Hi, I am new to this forum but reading everyone's comments made me feel so much better about the way I feel. I have been with my fiance for 11 years since his son was 2 years old. His ex is a psychopath, she has tried to kill herself multiple times in front of the child and suffers from bipolar and depression. We have been to court multiple times and everytime her family swoops in to protect her and the child says he wants to stay with his mom. We just got finished wasting $6k on an attorney for family court because she broke up with her boyfriend, went out drinking and got a dwi and then told the cops she was going to kill herself so she spent the weekend handcuffed to a hospital bed. She has manipulated her son into thinking that everything is his father's fault. He is now 13 years old and just called up my fiance to tell him he doesnt want to talk to him or see him anymore, and my fiance is beside himself. We have done so much, he is such a wonderful father, he never says a bad word about his ex to his child and has done everything to try to make up for the stress his mother puts him through and this is how he is repaid. I have spent the past 11 years giving up my weekends to have his son here, we sold our house last year to buy a house in his school district because she couldn't find am apartment I'm the district. We have gone above and beyond, I just can't take anymore. Now I have to see all of the pain my fiance is going through and there is nothing I can do. I feel helpless and deep down in side I'm happy to get a break. I just feel like I have never had a life with my fiance that didn't involve his son and his ex and now I could possibly have a chance but he is so broken over his son. I feel horrible saying this but I dont care if he doesnt come over anymore on the weekends the only reason I care is because it hurts my fiance so badly. I also fear how it will be when his son decides to come back around because I am angry for what he has done to his father and have a lot of resentment. Sometimes I feel like just giving up.

Your Fragrant Queen is lovely - I am a sucker for those wide creamy margins and yours is exceptional. I have September Sun which has been a steady grower for me and looks a little like Borwick Beauty. Here are a couple of pics from last year. I have never had the dessication burn but this one is in mostly shade but I don't think it is susceptible anyway.

Garrett, Looking up Haworthia marginata var mariatii showed two different pictures on Google. One with white tubercles (one side only) and the other like the book describes smooth both sides and whitish skin, while pumila has white tubercles on both sides. Both are in different groupings in Pilbeam's Book on Haworthias. Pilbeam discussed the big trouble ID'ing with so much interbreeding in the hobby. With each other plus with Aloes and Gasteria. You see the almost same plants with just the least little difference and then someone puts in in a new class. I currently have about a dozen Hawothias that need ID'ing. Waiting for them to get some size and age to tell them apart. I am pretty sure now with Conny's help that this is the correct ID but will keep it open for discussion. Conny, I purchased my limifolia variegata from 'Out of Africa'. Cost & trouble of shipping overseas is always a problem. If not, I would try to get you one. We trade a lot here in the States.

I abandoned my hostas last fall for an extended, unplanned trip to Dubai so this spring is not only filled with the usual over-the-moon excitement of re-appearing hostas, but filled with trepidation as well. Today I will do a thorough "walk-about" which translates to a "thorough poking about" LOL - know what I mean? The kind where gloves don't exist - has to be bare fingers that at the end of the exercise will take time to brush clean again! Oh joy! Gotta go! P.S. Almost forgot your question, lol! Answer:. an unabashed, resounding YES.