I'm terrible about lenses I use the same 70 300 with stabilizer for everything! It is so much like SDLM I don't think it would make any difference to propagate it. I got a Chimera this year also part pink part white that usually happens in the fall for some reason! src="http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/1600x1200q90/841/ndh83.jpg" border="0"> SDLM has about 40 blooms. Kronprincessin is just about 5 ft tall and had about 30 blooms madam Wagram continues to be disappointing after 5 years I have only ever gotten 3 blooms in a Spring Flush Pat Austin & Capt Dyel de Graville The Spring Blooms always nod the 2nd flush they usually remain upright I have one other sport of SDLM which is SDLM Rouge and it has struggled for 3 years now & is still only about 1 foot tall & I cut the bud off it hoping for more growth!

Glenda, What you said is so true, and for decades now, if you say you eat or garden organically, a lot of people instantly lump you into that whole 1960s-hippie-back-to-the-land-movement (not that I mind that). Even when we moved here in 1999 and I put a big organic veggie garden in the front pasture, between the road and the house, everyone thought I was crazy. The old farmers and ranchers couldn't wait to tell me how I was doing stuff wrong and was going to fail. They didn't think much of my wide raised beds, narrow paths, hay mulch, companion plants ("you're wasting space on weeds") and (horrors!) my reliance on manure and compost instead of liquid fertilizers. When I refused to use pesticides, they gave up on me. One even said to me "You probably do yoga and eat granola". (I do! LOL) They also weren't impressed with the appearance of my heirloom tomatoes, which were the wrong colors, too lumpy and bumpy, etc. You know what, though? Every now and then over the years one or another of them has asked me about an organic solution for this or that, so I've won over a few of them. There are aspects of the green movement that bother me, including the way the government dumbed down the organic standards and allow practices which devoted organic gardeners never would use, but for which the commercial industry had lobbied. I do think a lot of the green news we hear has more to do with marketing than with doing anything for the right ethical reasons. Still, I do see lots of folks (many of them right here on this forum) who are quite serious about gardening in the most healthy way, eating organically when possible, etc. That gives me hope that we're realizing there's a better way to raise food and take care of Mother Earth too. The spice place made me nuts, but in a good way. I didn't want to leave. Tim just stood in the pepper room talking on his cell phone while I put bag after bag in the basket. At one point I handed him the basket to hold for me while I was looking for the turmeric, and he headed for the cashier's register, thinking I was done. I had to chase him down and say "Wait, I'm not finished yet!" LOL Silly guy. Just because the basket was full, he thought I was finished shopping. I want to know why Fort Worth has all these interesting food places now---they didn't have them when we lived there. Dawn

Thanks for the responses, friends. Hmmmm, I thought I saw something about if you put an oven below an induction cooktop, the oven would get even lower to the floor then a regular range because the induction cooktop has to have more space below it. I really don't even want a range as I've always had wall ovens and I like not having to stoop over to pull heavy things out of a hot oven. I've thought of doing cooktop over oven in this house only because the kitchen is small and it would give me more counter space.....i.e. not having a micro/oven combo taking up so much space. Also, where the cooktop/oven will be is very close to the kitchen table so not far to tote hot casseroles, etc. Are we getting a picture here...I'm LAZY! I do think I will definitely go with induction. What's the downside other then price? And this is probably the last house we're gonna put money into. Might as well have want I want. Funny to think that in my main home I have survived over the last 15 years with a 4 burner electric coil cooktop and a GE micro over plain jane oven. Guess this forum can be a blessing and a curse. Never knew what I had been missin, but sure as heck ain't gonna be sittin in the cheap seats with this remodel if I can possibly swing it. Posting layouts, pics of my proposed new kitchen is beyond me at this point...I am a computer idiot. I am going to work on that as I think the before I got, and the after I am hoping for could be very interesting. I will try to get some pics soon and post. Finally, could someone tell me a brand that has induction cooktop over an oven as an integrated unit? And as always, thank you new friends so very much.

WOW! I'm drooling. Now you just had to post that beautiful picture didn't you???? You are lucky to have a husband who not only likes to fish, but brings home the creme de la creme!