Hi Sure! Hi Vickie, I posted a reply to you after you posted to the Special Instructions thread. Here is my reply so you won't have to go run it down....or maybe you did see it, since you ended up here on the Conversation side. Welcome Vickie! Sure you can join the fun! Until you have something listed to trade, just check out some of the generous offers that say SASE, SASBE, Newbie, Newbs, FREE, BEAP Though you are not a GW newbie, just mention that you are need to the Seed Exchange. These are all seeds offers sent with you providing a bubble envy, return postage, and whatever else is asked by the offering member....ie, return address label, GW name, list, whatever... Here is an explanation of what might be needed. sase-sasbe is NOT a self addressed envelope There are some FAQ for the forum, but they don't address a lot of things. Hopefully the FAQ will get redone and be more complete, sometime this winter. Once you get some seeds in hand, or even before, you should check out The Winter Sowing Forum It is getting about time to sow many things. Have Fun! Sue...resident busy body

quit apologizing... it will ruin your serenity ... lol .. there is nothing wrong with your pix.. other than the plants are too young... the the first set or two of leaves.. often.. vary widely from a mature leaf... and not many of us.. can ID seed leaves .. unless they are very unique.. and these arent ... i did not see you list of potential candidates.. and we should be able to figure it out.. soon .... oooohhhhmmmmmm ......lol have a great day .... ken

Thanks everyone. I miss you too, but thank the stars that my DH brought his laptop and we can get a connection. We are here with my DH's parents and sister and hubby and their 2 teenager kids. Our room is on the third floor and that just happens to be the only level in this house that we can get a connect. (happy me!) The ocean here is not bathtub warm, but it is warm. Feels cool, but you can just go right in with having to get used to the temp, no matter how hot it is. Feels cooler at night but still not chilly by any means. It seems much saltier to me than the Pacific...maybe because this is an inlet...dunno. Is the Atlantic saltier? Body buoyancy is much greater as a result (or could it be that my increased body fat just makes me float like a cork?----hmmmm. :) They are shooting fireworks again. The Garden City pier is 1.7 miles northeast of our beach house. A nice walk that I have become accustomed to doing every morning. The first day, it was all I could do to climb the stairs every day. I thought I would die from lack of air! I took it a little at a time, and walked a bit further each day and swam out a bit farther each day. Now I am able to comfortably stroll down the beach every morning and having a blast in the surf. At low tide every morning around 5:30, I go out and comb the beach for shells and things. Most of the shells are broken, but some manage to make shore intact. The moonstones are lovely - tumbled pieces of shell or quartz, about half the size of a dime. So lovely. I am finding black shells, which I had never before seen. Found a piece of branch coral yesterday. That is very rare in the inlet. There were some guys on the beach this morning that had been finding tiny shark's teeth. They gave me one - the best one they had. Very cool! I am enjoying the children on the beach. they are so cute to watch and delightful to chat with. The Legend of Captain Jack is one that is famous around here. I asked two little kids this morning who were sitting at the shore digging if they had found any of Jack's treasure yet. They looked up with complete earnest and said, "Nope, not yet". I said, "Me neither. Darn." they bobbed their heads in complete agreement of my sentiments. I asked them if they were searching for buried treasure and they looked up and beamed, "Ya!" "Have you found any yet?" "Nah, but we think these might be broken pieces. Not sure" They held up little black pointed slivers of something, and I could for certain say whether they were or were not pieces of shark teeth, but I suspect they were in all actuality slivers of black oyster shells and not shark's teeth at all....but I was not going to spoil their enthusiasm and fun. Darling little sprouts they were of about 5 or 6. ((HUGS)) ~ Annie Down here with some sorry "sunny beaches", but having a great time in spite of it all.

Awwwwww, I'm glad you liked it glenda. I loved it too. You can't leave there without a smile on your face, and some roaring laughs left behind. It's coming to Omaha again (can't remember when exactly) and I hope to go again. Leslie