Members Roll Call, Lets all check in and say hi?

[Ken Johnson]

We all like to see who's out there from time to time so check in,. Leave your avatar here so we can all get to know each other a little better. A short story about your palms or a question about IPS would be welcomed.

In the past we have had other great threads come from on line meetings like this and many "palmy" friendships have been established. WE can even talk about the future here and what you would like to see from the IPS and PalmTalk. Please feel free to share.

A few palm pictures would be nice too!

Ken Johnson

Checking In!

[dalmatiansoap]

Ante aka Dalmatiansoap

Checking in from Croatia!

[doranakandawatta]

Again I thank Palmtalk!

Yesterday I googled "Asterogyne" by the pics and found a thread started by Realarch in 2010 about the growth in his garden: wonderful pictures, nice comments but the thread seems to be extinct now.

This is the way I discovered Palmtalk, and next came to IPS.

I feel well with you all. And so many times impressed by your Dypsis monsters or Hawaiian Clinostigma!

Maybe my Verschaffeltias make someone jealous ?

Kindest regards

Philippe

[Walter John]

Ring ! Ring ! Bellhop ? take my luggage to chatroom 14, I'll be in the Caryota bar, oh and let mister Johnson know I've checked in, here's a dollar, put it in the jukebox at around 9pm, select song E 54, I'll explain later.....Oh Gwen !, hi !, I didn't expect to see you here...

[sarasota alex]

If I knew what this winter was going to be like ahead of time, I would've planted a piggy and a lipstick.

Alex

[paulgila]

paulgila checking in. still palm crazy after all these years

[BS Man about Palms]

This is me checking in this morning from my palmy, weedy mess in So California this morning..

[sur4z]

just chillin...

[Cindy Adair]

Cindy/apaandssa from Virginia and PR checking in as requested. Way too cold for outside in Virginia today, but holding about 60 F at 2 pm on a cloudy day in my greenhouse. No new palms to photograph so this variegated Aeschynanthes (Lipstick vine) will have to do.

[Stevetoad]

Here! Pritchardia says spring is in the air too

[waykoolplantz]

Stopped by to help Dr Balasky pick up some donated lunches for the schoolchildren of Madagascar.

His Alfredii are getting very big. They were planted 2 years before even being named. I stop back and take some pics.

Thanks to Nancy and the wonderful volunteers

[Kim]

Here!

...there, and everywhere.

[Daryl]

Checking in from over here...who'd have thought we were in severe drought a couple of weeks ago?

[Alicehunter2000]

Checking in from the cold job site in the North..........

[ErikSJI]

I am still here.

[Tampa Scott]

Also here.

[trioderob]

YO

[Xerarch]

Cold and snowy here in WV right now, the only palm I currently own is a needle, one day I'll be back in a palmy climate!

[DoomsDave]

Check in?

I almost never check out . . .

[bgl]

Checking in from Leilani Estates! With Dypsis prestonianas dotting the landscape!

[Bill Austin]

Hello Hello is there anybody in there ?

[Texeltropics]

Hi..Nice to see all the posts...Thanks to IPS my world became a lot bigger the last few years. I met a lot of people on the chat. We talk often and it is great! I have made a lot of friends here thanks everyone!

[PANGEA EXPRESS]

Checkin in from the land of the giants

[Gileno Machado]

Boa noite caros amigos...

[palmislandRandy]

Still here .................By the way, is winter over yet?

[PalmatierMeg]

Here in palmy Cape Coral, FL. At least I'm trying to make it that way. Here are some views of my 25 x 25' backyard jungle.

[MASOALA JASON]

In Austin, Texas, where this winter is one for the palms!

[tjwalters]

Still here...with a picture from 3 years ago:

[Benjamin D.]

Checking in! Here is my box of plants at college...my palms and cycads are at home in sunny texas! I agree with Jason, this winter in Texas has been really nice! I have been watching the weather.

[Benjamin D.]

[Kennybenjamin]

I'm here too, attached palms unfortunately not mine but a bit of eye candy for everyone..... Bit like show and tell at school isn't it!

[Ntheastpalms]

I'm back after a long absence & I must say there are some beautiful palms on display. I'll have to get the camera out and take a couple of pics

[Shirleypalmpaws]

Brand spankin' new here, this is my first post. My name is Shirley. I was born and raised in Alaska but now living in Florida. My husband, Michael, originally from NY and CT, has worked in rescue with the military and that's how we met, and eventually got here....and here, to us, is a beautiful place. We have three white shepherds (one has a little bit of Siberian running thru her veins)....one chihuahua and one cat. We're actively involved with training, tracking, agility, etc., with all our dogs...including the almost 4lbs of chihuahua. We want to go full time with working dogs after Michael retires, with his eye on search and rescue, mine on physical-therapy (imagine Keek in the avatar pulling a wheelchair!), so our whole world seems to revolve around that goal....but....it's not all work and we're both palm crazy. Actually, it was Joe Alf who sparked that fire and then Bernie Peterson who flamed it, because we were mere closet palm people before those two fellas.

They told us to join IPS and CFPACS, but I think I goofed up signing up on their board....I don't really know...l swear there is a bowl of oatmeal inside my head as opposed to any measurable IQ. I'm very, very fumble prone lately and probably will dork up a lot more before I'm finished. On top of that, I have a new-to-me-lap-top-format-dealy-o-thingy called apple to figure out, and then even more worse, my credit card got hi-jacked (resolved)-----that really freaked me out....had made an order to seabreeze nurseries....and didn't want them to think I'm a bad customer.....then wrote them this morning to help me because now I think one palm might be lost in the postal system. And I want to join IPS and/or CFPACS but don't want to mess up that. Good grief, it feels like I've told everybody my whole life story. And all that tmi for just one question.......can two persons, Michael and I, join once with one membership to IPS via CFPACS or how does that best work? Have mercy, that's technically two or three or maybe even more questions in one, right?

Me, Cris, Trin, and Michael.

...and here's some last August new additions to our family.

It took me hours -hours I tell you!- to figure out how to upload pictures. Hoping they show, but if not, well, it's okay, I'll try again later on. Hopefully, I did not blow up the internet.

[Breadfruit Bill]

Hey Yall! DeBoe Family checking in.... We are still on PT, just kinde been in hiding for the last couple years... Moved to an apartment by the beach in Boca andd have no palms, but we have been working hard and saving to prepare for our impending move to Hawaii in the next couple years. Glad ya'll are still here and Palmtalk is so strong!

[BS Man about Palms]

VERY COOL hearing from the new and "missing" people!!!

[realarch]

Tim here in Hilo.......checking in.

All is well and the garden is growing like mad.

[Kostas]

This is Konstantinos,checking in...

Happy end of winter everyone!

[Hammer]

Like many others here, rare is the day when I am not on PT. But just to make it official, I'm here. Hello!

[Bill Schmidt]

Saludos desde Rincón, Puerto Rico. New surf shack/smokehouse, pool next?

Bill

[Perito]

Mid-Winter Greetings from Grover Beach, California. Actually we don't usually have much of a Winter here, but this year in California we did have a cold spell!