KAY: I love that RED of HEARTS OF FIRE,TOO,I just love the red ones. RITA: i LIKE RUSSIAN EASTER too.I almost couldnt get a picture of it today, but,I was determined to get it. I have this daylily in a raised bed,and its planted out in the middle of the bed.Course, the bed is only a 8ft square, but, other blooms was in my way to get a good shot of just the daylily, so I had to get up in the bed and work my way around others to get as close as I wanted. well,for the last 4 months,I haven't been very stable on my feet and have to be more careful, so I was having a problem but,I got my picture :) I love that daylily, too.I love them all. BRITTIE,AVEDON,,NANCY IN TEX.Thank you for looking and commenting NANCY in KY, I have not broke a whole scape off,,yet,,, but, yesterday I knocked off 2 big buds off CLOWNS PARADE, and I was so mad at myself.I was popping off old blooms before I start taking pictures and accidntly broke them off while reaching across to another daylily.grrrr. Jean

RITA;I don't care for Butterscotch, but,I sure do like your W.BUTTERSCOTCH ICE CREAM. That is so pretty. FEAR NOT is a beauty, too.Just love the name on W.A FOX IN EVERY HENHOUSE.Its very very pretty.My favorite is EBONY POOLS and 2nd favorite is CLOWN PARADE. Gosh its a beauty...Such beauties blooming today.AIN'T IT FUN.:)) Jean

Ilene, Since you're thinking it would be OK if the onions bolted, they'll probably be stubborn and refuse to bolt! (That's the kind of luck I always have, anyway.) I like your rainfall collection tank. I've wanted something like that ever since we visited the Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Center in Austin where they have a massive rainfwater collection/cistern system that is incorporated into all their buildings and is simply amazing. We have 5 ponds, 3 of which we put in here after we built the house, but they haven't had water in them in months. They do catch a lot of rainfall when it actually does rain, but I leave the water in 4 of them for the wild things and the fifth one is "mine" to use to water the veggie garden if needed. That fifth pond is on the northeast corner of my veggie garden and I can pump water out with a small sump pump or can scoop it out with a watering can. This pond is fairly small and holds maybe a thosand gallons so the water doesn't last as long as you'd think. If I had it to do over again, I would have had Elvis (our backhoe guy--you gotta love the name) dig a quarter-acre pond and I would have had him dig it deeper. It is going to be 75 or so here today, so I suspect we'll have fires again like we have the last two days, although maybe we'll get lucky and have calm winds and no fires. I'm not ready for the cold to return. All the fruit tree buds are swelling--even the Mexican plum which tends to be a bit later than the others. I guess the cold will be a good thing because it will slow them down, but I'd still rather be warm. The plum tree that's been in full bloom for days now probably won't set any fruit, or will set it and lose it to the cold, but I'm hoping the other trees will make up for that one. I looked back at my temperature records and noticed that when Feb. is warm, we always have a cold spell around the first week in March, so this cold front that's coming in is right on schedule. Carol, that is a very smart cat. In the afternoon our cats "collect" on the back porch where the greenhouse plastic and the afternoon sun keep the temp about 10-20 degrees higher than it is out in the open. I guess sitting or sleeping in 70-90 degrees on a winter afternoon is pretty appealing to the cats. That porch almost feels "too hot" to me at times. Sometimes I open the french doors that connect that back porch to the breakfast room and let some of the porch's collected hot air flow into the house. Dawn

1. I made a major start in getting my craft room set up. 2. I went to visit my best friend who just moved back from out of town, although I only stayed for about 10 minutes due to dh being in the hospital. 3.I kicked back in my massage chair and drank a Sangria wine cooler.