awww, so happy about everyone's bees! And bless you, Rita and Iris! Yesterday I only got through the 1st 3 posts and as soooooon as I read Rita's borage, I immediately googled because since my last post on how to balance a garden organically, many had recommended several herbs and borage was a completely new one...and then I dropped everything and drove like mad to the all! the nurseries and garden centers near me to try to find Rita's and Mr. Bumblebee's borage... I haven't been able to find any yet and sites say to plant in early spring but I am definitely going to be ordering seeds for next year! And the whole day yesterday I was doing a happy bumblebee buzzing dance. After I got back from 3 borage searches at various garden centers, I planted my herbs, verona, meadow sage/salvia until 9:00 p.m.! (all that's left is my bee baum, have to transplant my 3 lavender because of the gladiolus, and my catnip and 3 lilies) Then when I visited my parents later that evening to share some cake with them, every word out of my mouth was bumblebee, bumblebee. And the hilarious part is that besides roses I love gourmet cooking (am a real fan of Iron Chef of America), but I can't bear to eat any of my herbs lol! I want to save every single leaf and flower for Mr. Bumblebee... And look what a tempting treat this borage cupcake would be... and would I ever eat Mr. Bumblebee's flowers????? no way! Rita, I can't even begin to tell you how excited I'll be once I get the chance to plant this flowering borage for fuzzy-wuzzy koochy-woochy super Cute-to-the-max Bumblebee....

That's great news. I am happy for you especially since your son is military. No matter how any of us feel about the war, we appreciate our military people. We spent many holidays alone. Because of the parents and step parents issue, I decided what ever day my children could be with us was "the" holiday. The Christmas my oldest granddaughter was four, they were stationed in Abeline. We lived in San Antonio and my son's father lived in Kingsvile and my DIL's mother lived in Robstown. The kids had their Christmas at home and then drove to SA. The next day we had our Christmas. The day after they drove to Robstown and had Christmans at my DIL's mother's house. They went to my ex's on Christmas morning and had Christmas. Soooooo,my granddaughter got up the day after Christmas expecting it all to happen again. She was a tad disappointed.

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Was at Sam's Club in Amarillo today and bought a 12 lb bag of Baking Soda for $5.42. Thought that sounded like a good deal. On the big sack it shows all the things you can do with it. Baking, cleaning, laundry and pools were mentioned on the front. They have a website at www.armhammer.com to visit. Back of bag it says to add 1 cup with liquid laundry soap to get your laundry 25% cleaner. Cleans sinks, counter, tubs, showers, toilets, tile and more. Will safely scrub away soils and grease without scratching. One half of the back has directions on how to put it into your swimming pools. Now if I just had a gigantic jug of vinegar I would be in business for the winter!!!! Dora Lou