The Battle for the Last Post: BATTLE FORTY FIVE

[Catz]

Congratulations to... Moi - Catz! Winner of battle #44

Here are the rules:
1. You may not make more than five consecutive posts.
2. The person who posts the Page Topper on Page 45 WINS [ AKA Post # 661 ]
3. No posts shall be physically threatening.
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8. Be as incoherently random as you want in the posts!
9. No one is to intentionally, or "accidentally" delete posts to 'win' the post number.
10. There will be NO creating secondary accounts/posting as guests in order to award yourself extra posts to claim the winning post number.
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Any post which violates any of those rules will be deleted as soon as possible.

Remember to please follow the rules. We're all here to have fun, and to post the randomness of what happened throughout the day. This is to prevent the countless number of "OMG! Guess what happened to me!" topics.

Here is the list of the previous winners:

Mission ------> Winner(s)
01 -----> CAR's (ChrisW - AKA StarryNight, AcidTrip, Rachj79)
02 -----> Joe Bobbo for BAD (Bobbo, AngelGurl, Doofusbrain)
03 -----> Belle Ringer for WeB (Weedy, Electron.John, Belle Ringer)
04 -----> KingKongus, Tyrannus (AKA Beavarius)
05 -----> Lioness
06 -----> AcidTrip
07 -----> AcidTrip
08 -----> AngelGurl
09 -----> Lioness
10 -----> Ogsta101 (30 page winner), Emmy: Anti-Social Extraordinaire (25 page winner)
11 -----> CeramicCornflake (Page 50 winner), Veromorphia (Page 25 winner)
12 -----> Emmy:Anti-Social Extraordinaire for Team EL (Page 75 winner), Electron.John (page 50 winner), Veromorphia (page 25 winner)
13 -----> Emmy Superlative (page 85 winner)
14 -----> Reflection of Missed Interpretation (page 25 winner)
15 -----> Emmy Superlative (surprise page 55 winner)
16 -----> lingerinsilence (page 30 winner)
17 -----> CeramicCornflake (Page 26 winner)
18 -----> RoMI (Page 15 winner)
19 -----> lingerinsilence (Page 19 winner)
20 -----> Willa Willow (page 100)
21 -----> AngelGurl (Page 20 winner)
22 -----> AngelGurl (Page 20 winner)
23 -----> Willa Willow (page 23 winner)
24 -----> AcidTrip (page 50 winner)
25 -----> Catz77 (page 12 winner)
26 -----> Willa Willow (page 10 winner)
27 -----> Angelgurl (page 10 winner)
28 -----> AcidTrip (page 20 winner)
29 -----> Emmy. (last post of page 40 winner)
30 -----> Catz77 (page 69 winner)
31 -----> CeramicCornflake (page 13 winner)
32 -----> CeramicCornflake (page 23 winner)
33 -----> Emmy. (Page 17 winner)
34 -----> Emmy (Page 3 winner) Mission Goodbye PZ
35 -----> Catz (200 post winner) Mission Reborn!
36 -----> Joe Bobbo (1000th post winner) Millennium Edition!
37 -----> CeramicCornflake (200th post winner) Bicentennial Edition!
38 -----> Emmy (300th post winner) Tricentennial Edition!
39 -----> CeramicCornflake (525th post winner) Mission Joystick Prayer
40 -----> BiocideJ (last post on 9/30/16 winner) Mission Septemberfest
41 -----> Muttado1sb (429th post winner) Mission Bananarama
42 -----> Emmy (last post by 11:59pm (CST) on March 31, 2018) Mission March Madness!
43 -----> Muttado1sb (Last post before Emmy returned)
44 -----> Catz (Last post on page 21, post#315)

[Catz]

Good morning forum!

[Catz]

I can see my bell peppers sprouting !

[RhymeLovingWriter]

Oh my...that's a wonderful feeling! I still haven't gotten pepper or tomato seeds in the pots. We have another freeze period (not too bad...upper 20's) predicted for the coming week and both of those plants like heat. I don't have a heated space (other than the house). I might try them in here for a week or two.

[RhymeLovingWriter]

I've got a few containers of radishes, beets, onions, and very, very tiny seedlings of basil, cilantro, dill, marigolds, luffa (first year trying that), spinach, and catnip (first year on that also) in our new cold frame.

[RhymeLovingWriter]

I'm late getting potatoes out (mainly because I haven't decided where I want to put them). They could have been in the ground a couple of weeks ago already.

[RhymeLovingWriter]

I'm enjoying the tulips, daffodils, surprise lillies, and hyacinth my sisters planted for Mom & Dad before we moved here. They make it look like spring, for sure.

[RhymeLovingWriter]

On a different note, have any of you taken up a new hobby in the past year? I've returned recently to journaling (mostly daily) a few weeks ago and am enjoying it.

[Catz]

I love daffodils. I tried to keep it simple for my first run at gardening. I did go the indoor method. so my sprouts/seedlings are in peat pots and i've kept them in the warmest room in the house because I also do not have a heating pad. I planted the seeds, kept the soil moist, but not wet and covered them until they germinated, then as the leaves popped out I moved them to the windowsill that gets a lot of sun. The bell peppers i think wanted more warmth, I ended up placing those under a lamp on it's own, and voila!

[Catz]

It totally could have been dumb luck LOL
I did buy a beginner's guide to gardening that I read through and referenced, but it really is super introductory, like i don't know much about after the transplant so I'll most likely be looking for another book

[Catz]

I'm so excited to give those root veggies a try though! radishes sound fun!

[Catz]

Gardening would be a new hobby for me, but so far it hasn't been a very active hobby, I am also prepping for chickens which will be new... but my goal is to pick up old hobbies again. I need to finish a crochet quilt I started. I got about 25% done then we sold our house in November and I haven't picked that quilt project back up since .

[RhymeLovingWriter]

Radishes are fun because they usually come up in 4-7 days and are ready for harvest in a month. I don't know if that's true for most radishes, but the kind I got, it is.

As for the flowers, my sisters mostly put them in for my Mom, who loved flower beds, and when we moved here after my parents passed away, we inherited the beauty.

[Catz]

I'll definitely give them a try. Well, if this current run of veggies is successful, then I'll be adding another raised garden bed

[Catz]

So this little book I read (I don't know how accurate it is, as a newbie to gardening) makes a point that you can plant a lot more into a 4x4 raised garden bed, than you can in the same space outside a raised garden bed. I don't know if that is true, since following her instructions, I've only got 5 plants to go into a 4x4 box... but maybe it is because of the type of veggies I've chosen?