Frank, if you're truly ADD, coffee with sugar will calm you right down... a Mt. Dew will have the same effect. If coffee with sugar or a can of Mt. Dew hypes you up, you're not ADD. I raised two severely ADD children, and Larry is severely ADD, as well... without mass amounts of coffee with sugar, he'd be climbing the walls or committing criminal acts! We have a professional 2 burner Bunn coffee maker, and it gets so much use, you'd be shocked! We should own stock in Folgers! You know those huge insulated drink cups they sell at gas stations? Well, Larry consumes about a dozen or more of those every day, filled with coffee. Each cup contains about 2 or 3 tablespoons of sugar! It beats the heck out of ritalin or the other drugs available for ADD! As for those damn soil links... the sooner you read them, the sooner your bulbs will stand a chance at happiness! If you go back in time here, and follow my soil/bulb exodus, you'll see that I ran the gamut from cheap bagged peat based soils to cocopeat and on into many soil amendments, and when none of my concoctions helped keep my bulbs from rotting or root problems, I was forced to looked further into the subject. What I use now is the culmination of much study and many trials and errors. I might preach about soils a bit more than you want to hear, but it's for your own good! I've gone before you and done the study, lived the experiments, so you don't have to! :-) If I can help my northern neighbors grow healthy bulbs, I'm certainly willing to share that knowledge! But, I can only point you in the right direction... I can't make you go. The rest is up to you, Frank... I hope you make the journey.

It IS very interesting looking! The name says it all... how very "phallic"! LOL! But if it smells as bad as they say it does, who would want it around?! Gross! Yes... "interesting" is about the only word to describe that plant!

DD, I got the jar at Michaels as they had the perfect size with lid. And picked up wood hearts and stars, and some pretty buttons there too. It was fun to put these together. Besides the Friendship Jar, there is another similar one I recently saw. Its called a Gift Survival Kit.... Toothpick - to remind you to pick out the good qualities in others Rubber band - to remind you to be flexible, things might not always be the way you want, but it will work out Band-aid - to remind you to heal hurt feelings, yours or someone else's Pencil (use the small ones like from the golf course) - to remind you to list your blessings everyday Eraser - to remind you that everyone makes mistakes and its OK Chewing gum - to remind you to stick with it and you can accomplish anything Mint - to remind you that you are worth a mint Candy kiss - to remind you that everyone needs a kiss or a hug everyday Tea bag - to remind you to relax daily and reflect on all the positive things in your life hugs, Karen

Rosa, You will be surprised at how well a teen can sew. When my GS was a junior he created an interesting pc. for his art class that was displayed by his teacher. I thought it would make an interesting quilt and talked him into trying to make one. He took me up on it (he hadn't sewen before) and it turned out beautifully. It was lap sized and he quilted it on the machine. He chose the fabric from my collection, drew the pattern, cut and sewed it with only guidence from me. He learned to use the machine, the iron in no time. He was very pleased as were his parent. He is now in College 2nd. yr. I am sure you both will enjoy the process and the one you choose looks great for a newbe. It is very rewarding to teach young people especially when they are ready,and it's worth all the efforts. Jayne