Those are some nice plants everybody. The Paradise Joyce is amazing. I've had mine since 2007 and it has about 5 leaves on it. I guess sometimes you just get a dud. I am also noticing how far ahead most of you are in the season. My 2 Paradigam's have no varigation yet. It still have tulips blooming. It is a weird year after such an early start to spring.

Kashka is gone... After a rough weekend of episodes where her breathing was horrendous and I saw her looking as distressed and scared as Ive ever seen an animal (or human) I called the euth vet -and still ..even after what I saw this weekend .I felt such deep ambivalence about it because even today there were still also periods of her sitting up and looking at me with that cute alert calico face I know so well and just for a moment Id get this flash of - aha, I've got my cat back. Just for a moment. Its like at times I would see a cat weary, ready to die... and then a while later I'd see a cat trying to live ... wanting to live, wanting to eat drink but having a hard time of it because of the breathing thing and . Trying to purr but even that was problematic for her. she was pretty seriously dehyrdrated and Ive read that dehydration isnt a particularly bad way to go, but drinking was one thing she could sort of do .. so ihe choice was becoming more and more either she dies from a horrible slow strangulation due to thr lung thing - which could take hours, days, or euthanasia. Which is to say, there was no choice.... what alternatives were.there. Ok I keep reminding myself of the reasons...good humane reasons.... but then why do I feel so awful? I so miss my kitty This post was edited by kashka_kat on Mon, Jul 29, 13 at 22:51

Hi,Is our swap still active?I found some fabric today,pencils,umbrellas,watermellon,raindrops,cows,pigs, grass,just to name a few at a fabric shop I hadn`t been in for a while.It was so much fun!I`m so excited about this swap!Cathy,I hope your schoolwork is going okay,please let us know what`s going on as soon as you can.I don`t mean to rush you,I`m just starting to worry a little about you. Robin

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