Pastor, You sound so bitter against Rutgers. Marion is a better Rutgers, and also if youÂre disappointed in taste, you may want to go to Fedco to get the real Rutgers. IÂm a salsa/paste maker myself and need to time tomato-pepper harvest with garlic harvest, which is July 10th. 2 weeks after garlic harvest, the bulbs are cured. One of the early tomatoes is Milano Plum and the other is Napoli. The pepper Buran for mild and Early Jalapeno for the medium. Why Buran? Because the taste is just as ripe before it turns color. -Randy Here is a link that might be useful: Kitchen Garden Seeds

Hypoglycemic seizures are also a possibility. They are caused by plummeting blood sugar levels. My old (16+) girl is going through this. The probably diagnosis is pancreatic cancer, but we are not pursuing any additional tests for her, since she's got some other health issues, and has lived a long and happy life. We've been able to manage her condition extremely well by feeding her small meals (canned dog food mixed with cooked brown rice) every 4 hours. We've modified the overnight feeding so that she now eats at midnight and 6AM, so we are all sleeping a bit better :o) She thinks that eating 6 times a day is just BRILLIANT! The complex carb (brown rice) is designed to give her some steady fuel to burn, to avoid blood sugar peaks and valleys. Seems to be working well so far. I thought of the possibility that the seizures might be blood-sugar rather than brain-based when you said that the first seizure occurred in the early morning. I had noticed that my girl was starting to seize often as I was preparing breakfast, and realized that she probably needed something to carry her from her normal 6PM feed through the night. Since we've added the late-night meal and the early-morning feed, she has not displayed any morning symptoms. If the seizures are related to blood sugar levels (and not "brain" epilepsy), you will probably be able to bring her out of it if you feed her a little Karo syrup before the seizure progresses too far, before she is not able to swallow anything. This has worked really well for us, but you do have to catch it early. I work from home, which lets me keep a close eye on her for brow twitching and head shaking - her signals that a seizure is starting. My friend who has a diabetic brother recommended using a tube of white cake icing instead of the Karo syrup. The icing is much easier to squirt into her mouth, and MUCH less sticky and messy than the Karo syrup. Hope this helps. Susan

hi my apoligies. I thought I had commented on this before but probably did not because of my own "issues". but best wishes and wow annapolis thats the big leagues. as a former navy little leager all the respect to those who make it through that. depression is a weird thing and can effect the folks that we thought could hold up to anything . I deal with seizures pretty regulary and probably now have true depression life is overwhelming sometimes ,heck I had laugh lines before age 30. was the last on the list for this. wish you the best words of encourgement are helpfull. Rick

Another word of advice....With the hopes that this won't offend or bother you, or dampen the party going on here........but .....Motherhood isn't always wonderful either..It's really hard work, really tiring, stressful and there are many more blanks we could fill in to warn you of how hard it can be but just take it easy and remember to take time for yourself and your husband too. Too much too soon/too fast for all of you .....the kids and you and husband isn't a good thing.....Remember that now is the time to be creating the rules and standards that you all will be living with forever. They are young and abused but they need and you must set ground rules and the quicker the better because it is not all about fun and games....The are, or will be in a grieving stage for their life that is gone, whether they mention it or not, and it will be easy to overlook misbehavior or misconduct or just to let things slide for now..because you are their Mother now and you want to make life wonderful for them, you want to make up for all they have missed and probably for all that you have missed...but really .....you need to make the house/ground rules now and let them know what you expect of them and importantly let them know what to expect from you...believe me if a child gets away with something a few times and then you decide it's not a good thing, they will not accept easily when you change the rule in midstream......they are smart little cookies and it sounds to me like they have had enough disappointments in their little lives....... what a wonderful thing for all of you.....Sending lots of good luck and good wishes to you all.....