Lol, Glad I wasn't the only one who got done last minute. I got most of the plants in the garage but still have a lot left in the front flower bed. No more room at the inn. Waaaaahaaaaa. I took a cutting from this cool butterfly looking thing. It just bloomed and I didn't know what it was. The flowers look just like tiny blue and white butterflies and even have antennae. I hope its hardy here. The garage is packed and the front porch I couldn't go do anymore. Thank goodness John's son stopped by long enough to help move the huge plumerias. The one is bent over a little on the ceiling but its in there. I dread winter.

Sandy, Fenceberry, Connie, Cat, McT, Cyn, Alexa, Carol and Hostahaveum, your comments are so nice to hear! And Manyhosta those are wonderful words for May. Yesterday the sunrise was absolutely beautiful, the sun looked huge and glowing orange, just a nice May morning. Sandy aren't the Knockouts great? My husband swears the pink one has a fragrance but for the life of me I cannot smell it. So now when he exclaims over the scent I just pretend to be able to detect it ;-) Fence so happy to hear my NF enabled you, lol. Niagara Falls is always one of my favorite hostas. Connie and Cat, your words are much appreciated! McT I guess they wouldn't work for you. The Styrax Emerald Pagoda is borderline zone 5. Unless you were to opt for a container to move it to a sheltered spot for winter, just a thought. Cyn, yes I'm seeing the same here, not my Empress Wu yet but others are already sending up their bloom scapes. Everything is so early here this year. Carol, yes I have more :-) Thanks for the kind words, Alexa, Hostahaveum and Carol!

Yikes! I'm so sorry Janet! Having had a car totalled and a front porch damaged by hit-skip drivers, I'm always sympathetic by people who try to do the right thing and get nailed by the letter of the law. Admittedly, I've skated thru more than my share of mishaps. Just out of college, I got pulled over for going 45 in a 25mph zone. I explained to the cop that I'd come back from the Middle East and was having trouble with speed limits. He thought that was funny and let me off with a warning. Here in Columbus I was making a left turn on red (from a one-way street to a one-way street, perfectly legal.) But I wasn't watching and nearly hit a pedestrian. I was pretty shaken up, so when he started to yell at me I yelled back. He backed down and told me to be more careful in the future -- it wasn't until I was three blocks away that I realized the guy was a uniformed cop -- and we'd been right in front of police headquarters. A few years ago in July I was driving behind an SUV on a narrow downtown street with construction. The driver was on a cell phone and weaving back, and I felt very morally vindicated when a motorcyle cop pulled up behind us and turned the light on. Until I realized he was signalling me to pull over. With a sinking feeling, I realized my tags had expired on my birthday in January. (I apparently have issues with timeliness.) As I handed him my license I realized that my recently replaced license was also expired. I got my ticket and had to go to traffic court. (Renewed my tags and license before my day in court.) You sit for a few hours, then get 30 seconds with the attorney; sit back down and then get 30 seconds with the judge. The attorney said, because both had been expired six months, there would be a $250 fine and I would have to take the driver's test again. In the interlude before I went before the judge, I counted up on my fingers, and realized I had renewed 1 day short of six months. I explained that, took my $30 fine and was feeling pretty smug as I went out to my car. Where I found a $30 ticket on the windshield for an expired meter. If bad catches up with you, I think good should, too. Hope your lucky break catches up with you soon, Janet!

Okay, y'all--before I retired, I taught "sets" for decades in my math classes and I can certainly offer oodles of rationale behind my groupings! LOL Here's a new way to look at it if you wish (humor!)...for any item(s) that might be questionable as part of a set, well, the item(s) will automatically become Bizzo's birthday gift(s)! Ta-daaaaah! See? No "cheating!" Her birthday is Monday so this works out perfectly--she just got herself a bonus of more b'day stuff if anything doesn't fit into a set! :O) Celebrate the zero, Bizzo! As a former multi-subject teacher, you now have permission to *subtract* from your age, by one year, every year, until you are once again 21 years old! It's the new, creative, more gentle math!!! Smiles, Sooz