If you google "help me find/roses", it will give you the HMF web site, where you can look up any one of thousands of roses, and see what type they are, see pictures, etc. HMF says that this is a hybrid tea from 1956. What this means, in general, is that the bush will be medium tall and skinny, and might be prone to black spot or mildew if you do not spray it with chemicals all of the time. If you let us know where generally you are, gardeners from that area on here will be able to tell you if they grow this rose, and how it does in your area. Jackie

Today I took the day off just a tad sore and stiff, can't think why LOL. Couch grass is EVIL, the roots look like white pieces of coat hanger, just as stiff and they can be quite long, they can snake their way through thick and thin. They can and do bore through anything, not only will it bore right through a lily bulb it can bore right into landscape ties. The bed has been dug, gone over with a fork getting as much of the evil stuff out as I could, then tilled with my little mantis. There's still bits of this #!%$&@$ grass root to be dealt with in the next few months, the bed can't be replanted until next spring. In the meantime it will be tilled every day for a week or so and then every couple of weeks through out the winter weather permitting. We did the same thing with the adjacent bed last year and it seems to have worked. I've got 3 more beds to do, two not bad and the other one is going to be murder, not only do I have to contend with couch grass roots there's that d*mn landscape cloth some idiot, wasn't me, nope wasn't me, (why is my nose getting longer) thought was such a brilliant idea. Needless to say watering this bed is a total loss cause if it does manage to get through the mulch most of it just runs along the top of the landscape cloth. It's a good job we get a lot of rain most months or this bed would be toast. It looks like I'm going to have quite a pot ghetto come winter. Oh well that's just the way the cookie crumbles :). Annette

I think there was a lot of untruth on the polybutylene situation, mostly by the class-action lawyers. Unless you actually have a problem, I would leave it as it is. The problem, from my perspective was not with the piping, but with the fittings. For your repipe, if you go that direction, use PEX. Why not leave the shower pipes in the wall as they are and connect them to PEX where they are exposed in the basement or crawl space? Quest fittings can be used for exposed locations. Changing the shower piping later, if necessary, will not be more difficult because you waited. Here is a link that might be useful: Quest

Franksmom - yes that was me that found the $10 chandie! I decided to put it in in DD's room. The mirror that I found has the same type of rosettes on it that the chandelier has. I'm probably going to have it rewired first but our electrician moves at a snails pace (still wtg. on one that I gave him a month or two ago) but that's okay since DD's ceiling nds. ripped out and redone. I didn't get to paint the walls white but here it is hanging up (moved it down) and her room sort of cleaned up. We dug out the little silver beaded lamp that I got from Bombay Co. when I first started working there, and she and I went downstairs and got some rhinestone frames (also ancient Bombay) that had pictures of her brothers in. The girl has good tatse when gentley guided! She got her first arrangement of fresh flowers - pink roses no less that she wanted from our garden - she's such a girlie-girl! Her pink table is up but that corner of the room was a bit disasterous so no pic. I showed her how it is a dual function table (can't start 'em too young!)she can use it to have tea parties and lunches w/ her dolls by turning the table and using her wingback chair and bed and pulling up her doll high chair.