One of my very favorite roses. Fabulous fragrance. Happy to report no thrips here. In fact, she's been ridiculously healthy for the 8 years I've had her. Worst thing I can say about Betty is that she has wicked thorns. Here she is with Dick Clark in the foreground. In this photo the pink is a little cooler than in person. Face to face, Betty is a warm, very pale pink. Kay

We found one at Rona last year and it was beautiful all summer. We are watching it carefully and hope it made it through through the winter. Leo

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My husband just left for his interview. He looked so handsome I told him they couldn't resist hiring him just based on his looks. :-) He's a sweetie and I love praising him. We've been married for almost 12 years and it's been the best years of my life, outside of my two children, of course. I was in a bad marriage for 25 years and after four years of being single, I met Bob. He's retired Navy and is everything I could ask for in a husband. I NEVER believed I could find such a precious man. God does answer prayer! I'll let everyone know how his interview went. Yes, TX is flat in most areas. The traffic can be bad if you don't know how to take the short cuts. I've lived here all my life so I know how to maneuver around quite nicely. The bluebonnets are pretty in the spring. The sides of the freeways look as though someone had a huge bag of seed and just slung in every direction. Beautiful blues...really gorgeous. You will often see people, with small children, sitting in the flowers taking pictures. One of our local country radio stations plays a song during this time called the "Bluebonnet Squat." It's hilarious! I guess my two addictions are fabric and dishes. I am a QVC regular. I sometimes have it on all day just watching and thinking of reasons why I have to buy everything I want. I have bought many serving pieces and speciality/cutsie dishes. I can't help myself. I love to entertain and have all the cool dishes, trays, etc. I have a small family, but I tend to go all out on holidays and birthdays. I recently bought some pretty, Christmas red bakeware from Rachael Ray. Did I need them? Of course not. But they were red and I thought how pretty lasagna would look baked in it. I have some cute Santa and snowman mugs on hold. I thought they would be fun drinking hot chocolate from. Our winters aren't really very cold here, but hot chocolate does work when the temps drop below freezing. Betty, sorry to hear about your husband's accident. I hope he has recovered well. I do understand how it makes one feel to know others are praying during difficult times. It does give encouragement to keep hanging on. I too, many times, just take one step a time. The last couple of weeks it's been taking one hour at a time, but regardless of DH's job situation, we are blessed and I have no complaints! .....other than I need a bigger kitchen for my dishes! lol Once I learn how to post pictures, I'll put some up. I have a cute pix or our two dachshunds. We adopted them last April and are they a lot of fun. We had one dachshund for 10 years and lost her. We waited a few months before we even considered getting another pet. I found them on an adoption website and fell in love. They are masters of the house now. I lost control the first week we had them. :) Punk, I would love to hear about your business, too. It must be good to be your own boss. Jaybird....when I was signing up for this forum, I tried to use 'jaybird' as a log in name. My nickname is "J-Bird." A dear friend's husband called me that over 25 years ago and it stuck. That is how I'm known now in their family. My immediate family call me JuJu. My daddy's mother called me that when I was little and it stuck. My daughter says she wants her baby to call me Grandma JuJu. I used to baby sit for a girl with three boys and they called me that as they weren't close to their grandmother. They are in high school now and they still think of me as that. I love it! Ok, enough of me. I must find something for dinner. I hope it will be a celebration dinner of a new job. I think a pan of brownies are in order. Judy