LOLOL! Thank you everybody. So very nice of you to think of me. : ) What a surprise to come here and find my post resurrected. I was just stoppin' in to see what Semper had to say about the big game. : ) I'd love to give you an update..... Well, first of all....it's a boy! Things are going pretty well with the pregnancy. I only have 3 more mos. to go! I see the doc today for a check up and will start to go every 2 weeks from now on. I'm bustin' at the seams, lol. Been driving DH crazy....the frigid temps. have had me on "pond watch" and I walk up to check on things several times a day. He always tells me to come right back in the house but I end up fiddling around with one of my de-icer contraptions or something and disappear for a while. He is now making me take the walkie talkie with me, lol. Guess he's afraid my large belly might throw me off balance and into the water. The new house is coming along but the bad weather and a death in the family has slowed us down. Our fingers are crossed that it will warm back up into the 20's or 30's this weekend so we can get back to work. Right now our biggest fear is the cold temps. causing the footers to heave and that would be BAD. DH is pretty much throwing up right now he's so worried. It's the coldest weather we've had in over 10 years. The deck (floor) is complete and we are currently in the middle of framing. We've built most of the walls but haven't stood them up yet. We decided to construct our 22' tall see-through fireplace first. Mainly because it is also structural and our ridge boards will run in to it. So basically we look like the crazy people with the smokestack on the hill. We are ready to start standing up walls and hopefully start on the roof trusses as soon as the weather allows. And as long as nothing heaved. Keep your fingers crossed. I'll post a pic of the giant smokestack as soon as I go over and take a new one. The pics I have now were taken in bad weather and you can't see real good. Poor DH keeps saying that this project is going to kill him. All the worrying is causing him a "slow death" he says. I'm trying to keep him positive. It's definitely an adventure and I have faith that someday we'll be happy we made this decision. Semper, yes, let's hope they are back in there next year. Really looking forward to seeing how things go with our new coach. I may have to go up to training camp and spy. Comet, no herons at the new place would be wonderful! I'm still trying to figure out how to heron-proof the new pond in an aesthetically pleasing kinda' way. ; ) Hope you are all doing well and getting through this cold weather with no troubles. Thanks again! I had a great day...what could be better than football and birthday cake? ~Dawn (mamabirrd)

I find it depends on the bulb size, Lizalily, although, the more room you can give them for root growth, the better... within reason, of course... I've had to stuff a few larger bulbs into pots that are a bit too small for them, but it's all I had available at the time... I think the norm would be a pot that allows about 2 inches between the bulb and the pot wall, all the way around. I have some of my smaller bulbs planted in 4" pots that are rather short and squat... and my really big ones in 8" or 10" pots... those are taller, of course... most of what I'd consider to be medium sized bulbs are in 6" pots. The Lovely Garden klister I planted as a whole is in a larger pot... I'd say it's probably about a 12" or better sized pot... when I shop for clay pots, I try to get a large variety of sizes... and I prefer the inexpensive plastic drip saucers to the clay ones, only because you can more easily bottom water using them... they're a bit deeper than the clay. I don't know why I didn't think of poking holes or making slits in plastic pots before! It could be done quite easily using anything sharp and heated, such as an ice pick or even a butter knife if it were heated enough. An old wood burning tool, that you don't mind ruining a tip of, would work, too. You could even get fancy and create different shaped holes or slits... if you could find something metal that could be heated, and was in the shape of a heart or star or anything, really... you could have some really cute, and cheap, orchid pots! Lizalily, I have found lots of clay pots at secondhand stores, flea markets, garage sales, Salvation Army and Goodwill stores... but even if you buy them at your local garden center, they're relatively inexpensive... I have found that they cost more at Walmart than at the garden center! I pay an average of .69 cents for a 6" pot and .89 cents for an 8" pot... the larger the pot, the more costly, of course, but unglazed clay is fairly cheap. You might even be able to find them wholesale online for less... I've never checked because I think shipping could be more than I'd want to pay, plus they're rather fragile...

Thanks, y'all. I've hardly had a minute to spare since getting it set into place. MOSAICREFLECTIONS: The balls are styrofoam. I gouged space for them to sit on the spiky tops, then wrapped them in the dry wall fiberglass tape. I ran a loooooooooong strip of the tape over them and down each side of the panels and mortared over it all b/f mosaicing over that. I'll plant Rhodies in back, and around the corner and a banana tree in front of Darrell's shed. It w/take all that awhile to fill in. I'll also put in a mosaiced tall panel here/there. I think the bench needs a large pot on the side w/the Margarita arm w/a tall grassy plant. This corner w/keep me busy for weeks and weeks. Getting cold here now, so work w/slow down outside. CALAM. I pulled out all my wonderful Zinnias and Periwinkles yesterday and Jeannie planted 367 Pansies and Dianthus. Gotta buy six more flats for me to plant. I'd already planted four flats around the big Mexican pot. Where's the IV 'rita?

Slow....I'm really starting to lean towards selling. The gallery that wants my stuff, takes 40%...so that has put me off for a while. But I'm really starting to think about other options. My daughter thinks I need to try to make her a better deal. She has said my stuff was front window quality......so my daughter is urging me to make a better deal with her. I may just try and see..... I have a hard time giving anyone 40%. The Base and supplies are much more than any of their other stuff .. Most are Canvas's and paint...Pottery.. small sculptures ...My bases are spendy .. I think about a tea set...I pay $45.00 for the set... then $30 for the glass....my time..glue ..grout, and it looks like I'm trying to screw someone! then add 40% to that! I now notice how over priced stuff is there..and the reason is the 40% commission! So ebay might work for me. Just looking into it. So impressed you thought it was worthy of selling! that lights a fire under my butt!!!hahaha Hazie