > >
> > >> I used to collect Dept. 56 Dickens village, then got too much.
> > >> However,
> > >> just recently found some Halloween/Thanksgiving stuff from Dept.  56.
> > >>  I
> > > had no
> > >> idea!!!   Geesh, that's all I need.
> > >> HA!  SO....has anyone incorportated the Xmas houses with the other
> > >> holidays??  Was thinking of doing that.  Hadn't put out the village
in
> > > years, just too
> > >> much work for one month...but if I could encorporate the other
> > >> holidays
> > > with
> > >> it....I could leave it up longer.  Hm.
> > >> Noreen
> > >> zone 9
> > >> Texas Gulf Coast
> > >>
> > >> In a message dated 7/22/2005 11:02:21 PM Central Standard Time,
> > >> gardenchat-owner@hort.net writes:
> > >>
> > >> common  thread is D56
> > >>
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> > Island Jim
> > Southwest Florida
> > 27.0 N, 82.4 W
> > Hardiness Zone 10
> > Heat Zone 10
> > Minimum 30 F [-1 C]
> > Maximum 100 F [38 C]
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> Pam Evans
> Kemp TX
> zone 8A
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