Another Monday bites the dust, very busy at the awfice today . My lunch hour was spent watering as the temps today approached 80 we are doing the rain dance for the weather that is coming in from the pacific this evening. Eden what a great job on little Kates new digs ! I also have pale yellow walls in my family room, done several years ago and I have never regretted it. Drapes are red, sofa is red and have purple and black accents. Sounds kind of strange but I think it works. We should all post pics of our yellow rooms !..I think Easter is really late this year , right? Thats perhaps why you have better weather than usual.? Have my fingers crossed that Bella will have her first al fresco egg hunt- When my kids were little we always had both inside and outside eggs. My Unfit Mother side is extremely grateful that I am through with coloring and hiding eggs. LOL Jen pondering wine drinking logistics relative to baby production-shed fit right in around here ! Cindy, dont know how old your DD and spouse are, but I think that individuals in their 20s are seekers sometimes and want to explore both mentally and physically. When I was in my 20s I moved to Arizona for a few years-and Im glad I had the experience. I loved the high desert and still do, but I was not prepared to live there permanently. I guess what Im saying is that when you are young its pretty easy to pull up and move away ..sometimes you end up coming back .This is way easier to do when young and unencumbered by and lots of stuff . I dont know what locales the spouse is considering, but if they are in California, or anywhere on the left coast Id be happy to provide pros and cons .. and I expect Denise would concur with the beware of aspects. The fact that your DD is organizational tells me that that a move of this sort to her requires planning, research, multiple visits, and a job offer. Michelle, I had to giggle at the prospect of you packing your torch around for various jobs. Your potting bench reminds me a bit of mine, which is outdoors and cluttered at the moment with succulents awaiting their permanent home . Pm , I tried the penny thing more than once , but with no success. Diatomaceous earth worked a lot better. I will be putting Zinnias in all areas so the Tithonias will be nearby in some cases ! I actually started another 6 pack of "Envy" Zinnias tonight because I want to use them to unify different spaces- the repeated elementsthing . Baseball team is good- we lost a couple of owners in our league so there were lots of talented players available this year. I always have fun keeping track of my players. Thanks for the Tufa pics Deanne, although the dust masks sort of put me in a dental mode , lol ! Saucy, my farm would have 2 dogs, a cutting and vegetable garden with a roadside stand on the honor system, and chickens to give me fresh eggs. But they would be pretty chickens, with very sumptuous digs. Here is Madame Isaac Pereire , taken today, her first flower is a bit small having been beat up by frost and dry conditions From Garden 2009 Kathy in Napa All for tonight !

This will be our first time to Annie's swap and look forward to meeting you all! Besides the standard; Native low bush blueberry And Daisies (of which we have an abundance) Happy to dig up as much as you desire! We will bring; Silver Fountain grass Maiden grass Spearmint Sun Drops (still some we dare to move, getting close to flowering time) I also have 2 Forsythia's I will dig up for a good home (3rd year and strong) I prune back my forsythia to keep them more like a bush vs long and stringy. We had a rather nice Scottish Broom that didn't survive the winter and hope to find something we can replace it with..

A couple of days ago I found that I could search my father�s mother�s family even further than I could his father�s, and that took me back to South Carolina on the French side of the family. I could go even further back on the father�s side if I wanted to contact my relatives in Switzerland, but I would have to write to them in German, as their English is not so good, for some reason. I might do that at some point; my German is very good, if not modern. Anyway, the other night I had a dream that I was going to a family reunion at some large house in the country, and I hardly knew any of the relatives there. I had a suitcase and traveling gear with me, and I set the suitcase down in the dining room or kitchen. More and more cousins kept arriving, and some of them seemed like sketchy characters, whom I felt I might not be able to trust. The house kept getting bigger also, until it morphed into a warehouse that had lockers in one of the hallways. I put my suitcase in one of the lockers for safe keeping but left my traveling gear in the dining room, unsure of what I should do with it. I thought I should keep some of it with me but was convinced that it was okay in the dining room. I ventured out into other rooms in the warehouse (it had multiple levels), and eventually I discovered that I could no longer find the lockers where I had stored my suitcase. I began to become nervous at this point but told myself that it was just a dream and that I would find everything when I woke up. However, when I tried to find the dining room with the rest of my things, I began to panic and became very lost in the warehouse, having no idea of where I was or where anything was. At that point I decided that I HAD to wake up, but when I did wake up, my pulse was racing, and I felt almost like I was having a panic attack. I can�t tell whether the anxiety was caused by my blood pressure medicine (which seemed to have the opposite effect) or whether it was from the virus I had that was coming back. To calm myself back down, I started reading again. Right now I am reading anthropology books at night to help get to sleep and I am currently in the Upper Pleistocene Epoch, which is one of my favorite periods, but it might be causing me to think too much about my ancestors. I found out yesterday that my health insurance will help pay for psychotherapy, and so I am thinking about looking for a therapist to see if I have issues that I need to resolve. They usually put me on more medication, but that might be okay. I think I have a chemical imbalance that makes me psycho sensitive to certain medications. It might also have something to do with what I eat. I'm not sure how much more I want to find out about my ancestors at this point - I'm sort of afraid they might come back to haunt me. My famaily has been in Texas since it was an independent republic, but that was not so long ago. Lars

Beyond emergency supplies, clothing and paper. I have two boxes. In one are all of my kid's baby pictures. In the other is a handmade crocheted tablecloth of my grandmother's and a crystal dish that belonged to my other grandmother. Everything else? Whatever. A tiny bit of history for me. Both boxes are in the bottom of my closet. I know exactly where they are. Btw, I always drive around with a flat of bottled water in the back of my van. Winter or summer, there is always water and a blanket in there. Forget dire emergencies, in the even of breaking down in the snow or when there is a heat index of 105, we won't ever be without water.