Dear Oleg, I'm sorry about your brother. It's robbery to charge that much for a loan! To borrow money to buy a car, it's often 0% from the car dealer, or maybe 1.9% on a sale day. Banks charge more of course. Credit card companies charge 20%+ interest each year if you don't pay off your balance. 300% is what a "loan shark" would charge...I can't even imagine! ******* On a nicer note, I was at a local church's "Autumn Festival", sitting at a table with various bulbs, and it was so much fun to hear stories today from families and how amaryllis were a part of the family. There was the one woman who just knew her evil sister-in-law had gone to her grandmother's house to dig up the heirloom Amaryllis from the flower bed after the funeral. Apparently, when other family members went to the home to dig the bulbs up for their own use, they were all gone! And another story between a mother and a daughter who were standing right in front of me; the mother had given the daughter her amaryllis bulbs because she was moving, and the daughter loved them so much that she said, ..."you're not getting them back!" Poor mom had to find a couple new bulbs, which her daughter referred to as the "new mothership"! It made me laugh!! Several children were getting a single amaryllis bulb to take care of, until they can be planted into the garden in the spring. It's almost like they were selecting a new pet! A troop of Daisy (Girl Scouts) were given hyacinth bulbs to learn about bulbs. They invited me to come talk to them at a meeting in April....how old are they...6 years?? I'll make little Hippie addicts out of them and/or their mothers!! One woman bought some paper whites to force in her mother-in-law's room at the nursing home. For those that don't liked the scent...I know what you're thinking!! And two friends bought some assorted spring bulbs to plant up in pots so they'd have matching spring bulb bowls! It was a GREAT DAY!! I'm tired, but I love getting people excited about Hippeastrum! Stay well!! Kristi

When DD#5 started school, I had not heard that the cutoff date had been moved.....it had always been Dec. 31, and my other kids, except for twins born in spring, had started before their birthdays. She went to school the first day and came home with a note from the teacher, saying she would have to wait a year. This was before we had kindergarten. She was so excited about her first day of school....full of stories about other kids, what they did, etc. You can imagine how difficult it was to tell her she had to wait a year. I contacted the school board, but they were adamant in their ruling, even though she would have her birthday in early October, and could read already. Oh, well, we lived through it.

I've put a "free" notice on our town's private facebook page. Recently I shared an over abundance of dill but kale and cabbages have gone to people with rabbits, chickens and goats.

I'm a boomer and I care and my millenial children care! DD is a teacher, off for the foreseeable future and as I stated before son working from home and isolating. I am sickened looking at stories of spring breakers partying it up, vaping and drinking and then they will spread it when they finally get their besotted asses home. My hospital just canceled all elective cases for the next 2.5 weeks, following the lead of our larger hospital affiliate. I can now quarantine, unless I get called in to manage a critically ill patient that needs airway support, at which point I will be in full PPE. That will be a huge risk to me, but I intend to take all measures to keep myself and the people I come in contact with safe.