Hey Pattie Ann and Cynthia!! Good thing I get the notices when someone posts! One of our son inlaws has moved the majority of my hosta barrels (still planted--can you believe that!!) and many, many of the others in pots and bags to our new place--in a HUGE truck from where he works with an electric lift--thankfully! I already love the effect at the new place though I've done little more than plant 7 trees (in addition to the many 'maples' surrounding the place' and now I've purchased 7 Althea Lucy Rose of Sharon bushes and 3 Nikko Blue Hydrangea bushes (big ones). The bushes are yet to be planted, though!! We're still waiting to find a concrete guy to help us get started on transforming the 2 car garage into our bedroom and then build another garage on the end of the original! The prices we are getting are HORRENDOUS!! Praying for someone to be discovered who will do it for a more reasonable amount! We've built my 'grocery store' in the basement for food storage and several large shelving units to hold the many crates of things I'm bringing over! Meanwhile, there are still lots of hosta to be dug and divided to leave some here and take the larger portions with us! Hubby keeps telling me to take it all--and if I did there is still so much going on that the yard is very woodsy and you can hardly tell anything is taken. I will post pix someday, I'm sure! I just wish I had taken some 'before' pix of the new place sans the hosta barrels and pots!!! We come home late everyday and we collapse very soon after we get home. I get on the computer long enough to check the mail and do a little researching and maybe a short 'game' to relax and then off to bed! Thanks for asking Cynthia and thinking of me! Pataan--definitely remember that evening we were together at that place and Steve and I speak of it often! Talk about a potentially much worse situation after backing into that guys' bike----!!! Whew!!! I was anticipating a HUGE BIKER DUDE coming out and slamming Steve up against the van! LOL Not funny--really if it had turned out that way but I can laugh now that it didn't!!! hahahaha Oh, and Phil and his wife, Diane, stopped over in Dayton Tuesday evening (coming from N.C. to Michigan.) and we met them for dinner! we really enjoyed being with them again. They left the following day to be at Ken's by noon! I do hope they made it in time to spend enough time rummaging through his gazillion hosta and still get to Diane's sister's in time for dinner!! Hope to see pix when Phil gets back!! janice

Good advice, Tally about the extra suitcase. I always do when I visit my friend in Seattle. He does the same when he visits me. One year, the suitcase wasn't large enough, and we had to pack the remainder of the plants in a large box..... whatever works, I say. LOL.

Again, many thanks to all! The surgery is July 7th, but between now and then there are so MANY doctor's appointments, it makes my head spin. I'm working hard in the studio, and hope to have another quilt ready for binding. Realistically, it probably won't happen. It does keep me distracted, LOL. Mary

Hi Vicky, Thanks for stopping in....hope you're able to work on a little quilting from time to time. SharonG/FL-IN