Congrats, enjoy your day! Hope you could get what you needed to do done but also relax and enjoy some of the great weather.

Eloise I am sorry that I only know that they are Castor beans. That is a plant that reseeded itself year after year while I was gone and when I came back I planted just ONE in that corner and the frost got it night before last and it is a goner now. I am still hoping thou that the seeds might still develope. Anybody knows if they would still be viable? I always come back and read all your postings, just sometimes I forget to come back again and answer if there is a question lol. sorry. Kylie I let you know in a bit how cold it is here today. I must be crazy to go out there now. Lucy

Hi Rita, DH and I were out fairly early...his desk top computer has suddenly developed big problems so we took it in to have it checked out (he is on his laptop now) and I went by the garden center after wards since it was very near. Home and I cooked lunch, then went out and planted. Hey, planting is easy after the 8 hour day of clearing the new rose area. So, I naturally deserved a break and took it. It was great. We had a bit of rain Monday, but not util night fall (perfect). I understand the umbrella fully. ngraham, Sometimes it is necessary to shovel prune. A big bed? To Fill? Now that is exciting. Thank you all for sharing my great day with me. kay

LOL at Jammer, Maryann. I guess we in the funeral business have quite a stigma to live down (or live up to, depending LOL). My cousin jokingly calls me a ghoul. I fail to see the humor teehee. Customers call me "the obituary lady." Of course I appreciate the phone ringing with business but to be perfectly honest, there are some customers I don't want to hear from again. Sometimes, I feel like it is way too soon from the last time, so imagine how they feel. Sometimes, it's just too hard on them and on me. Despite their line of business, I can imagine your friends were happy being able to give you your flowers now. Know what I mean? Aw man, KayJones, that was soooo sweet. I love your insight because what I neglected to mention was two years ago, my customer was burying her best friend. There was no insurance policy, so everything was paid from whatever she could come up with in addition to selling the friend's belongings. There was the added obligation of paying off the friend's debts with what she was able to sell. The friend lived a good life and worked hard to save and accumulate, but then she fell ill and fought it for a couple years. Everything went behind after that. I think my customer went overboard in trying to make things especially nice for the funeral. Her bill with me was $635. She could have done it much less expensively, but I thought about also I might just as well have given her that much of a discount. I often do for return customers, which is one reason I had pretty much resolved the 80 dollar issue in my mind. Something else I neglected to mention is this lady did it before and called me promptly to come and pick up my money. We settled her order and my bill but the night before the service, she began to feel in retrospect that she hadn't ordered enough and added on another hundred program books. The additional books amounted to $95 dollars, which she was to pay me when I delivered the order the next morning. I sent the delivery by someone else, but she called the next day to tell me come and get it. I don't want the first story above to sound like a sad story that I fell for. I know it was genuine and didn't see the point in pressuring her. I'll see how it goes. Haven't made up my mind if I'll mention it or not. I expect she will though.