G'day to all our members.

Despite decreasing postings by members, as well as the cessation of further participation, in the forum, by some, PLUS the complete LACK of any participation, whatsoever, by many members (why they bother to join I'll never know), I would like to assure everyone that A Patio Garden will not close down as long as I am still breathing. Nor will I EVER ask members to contribute funds to keep us going.

This forum is a very much valued part of my life & I shall not be throwing it away, no matter what. It will continue, whether or not members post, & remain a safe place for all members to participate in.

Good for you Joy, with you all the way.
Have had a terrific time with the brothers i never knew i had,been a bit hectic but back to normal now and have some bits i want to post once i have sorted them out.

Went to grandsons university graduation ceremony yesterday, felt very ,very proud of him for what he has
achieved.

Many, many thanks, BigBilly.

So happy for you & you have had a wonderful summer meeting up with your unknown brothers, despite the unusually bad weather you have been experiencing. Your grandson's university graduation would have been the icing on the cake. Can completely understand your well-deserved pride in his achievements.

Congratulations, BB. Looking forward to your posts, they are always so interesting.

I am so guilty of the decreasing posts you mention Joy, but I really have been so upside down here. I am glad to hear that you are not closing down!!. Things will pick up Joy!
I honestly have not had time to go out and take pictures, I have taken one or two but still cannot find them. I lost a lot of stuff on my PC when it went in to be fixed or it is hiding somewhere? My computer is so slow. It took an age for BB's houses to load, and when I posted a reply I had to do it several times. I was lucky they loaded, your Zygo photos would not load for me, even after several refreshes of my screen ?? I am going to copy this post as I expect I shall have to send this several times too. It tells me to re submit my form submission every time I post. I do try every now and then to see if things are getting better.

well what do you know ! I did it on the first try

It must be the threads with pictures that is a problem for me ??

Many thanks, Dawn, for persisting with your posts. It is a mystery as to why you are having problems in seeing the pics. Could your IPS be overloaded or something, such as having difficulties coping with increasing traffic, perhaps?? Also your avatar is missing for me & there is just the little Chrome square which appears when a pic's URL isn't in action.

I was just letting everyone know that even if things on APG slowed down to just me posting ( ) it won't be closing down. It is thanks to everyone's busyness that Forumotion awarded APG a free domain name renewal this year. Yahoo!!!

Hi Joy, I doubt it has anything to do with your forum it happens to me with just going into the mail sometimes. DH says it is the internet. It does not happen everytime but it does happen everytime on APG photo threads. But I cannot blame my lack of posts on a slow internet here entirely. My bathroom is still untiled, not a train smash I am rather getting used to looking at cement now . I had a garden service come in to tidy the lawn, I hurt my shoulder and it is out of commission. He is a young chap who has opened up a garden service he has been doing garden jobs in our area since he was thirteen. But why I mention it his bicycle was stolen while he was here yesterday I felt awful for him. They were working out front and in the back and the gate was open.
Congratulations on your free domain renewal
As regards my avatar missing ?? must be due to the problems I am having from this side as it is still up I have not taken it off at all. DH has a birthday today, and we are off to have a breakfast, as he is working tonight as opposed to today, something to do with simulator training ?? Any how I will have to run off now to get ready.
hope to see you later.

Thanks Dawn. It was a delightful surprise when I realised we had been awarded the gift from Forumotion. I was thrilled, actually.

Happy birthday, to DH, Dawn. We hope you had a lovely breakfast.

Fancy stealing a bike from your yard. That is a terrible thing to happen to a young person trying his best to get a business up & running. Do hope he bounces back from this. It is such a mean thing to steal from anyone, let alone someone who is probably not that well off themselves & is just trying to earn some honest money. He deserves to get ahead as he seems to have plenty of entrepreneurial spirit & get-up-&-go.

He is very bounce back Joy! he said 'never mind' this has happened before. I am off to get my bike back, and I will get it back! . I really hope he does!. He did such a good job of cleaning up here too. Ah well! I told him next time he should bring it in out of the front section. Grrr makes me cross to think of these things happening! anyway...
The breakfast was lovely thanks! Thank you for the birthday wishes I will pass them on to him.

That is good to hear on both counts, Dawn. Do hope the young bloke retrieves his bike. He certainly deserves to succeed in life.

Did you put some candles in DH's brekkie??

Great news Joy! I would be sad if there were no APG. I am one of those slow posters especially this time of the year and also trying to keep my own place going. It is slow also and I try to come up with new ideas. Currently I am working on an area for members past jobs and it is starting out great. Perhaps something of this nature could work here too.

Your idea for jig saw puzzles was a fantastic one but I got behind on them only to appear occasionally now to work them.

My gardening has been depressing the last 6 weeks and I get to sad to even try to post about it. There will be next year.

I love it here and understand your feelings for not ever wanting to close APG!

Thanks, Glad. That is a shame about your veggie garden & your summer heatwaves. Do hope it doesn't make you feel too depressed. Hopefully, things may pick up near your fall. Just some positive thoughts. We have to be like this where gardening is concerned, don't we??

We were lucky enough to be granted a gift of a free domain name, by Forumotion, this year. This was really exciting & I never realised this until I had organised the credits, through PayPal, to pay for this year's domain name. Now we have 1600 credits just sitting there.

Wow Joy. I never understood the credits thing. I am happy for you and APG.

About my garden.....well it was good at first....there is always next year.....currently I have been down with arthritis but not depressed from the garden thank goodness.

1600 credits is roughly $20, Glad, but we have to buy euros, through PayPal, to pay for our domain name.

So sorry to hear that arthritis is causing you some problems. I am thankful that I haven't this to limit my activities as I am already hampered enough by other stuff. Do hope it doesn't cause you too much stress.

Glad E Olah wrote:Great news Joy! I would be sad if there were no APG. I am one of those slow posters especially this time of the year and also trying to keep my own place going. It is slow also and I try to come up with new ideas. Currently I am working on an area for members past jobs and it is starting out great. Perhaps something of this nature could work here too.

Your idea for jig saw puzzles was a fantastic one but I got behind on them only to appear occasionally now to work them.

My gardening has been depressing the last 6 weeks and I get to sad to even try to post about it. There will be next year.

I love it here and understand your feelings for not ever wanting to close APG!

You are not alone in being down about your garden Glad, Its been one of the worst years I can remember,
Because of the cold, wet weather there were no insects to pollinate some of the veggies so I reckon the yields are down by half. Things have bucked up a bit now and we are having good weather at the moment
so perhaps it will help with some of the later crops.

Hey we are getting rain and have been for 4 hours now!

Like you BBilly.....a fall crop may be in order!