It looks to me like you've pruned your main stem and the tomato is trying to recover. That's why the other stem came up. Leave the flower. It may go on to put out more flowers on that truss if not more trusses with more flowers will form (if you don't prune them haha). BTW, the downside is by cutting the main stem like that you set yourself back several weeks (in getting ripe edible fruit). The upside is you're providing a good example of how resiliant tomatoe plants are. Do what digdirt/Dave said there's no reason to reiterate basically the same instructions. Don't feel badly it's all a learning experience and in the future you'll have an amusing story to tell. Good luck. Randy

I have done many of these interactive murder mystery games. Some are very good and some can ruin a party. There are a few things to look for...  Scripts to read are a party staller  Murder that takes place at party is more fun  Games that come with money and secrets are always great as they allow for blackmailing, extortion etc... by the guests.  Games where your only agenda is to solve the murder are pretty boring. You need sub plots going on to make them fun.  Well crafted characters are important. If a games character is listed in a few lines then it is a bad game. With a good game your party will be talked about for months to come and everyone will want to know when you will be having another one! the boxed sets can be fun, but there are others out there that are 10 times the fun of those. We played a Tailormademysteries game once and it was not fun at all. I would not recommend them. Here are the 2 game suppliers I would recommend that were a success at our parties. Both suppliers games are downloaded from the internet after purchase. Murder Mystery Games - http://www.murdermysterygames.co.uk/ Games for up to 200 players. These were a lot of fun to play, but the 2 we played both had drug themes which we did not care for, but they were still very well written and everyone had a good time in spite of that. The newest we found that was a whole lot of fun was from Dinner and a Murder Mystery Games - http://www.dinnerandamurder.com/scripts/ The game was a 1920's gangster game for 12-20 people. It really was a blast. They say they will be adding new games every month and plan on doing some kids and teen games in the near future, so if anyone enjoys these I would keep my eye on them. Both sites have a newsletter you can sign up for to be notified of new games when they come out. Hope this helps!

Thank you! I'm glad so many of you like the color. Auntjen - I know you love turquoise. :) I didn't realize how much I like turquoise until I was trying to come with a shade that might work. DH said he didn't realize I had to much turquoise - why don't I wear them. Why? Because they're all about 3 sizes too small. :p Glad to hear that it's a color that still resonates with you! I picked up Opal Essence today so I am going to start painting the other walls. As much as I really like the Blue Seafoam, I just couldn't see doing all the walls in that color. Crossing my fingers that Opal Essence works well with it.

I found this article about roses and drought: http://paulzimmermanroses.com/care/summer-care/should-you-water-your-roses-during-a-drought/ The roses in my personal garden haven’t been watered in over a decade. And that includes during a drought. but then I read this in our rose breeder's newsletter: http://www.ludwigsroses.co.za/newsletter/ The way trees drink Scientists who study forests say they’ve discovered something disturbing about the way prolonged drought affects trees. It has to do with the way trees drink. They don’t do it the way we do — they suck water up from the ground all the way to their leaves, through a bundle of channels in a part of the trunk called the xylem. The bundles are like blood vessels. When drought dries out the soil, a tree has to suck harder. And that can actually be dangerous, because sucking harder increases the risk of drawing air bubbles into the tree’s plumbing. Plant scientist Brendan Choat explains: “As drought stress increases, you have more and more gas accumulating in the plumbing system, until they can’t get any water up into the leaves. This is really bad news for the plant because this is like having an embolism in a human blood vessel.” Like a human embolism, the gas bubbles stop the flow of fluid. If that persists, it means thirst, starvation and eventually death. Choat is from the University of Western Sydney in Australia, a region that has seen years of record-breaking drought. He wondered: How much drought does it take before trees start choking on air bubbles? He and a team of researchers studied 226 species of trees around the world, including desert trees, rain forest trees and many others. They discovered that for most, it doesn’t take much drought at all. “So this is the key thing,” Choat says, “that it would only take a small shift in terms of the moisture environment, the temperature … to push these plants across the threshold.” The threshold between drinking and choking, that is. The reason there’s so little margin of error is that trees have to finely balance eating and drinking. To eat, they open holes in their leaves, called stomata, to absorb carbon dioxide. But the more they do that, the more they lose water by transpiration through the stomata. Lose too much, and they have to start sucking harder — and risk a deadly embolism. Choat’s research, in the journal Nature, shows that it doesn’t take much drought before trees start to self-destruct. But what about trees that have evolved to live in really hot, dry places? They’re sippers, not gulpers. Plant scientists like Bettina Engelbrecht figured they’d have a larger margin of safety before they choke. “Instead,” she says of Choat’s research, “we find, well, it’s all the same — everyone is right at the edge and has a very risky strategy.” Engelbrecht, at the University of Bayreuth in Germany, studies rain forest trees. “Now, we have to worry about all of them,” she says. “We have to really deal with the problem at the global scale.” That’s because temperatures are rising around the globe. That makes drought more likely and more intense. Big droughts have hit southern Europe, Russia, Australia and the U.S. in recent years. The first 10 months of 2012 were the warmest ever in the continental U.S. Along with the heat came widespread drought, which still persists in the Southwest. Nathan McDowell, a plant scientist at the government’s Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, actually puts trees under plastic to see how they deal with less water and more heat. He says trees are adaptable, up to a point. “Now we’re changing that climate range really fast,” he notes, “faster than any of the living plants here have experienced. So can they change fast enough to adapt to that? You know, the preponderance of evidence right now is saying that [at] lots of locations around the world, they’re not adapting fast enough.” When they don’t adapt, they stop growing. Beetles and other insects invade. If droughts last long enough, the forests just die, and get replaced with something else. Please help me to understand this Straw.... What I've noticed in the past with severe droughts myself is that once a plant has reached it's threshold no amount of water can make it grow and live again...and if it does, it is usually riddled with all kinds of fungal (and other) diseases and bad insects. How can not watering your roses during a drought be a good thing, as stated in the site on the top?