Attention all buyers! If you have purchased or received any blueberry plants from Van Bourgondien, Dutch Bulbs, or Simple Pleasures this season, then we have news for you! Van Bourgondien has chosen not to pay for the plants received. Van Bourgondien does not grow any of their own plants; they just buy from growers and resell to you, collecting your money in the process. But this year, they have chosen not to pay for the plants, and simply keep the money you have given them. Several companies from growers, to trucking firms and even the widows of growers recently passed away are now suffering the losses of their time and hard work at the hands of Van Bourgondien. Here is a link to the Better Business Bureau complaint against them, http://norfolk.app.bbb.org/complaint/view/48027658/c/3c982f , and also a copy of the letter sent to us threatening bankruptcy, http://www.theblueberrypatch.org/Van_Bourgondien_letter.pdf .

Sammy, this really has nothing to do with the van, or getting your dog to sit in the van, but commiseration :) I thought for sure by 1 my beagle would have most things mastered. We trained over and over and over again. She caught on amazingly quick to everything. And we never stopped teaching and working on current commands. However, it took until the last few months (she's now 2) for her to actually stop her hard headed self and actually listen, ALL the time. She doesn't jump all over the furniture. She's still working on jumping on people (but getting MUCH better) You Put her in a sit stay, and she STAYS. Mostly except for when we accidentally move our hand in the motion we use for "come in" at the door. She stays. She's walking great. She lays down and stays. She'll do EVERYTHING. And she's extremely reliable off leash, something we never imagined, regardless of how well trained we got her. She's still an eternal puppy, though, just a smart, well behaved puppy, now. So don't fret if blaze doesn't seem to be getting any less stubborn. You'll probably have success quicker than we did, since you're attending obedience and we never did. Coda would have failed obedience miserably, I think. She was very ADD and easily bored/distracted. Now she has some what of an attention span, and remembers what she was commanded to do 10 seconds ago, and to keep doing it!! Good luck! And I hope you have a big box of tissues for marley and me. One of my favorites, but one of the hardest to read.

I'm also interested in finding samples of the Karndean and get prices as well. Good luck

Emily Carr Quotes Canadian - Artist December 13, 1871 - March 2, 1945 It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw. Emily Carr Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul. Emily Carr Trees love to toss and sway; they make such happy noises. Emily Carr I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows. Emily Carr You always feel when you look it straight in the eye that you could have put more into it, could have let yourself go and dug harder. Emily Carr I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born. Emily Carr You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming. Emily Carr Oh, Spring! I want to go out and feel you and get inspiration. My old things seem dead. I want fresh contacts, more vital searching. Emily Carr There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness. Emily Carr You will have to experiment and try things out for yourself and you will not be sure of what you are doing. That's all right, you are feeling your way into the thing. Emily Carr Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence. Emily Carr You must be absolutely honest and true in the depicting of a totem for meaning is attached to every line. You must be most particular about detail and proportion. Emily Carr The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion. Emily Carr The men resent a woman getting any honour in what they consider is essentially their field. Men painters mostly despise women painters. So I have decided to stop squirming, to throw any honour in with Canada and women. Emily Carr Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs. Emily Carr Mel Torme Quotes American - Musician December 13, 1925 - June 5, 1999 Talking money is crass; so I'm not going to tell you what I made last year. Mel Torme I would be a liar if I said it wouldn't be lovely and soothing - that's the word - to have a hit single or a hit album. Mel Torme I want to sing for the broadest possible audience. Mel Torme As regards my feelings about drummers - there's Buddy Rich, and then there's everybody else. Mel Torme There isn't a dearth of it, but I will confess that it's harder for me to find songs on which I'm willing to invest anything from ten to fifteen hours writing an arrangement than it was in times past. Mel Torme It may sound a bit like an army barracks, but the truth of the matter is: there must be some time laid aside for arranging, time for working on either a book or an article - I've written two articles in the last four months for the New York Times book review section. Mel Torme I hadn't been a recording artist all that long when albums came on the scene, and I was one of the first singers to point the way to how varied an album's contents could be. Mel Torme How many radio shows I did is lost to memory now; it's in the hundreds - maybe even close to being in the thousands - for the span of years from the time I was eight till I was about fifteen. Mel Torme But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in. Mel Torme As a singer, the biggest joy I have are the arrangements. Mel Torme Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film. Mel Torme So I'm sorry, I'm going to continue to talk to the people, because I do believe that if they get to know you and what you are as a human being, they can more appreciate what you are as a performer. Mel Torme See, I never wrote arrangements for the band for Judy Garland; I did strictly special material, special lyrics, put together all of her medleys. Mel Torme Right now, my career is in three directions: as a performer, as an arranger, as an author - and I don't give any one of them true precedent, or true top marks, as opposed to the other two. Mel Torme My initial career, really, as a baby, was as a singer. Mel Torme I was a singer professionally when I was four years old, and I did not really begin to play any instrument - the first one, of course, was drums - till I was about nine years old. Mel Torme I got into radio when I was eight, and I was one of the busiest child dramatic actors in America. Mel Torme I didn't really have an act per se - a theatrical performance, as opposed to just: here I am, folks, and you're all supposed to be dead quiet while I sing eight or nine songs, then get off the stage. Mel Torme Buddy Rich is one of a kind; he's a genius, and that's all there is to it. Mel Torme Because obviously the whole purpose of putting records out is purely and simply to make money. Mel Torme Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub of radio. Mel Torme As Buddy Rich, for instance, broke into the business at the age of three, I think it was, on drums, so indeed did I break into the business at the age of four as a singer. Mel Torme Dick Van Dyke Quotes American - Actor Born: December 13, 1925 Just knowing you don't have the answers is a recipe for humility, openness, acceptance, forgiveness, and an eagerness to learn - and those are all good things. Dick Van Dyke When you're a kid, you lay in the grass and watch the clouds going over, and you literally don't have a thought in your mind. It's purely meditation, and we lose that. Dick Van Dyke Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them. Dick Van Dyke There are no sure answers, only better questions. Dick Van Dyke 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' was a movie that I repeatedly turned down. The movie's producer, Albert 'Cubby' Broccoli, known for his tight-fisted control of the James Bond movie franchise, desperately wanted to re-team Julie Andrews and me after the success we'd enjoyed with 'Mary Poppins.' Dick Van Dyke Don't worry so much. Most of the things you worry about never end up happening. Dick Van Dyke For some reason, as time gets short in life, wasting time escaping through entertainment bothers me. Dick Van Dyke Once you get the kids raised and the mortgage paid off and accomplish what you wanted to do in life, there's a great feeling of: 'Hey, I'm free as a bird.' Dick Van Dyke In my seventies, I exercised to stay ambulatory. In my eighties, I exercise to avoid assisted living. Dick Van Dyke But I wish they would make a musical of some kind. I miss musicals so much. You don't see them anymore. Dick Van Dyke I've always been a bit of an orphan, because actors say, 'Well, he's more of a dancer.' And dancers say, 'No. He's really a singer.' And singers say, 'No. He's an actor.' Dick Van Dyke 'The Dick Van Dyke Show' was the most fun I ever had and the most creative period of my life. Dick Van Dyke I've made peace with insecurity... because there is no security of any kind. Dick Van Dyke I never wanted to be an actor, and to this day I don't. I can't get a handle on it. An actor wants to become someone else. I am a song-and-dance man, and I enjoy being myself, which is all I can do. Dick Van Dyke I was 5 years old when the stock market crashed; I lost everything. Dick Van Dyke I was the class clown, you know, that kind of thing, and I gathered around me a group of guys who also were silly. I was in all the plays and everything. But I don't know, at that time show businesses looked like the moon, you know, it was so far away. I wanted to be a radio announcer. Dick Van Dyke The American people hit the streets and did something that the government wouldn't do: the Civil Rights Act. It didn't go down well with the corporate world. Dick Van Dyke I wanted to be Stan Laurel, then I wanted to be Fred Astaire and then Captain Kangaroo. I actually started out as a radio announcer when I was 17 and never left the business, so that's literally 70 years. Dick Van Dyke Here's the truth. Your teens and twenties are your Plan A. At 50, you're assessing whether Plan B or Plan C or any of the other plans you hatched actually worked. Your sixties and seventies, they're an improvisation. Dick Van Dyke I found out retirement means playing golf, or I don't know what the hell it means. But to me, retirement means doing what you have fun doing. Dick Van Dyke I never had a lot of drive, but because I had family responsibilities, I had a lot of tenacity - the tenacity of a drowning man. Dick Van Dyke My life has been a magnificent indulgence. Dick Van Dyke I'm not a loner. I have to have a life partner. Dick Van Dyke The Horny Toad in Cave Creek has great food. When I'm in Arizona, I have at least one meal there. I have a daughter who lives out there, and Dee Dee Wood, who was the choreographer on 'Mary Poppins,' lives out there. I still get out there once in a while, but not in the summer. Dick Van Dyke The secret to keeping moving is keeping moving. Dick Van Dyke In Bernie Sanders, I see a man saying that the emperor has no clothes while everyone around him insists they see clothes. Whether or not he makes it to the White House, I hope and pray that everyone hears the alarm he is sounding now; it may be the last voice we ever hear. Dick Van Dyke I've been talking about retiring for years. It's my standard answer to the question, 'What are your future plans?' The truth is, I'll always want to do things that are worthwhile or fun. Dick Van Dyke Somebody sent me a British magazine listing the 20 worst dialects ever done in movies. I was No. 2, with the worst Cockney accent ever done. No. 1 was Sean Connery, because he uses his Scottish brogue no matter what he's playing. Dick Van Dyke Television's going, as far as I'm concerned, downhill, and I'm an anachronism. Dick Van Dyke I was lucky to get the kinds of parts I wanted. I always said I didn't want to do anything my kids can't see. Dick Van Dyke I wrote a little autobiography about how luck has to do with everything. It's called 'My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business.' A publisher came to me and said, 'Write a book,' so I did. I wanted to call it 'Everybody Else Has Got a Book.' Dick Van Dyke 'Mary Poppins' was one of the best experiences of my life. Dick Van Dyke I never even had a bachelorhood: I went straight from my parents' home to a marriage. Dick Van Dyke I pay attention to the news. I take the 'New York Times.' I do the Saturday crossword. Dick Van Dyke As wonderful as they were, my parents didn't teach me anything about self-discipline, concentration, patience, or focus. If I hadn't had a family myself, I probably never would've done anything. Marriage taught me responsibility. Dick Van Dyke As for my studies in school, I was a solid student. I was strong in English and Latin, but I got lost anytime the subject included math. I wish I had paid more attention to biology and science in general, subjects that came to interest me as an adult. I could have gotten better marks, but I never took a book home, never did homework. Dick Van Dyke Divorce is something that I never dreamed would happen to me. But it did. Dick Van Dyke My brother and I laughed a lot as kids. We came up in the middle of the Depression, and neither one of us knew we were poor. We had nothing, but we didn't know it. Dick Van Dyke