I bought this one last year, also at Walmart. Because I live in the desert, I did plant it to receive only about 4 - 5 hours direct sun daily. It did very well in the first year in those conditions. It did not bloom profusely but this was just the first year and those that I got with terrific. I have a no spray garden and I could not detect anything other than occassional aphids. The fragrance is much better than the label would indicate. In case you have not seen this, here's a link to better describe the rose. I think you'll will love this rose. Here is a link that might be useful: Moonlight Magic

Yes, ripe jalapenos rock! Just wanted to mention how I achieve a medium heat level in Annie's salsa. I don't like black pepper in salsa, so I substituted the black pepper for our own ground up smoked pepper mix, made mostly of red jalapenos (smoked, dehydrated and ground up to a powder). I also added a few fresh pequin peppers to the hot pepper mix, which included fresh jalapenos and serranos as well. I used Pequins because they were ready to pick at the time I made the salsa. The heat is medium to me, but might be hot to others. Other suggestions for peppers: cayennes or tabascos. They are milder than Habaneros. They do not have the fruity flavor of Habaneros either, they are more neutral in flavor. This year I am also growing aji limons, great sharp flavor! but too late to use them in Annie's salsa, not enough tomatoes left. Plenty left for fresh salsa though! Experimenting with peppers is great fun, enjoy!

update: cut off the legs, as previous mentioned the sparrows perch on them then fly on to the feeder. I have been driving myself crazy trying to find the right amount of wires. I used 30 gauge and thinking it is too thin as i am always untangling the wires. i do have weights on the end but might try little heavier wire and weights. For the most part it works ok to keep sparrows at bay..until the wires cross then it becomes a mob again. Very frustrating as the sparrows even if they don't feed they hang around on the ground and make a mess ...i really have hoards in my city neighbor and i may just be ready to give in to them. Most awesome thing is that the woodpeckers, cardinals, chickadees, nuthackers are wonderful to watch and do get a good amount of time on the feeders.

Sunnysmom, I did do all the categories a year and a half ago. My mindset is ever changing though and it kind of goes back to what was said earlier in the thread about other people and life in general causing distractions in the process. You did give me some things to think about- namely, what if she doesn't want something early on, should I keep it/store it for her for a later date? I just don't know. The example that was in my mind when I wrote the last post was DH's grandmother's china. Having something like that when we were first married would have been amazing as it was something we could not have afforded at that point and would have been cherished. It came to us after her passing, and after we had been married for 20+ years. While we're touched and cherish it, we don't use it because our habits were well set by that point (we've never owned fine china, and still don't use grandma's even when we host). It's beautiful and in mint condition, but what if DD doesn't want that as she establishes her household? That's an item we would definitely keep, even if we don't use it--- but what about other items? In thinking about it, I guess I don't have a good criteria for heirloom type items that we don't use, but aren't really replaceable if they are something DD eventually wants. Nannygoat, I can share my experience with letters on the chance it helps you. When I did the first purge more than a year ago, I sorted through cards and letters. It was pretty clear which ones were keepers and which ones weren't much of anything. I looked for things that contained clear sentiment, nice words, and made me feel good when I read them- nothing that was just signed (unless the card was particularly meaningful in some way), and no notes/letters than made me feel blah. That left just a small pile of cards/letters, mostly from good friends from my 20s, and deceased relatives. They went in a bag, in a drawer for safe keeping. A year later, I pulled them out and started going through them again- at that point, the realization hit me that there was almost no contact with any of those people and the notes felt like distant echos, rather than any sort of valid sentiment- because that's kind of what they were at that point. I got rid of most all of them, even the ones from deceased relatives, because again, after a year, there was nothing new there, nothing validating, just an old sentiment from a long time ago, kind of like a ghost. Time and revisiting them helped me realize that I was not getting anything out of them, even though they might seem special from a quick surface glance. My advice is be patient with them and yourself, be discriminating where you can be, and also be open to how your feelings might (or might not) change in time.