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You Know You're a Palm Nut When...

Post by lucky1 » Sun Jan 13, 2008 10:38 am

...you run the dishwasher (half-full) and open its door before Dry just to get more humidity for your palms. :?
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Post by Cali-wanna-b » Sun Jan 13, 2008 1:10 pm

You Know You're a Palm Nut When:

You take a shower with the bathroom door open so the humidity can get in the next room.

You are more interested in trying to ID the palms in the back ground as you watch CSI Miami.

You have to park your car in the driveway because your two car garage is full of palms....LOL lot of guilty looks about this one!

IF you drive 50 miles with your car looking like this.....


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Sorry Barb, I couldn't resist. :lol:

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Post by lucky1 » Sun Jan 13, 2008 1:14 pm

s'all right :wink:

I see NOTHING wrong with ANY of your examples!
Good on 'ya :D
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Post by Alchris » Sun Jan 13, 2008 3:45 pm

You buy a hygrometer and put the remote sensors in the middle of your palms (and bananas).

Your spouse puts palm seedlings in your bedroom so that she can put the humidifier in the same room.

Your spouse rides in the back seat and the new palm rides in the front seat.

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Post by lucky1 » Sun Jan 13, 2008 4:23 pm

Ha ha Allen!

another one:
You don't mind the mold in the bathroom 'coz it means the humidity is up! :?

This is fun...nice to have a chuckle.
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Post by Okanagan desert-palms » Sun Jan 13, 2008 7:07 pm

LOL :lol: The wife and I had a good laugh at what a palm nut I am. She really likes palms now "or else" LOL. Cali you seem to be in the same boat with your palm addiction re: Palm-garage.Barb you must have gotten some strange looks down the highway with your palm filled car.

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Post by lucky1 » Sun Jan 13, 2008 7:13 pm

John,
"re funny looks"
I don't know...I couldn't see out the windows :?
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Post by ChattanoogaChris » Sun Aug 31, 2008 10:42 pm

i rode 400 miles with a suv full of windmills washies and sagos, from mobile,al to Chattanooga, Tn

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Post by lucky1 » Mon Sep 01, 2008 1:13 pm

Chris, 400 miles!
Perfect!
You're inducted into the palm nut club...

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Post by macario » Tue Sep 29, 2009 5:17 am

great stuff!!

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Post by hardyjim » Fri Oct 02, 2009 2:07 pm

You spend your money on palms instead of paying your bills,well dah,I guess that's obvious :oops:
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Post by ScottyON » Fri Oct 02, 2009 6:38 pm

When you smuggle palms across the boarder not booze...

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Post by DesertZone » Fri Oct 02, 2009 8:13 pm

ScottyON wrote:When you smuggle palms across the boarder not booze...
I don't even live in Canada and I can relate to this. Every time I send some cactus pad or yucca it makes me feel like I'm going to jail. :lol:
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Post by macario » Sat Oct 03, 2009 6:01 am

This all great stuff ive done it all as well.

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You know you're a palm nut when...

Post by lucky1 » Mon Jan 17, 2011 2:41 pm

Time to resurrect this fun thread, and add more.

...when the softest flannel bedsheet is on the wood floor around the palms at the window (to catch misting drips).
Old bargain version is on the bed.

...during bathroom renovations, you select a pedestal sink so you have space for a palm.
And no place to store facecloths, towels or TP anymore.

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Post by TimMAz6 » Mon Jan 17, 2011 6:33 pm

when purchasing a new house your interested in the microclimates instead of the house.
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Post by TerdalFarm » Mon Jan 17, 2011 8:14 pm

I know I've used this one before, but it always gets me funny reactions:

"You heat the house with wood and the trees with electricity?!?"

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Post by DesertZone » Mon Jan 17, 2011 8:31 pm

TerdalFarm wrote:I know I've used this one before, but it always gets me funny reactions:

"You heat the house with wood and the trees with electricity?!?"
:lol:
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Post by hardyjim » Tue Jan 18, 2011 7:44 am

You turn the heat way up(80F) to get some extra growth out of your indoor palms.....
until the $300 bill comes for your 1 bedroom apt and you decide they do most of their
growing in summer anyway-thermostat goes back down to 60F
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Post by canadianplant » Thu Jan 20, 2011 11:05 am

... when you move 2500km accross the country, with a huge box full of plants..... only to move back 2 years later, with a even bigger box to bring some home. rather then game consoles and bedding, and pet fish ( went to a great home BTW)
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Post by tropicman » Thu Jan 20, 2011 2:30 pm

When you own over a 1000 of them,and you think to yourself,it just my little hobby!!!

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Post by lucky1 » Thu May 12, 2011 2:20 pm

During a cool/non-existant spring, you haul 90 pound palms out the door mid-morning every day, only to haul them back in at supper time.

Considering a season's pass with the Chiropractor... :?

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Post by TerdalFarm » Thu May 12, 2011 7:29 pm

I have that season's pass. My chiropractor referred me to a physician, who ordered MRI's of my lower back. After seeing those, he is sending me to an orthopedic doc. next week. I think the actual palms are the cheap part of this hobby.
:shock:
As for money, I'm selling the goats
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as they did a number today on the avatar Butia's emerging spear. :evil:

Anyway, all palms are out of the house until October frost or a goat gets them :lol:

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Post by RJ Tropic » Tue Dec 06, 2011 1:24 pm

......when your palms are not in the ground yet and you have already bought thermo cubes and c9 Xmas lights!

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Post by hardyjim » Tue Dec 06, 2011 4:38 pm

Your plants are to big to bring up stairs so
you haul them upstairs unplanted and pot them up upstairs.
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Post by TerdalFarm » Tue Dec 06, 2011 4:41 pm

:lol:

Good one.
W did that with my jelly palm this week--dug it up from the farm and took it to a friend's house.
I guess we're both palm nuts.....

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Post by seedscanada » Tue Dec 06, 2011 6:19 pm

TimMAz6 wrote:when purchasing a new house your interested in the microclimates instead of the house.
Guilty! Moved 30km from zone 6a to zone 7a with plenty of south facing walls and fenceline.
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Post by lucky1 » Tue Dec 06, 2011 7:53 pm

:lol: :lol:

You have sooooooo many palms, you need to consider who'll get them and add the name to the will.
(coz nobody else wants them) :evil3:

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Post by DesertZone » Tue Dec 06, 2011 9:35 pm

TimMAz6 wrote:when purchasing a new house your interested in the microclimates instead of the house.
Thats my kind of thinking. :lol:
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Post by oppalm » Wed Dec 07, 2011 6:00 am

.... first thing you do when you wake up in the morning is check your remote temperature sensors in your plam huts to see what the low/high was last night to determine if your heat came on and worked properly. Its the simple things in life that bring great joy.
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Post by damir » Sat Dec 24, 2011 2:08 am

when you dream that "the global warming" will come soon, and erase all the winters in future and the low temps for ever, so u could grow all kind of palms and exotics. as it is a new religion...hahahahaha "once when it comes"..... "palms will grow everywhere !!!!" :roll: you wont have big bills for the electricity!! no watching weather forecast every day and have fear that something might froze this year!! please come the "holy global warming" :lol: who is with me?? just joking. rgds

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Post by lucky1 » Sat Dec 24, 2011 7:04 am

I'm with you, Damir.

That's why I grow palms...hoping for warmer winters.
Not hotter summers.

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Post by hardyjim » Sat Dec 24, 2011 8:34 am

oppalm wrote:.... first thing you do when you wake up in the morning is check your remote temperature sensors






.................. all 10 displays




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Post by TerdalFarm » Sat Dec 24, 2011 8:55 am

...you spend a night and day on a Mexican bus to spend Christmas with palms, vs. with family in the snow.

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Post by igor.glukhovtsev » Sat Dec 24, 2011 9:00 am

A price we pay... or, sorry, you, Erik, pay... Merry Christmas! feliz Navidad!, felices Pascuas!
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Post by DesertZone » Sat Dec 24, 2011 9:24 am

damir wrote:when you dream that "the global warming" will come soon, and erase all the winters in future and the low temps for ever, so u could grow all kind of palms and exotics. as it is a new religion...hahahahaha "once when it comes"..... "palms will grow everywhere !!!!" :roll: you wont have big bills for the electricity!! no watching weather forecast every day and have fear that something might froze this year!! please come the "holy global warming" :lol: who is with me?? just joking. rgds
I'm with ya! but the more I wish the colder it gets here. :x

Colder than normal here, but without any snow it feels much warmer. :P
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Post by Okanagan desert-palms » Sat Dec 24, 2011 12:37 pm

I`ll add to this. You go to Mexico meet some new friends that know nothing about palms. Rent a car ask them to come for a drive. You then see a palm nursery on the other side of the road do a u turn and invite your new friends to look at all the palms while you take pics. Now drive a little father see Christmas palms with ripe seeds got to stop again run across 4 lanes of traffic to collect seeds. We finally make it to the flea market 2 hours later and I don`t buy a thing. Spend the next day "friends decline any more free rides with us" driving down the coast on the hunt for more seeds. Put seeds in pockets of my shorts and my fiance`s laundry to smuggle home :lol: . Barb I have some seeds for you duty free! :D Feliz Navidad
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Post by hardyjim » Sat Dec 24, 2011 1:49 pm

Nice ,nice,nice.






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Post by DesertZone » Sat Dec 24, 2011 3:04 pm

Awesome John, did you just get back?
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Post by Okanagan desert-palms » Sat Dec 24, 2011 4:07 pm

Thanks Aaron and Jim. We got home yesterday. I`ll post more palm pics soon.


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