Happy 9th Anniversary MrMorton and Nan MrMorton ~ May you and Nan have many, many more happy years together. It sounds like you definitely have a busy month ahead of you. Happy Birthday to Benjamin. Enjoy that Bon Jovi concert. I also think it a wonderful, loving idea that your Grandfather wants to take you all out in celebration for his 65th wedding anniversary. Love is eternal. Please post some wintry scenes here as I for one don't get enough of seeing the snowy beauty that you all have. Have a wonderful month MrMorton. It's good that you have a busy month, because February can be brutal, this way you have lots of good things to look forward to, and pretty soon spring will be here and you can plant your lovely gardens once again. Lorna ~ That was a spectacular photo. I loved it. What is the plant covered in that white frozen stuff? We had a very warm, humid day, up to around 80. I think we had a couple of days of winter weather, and maybe a couple of days of spring, and now it looks like we are heading into an early summer. Dang. We need rain too. FlowerLady

My birthday is tomorrow! (Am I 35? or is it 53?:) My honey took me shopping & asked me to go over & look at some clothes- later, I finally found him chatting with a woman & laughing with her- I got a little jealous, because, after all, you know- my hubby is a HUNK! As I approached, I saw that he was discussing diamond rings,------ FOR ME! I felt so dumb! They didn't have one big enough- so we are waiting to see if they can get a 1 carat in... ( But guess what- I think it's kinda silly- I can't wear it out in the dirt! ) Anyway- he is the sweetest guy on the face of whole the Earth! I sure think so! kasha77

((((((((((NICKI))))))))))) I hope all your birthday dreams come true! In 2 weeks, Coffeemom is coming over to Fort Myers so we can celebrate our birthday weekend (she's the 17th I am the 16th) Really, really good people are born in February! George Washington , Abe Lincoln...Sonny Bono to name a few! Oh yeah and St. Valentine! lol

Ronda, maybe your crocus will bloom yet, don't give up on them. It seems like one day you see green leaves, then a slight swelling, then a bud creeps out overnight! I should have taken another photo of those crocuses- they looks so frosty and cold (even though Dusty would be out weeding in her "it's 30º, it's a heatwave" T shirt! LOL) later on the sun came out and those babies popped right open, a lovely little sea of purple/lavender. Dusty, I spent 23 years in the confines of Minnesota. I know cold. The coldest temp I ever saw, not windchill, was -38º maybe lower and I'm just blocking it out-- and the windchill then was -75º. I went skiing once at -22, really tough to keep your nose and eyeballs thawed out. You have to be tough (aka stupid) to do that! My teenage car was about a 16 ton Pontiac Bonneville. One morning I went out to "warm it up" in really true bone- chilling cold well below zero. No cloth seats then: we had bubble plastic seat covers, colder than heck on the back side! I didn't realize quite how cold it was until I drove off some minutes later: the car tires had frozen flat where the weight of the car flattened out the tires parked overnight. So when I drove, it was thumpety thump, thumpety thump down the ice cold streets until the friction warmed them into round tires again! Ilsonshine- I have never kept a garden journal but one thing I tried "tried-" (meaning I remembered to do it for about a week) last year was log in bloom times of various perennials in various beds, ostensibly to plan better placement and remind myself of what I can count on to bloom, when. If I had a dime for every notebook or stray piece of paper with garden notes on it around this house I'd be retired and organized if I ever got them all in one place. I'm thinking my Circle Pal's file box might come in real handy to get garden notes organized too. Yippee: I picked up file dividers and note cards to fit that box the other day! Five weeks to Spring! Five weeks to Spring! Spread the word. Better get some of my 'winter' stuff done soon. (or it will wait til next winter) Poochella