I emailed Melinda (ilovefarac) privately in February, and she told me that she got her seeds from me just fine and was happy with them. :) Things were extremely busy and chaotic around my home for a while (Jan thru March) due to moving related activities, a job search, and other challenges... plus, there were also interruptions in my Net access during that time frame too. Health wise, I have been OK, just suddenly found I had way too much to do thanks to sudden changes in my personal life. I am having surgery in a couple days (Friday March 20th) and have high hopes that this surgery will permanently end most or all of my ongoing health troubles.

I don't imagine she would mind me sharing her email of what she has been up to. Here it is... "we are fine, LOL yes, been crazy busy here, as usual LOL my 2 are growing like crazy!! LOL i started winter sowing late, so i "winter sowing" them in the house!! it started out as an accident! Imagine that!! LOL and i have some tomato sprouts and a bell pepper sprout so far! LOL boy am i late this year!! LOL still home schooling the kids, and we got a new puppy, she's a yorkie, she won't get any bigger than 4 lbs. funny thing about that, we have a samoyed husky, a chihuahua (we rescued from a puppy mill) and now her, all different sizes!@! LOL and they all 3 play together well. **big smile** How has this winter been treating you? i hope well!! **big smile** has spring shown any signs of showing up in your neck of the woods?? i sure hope so :') it sure was nice to hear from you, that's for sure!! **big smile** i'll have to check in at the conversation side sometime. once in a great while i do LOL and sometimes just as a lurker LOL seeing if there's anything new going on. LOL Hugz ~medo" Hopefully she can and will check in here herself sometime a little later. I can't imagine her being a lurker and not posting. She is usually pretty wordy and adds a lot here, always in a nice way. Sue

Still no word...anyone??? Cliff and Joann's last post was about the new rug and last response was on 10/27, two days before the hurricane hit her area, but during the evacuation process. Of course, she could be taking a sabbatical from this forum, like I do many times throughout the years I have been a member. With so much damage around her area, if I lived there and my home was fine, I would be out helping others and not posting on the forum. Here is a link that might be useful: Rug post

Carolyn, thanks! I'll look for it. Vee, unfortunately, I don't know how to cut and paste the copies I made of the thread to this site. I mailed copies of the entire thread to Liz. Perhaps she knows how to do this?