You were my inspiration!

[billbird2111]

My thanks to Carolyn Male and her wonderful book that opened up a whole new world to me.

My thanks also to Craig LeHoullier and his patient advice, Thomas Matkey for the best cage design I've ever seen, Mary-Anne Durkee for her solutions to every problem under the sun, and all of you on this board and on other tomato websites.

All of your help resulted in the formation of FOHL -- Fruit of the Heir Loom -- and the following article that appeared yesterday in the Sacramento Bee.

http://www.sacbee.com/165/story/387619.html

Thanks to this article, and the interviews I conducted, about five group members ran out over the past week and bought Carolyn's bible. That includes the Bee reporter. She just loves it.

You'll notice that the website for Tomato Mania is listed in this article -- so you might find yourselves with some new members.

Bill
Sacramento, CA

[Rena]

It is always nice to see people share a love of tomatoes.8) Thanks for posting the article.

[dcarch]

Originally Posted by billbird2111

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All of your help resulted in the formation of FOHL -- Fruit of the Heir Loom -- and the following article that appeared yesterday in the Sacramento Bee.
http://www.sacbee.com/165/story/387619.html
-so you might find yourselves with some new members.
Bill Sacramento, CA

Based the information from that group:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TomatoMania/

It plots out the following graph which gives a visual view of members' message posting habits based on each month of the year.




dcarch

[Mischka]

Thanks for the endorsement.

New members have been joining all morning.

[TomatoDon]

I love these kinds of messages.

Don

[carolyn137]

My thanks to Carolyn Male and her wonderful book that opened up a whole new world to me.

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And thank you for that Bill.

I've been interviewed a couple of times by sacbee and both times it was a very nice man but I can't remember his name.

Very nice article but my heavens there are quite a few great places for buying tomato seed that were left out.

Most of those places are all purpose veggie/fruit/flower places but not the specialty places that most folks here use for tomato seed.

Ah well, you're getting the message out and that's what counts.

Does that T-shirt come in 1X or 2X? I like them loose.

[billbird2111]

Originally Posted by carolyn137

My thanks to Carolyn Male and her wonderful book that opened up a whole new world to me.

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I've been interviewed a couple of times by sacbee and both times it was a very nice man but I can't remember his name.

Does that T-shirt come in 1X or 2X? I like them loose.

I'm not sure about the man Carolyn, but you've made a new fan in Pat Rubin. In fact, she plans on doing a later feature on the book itself, plus Tom Matkey's PVC tomato cage design. So, she might be bugging me in the very new future for contact info for you... :wink:

That shirt is in 3X..It should be smaller, but you know all about Spinal Stenosis, don't you? It just destroyed my exercise regimen....

[carolyn137]

That shirt is in 3X..It should be smaller, but you know all about Spinal Stenosis, don't you? It just destroyed my exercise regimen....

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I sure do know all about spinal stenosis which you probably knew if you were brave enough to read my ongoing medical exploits and that thread was started by someone else.

I'm just about thru with another month and a half bout of it which meant no outpatient PT for the right hip/fractured femur b'c when one is bent over at a 90 degree angle getting out to the car and all that jazz is not possible.

All well, me fingers work .

[Worth1]

"""""I'm just about thru with another month and a half bout of it which meant no outpatient PT for the right hip/fractured femur b'c when one is bent over at a 90 degree angle getting out to the car and all that jazz is not possible.:sad:""""

Carolyn not trying to side swipe the thread but I can tell you I have had to watch my wife for the last two years bent over like that because of the tumor that was next to her spine.
Some times I want to try and straiten her out myself. I know it would be stupid do so.
In some sort of way at least I can see what you are going through. She is getting better.

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I do wish they would have put up more links to tomato seed suppliers than they did but it is nice to see the new members coming on board.

Worth

[billbird2111]

Originally Posted by carolyn137

That shirt is in 3X..It should be smaller, but you know all about Spinal Stenosis, don't you? It just destroyed my exercise regimen....

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I sure do know all about spinal stenosis which you probably knew if you were brave enough to read my ongoing medical exploits and that thread was started by someone else.

Oh yes, I read it. Carolyn, I was one of the lucky ones. Surgery solved my problem. It doesn't hurt anymore. I know surgery is not always an option, nor is it always successful. Which is why I say, I'm one of the lucky ones.

I have TWENTY new members to the group thanks to that newspaper article! More continue to roll in. We could be up to 100 or more next spring if this keeps up.