Chana, I lifted the covers on the dats a few minutes ago and told them that the two of you said welcome, and they gently smiled and nudged each other and said, "See there, this isn't going to be so bad." Karyn, you know what has truly amazed me? The dat tendency to chloromorphize us. I didn't get a chance to mention this in my post yesterday, and of course the triple creams, as you know, are more verbal than most of the dats, but the triple creams yesterday were talking and one said, "Harold, when we lived in Virginia, you remember that gorgeous mobile plant that took care of us?" "DO I? Wasn't she GORGEOUS?", to which Mort replied, "Yes, gorgeous, and she is so nice, likes to take our pictures like she's proud of us. What was her name, Harold, started with a K" "Kirsten, Konica, Kirin, no, Karyn, yeah, that's it, Karyn. So nice, but now who is THIS joker?" "Have no idea, he doesn't even look like a real plant--I think he's a lower life form." "That's Ok, God wants us to be nice to the other life forms. He's kind of funny looking, but he's ours, and he seems like he'd be a good pet, and maybe eventually he'll seem like a member of the family." And so it goes with all life forms, all instinctively knowing that they are the finest and most beautiful life form. Naturally, I don't want to hear sh*t from the snapdragons.

Jim, I say this very choked up as this story really touched my heart because so many of us understand the fig tree and how it is connected to so many good memories,histories, home, and to people, like this story told. Thanks so much for posting this beautiful story. I feel priviledged to be able to understand what this gentleman is talking about and the sentiment 100% and I have these trees myself. Ciao

Oh, jem, no! Please don't apologize. I took no offense and am sorry that my response seemed that way. I thought it was funny. My comment only meant what it said....nothing more. Yes, the cute story could fit any group but it is just fine as you wrote it. (I must admit that I just had to go and read it through a couple more times because now I was confused by what oj said. Liquids? Huh? Hahaha. Nope, no liquids mentioned... not sure what you read, oj) Seriously, cute story that I would repeat.

An interesting group of performers today and their assessment of their work. Still play sometimes Paul Simon's "Graceland".