It's been yet another unbelievably loooooooong and excedingly tiring day, moving things to our new, infinitely more spacious, wonderful home. Waaaayyyy surprised I'm still even awake! Here's a listing of Terry's thoroughly fab, generous/wonderful box contents: "Lucious Lilac" tea candles - Mmmmm,...scentsational! A deliciously scented candle in a jar. Garden gloves with polychromatic flowers - Definitely Elly's. :) Tin of "Before and After" mint candies--Peppermint and Cinnamon - Since the candies are sugar free and I'm diabetic,...the contents are mine! Elly can have the 3-D lips tin. Ordinarily I'm big on saving useful tins, but in this case I'll make an exception. :) Elf/Gnome pot percher - Kewlest! Shultz "Multi Cote" time release plant food - Yeah, baby! Feed the plants that feed us! Rooster themed kitchen towel - Perfect! Not collecting, but we're're never the less a rooster oriented family, overall, since El's sister, Sharla, consistently enters a rooster in the "National Rooster Crow Championship" contest, held in our neighboring city of Rogue River. 4 oz tin of "Harvey & Son" Spiced Plum herbal tea - Saving this for when we're all moved in to our new digs. Smallish "Spring" birdhouse & "Welcome" metal flower decorations. Resin seed-n-gardening hats plant poker decorations. A wonderful "Father's Love Letter" Christian mini-poster." A "Come Away My Beloved:" Christian devotional book, featuring numerous KJV Scripture selections, by Frances J. Roberts (1.4 million copies sold as of 2002) - Terry, we thank you so much and I especially appreciate the large print! :) A wonderful, informative, 3D-ish homemade flower card! Reeeally nicely done! Plants, etc.: Allium moly luteum (aka Golden Garlic) - 20 bulbs Nandina Domestica bush Mixed Iris rhizomes - Love purdy surprizes! Pink Yarrow (Achillea millefolium rosea) Rose Campion (Lychnis coronaria) Planted all in large containers at our new residence. Extreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeme apologies for taking this long to post,...but lately, with all we've been doing (often well into evening hours), as soon as I'm able to finally kick back and relax, can't help it but I just crash-out. - Nearly there this evening as it is. Haven't moved in 23 years. Oy! You better believe we'll be doing a yard sale!! :) Bless you, your entire family, and major thanks, Terry!! :) - Darrin, Elly and Roy

Me too! I got 7 cards today. My first day I received them. Jodie(Jodie74) sent me plenty of zinnia and gaillardia seeds Lisa(pumpkingal) sent me zinnia orange, gaillardia, black eyed susans and daisy (what a nice selection) Angelu(yotetrapper) sent me moon & stars watermelon and jarrahdale pumpkin (I have to look these up - am excited for these) Iris(rane_grow) - fanfare blanket flower Lynn(fearadun) - gaillardia (red/yellow), mutant marigold, calendula (unique card) Ellie(farmergirl) - canna , zinnia and gaillardia Katie(redthreaddiy) - canna, balloon flower and gaillardia (I will check out your website soon - I like that you put what type it is in your own seed packet like half - hardy - I think I messed up some seeds before due to that) I'm excited to start wintersowing. I thank you so much for the nice cards and seeds. I will attach all these cards to my wall... Thank you Kym for setting this up. It involves a lot of time to organize this. I will have various zinnias and gaillardia. =-) Hope they will flower the first year. Michelle

"Don't do peanuts - mostly not peanut butter. I had scarlett feaver and a relapse as a child. The Ranger Hal show was giving away Schwinn bikes for Schindler's peanut butter labels. They kept talking about it and that really made me sick." Gneegirl, can you explain a little more? I had Scarlet Fever when I was 5 years old, and I know that Scarlet Fever has nothing whatsoever to do with peanuts or peanut butter. Is it just that you had Scarlet Fever and because you were sick and didn't feel well the constant commercials for the bike and talk of peanut butter labels "got to you" and now peanut butter brings back bad memories?

Just ditched the trilogy of Foundation by Asimov . I read Foundation and I quit them when I was halfaway through The Foundation and the Empire; I enjoyed the series when I read them more than twenty years ago, but at the moment I found them too "episodics" and not so riveting IÂm leaving to my loved mountains the day after tomorrow, and IÂm taking along, four Graham Greene novels: - The Heart of the Matter (a re-read) - The Human Factor (also a re-read) - The Ministry of Fear - and - Monsignor Quixote two George OrwellÂs - Burmese Day (re-read) and - Coming up for Air Robertson Davies - Fifth Business Alasdair Gray - Poor Things; IÂm really intrigued by this one. From the back cover What strange secret made beautiful, tempestuos Bella Baxter irresistible to the poor medical student Archie McCandless? Was it her queer origin in the home of monstruos Godwin Baxter, the genius whose voice could perforate eardrums? This story of love and scientific daring storms through Victorian operating theatres, continental Casinos and a Parisian brothel to its happy end in a decent, old fashioned Scottish marriage I don't think I'll read them all, but, just in case... grelobe