Hi Thahalibut Welcome to The Plant Exchange! I thought you might like to know there is no email link on your member page, thus no way to email you. You might want to get that set up before starting a trade post, or replying to one. To set up your email link, just go to the bottom on any page here, and click on Member Pages Then click on Edit your Personal Information, Page, and Preferences You will then probably be asked to login in again. Then check the box Allow other users to send you email via forms at our site. That will place a link on your member page, making it handy for traders to reach you. While there editing you might want to also place your state abbreviation in the one box provided for garden zone and location. (see I am zone 5/6 S In) It is beneficial info to have when trading for many reasons. Additionally, there are some traders (myself included) who often do not respond to many posts where the location of the OP is unknown. By putting the state abbreviation in your zone box, it will be listed in your Member Page, and it will also automatically be displayed each time you post. Happy Gardening and trading. Sue

Hello, I'm a newbie here. Someone locally refered me to the TN forum and now I have found my way over here as I have an extreem love of lilies. Not only am I a newbie to this website I am a newbie to gardening. I purchased my first house a couple years ago, and in the process of trying to spruce up the outside I discovered i love gardening. I was trilled to see my lilies come back the following spring! If you have anymore seeds left I would LOVE to give them a nice home in my beds!!! Anykind will do :o) I can email you my address!

Thank you all! You are making me so happy. :) I am not really a cook and have to say that the new space is inspiring me. I love being in the kitchen. Roserx - the faucet is Grohe's Bridgeford. It is awesome. Megaul - the window is an Andersen 400 series. The sides are casements and the center is a fixed picture. The dimensions are 6 feet wide by 3 feet tall. We originally discussed a taller window but it didn't work out and now I am so glad - with the taller backsplash behind the sink we get to see more granite and we don't have all the water splash on the window! :) I love my new window! :)

My Xhusband is severely bipolar, however as this disorder doesn't normally manifest itself until the late teens-early adulthood, I'm fairly certain he wasn't when we got married, and by the time we divorced it was just kicking in. He's fine as long as he stays on his medication--which he never does! He is an addict, fully addicted to the "manic highs" of his disorder, which he can only acheive by using his "drug of choice", and for him that means NO drugs at all! And when this happens, he becomes a danger, not only to himself, but others as well and usually only goes back on his medication when he is forced to, usually as a result of being institutionalized, either in a mental hospital or jail! I hold such fond memories for example, of the time he broke into a stranger's house locking himself in their closet, and when the police arrived he told them he did it in fear of his life because he believed the nearby campers were drug lords who were plotting to kill him! He spent 2 weeks in a mental institution for that stunt. My personal favorite was the time he was arrested, on federal felony charges of counterfeiting! He convinced me he was being "set up" as part of a government conspiracy--and I actually believed him! I even went into serious DEBT for the next 5 years to hire not just a good attorney, but the very BEST, and kept on believing my husband, right up until the day I sat in court at his inditement and the prosecution held up a sample of the evidence, a $1 bill that had been artistically altered to look like a $20. Right then and there I KNEW he was guilty because I recognized his artwork! So I went to the attorney and told him the truth, along with all my husband's bizarre behavior and stories. That attorney was worth every penny too, because he went straight to the prosecution and managed to convince him to drop the charges completely on the basis that my husband had no malicious or illegal intent--he was just NUTS! Thank God he cheated on me because I never would have divorced him for any other reason. He remarried and had 2 children with his current wife, and what he did to me is NOTHING compared to what he's done to them, oh like, almost killing his one daughters trying to force the alien "pod" out of her, setting their neighbor's house on fire to stop him from developing biological warfare weapons, and his wife hasn't just caught him cheating on her with other women--but men as well! He commits these acts while in his "manic phase" followed by his "depressive phase" during which he suffers extreme remorse for his actions, to the point of becoming suicidal. Everytime I see his current wife, who is now confined to a wheelchair with MS with HIM as her only caretaker, my heart goes out to her and I say to myself, "there but for the grace of God, go I." Bipolar disorder is unpredictable and can "ebb and wain", sometimes the symptoms can completely disappear, even for years at a time, other times can result in a complete psychotic break from reality, paranoia, delusions, hallucinations, and even hearing voices similar to a schizophrenic. It is a scary, scary disorder. So in my personal opinion, your DH has GOOD REASON to proceed with extreme caution in dealing with his daughter--who could disappear with her child tomorrow, or worse, and how would he protect grandbabies then?