Thank you, Carly and Mike, I'm doing fine, I've just had some disturbing issues coming up with both my job as well as my husband's, which has taken me away from forum activity. My citrus are all doing very well, time for some micronutrients, as for us in this part of S. California, the cold temps in combination with our drenching winter rains just leach out all the micronutrients in our soil, and what's left gets locked out due to our somewhat higher pH. So, I need to apply micronutrients to the soil as well as with a foliar application starting now. Interestingly, some citrus are nearly unaffected, like my Cara Cara, while others, like my blood oranges are really getting chlorotic looking. I think I'll also apply some chicken manure as well, but not so sure extra nitrogen at this point in the season is really helpful. It truly is a micronutrient issue we have here, especially those of us on DG (decomposed granite) soils. So, my line up is pretty much complete, unless I come across a Sumo mandarin in the near future (although I have a little seedling limping along). Picked one Oro Blanco a little early just to test, and it was so sweet, it tasted like it had sugar on it, but it was a wee bit dry. First crop, so not expecting great things. Things are ripening up and just about ready for picking, yummm: Grapefruit Rio Red Cocktail Melogold Oro Blanco Valentine Pummelo Mato Buntan Pummelo Tahitian (Sarawak) Pummelo Tangelolo/Tangors/Orangelos Wekiwa Tangelolo Ortanique Tangor Chironja Orangelo Mandarin Pixie Clementine-Nules Algerian/Clementine Gold Nugget Page Tango Nova California Honey Ponkan Manadrin Lime Bearss Lemon Meyer Improved Eureka "Pink Lemonade Eureka (Variegated)" Palestine Lime Orange Moro Blood Sanguinelli Blood Tarocco Blood Cara Cara Valencia Red Smith Valencia Vaniglia Sanguigno Blood Kumquat Miewa Kumquat Nagami Kumquat Variegated Calamondin Patty S.

Merlinus, some corrections to your messpellings: Picea pungens 'Montgomery' Must be written as Picea pungens 'R.H. Montgomery' Cedrus deodara 'Feelin Blue' Must be written as Cedrus deodara 'Feelin' Blue' Cedrus deodara 'Devinely Blue' Must be written as Cedrus deodara 'Divinely Blue' Pinus thunbergerii 'Thunderhead' Must be written as Pinus thunbergii 'Thunderhead' I hope that I helped you with this info.

One of the best things I did use some time back was aluminum flat bars about 1.5 x 15 inch x 3/16 thick that I got at the salvage. They were cut offs and I had to cut them with a hacksaw down to the 15 in. I then picked up some labels for labeling meat ie; freezer labels 2 5/8 x 1 inch. which are waterproof and printed them through a laser printer. I still have stakes in my yard that are very readable after about 10 years. Sadly I did not keep it up and also had some kids visit who pulled them up so lost the marking aspect that way. They really were the best even if it took a little work at the time. You can buy aluminum flat stock in some hardware stores. I wonder if you can buy a similar label for the label maker? They definitely have been the best I have ever tried. Here is a link that might be useful: My Blog site

Thanks all! They lve in NYC,( we'll spend part of the time in greenwich ) so the museums,zoos,etc are often visited. I'm looking for something less tame. I found actual flying trapeeze classes that look incredibly fun. :>O The thought scares me, as it might his parents, but it's for kids. There's a youtube video on New York trapeeze kids. Thanks for the link,kswl, I'll go look now.