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What a rollercoaster ride!!! Thanks to steemit and all of you wonderful bloggers and jokesters and artists and techies and gurus and gardeners...and the rest of you blokes, too!!

I have either hit or am just shy of some gardenlady milestones...

Wallet: 20,000 steem POWER!

Followers: almost 350! Follow me! I just need 3 more! any new followers and I'll follow you back!

Posts: almost 1000! (if you respond to this post, I'll respond back - just need 9 more!)

TIME ON STEEMIT: 50 WEEKS! My one year anniversary will be May 4!

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I was very lucky...really, just blind luck...that I fell upon steemit almost a year ago and began posting about gardening among mostly posts about cryptocurrency! For many many years I had been posting on a very popular local site in my town - but it was about local politics and other things, and well, I had really become quite bored with it.

Enter a chance encounter with steemit. I decided to share my passion for gardening and it has paid off in so many ways. Mostly I am happy for this new supportive community, but also excited to be part of this sky-rocketing steemspace!! It's been a steep learning curve learning about crypto and blockchain and steem. I have been stock-piling the steem power and am kind of worried the day I try to figure out how to get any cash out of it... But HEY! maybe I won't have to worry if I just buy stuff directly with steem! I plan to stay with this for the long haul, so its quite possible the world will catch on and we all do business right here on the steem blockchain!

I'm not a super-regular poster, I come here in fits and starts, but I love it. There is always something new and interesting going on. It's happening, and I'm glad and proud to be a part of it.

Thanks everyone, and Happy Gardening!
-gardenlady

scenes from 2016, (all from my own garden except the zinna close-up and all taken by my iphone 6+ )

oh yes, this is me :-)