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SW Idaho farm hosts 'weed dating' for singles
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2012/jul/15/sw-idaho-farm-hosts-weed-dating-for-singles/*snip*
"The farm is among a handful across the country offering an unconventional form of speed dating. Typically, speed daters meet at a bar or restaurant and switch conversational partners every few minutes, in hopes of finding someone compatible. With weed dating, this rapid-fire courtship takes place on the farm, with singles working together in the fields.
The payoff for their toil? A chance at romance.
Joe Peraino, 27, met his previous girlfriend while weed dating at the Boise farm last year. They were together for nine months and found that few others couples could top their account of how they met, said Peraino, who has since relocated to South Carolina.
"It's a pretty fun story, because it's not like a known thing, weed dating. A lot of people are like, 'So, were you on a pot farm?'"
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( Here's a way to get your weeding done! )
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But it does sound like a fun way to meet people. I was dating a guy for a few months when I let on about how much I loved gardening.
We were out at a restaurant, as I recall, and he asked what I grew. So I started listing a few things - hadn't even gotten started really - and he looked around the room and looked at me and said, "Damn. You need to get a life."
So that was not a match.
Any guy who would show up to weed date has got to be maybe hopefully sort of into gardening...
I'd have to find a friend with a big enough operation who doesn't mind some newbies.
And you're right, there's so much you can learn watching someone in the garden...
Hope you are feeling better these days
Just asking out of curiosity!
And yes, medical cannabis is a far superior analgesic than the pills that have half this mountain addicted to opiates.
Opiate addiction is ugly.
They cause all sorts of issues - with the brain, sleep, eating, digestion. And a heroin addiction, I hear, is easier to kick than an Oxy or Opana one. I feel bad for the folks who got a scrip after surgery or an injury and ended up with a monkey on their back.
Glad you are maintaining, Dear HH!
Now, to the topic at hand - how did you meet your BF and SO?
You have made a great match, the two of you. What are your secrets....okay not ALL of them...but...the relationship ones....and how did you know she was The One? From a gardening perspective, lol
My girlfriend at the time was from a small town in NW PA and I went with her for a visit over Christmas of '84 to check out the college there. One of her best friends showed up at a party in her cousin's trailer. My girlfriend gave each of us "computer flash cards" and my now wife and I got into a duel. A couple of weeks later, she showed up in MD (on a "visit"
. We just clicked from the beginning and still click.
I'm still good friends with the girlfriend, and she's been in a long-term relationship almost as long, but I call her my sister now. "Aunt" to the kids. Sometimes random encounters are just meant to be. I wouldn't trade her for anything.
As for the gardening perspective, she didn't know shit about it. Now she handles most of it. I just can't do it anymore because I can't get off the ground without help now. I just sit in a chair, talk, and watch the eye candy.
I'm always curious about how couples meet each other.
Sorry you are landlocked. Time for her to get you some tabletop gardens so you won't be such a slacker
Have a good one, HH.
One nice thing about really hot weather - really hot clothes. 
I'm not a prude, but not an exhibitionist either.
This year, this Yankee is rather pissed than men can go around topless but I can't! It's been that hot
Love in the garden is scientifucally proven to increase fertility and yield.
Okay, maybe not, but you guys can study it and get back to us
and wishing I was going, speaking of scantily plaid...or clad
And I was speaking of the fertility of the corn and the beans, not the human seed, demon that it is
The Big V is good, as far as removing that worry when you're in those Special Fertile Years.
And yeah, you could do it under a hemlock or a laurel here and no one would be the wiser. If there was no screaming. Then you might attract Sasquatch and that could be distracting.
But i have no AC in my car, so that's where I'm wishing I was a guy. In someplace used to boobies.
And now this thread is dead in 3...2...1