Of the crocus that seemed to be absent, I found one under the litter that poked through the soil. I have also found four tulips (in two different spots) on the shady left side. This confirms that bulbs on the shady side will in fact grow, but not at the same speed as the ones on the right side. This is great news, because this means the total blooming period will be stretched by a few weeks, maybe even a month, so I will have a longer spring bloom than most of my neighbours, who have similar conditions on both sides of their entrance. In short, I will have tulips when the neighbour's tulips will be long gone. Thanks for your encouragement! P.S.: I just found out that last year's daffodils (which will bloom for the second time this year) will have on average three times as many blooms. Of the few that are already lush and leafy, most have three flower stems with juicy buds rather than the one each they had last year. About 25% of them already have babies, too, because some of the new growth is a couple of inches further from the mother. They are planted close enough together that they will form a uniform patch of happy flowers, but not close enough that I would have to lift them just yet. Not all daffodils are created equal and I know not all naturalize and increase over time, but this one is really fast. If you are looking for white daffodils that will increase rapidly without much help (they didn't get shrooms, I only added a bit of peat moss to their planting hole to sweeten the clay and only gave them one shooter of liquid fish emulsion after they were done blooming), look no further: Mount Hood daffodils are most satisfying. They are also huge (three inch diameter flowers, close to 1.5 foot high) compared to other daffs. Oh, and these daffs were bought at the worst place for bulbs - at a big box renovation store! Just sayin'!

ALL: omg lmao rotf: I saw this post, just had to check it out, and ended up reading it start to finish this afternoon, choking on the raspberries (which went flying out my nose!) I was snacking on. I just had to share it during dinner (bad choice!) with my hubbie and 10 yr old son this evening as they have been discussing camping potty humor (courtesy of jokes at Cub Scout camp a few weeks ago). We were reading these and commenting how funny it was that this post has lasted 2 wks shy of four years! And what awesomely useful (and ridiculous suggestions have been made over time, we've just been dyin' reading these... As I read aloud the one from RANGDROL back in 2006 who said: .......... "I camp in the desert and live in the mountains. I have two females in my camp. I have not 1, not 2, but 3 count them three guys, full rolls of TP in gallon zip-locks AS BACK UP at all times. 1 ALWAYS double bagged PLUS three of those army surplus in a seperate ziplock in the canoe. Someday the Creator will make a dog that can work a canoe paddle and make pumpin pies. " Our son didn't quite get that last comment until we explained that it was since a dog doesn't require toilet paper, he wouldn't be stuck carrying around so gosh-danged much of it for all the women when going camping. No women, no TP necessary. He said deadpan, "no, you can still bring the woman, and USE the dog ... just make sure it's not white and within reach". Raspberries out the nose pale in comparison to the spaghetti noodles that went out my husbands as he heard that one. Thanks for all the tips we hope to NEVER HAVE TO USE, especially the twigs. Scouts Prepare! :)

wow.... I am very surprised to hear this or find this info out... only because of recently wanting to buy more seeds and didn't know if the seeds I had were still viable. Well, I purchased these seeds in 9/07 and still had left over but no name of vendor on them... so I started digging. I am impeccable with my receipts, and was able to track down old invoice..... WHICH low and behold was DAN PIERCE.... In my experience (back then) I DID (obviously) recieve my seeds, and planted and grew some.(so they weren't "duds") and even recieved EXTRA gifted seeds... uploaded pic... and the original invoice from paypal... I am very shocked and this newly discovered info. Very well may be a fraud now in place because I cannot find the "oringinal" website I bought the seeds from, for it was NOT "rareseeds.com" at the time.... Transaction Details -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Web Accept Payment Sent (Unique Transaction ID #2E8697025B239683M) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Dan Pierce (The recipient of this payment is Verified) Email: dp@futuresystems.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total amount: -$18.31 USD Fee amount: $0.00 USD Net amount: -$18.31 USD -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Item amount: $18.31 USD Sales Tax: $0.00 USD Shipping: $0.00 USD Handling: $0.00 USD Quantity: 1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Item Title: 1 Beaucarnea (Nolina) recurvata PONYTAIL PALM, 1 GIANT Yucca faxoniana SPANISH DAGGER, 1 PARROT PITCHER PLANT Sarracenia psitta Date: Sep 29, 2007 Time: 21:54:19 PDT Status: Completed -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Funding Type: PayPal Funds Funding Source: $18.31 USD - PayPal Account -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shipment Information Shipping Status: Shipped Reference Number: U.S. Postal Service Learn More Service Type: First-Class Mail� Parcel (2-5 days) Package Size: Package/Thick Envelope Mailing Date: Oct 1, 2007 Signature Confirmation: No Display Postage Value on Label: No Shipping Insurance: No Ship From: Dan Pierce 1700 Bittersweet Hill Vista, CA 92084 United States Ship To:

Well, *whew*...good to know I'm in the right spot. Had read a few threads and wan't sure if this was for pros (or wannabe-pros like me), or if it was more of a journal-writer's club kinda thing (most of the active topics seem to be pointed in that direction). I guess this is more or less a heebie-jeebie thing going on with me...I became a farmer almost a year ago, and pulled all advertizing (even the signs on the trucks) because I wanted to take time to set things up here. Now I'm making ready for the whirlwind life of taking new clients again, but feeling rusty. My "employee" skills are even rustier, hence the worry about having a boss. I already solved the website issue...found a few old essays from the old site that could serve as publishable newspaper stuff, and working on cleaning up a couple that I've written in the past couple-few weeks (helps to have a wife who works as a copy-editor). Oh, another question: should I be cleaning up the 400-500 wd stuff or the 1000 wd stuff? BTW: to wax bloggish, one of the big reasons I want to write for a paper is just out of sheer frustration at rebuilding a website! I need to do it, because I wasn't as picky about what I put up 4 yrs ago, but now I'm faced with the nasty task of editing and posting 1,392 interlinked pages, a task that was making me VERY grumpy until I decided to just scrap the whole mess and start it over. Will probably lose my google ratings, but I'll get them back over time. As far as what I want from the paper: was thinking of getting paid with one graphical 4ci ad and 1 classified ad per week (would cost me a whopping $65.80 for the priveledge otherwise). Do you think they'd go for that? Also, this paper has a website (not a bad one, actually), and I'm wondering if my website would be viewed as an asset or a liability to an editor. For example, if I mention a particular plant in an article, I could provide links to my page about that plant in the internet version of the article (most of my website is just detailed information about plants). My website's pretty much a plant-geek blog now, but I'm hoping to start getting some advertizing activities going (mostly so I won't feel so guilty about wasting all this time studying plants). So, asset? Liability? Maybe it's good to put a foot in the door while there aren't hundreds of documents floating around on the web?