I know this is an ancient thread, but I’m so mad at Park Seed that I’m searching for an alternative source for the sponge plugs. I have every size of biodome, the 60, 40, and 18 cell floats, and lots of single and double trays and domes. They just made me so angry by providing the worst customer service ever (for some starter pots where they substituted an obviously inferior product and want me to return them at my expense, and they refuse to post my negative review — at this point they’ve paid someone more to argue with me than the items are worth, and I’ve been a customer for nearly twenty years!). I actually have always had excellent results with the sponges — pretty much 100% germination with a huge variety of seeds (using bottom heat), so I’d rather not sub a soil or similar mix. Has anyone found a supplier of the sponges? One year I thought I did, after seeing some sort of identifying mark for the manufacturer, but I’ve lost it.

Well, I do genealogy, so suffice it to say I have been in my share of cemeteries! We have found, and I know you're going to think this is real strange, that we get "guidance" in finding the graves. Many times we have gone to a cemetery we have never gone to before, we drive around and finally decide to pull over, and wham! The headstones we're looking for are within a few steps! But this story is one I just have to tell: DH's grandfather had a brother who just kind of "disappeared" from records. He was last seen on the Edna, KS census with his wife and daughter, and then the next census year I found Martha, his wife, married to another man. I don't know if he died or if they divorced. I think I found him in Missouri, with a new wife, living next door to one of his married sisters. But I'm not sure. The reason is that his name was James Jones, and there are a lot of people named that. So, I found the probate records of when James and DH's grandfather's father, Tom Jones (eeek! See what I'm working with here?) died. It said that James was deceased and left one heir and that she, Effie Jane, had married a man named James VanAusdal. Through some detective work, I found that James VanAusdal was a druggist, and he ran a drugstore in Welch, OK. Curious to find out what had happened to James Jones, and hoping to find a descendant who could tell me, We went to Welch and found the place where the VanAusdals had had their drug store. We found a local who called his dad, who remembered James and Effie Jane's son, but not them, and didn't know where they were buried or anything. So, we went home with little more than we'd started out with. They did give me the name of the local undertaker, though, so I wrote to him and got a reply saying that the eldest son had been buried in Chetopa, KS. Well, that's just a hop, skip and a jump from Welch, OK, but a little further when you start out from Dewey. So on one Saturday we got in the pick-up and headed for Chetopa. Halfway there it began to get colder and started to rain. Icy rain. We forged ahead. After stopping at a Quick-Trip for directions, we easily found the cemetery, and it had a directory but the VanAusdals were not listed on it. And, modern stones were all mixed up with the old-fashioned ones so we really had no clue where to start. I finally decided to start at the back. DH would NOT get out of the truck! With an umbrella in one hand, I started walking the cemetery. My feet got wet. My jeans legs got wet. I was cold and starting to get tired. I said, out loud, "OK, Effie Jane, if you want me to find you, you better guide me to you cause I'm getting ready to head for the truck!" I turned to walk towards the truck and there, right in front of me, was a huge maroon granite stone with "VanAusdal" engraved on it in big letters! Behind the big stone were several smaller ones all lined up. Effie and her husband, their three grown children (who I found out never married and therefore that line died out with them) and Effie's mother, Martha Rodgers Jones Bonham. I guess I'll probably never find out what happened to James, except that he was deceased by the time his father died.

I have several friends that work for Parks and Wildlife and they are always telling me how bad things are. Thanks jolana

My DH and I are both 67 and both our sons phoned us today to say that they want us to self-isolate. Huh? They're not the boss of me. :) But we are both staying pretty close to home, but we're healthy with no underlying health issues. In Britain they want everyone over the age of 70 to self-isolate and not just for 2 weeks but for the duration of the outbreak. ETA - effective tomorrow night all rec centers and libraries will be closed for the forseeable future.