Many people on GW prefer to send plants and cuttings by Priority Mail. But mail-order catalogs don't ship by Priority. They use First Class, Parcel Post or UPS. Bare root dormant raspberries will be OK in a transit for 5-6 days with proper wrapping to prevent roots drying out (as most plants and cuttings). If soil is workable, your trader can plant raspberries right away, if not - heel them or pot them up (more info on Internet how to handle bare root raspberries). Very important - soil should not be saturated with water when planting or digging plants, otherwise soil will be destroyed. Temperature doesn't matter for hardy plants. Here is a link that might be useful: Planting Rasperries in the Home Garden

YEAH!! That is what I was wondering too. I recall that over 100 requests were logged in to Spike for just such a forum as this. He finally caved in and obliged. Well here it is~and where the heck are the traders! I don't get it. As for me personally, I have decided to keep my plant trades to a minimum number of surrounding states. And being a junk-a-holic, I must be careful what I bring home. It has to be something I really, really need before I would make a trade. So let those who whined for this, support it.

I'm back. but i've been sick again. still am. have been very sick for at least 4 days. so I'm not up doing much of anything. hurts too much, difficult to walk. the 3 windows and door were supposed to be in last Friday but they didn't get here. hopefully they got 'here somewhere' yesterday. dbf called the guy today to check on them. he'd even lost the guy's ph # and I had to call a shop in AJ and ask them for it. geeze. I can tell he's really concerned. He came out last wk with the prv owner of the mfg home and brought out his old mattress set for me to use for now on the floor so girl doesn't have to jump up and down far. he had some grey tiles he thought I could use and brought one out. it's the old type from the 50's. or a school cafeteria floor. so no, I won't be using them. there were flecks all thru them. He also brought out a different dw. A maytag. it's older, not a new one but does look better than the GE in there. Still, I think GE is a better brand than maytag. will probably have him hold on to the GE for a bit in case the maytag dies out on me. if it does tho I'll probably just look for a KA on sale. the PO helped dbf take a big old metal desk out of the back bdroom. glad to see that gone. he also checked way at the top of the built in cabinet in my bdrm to see if it was screwed into the wall up there. now I just need someone tall with a ladder to unscrew it all. It should split into 2 parts (each with shelves at the top, one with drawers at the bottom and one w/doors at the bottom. They'll probably go into my 'desk/book' room. They'll need painted or something. eventually. They also measured all of the rooms for area rugs (he has a ton of them). I just hope they're livable... they will be for a time anyway. I managed to go to Lowe's last wk before I got so sick (like the day before) and got 3 shelves cut. 1 is still in my car! the shelves are particle board. should I paint them? if so, wouldn't I need to seal them first? I noticed when over there one day that there was a smell I didn't like - I think it's the boards. I was going back this past wkend to get bathroom lights - but I was too sick to do that. I hate being sick right now - the temps are down. about 104 today. was only 98 yesterday (or sunday). good temps to get things done.

Many of you have expressed about not kissing, hugging, or touching people other than family. Well, that's the point of this subject, no kissing, hugging and touching... period! I had polio as a baby. It wasn't until I came to the US that I learned about the history of polio outbreak. I then understood how I caught it from playing with a neighbor that was infected with polio virus. In turn, my cousin caught from me while she visited. Polio virus was fairly unknown in small towns in our country at the time. We didn't know that we should have been quarantine to avoid passing on the virus. Fortunately, polio was not always a death sentence but some other diseases are such as this one, Ebola.