Melissa- After reading your post, I immediately jumped in my car and flew to Gertens - and I live in Wisconsin. 'Empress Wu' is at the top of my wish list. However, when I got there she was priced at $39 (yikes!! - lol) That is a little rich for my blood, so I settled for a huge 'Big Daddy' ($9), four 'Mona Lisa' lilies (in one pot), two hakone grass, 3 Ajuga reptans, 'Burgundy Glow', a HUGE Datura and some Creeping Jenny. I had a $10 gift card so I got the whole thing for $49.00 I felt a little better getting so much more for the money. I guess I am just cheap/frugal (lol). 'Empress Wu' will have to wait. Gerten's, by the way, has more than quadtrupled their hosta inventory and had quite a few new varieties. Thanks for the heads up, Melissa.

I play Scrabble online a lot & WWF. Also started Lexulous which is another entire career. IMO, the dictionaries in both games are very messed up. There are acronyms like "qwerty" allowed but more commonly used words are not. This is especially true in the bingo words which seem to me to be more bizarre than other. On one tablet the Scrabble game, for some unknown reason, only allows me to play the UK version which allows different 2-letter words than the US version. So there is zo, yu, ky, ch, fy, gi, ja, ny, oo, ou,ug additionally. Interesting that we are all using English but the Brits get "words" we don't. WWF is just as bizarre. I regularly email with suggestions but that's a waste of time. Nowhere is there any indication of who is compiling these dictionaries or on what basis. One of the great urban mysteries.

If you are looking to get a computer in the near future and are a fan of outlook express (been using for many years and I also hate the change) you will not be able to continue using it with Windows 7...You can still use it on all older computers inluding vista but when Windows 7 came with my new computer it had no email program with it, and tells you to get your own. It will not support Outlook express. I had to download another program which was free, (Thunderbird) to receive my home email and support the account that held it without changing my email address. I have hot mail and yahoo, both free and have used them for years also, but my Outlook express account took care of all my personal and household mail. That address I did not give out freely. Had I known before I purchased this version I probably would have opened a gmail (free) account and gradually turned my mail over to that to get used to it.

That definitely is a scare tactic ... The Federal Reserve published new requirements in regards to Loan Oficer and Broker compensation. Naturally, their requirements are open to a lot of interpretation, which is causing a lot of issues. But having sat in meetings and read numerous articles about this change, it shouldn't really affect a borrower, except to maybe create a more level pricing structure for everyone. If you google "Loan Officer Compensation", you'll get more information than you care to know.