I'm curious...where were you shoveling "to", Gandle? Do you have animals outside to feed? Is it your driveway? I'd sure stay off the icy roads unless a real emergency. Please take care. josh

Thank you sherryocala! Yes, my Walmart Grand Prize is actually from J&P (has the tag) - and it is grafted. And for me an easy-care, undemanding bush! I checked a few random rose sites and it seems it is fairly available - I like it so much I might try rooting a cutting next year. It took me so long too register because in some ways (like with spraying) I'm lazy! - but then I'll turn around and spend the whole day doing brutal digging - go figure. PS. I notice krista_4 is getting questions about Eglantyne, yes mine also has the 10-foot canes topped with a few flowers - I am going to put to use the suggestions I got from this forum next spring, and just let her go for now - she is pretty angry anyway, as I just moved her - she was taking over one whole side of my little garden!

CELESTE, Your photography is fantastic,and the daylilies are all gorgeous.I hope when you get a really good bloom open on cameo Luster,you will post another picture of it.it looks to be very beautiful DL. INNER VISION is gorgeous, too, Love your annuals, too, and those Hibicus are beautiful.That LIly is so different from your others you posted, but pretty.Love that mountain scenery picture.Its really pretty. AND the kitties,That ZEUS is such a gorgeous cat.His hair (FUR) looks so soft and ir shines.He is a very gorgeous cat, BUT, so is Nemo too, in a different way.Hard to beat that coat of fur on ZEUS, I have been looking at all the news about the floods in Vermont and New Jersey.Its horrible.I feel so bad for all them folks that has lost everything they have with the floods.I am hoping that most had flood insurance, but,I bet they didnt and end up with nothing.Its very sad. Jean

I'm sorry you're going through all this. I've had a lot of health issues since I was in my mid 20s so I know how tough it is. I'm almost 60 so I've dealt with this for over half my life. One thing I have and I think it's more common than people think is low magnesium levels. Doctors don't recognize this as they only check blood serum magnesium levels that will always be high as the body pulls magnesium from the bones to keep the blood levels up so you don't have a heart attack. Instead, they need to check the cellular magnesium level to diagnose low magnesium. There are over 300 functions magnesium is needed for in the body including relaxing muscles and removing lactic acid from them. Here are a couple of articles on the role of magnesium in health: http://web.mit.edu/london/www/magnesium.html http://drsircus.com/medicine/magnesium/magnesium-deficiency-symptoms-diagnosis I don't know if this applies to you, but a lot of pain that doctors fail to diagnose is myofascial pain where the muscles/fascia get knots in them that refer pain elsewhere. I've had severe myofascial pain since I was 15 years old, and had every sort of pain in almost every part of my body that couldn't be diagnosed. Fortunately I stumbled on a book on the subject years ago, and have been able to control my pain doing trigger point massage. Everyone has myofascial pain from time to time. Check out triggerpointbook.com. This book and my two-headed percussion massager has made my life manageable. http://www.amazon.com/HoMedics-Homedics-Thera-P-Percussion-Massager/dp/B00DCR8M1M/ref=sr_1_2?s=hpc&ie=UTF8&qid=1423676319&sr=1-2&keywords=percussion+massager