Thanks everyone....I'm feeling a lot more hopeful. I swear that new tassle (and the plant) grew 6 inches while I was at work today...and then I got your posts so I think we are all healthy and prepping for sweet corn over here. Karl: great pics...but where did you get that awesome wire trellis near your tomatos? I could use one like that...maybe I can find one like it in Massachusetts. Do you know who makes it? I need some pointers on trellising. I am sort of new at vegetable gardening and if you looked at my 9 ft tall peas hanging all over various strings and string mesh and looking pathetic (but producing) you would blantantly see that I do not know what I am doing when it comes to trellising!!! :) I guess I just started and new topic for a new thread, but would love to know your ideas. thanks Kathy

I was leaving this as the top, but now that people are commenting Oh Lilo! ((throw my arms around your neck with glee)) such delight to have found her again. Luck Sclumpel to have had you as her friend twice in life. I had dolls, but a baby sister and cats (my greatgrandmother made us Raggedy Ann dolls and I did play with her, but I also loved to take off her dress and put it on the cat. He didn't care) were more fun to dress up. I was more of a tomboy, riding bikes, climbing trees (and fireplaces and fences), snitching raspberries off the cane in the front yard. Or barbies. Sis and I loved barbies. Put them in our skate (did skate with them a lot though) to use as cars. I would pull them around by the string. Then, the bookcase was a highrise apartment complex. There was a bracket that stuck out a bit and I would tie a string around it, then the dolls belly and she would ride the "elevator" up to the top. Or I painted their lips with fingernail polish to look like shiny lipstick, take their heads off and put a ring over their necks to put on the "necklace" and then put the head back on. As you know, I grew up very military. was my barbie's husband. Not that sillly ol' (put some meat on yer bones boy! grow into a man, then we'll talk!). Still today, I'd rather have a beefy guy than the rather slender Ken kinda guy.

Thank you so much for this photo. Now I know where to look and what to watch for. We do have pecan trees within 200 yards, although they are on another persons property. I don't know what variety of pecan they have but they all bear pecans each year. I haven't gotten close enough to actually see the nuts when they're first forming, but can see them from the street after they get big. Maybe they are not the correct type to go with our tree or maybe our tree is still too young. If the tree has male flowers (my dad called them tassels :-) does that mean it is possible for it to produce some nuts given the right circumstances? Thank you again for taking the time to help me. I deeply appreciate the photo. ~Mary

Thanks, Kathy. I called her and left a message to call me back and read the instructions to me, and I'd probably know what to do from that, but she hasn't returned my call yet. She may be distracted at the moment...she is after all, 12. I'm thinking the smaller square inside the rectangle is where either the hair is attached, or where the face transfer is placed for the front. Thanks again for responding.