What is this a sign of?
By overhere
@overhere (515)
United States
February 19, 2009 10:58pm CST
I am starting to get worried I appear to have, without knowing it, started to collect Garden Gnomes!!!!!!!! Argh what would I have said if someone 20 years ago would have told me I would have begun collecting Gnomes for the garden. OK so admittedly they are only cute quirky ones and we have got a big garden so they hide under bushes and shrubs. But what on earth is this a sign off. Help what am I lacking in my life and what do you suggest?
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@owlwings (43915)
• Cambridge, England
20 Feb 09
Fear not! Garden gnomes are something like cats. They collect you, really. I have the same problem with owls. I started off with a name, then it became a number of related names, then (of course) I needed 'avatars' or pictures to put on my profiles, then I couldn't resist little model owls and now they are taking over my room, my mind and even the house. Just today I had to buy a fluffy (and quite cute) little owl because he was the only one left. My grand daughter already thinks I'm quite cuckoo (or to-whit-to-whoo).
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@overhere (515)
• United States
21 Feb 09
Ooh I love owls! Where I lived in England they nest in the trees opposite my flat and on one particular evening one sat on the railings of my balcony not ten feet from me and we sat eyeballing each other for almost ten minutes. There is something majestic and comforting about their presence and I miss being able to watch and listen to them specially when they were rearing their young so cute. Oh stop it your making me homesick.
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@mysdianait (66009)
• Italy
20 Feb 09
I am not an expert either in garden gnomes or the reasons why people collect them but I did have an idea while reading here.
I know (not because I have experienced it but because I am very aware of what goes on in the world around me 
) that as people age they tend to shrink. They become shorter and can't reach the higher cupboards in the kitchen as well as they used to in earlier years (not because I have experienced.....)
I also know that as people become older they tend to talk to themselves out loud, muttering things to invisible people (again not because I have experienced.....) who others are not seeing. I do know of a person quite old who talks away to others even when there are other people close by but the conversation is not directed at them at all even though it sometimes involves them.
I have seen in some of your earlier posts that you are a keen gardener and adding all these things together I come up with the conclusion that you could be collecting these fellows for later years. Maybe you will be chatting with them instead of to invisible people when you too have shrunk down to their level 
Do you give them names or have they got their own when you acquire them?
as for what people said 20 years ago - piffle! 
) that as people age they tend to shrink. They become shorter and can't reach the higher cupboards in the kitchen as well as they used to in earlier years (not because I have experienced.....)
I also know that as people become older they tend to talk to themselves out loud, muttering things to invisible people (again not because I have experienced.....) who others are not seeing. I do know of a person quite old who talks away to others even when there are other people close by but the conversation is not directed at them at all even though it sometimes involves them.
I have seen in some of your earlier posts that you are a keen gardener and adding all these things together I come up with the conclusion that you could be collecting these fellows for later years. Maybe you will be chatting with them instead of to invisible people when you too have shrunk down to their level
Do you give them names or have they got their own when you acquire them?
as for what people said 20 years ago - piffle!
@overhere (515)
• United States
21 Feb 09
You two are bad (I include you Scoop as Miss Diana needs no encouragement)!
It's funny my sister when she was a child had an imaginary friend (I obviously wasn't good enough company for her) who had to come everywhere we went. Maybe I shall make up and have imaginary friends to talk to in my old age ........ ah ut everyone can see the gnomes so they are NOT imaginary.
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@mysdianait (66009)
• Italy
21 Feb 09
Bad? 
Did your sister talk about you with her friend? 
You imply that when you're old no-one will want to talk to you again but I'm sure that won't be the case. At least you won't have to go far to find company if you have them in your garden.
All gnomes are males too right? That must mean something
Did your sister talk about you with her friend?
You imply that when you're old no-one will want to talk to you again but I'm sure that won't be the case. At least you won't have to go far to find company if you have them in your garden.
All gnomes are males too right? That must mean something 1 person likes this
@lang530339491 (15)
• China
25 Jun 09
l like the environment.term care for thernvironmentis everyone's responsibility.
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@hardworkinggurl (37063)
• United States
8 Apr 11
I saw a recent discussion which was discussing "Garden Gnomes" for a second or two I could not make out what they actually were. So I went to the myLot search bar and noticed your discussion. Once again I asked myself what are Garden Gnomes??
So I went online and search and could not help but chuckle for a minute, when it hit me. Oh goodness I use to collect these too. lol.. Why I have no clue. I just thought they were cute dwarf figures I had grown to enjoy and had them placed in my garden when I use to own my home. No longer owning my home the Garden Gnomes went from Illinois to Arkansas where my boyfriend's mother has her home/garden. I go to visit each summer and for two years there sit my Garden Gnomes. I miss my little guys! 
So to answer you discussion I don't feel you were lacking anything just someone who appreciated the cutesy fellows because I too enjoy(ed) mine. They seem to brighten up my garden with a little added touch. Since this is an old discussion, not sure if you still have your Garden Gnomes, but I am attaching a picture of what I found on the net for the both of us to enjoy.
So to answer you discussion I don't feel you were lacking anything just someone who appreciated the cutesy fellows because I too enjoy(ed) mine. They seem to brighten up my garden with a little added touch. Since this is an old discussion, not sure if you still have your Garden Gnomes, but I am attaching a picture of what I found on the net for the both of us to enjoy.
