Tina, thanks for letting me know. You've got me waiting on pins and needles now cause you know it is almost prime seed starting season! Yahoo! Beth, Another person is supposed to order seeds from Dowdeswell's Delphiniums Ltd (you can look them up on the web and salivate). Since they require you order 50 seeds of each type, she was looking for a couple of people to go in with her. She said she would get back to me toward the end of Feb, since that is when this company's new seed crop ripens. I'm really hoping this goes through. I've been having trouble with dampening off this year and I've been reading up on it since delphs are very prone to it. I've only grown the Delph's for a couple years and only a couple each year. They are iffy here. Seems like 1/2 don't come back the next year. We get pretty hot and humid here in Aug. But our cottage is in zone 5 and a much cooler area so I'm hoping I can get some of them to be perinneal there. :o) Your squirrel swap is so funny, I stop there often. I NEED a life! LOL sharon

Oh my ... santa's garden elves have been very busy !! My mailbox was overflowing today when I got home from work ! Many thanks go to : GraanieB - sent confederate rose double pink hibiscus , coral nymph salvia, night blooming jasmine, triple yellow datura , burgundy giant celosia Naturegirl236 sent blue bedder sage salvia farinacea , summerlong basil , downy aster and pineapple sage Karendee sent a Seeds n Greetings (cute) card with french marigold seeds Pumkingal sent a really cute homemade card with sweet yellow and red pepper seeds, cherokee sunset rudbeckia ,columbine mix , purple coneflower , crazy daisy , blue moon lilliput aster , hollyhocks and joe pye weed and an ornament craft ! Daffodillady sent giant zinnia , candy cane zinnia, lilliput zinnia,snapdragons, gloriosa daisy, sweet williams, forget me nots, 2 packs of NOID tomato seeds, red gomphrena, sams club peppers, 4 o'clocks, ornamental cabbage , JL's yellow rose, formosa lily, sweet banana peppers, mixed ornamental peppers, sweet dumpling squash and mixed hardy hibiscus and I think it was Daffodillady who sent ( all these wonderful envies got a little mixed up with this last " packet " - " peppermintious delectus cuttings " YUM ... can y'all guess what it is ?? hee hee !! Thank you all so very much for your generosity , I love all the seeds and can hardly wait for spring to grow them, my garden is going to be so beautiful thanks to you ! I feel very blessed to be a part of GW , I wish I could give everyone good health and happiness this holiday season and in the New Year ! ~Iris

Hello Everyone! Wow can you believe its barely 90 days till Christmas! Time will fly by and before we know what happened we will all be working full boar to get things done! *LOL* Anyway thats my NORM for the holidays! I just finished 24 Halloween Treatbags for our friends and my hubby's co-workers. I always send something for the holidays starting with Halloween. They get a kick out of the things. With his crew there are only 4 small children so I made each of them a jack o lantern clown doll and used the plastic pumpkins for the heads - we will fill them with goodies closer to the day. Only one of my friends have grandchildren and they will be getting the same thing. My other major project is making 14 vests for the members of my Red Hat Society group - I'm the founding queen and wanted to do something really special for our first Christmas as a group. I'm using the fabrics from WalMart and embellishing them with ribbons, rhinestones and pearls. By using my serger I can construct 2 per day and then take twice that long to play at dolling them up! Then to top off my busy list I couldn't resist the "NEED" for a poncho!!! I found the most gorgeous yarn at WalMart, its beige/tan with flecks of various blues. Think it will be perfect with denim! Good luck to everyone on your projects and here's hoping you have a perfect holiday season. HUGS - Jude, from KS

I am such a doofus! I watched that bear commercial, which I hadn't seen, but LOVE, and I thought "Aw, his fur is changed? Wonder what he'll do" and was truly sad. I loved it when he shook his head double because of the relief and it was cute. Good one Nicole! Pam, have you seen the more recent Aflac one? The hospital residents are rounding and end up at the duck's bed discussing the duck. The doctor asks them what do they see? Something one of them says (don't want to spoil it!) makes the duck's heart beat faster. Heh! Linked below... Here is a link that might be useful: what do they see-Aflac commercial