Actually, if you learn one color system - the language of just one color system - it's not hard to figure out all the other ones. The one to learn is Munsell. Albert Munsell is my favorite old dead guy. We share the same birthday but that's not the only reason he's my favorite. Al was a teacher and his motivation for creating his system was color education for elementary school children. What that means is you don't even have to be smarter than a 5th grader to figure out how the Munsell Color System works. I recently wrote an article about the absurd state of retail paint stores and how manufacturers market color. In the article I ask readers to imagine walking into a department store to buy an outfit: shirt, jeans and shoes. Everybody can relate to that, right? Now imagine that there are no tags on anything. No labels sewn into the collar of the shirts or seams of the jeans. No sizes imprinted on the bottom of the shoes. No clues whatsoever about sizes or prices. The only way you're going to be able to find a complete outfit it to start trying stuff on. You have to start by searching out a shirt that "looks like" it might fit. Try it on and when it doesn't fit, your only option is to keep trying on shirts; comparing each one to the one before that didn't fit. Then you have to do the same to find a pair of jeans. Then you have to do the same to find a pair of shoes. How long do you think it would take you to find an outfit that fits? How long do you think it would be before you got totally frustrated, confused, and exhausted by the process. How long before you said "this is crazy, I'm outta here!"? No one in their right mind would shop at that store. They'd find a department store where all the items had labels and price tags. Substitute color notations for labels and this is exactly the situation in paint store world right now. Some stores have paint brands that have notations. And some do not. Sounds half hopeful, right? Not so fast. Sadly, the people who own/work in the paint stores that do have brands with notations have not one fat clue their brand has a color system loaded behind it - let alone what to do with the actual notation. So, unfortunately, @williamsem nailed it. Most people are left with aimlessly combing through chips and sticking with the company with the chip you like. Bonne chance my colorful friends. P.S. Thanks @linelle for the kind words.

The main types of climbers are... Those that are bred as a climber, those that are bred as a floribunda type climber and those that have sported from a bush rose because there were strong climbers or had many climbers in the background. These types will sometimes revert to the original bush they sported from if you cut the main cane hard. The idea was very popular many years ago because if the bush had been a vigorous one, it easily reverted back.. Even to day, I would not prune the main cane hard. I would just wait until it had grown to the height I wanted and then in the spring cut it back so when it puts on new growth it will come back to the size you wanted. Floribundas always make the nicely shaped climber. Sort of like a pillar. The reverts can be gangly and when you prune them they get mad and get messy looking. Modern climbers are much more discipline.

In poor neighborhoods where students need the lunch and/or breakfasts that the schools provide, I can understand that the students would come to school either to eat that meal or to pick up a sacked meal. Coaches often think they are the rulers of their own fiefdoms, and I just don't see the logic in letting them call the shots and cancel the superintendent's directions. Perhaps the superintendent doesn't even know this exemption is going on. I am impressed that schools are making an effort to continue educating students with the various on line sites at their disposal. It is not perfect, but they are keeping the idle students busy learning the curriculum for as long as they may be confined at home. They are making lemonade!

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