Thank you very much everybody, thank you my friends. We had a storm yesterday so the computer was turned off. What a surprise, a total surprise when I switch on, click on the rose forum and I see my name. Thanks Carla, who is always the very first to find out about birthdays thank you prettypetals for the nice bouquet. Patricia, darling, you made me smile - yes, Charleston is a shared love - there is always a new vista, a house or some other memory to cherish no matter how many times ones go there. She is a lady, my friends who is responsible for so many of my rose purchases that Patrick would pale in his enabling efforts. Dear Hoovb, you knew exactly which photo to offer me - my band of Comtesse Vandal does very well so far but no bloom yet. It looks gorgeous on your photo, and you say it has great perfume? One more reason to look forward to craving the first flower. Connie, you already rooted a Grandam's hat for me? I was close to crying; you are so dear. Terryjean, thank you for your very kind comment and for your willingness to overlook my typos or bad sentences. Leslie thanks to show me Burgundy Iceberg. In the last minute I added it to my Pickering order so now I know that I didn't make a mistake. Rambling rose, thank you. Niecey your Chicago Peaces look superb; mine never gave me so beautiful flowers. Jeanne, thank you and also thanks for all the advice you gave me about pairing and growing clematis. Thank you very much everybody, thank you my friends. We had a storm yesterday so the computer was turned off. What a surprise, a total surprise when I switch on, click on the rose forum and I see my name. Thanks Carla, who is always the very first to find out about birthdays thank you prettypetals for the nice bouquet. Patricia, darling, you made me smile - yes, Charleston is a shared love - there is always a new vista, a house or some other memory to cherish no matter how many times ones go there. Dear Hoovb, you knew exactly which photo to offer me - my band of Comtesse Vandal does very well so far but no bloom yet. It looks gorgeous on your photo and you say it has great perfume? One more reason to look forward to seeing the first flower. Connie, you already rooted a Grandma's hat for me? I was close to crying when I read that. You are so dear. Terryjean, thank you for your very kind comment and for your willingness to overlook my typos or bad sentences. Leslie thank to show me Burgundy Iceberg. In the last minute I added it to my Pickering order so now I know that I didn't make a mistake. Ramblingrose, thank you. Niecey your Chicao Peaces look superb, mine never gave me so beautiful flowers. Jeanne, thank you and also thanks for all the advice you gave me about pairing and growing clemayis. No I can be declared to a clematis addict, too. As if roses weren't enough, LOL. Karen, you grow amazing roses in a very beautiful setting - no wonder that your bouquet is so rich and full. MY WS2000 always pinked out, so we replanted it where gets less sun in the afternoon, hoping to see this rich vine color in this season. Aprille, please, please tell me what are those flowers. I have two tips but cannot decide. Your Cottage rose is beautiful, Linda. I don't have it, so it is a pleasure to see it. Olga, is this photo of that rose you know I want very much? looks so wonderful, thank you for posting it. Judith(Montreal), thank you to. I already have a few blooms but mostly buds. I hope we all have a wonderful growing season without any natural disasters for a change. Moddyblue, you made me laugh. By the way, this variety of narcissus is my favorite. They have been blooming for such a long time, they aren't ruined in a day or two, rain doesn't hut them; every time I look at that bed it makes me happy to see them. Thank you. Redsox, dark blue and dark purple are my favorite colors in the garden - they provide a cooling, soothing effect I like in this climate but there aren't many blue's that do well here. I will look for this stokesia - I have the white, I am familiar with the light blue but I have never seen Stokesia in this color in uour nurseries. Thank you all! No I can be declared to a clematis addict, too. As if roses weren't enough, LOL. Karen, you grow amazing roses in a very beautiful setting - no wonder that your bouquet is so rich and full. MY WS2000 always pinked out, so we replanted it where gets less sun in the afternoon, hoping to see this rich vine color in this season. Aprille, please, please tell me what are those flowers. I have two tips but cannot decide. Your Cottage rose is beautiful, Linda. I don't have it, so it is a pleasure to see it. Olga, is this photo of that rose you know I want very much? Looks so wonderful, thank you for posting it. Judith (Montreal), thank you to. I already have a few blooms but mostly buds. I hope we all have a wonderful growing season without any natural disasters for a change. Moddyblue, you made me laugh. This variety of narcissus is my favorite. They have been blooming for such a long time, they aren't ruined in a day or two, rain doesn't hut them every time I look at that bed it makes me happy to see them. Thank you. Redsox, dark blue and dark purple are my favorite colors in the garden - they provide a cooling, soothing effect I like In this climate but there aren't many blue's that do well here. I will look for this Stokesia - I have the white, I am familiar with the light blue but I have never seen Stokesia in this color in our nurseries. Thank you all for being here, teaching me something every day, tolerating my typos and rush comments and remembering me.

lies? truth? this really is driving me insane..I leave to pick up the kids in a couple minutes from school..I'm going to have to ask my son what he thinks, he is so good at riddles. He solved that one from Einstein, that supposedly only 2% of people can solve..he did it in 10 minutes!

Hello everyone! Have I got a story for you!! This week has been something else...I had to leave work to come home and tie up my black lab....we have a 6 ft cedar fence around the whole yard so we would not have to tie up the dogs, anyway, Mora got out twice yesterday and we couldn't figure out how she got out...so she shows up at my oldest son's house late this morning. He lives several blocks away and he brought her home and checked the yard. Then my youngest son calls about 30 minutes later...he heard something out back and went to check it out and Mora was in the neighbor's back yard so he has me on the cell phone and I told him to take her back to the yard and check to see if she dug anywhere...then a thought hit me...I told him scold her and tell her to go back home to see if she would go back the way she got out....well, it worked!! He said she flat-footed jumped over our 6 ft cedar fence and was now back in our yard....I have NEVER heard of a dog doing that!!! Did I mention she just came in heat!!! grunt!! Ok, my second guess will be: Total: 300 White: 36 Pink: 64

My DD! She drives the rest of us crazy! Sometimes (in car) I have to tell her to stop talking *at* me, I can't concentrate, I need to drive. Then there are the conversations that go on forever b/c someone's just not getting it. I must have spent 5 minutes at dinner last night trying to describe to my dad where/why I thought they were putting catch basins in on my uncle's street. It started with my dad saying he drove that road around 3pm, noticed surveyor was at lot behind my uncles' (he's on the corner). I said yes, at 4:45 I saw the flags and OBTW they were putting in catch basins on that (short) road. Dad said he saw the patched asphalt. I said well the heavy equipment was there, and I saw the concrete storm drains off to the side of the road. *That* started it - "Where?" "At the end of the road near the land that's for sale" "There's no land for sale, that's the house, they just have the sign on the state hwy so people know it's for sale around the corner." "No, uncle told me last year land was for sale, sign said acreage, but the drains aren't on the hwy, they're on cross street." "Mr. X used to own that house, he sold it, but he owns all the land back behind all the way up to your other uncle, but he sold the house, he doesn't live there anymore, but he always had a problem with water running down the driveway of that house, he dug out so it doesn't run in the road. Maybe the new owner is doing something" ... it turned into a 20-min conversation, both of us getting frustrated, and all I meant was to mention they're working on the road and we shouldn't use it as a shortcut til they're done. Most conversations with my dad end up like the old Abbott and Costello "Who's on First?" routine...