Hi, I'm Stacy. I'd been floundering around out there on the internet for a bunch months wasting time and money trying to learn how to make money...and getting nowhere fast. I decided I needed to find people who were already doing what I want to do and learn from them. So here I am.

I've heard so many good things about WA that it seemed foolish not to join. I live in Southwest BC, only about 5 minutes from the Washington/BC border. I have three kids 21, 18, 13, a really fun job with great people at a very unique nursery (but when payday comes...it's still a "j-o-b"), a husband, a dog and two cats.

I love gardening, warm weather, staying home and playing outside with my plants in my yard. My goal with IM is certainly so I can make a large sustainable income for myself and family, but also so I can have the time freedom to play in the garden and just go on a trip or buy a big greenhouse if I want, to just have more choices.

I'd like to have a business sometime soon that involves getting kids hooked on gardening. It's important to pass the love of gardening to the next generation.

My garden is a bit unique, the whole thing is portable and in containers...well over 200 of them now, I haven't counted lately. I stopped after 44 hosta containers alone, 9 cherrry trees, 52 red raspberries...there was more than I wanted to list at the time.
When the summer comes and I plant the potatoes, beans and carrots there will likely be over 300 of them. It's become a living entity all its' own out there and I'm just its' manager.

The focus is food: pink and blue blueberries, red, yellow and purple raspberries, cherry trees, a yellow plum tree, red and purple potatoes, purple, white and yellow carrots, peas, beans, strawberries, red, pink and white currants, kiwis, I'm sure you get the idea. You might notice too that I like colors and the odd colored veggies. There is only one tree that is dug into the ground and a small in-ground perennial patch, all the rest are in bins, tubs, buckets, and containers of all sorts. I even have a few recycle boxes with holes drilled in the bottom.

The rest are perennials, a dozen or two different kinds. But the general theme are flowers that are tall, fragrant, red and white (I am Canadian, eh!) and those that attract hummingbirds and butterflies. It's all set up with stone pathways and ground cover plants, it kind of looks like a nursery. Are you a gardener? Tell me what you are doing/growing and we'll swap stories.

Add me as a buddy if you wish. I look forward to meeting many people here and learning a lot!

I just read over my profile and decided that it's time for an update. I added more detail to the gardening stuff above but the rest is new.

I've been a member here for almost 2 years now. I have made great strides here and learned more than I ever thought I would about computers, the internet, marketing and all three combined. I've met some great people, and received so much help and guidance from nice people just want to help, selflessly and kindly.

I can't see myself ever quitting here, each day seems to bring more cool opportunities and the more I understand about the whole (IM) picture the more exciting it becomes. The opportunities are endless with WA education--just keep on learning and don't quit.

I have 3 websites up and running with a bit of traffic-they all still need more work but had you told me 5 years ago that I would have in my future functioning websites and a beginning knowledge of their workings, I would have died laughing! I was the type whose eyes glazed over any computer speak.

All thanks to WA, I'm changing that and creating a new career out of thin air!.

Anyway, let me know if I can help you in any way. Have a wonderful day!