Sorry for not coming back to this earlier. Hope the hound returned in good order and looking unrepentant. :-) Yes, pooch returned and was just fine. I had been getting up several times a night looking for her to maybe be laying on the porch (of course I left the light on all night) and magically she just reappeared one night at 3 AM. She looked well fed, was not hungry, and was clean, almost like she had been either someone's house dog, or that she had been tied somewhere. I just cannot imagine where she was as I drove each day looking for her and talked to probably 100 or more households, handing my tel # out, in case she was spotted. I've wondered if maybe she was dognapped and was being held in the hope that a reward would be offered for her. She has always been a pretty good escape artist, so she may have escaped and then somehow found her way home. Serious question: How do you keep your ribbons and rosettes and pictures? Serious answer: At the Indy show, actual ribbons or rosettes are not given except for certain 'classes' that are exhibited... Example:the winning display of 5 different US bred daffs is awarded the ADS(American Daffodil Society) Red-White-Blue Ribbon a winning display of 5 different reverse bicolors-ADS Maroon Ribbon A winning display of 12 cultivars and/or species from not less than 4 divisions-ADS Marie Bozievich (Green) Ribbon The biggie award, I think, is The Quinn Award which is a silver Medal for a collection of 24 different cultivars (!!!) and/or species from at least 5 divisions. There are numerous other ADS awards as well as Indiana Daffodil Society awards and Regional awards. Seasoned growers and showers win the Award classes as it takes numerous different cultivars, or numerous blooms of several different cultivars to put together a collection for the Award (bigger) winning classes. There are various awards for various 'collections' of Standards, Intermediates, Minis, and Historics. Everything I exhibited was either in single stem or a vase of 3 stem classes. Anyway...some of my First Place winners were Tripartite, a real prolific favorite of mine. Fragrant Rose...another favorite as it smells just like a rose. Triple Crown Mint Julep Hawera...Mini single stem AND mini vase of 3 blooms Bright Angel So much of my daff collection was acquired in 2008 and 2009, so it will be a while until all of those grow into 'clumps' giving me more 'choice' blooms to choose from come show time. When purchasing bulbs, I've started to try getting a wide variety of them from the different daff divisions as well as getting them with a nice mix of different bloom times, ie from very early to very late. I've got them listed on a spread sheet with that info, so I can 'sort' them and see just what I'm needing more of. (Maybe a little OCD?) I had intended to 'try' and get a bloom count of everything this year, to see how they are multiplying and to see which ones I might want to dig and divide to either share, or trade, or must divide and plant in 2 separate areas, thus maybe expanding the bloom time of a single cultivar. I never did get any photos of NOT Lemon Beauty to send to B&B. I will use yours if that is okay. Kathy, that would be fine. For anyone who may be curious, Kathy and I are trying to get a name on this daff which I'm thinking was sold as Lemon Beauty, which it clearly isn't. Here is the real Lemon Beauty. Olathe is a beauty! You imagine correctly, I need it bad. Consider it 'yours' if I get it dug, which I really hope/plan to do. Because of your reminder this is the first time I've visited our local Red Butte Gardens while the daffodils were blooming. Oh Sandy, I'm so glad you were encouraged to go and got some great pics to share. They are stunning and I imagine the hyacinths smelled heavenly. Wow! Scenes like this make me want to squeeze a lot more bulbs into my yard. Oh yes, there is always room for a few more. If you purchase any new ones this fall, and happen to have extras to trade, I'd love to work a trade with you for some new (to me) cultivars in smaller quantities. If I get them dug, I should have Olathe (link to pic in a post above) Triparte-pictured above) and Orange Phoenix pictured below and Geranium pictured below as well as others. For that matter, I would welcome trades with anyone who might have extras of newly purchased named daff bulbs, or named bulbs they have dug this year, that I don't have. Just remember to wait 6-8 weeks (8 is best) after bloom time to dig, cure and store until fall planting or trading time. Well, enough about daffs this AM...so much to do. Time allowing I hope to get a few pics of new (to me) blooms before they fade. I've been busy digging out wild onions and garlic from a woods area where I plan to plant new daffs this fall. I don't want other bulb foliage coming up among the daffs. I also need to move a few nice natives out of the area, and then the area can be sprayed in preparation for fall bulb planting. I wanna be done planting before linnea56 this fall. Sue

Yeah, the novelty of having a palm tree at all in SLC was a big deal. Though there are lots of prettier palms that would do great here. All in time. Just a bottle palm, so far. And it was pretty silly to mail them here, considering that I can get something at any nursery that is prettier, and probably cheaper than the postage. But they're my guys, and I don't have much from my old home. The windmills are cool though, and you do see them around here from time to time. They seem to do just fine with a little shade. And besides, it's a crazy story. Now, the shrinking sad fargesia rufa, that's another story. It is just not happy here, and I don't think there's any way to save it except mail it back to someone back in UT.

I read an article some years ago that said that people in the west read more than people in the east. This was true of all the west, but especially those parts with few other entertainment options due to lower population and lack of amenities. I must say that this list does not reflect that opinion. No doubt one or both of them are distorted in some manner. Either that, or behavior has changed. Rosefolly

Bumping to see if anyone has any recommendations for tile installer in Utah. My shower is officially dead and I need to get this project started.