Hi Terrance nice to meet ya and thanks for the reply! Yes I must get outside in scratch that dirt. Where I live now, in Aberdeen, we gravelled the whole backyard due to having multiple horses in the house. LOL..my great danes make a terrible miss on grass so it was the only way. And mud? As in garden? Would be destroyed unless I built a fence around it. We are planning to buy a house soon, so hope to change all that. I can not wait to get into roses outdoors and perenials, grow my own veggies. Lily's too! I hope he builds me a greenhouse, as I am a die hard fan of tropicals. Plumeria and hibiscus are my fave's. Been growing them indoors for a year under lights, and lots of blooms. I also enjoy propagating and starting from seed indoors. Fun stuff! I guess when you grow up as a small town girl, you stick to your roots..hahahaha..too funny! Krista - sorry I left Sharon's name in the original post, so she knew I ressurrected it.

The truth is that on the 'net you are at the mercy of mods who often times have their own agenda and delete threads under the guise of "fairness" when the real reason is because of their own personal biases or disdain for an individual. I am not speaking of this forum or any gardening forum (I am a newbie here) but I am talking about any message board in general. I have seen this behavior on the net and BBS for 20 years. I suppose if one doesn't like it, one can always start one's own forum. That said, I see no reason why a certain tomato vendor cannot be discussed openly. Perhaps there is not a way to censor individual posts within a thread? If there is indeed a way to do this, then I think it is silly that the entire thread was removed. It is almost like someone wants to protect a certain vendor. I have no knowledge of any vendor, and do not speak out of personal experience. It's just that I would like to see both positive and negative experiences with various vendors if I, as a newbie, plan on buying from them in the future. I suppose tomato vendors are just like any other business; you can ask 10 people about X company and they will say X company is the best they've ever dealt with, while 10 other people will say the company has terrible service, is disorganized, has crabby sales people, and does not stand behind its product. ;)

if it's on the old styrofoam or plastic spools, maybe remove it from those and twist it around some old wooden thread spools-using your machine- for display. you could cut out lengths of different colors and display like gift filler in a glass jar with some kind of treasure like old sewing goodies or old photos or baby shoes or toys, or pull off big hanks of it like skeins of yarn, lol. Back when I was still machine piecing quilts, I'd have a big basket full every day, and we set it on limbs and in a basket for the birds to take for nests, then in the fall we'd peek at the nests we'd find on our walks to see how far they flew with it and how much and what colors they used. kudzu Here is a link that might be useful: Kudzu's blog

Posting to threads and starting a thread are different and come with different time limits. If you start a thread it's much shorter period of time. Somewhere between 30 minutes and an hour. I don't remember exactly.