Jeff, I miss your beautiful flowers and photos!!!! I keep checking back at the Rose Gallery for your latest, but can't find you alas! I want to stalk again, hee-hee! maryl, I had to laugh, because I too am a midnight owl person, yet still! dragged myself out of bed at 6:00 a.m. in the morning with only 3 hours of sleep, but by 7:45 a.m. I had to stop working in the garden because it was getting to be way too muggy even then! So I crawled back to bed to take a brief snooze...By the time I woke up again, I felt as though I had been hit by a train. I was so groggy and tired. And I still tortured myself with 5 minutes-at-a-time deadheading and checking out my flowers leaves and herbs, then racing back to the shelter of my house...Poor Eluane, she's got long fur, but because she is a busy-body sheepherding Border Collie, she always wants to check up on what I'm doing...she's even more of a masochist than her Mama! and will follow me faithfully out to the garden Every Single Time. And for the rest of our week it will be: 98, 97, 96,97,95 and hurray, a breakthrough turning point of ...91 on Sunday...But I'm sure 91 is nothing compared to the 100s of late July that I'm expecting.

I could tell you got one by the message on my machine the night of return, even though only the last couple of words came through. Can't wait to see more pictures, although don't you know that you can find pales in northern Jackson county, MO, where they intergrade with syspila? In northwestern Jackson, you can find syspila/gentilis/multistriata that blow the common multistriata out of the water -- long live Marshall. May this week's adventure be so successful... oh me oh my am I excited.

Chispa, you are awesome! Here are the mattress topper descriptions: "LUXURY The Luxury is a stretched surface, adaptable top mattress with a soft cottonfilled summer side, a wool-filled winter side and a central section containing Talalay latex. Practical and comfortable all year round. Height: 9 cm (3.5â³). PREMIUM Top mattress Premium boasts a talalay latex core with a fibre filling. Comes with a washable, overlap-stitched stretch fabric with embroidered logo. A beautifully soft, highly adaptable top mattress featuring an eye-catching design. Height: 7 cm (2.8â³). PRESTIGE Prestige is a highly adaptable model filled with natural latex, and includes a removable stretch material cover, machine washable at 60ðC (140F). Height: 5 cm (2â³)." Although, seriously pricey. A commenter on Remodelista wrote: "FYI to other Remodelista readers, these beds start at $14,000 and go up to about $25,000. They actually cost even more than Hastens ($10-20k) or Duxiana ($6-15k). For these prices they better be stuffed with hair from unicorn tails." LOL. But knowing what the toppers are made of is useful. Edited to add: unicorn tail hair-stuffed beds are unfortunately not in the budget. Here is a link that might be useful: Carpe Diem Beds mattress toppers This post was edited by feisty68 on Thu, Jun 5, 14 at 22:09

I agree TOS, but he simply won't eat veggies and until he met me, he never fed her veggies or fruit either, he fed her what he ate and she was grossly overweight. At five years old, her face was so round, her eyes looked like dots. She really looked like she was in pain when she tried to do any physical activity and I felt bad for her. I think at 5, she weighed 60-65 lbs. (I can't remember now, but I know that last school year, she was wearing a capri pair of pants that barely fit her like long pants when she was 5, and they fit her just right at 9) I couldn't believe how much he fed her, the same size portion he ate. He had no idea about nutrition or how to feed kids, but then neither does her mom. He even told me that she doesn't like vegetables but when I would make them for me, she wanted some too. He was surprised she likes them. I give her stuff she likes, but she wants greasy, salty foods that he eats and it may be a good idea for him to eat after she goes to bed. But, then we usually eat at the same time because it's the only time we all get to sit down together and well, it was one of my (and DH's) favorite childhood memories.. the family sitting down at dinnertime. It seems rare today that families sit down for dinner so we make it a point to do that everyday. In all honesty, her plate looked better than his. I'd rather have a bowl of fruit than fries... it's sweeter, and yeah I love fries, but they make me feel a little sluggish after eating them (well any greasy foods). At lunch time is a better time for that kind of food since you have the rest of the day to burn it off, but right before bed, I think it's better to eat lighter. (especially since it was Sunday and after the long drive from her mom's, it was already 9pm and she was going straight to bed after dinner) Usually, we eat around 6:30 or 7 and she goes to bed at 8:30-9. Maybe because I'm female and females tend to diet or watch what we eat more than guys, it's always something I think about and he doesn't. He'd feed her a heavy meal and send her off to bed without thinking that it's going to be stored calories and convert to fat.