Hindu rope is more succulent than some of the others, so it can dry out a bit. But don't let it dry out too much, because it does get dehydrated, and sometimes is can come back and sometimes NOT. Watch it closely for mealy bugs. It's one of the hardest to eradicate them from because of all the nooks and crannies... If you've ever, EVER had mealies, make sure you put it in a place where it doesn't come in contact with any of your other plants. I keep mine alone in my bathroom to avoid any chance of ever getting mealies... Use a fast draining mix like you would with any Hoya or succulent. Denise in Omaha

Thanks Jen! Yeah, the mealey battle has been a full scale war this winter. I had one plant (a veitchii gardenia) that I found last spring that had mealies and I had isolated it and worked on it all last year and through the winter (it is finally clear). But by golly it spread like wildfire in here - hoyas, stephanotis, passifloras, oleander, coffee arabica. They completely took down my regular carnosa last summer and all I could do was cut a clean piece off, root it in water, and pot it up. The rest of the plant was tossed as the vines progessively died due to the stress. The cutting is doing well so far. The only things they didn't touch in the immediate area were my overwintering habanero pepper plants and my rose-scented geranium. That's interesting to consider. LOL I got the stems all sprayed on the compacta and I put it outside to isolate and will continue the treatments every couple days. Look forward to seeing it bloom again! Now to attack the lacunosa, which has been blooming on and off all winter but that got the mealies first. The lacunosa has such fragile leaves compared to the carnosas that I wanted to be extra careful with it. Plus it has tons and tons of bloom pedicels all over it that I don't want to knock off. Then I have to tackle the incurvula, which doesn't seem to have it that bad. In fact, I might do that one next and leave the lacunosa for last. Here are the bloom remains from the compacta!

A rare moment, but I am going to agree with kkny. I don't think this person should file a RO since it sounds like BM may have an equally or an even more sustantial claim for a RO against her. Especially since this poster sent a TEXT MESSAGE (proof) that she has a butt whooping on credit. I don't understand why the email contact was "shut down" in this case. Yes, it's annoying, but only annoying when you actually log on to check your email. From what I understand of this story is they got the cell phone issue taken care of by changing the number. So BM then started emailing. That was actually to this poster's advantage cause then they had proof of BM's harassing nature. That was a mistake to "shut down" email contact. Let BM email to her hearts content, and then only respond to the emails that have to do with the actual care of the children. My advice to OP, go take an Anger Management course and go to AA. This is an incredibly destructive behavior and will only need to making more poor decisions. Conduct yourself in a manner where you should always be conscious that your actions may end up in front of a judge and they will not put up with the immature excuse of "she did this so I did this back." Hopefully that will deter you from making some of the poor decisions you has already made.

Someone asked on a different thread how it's going. I don't want to hijack the other thread, but it's been WONDERFUL!!! My days are so much less stressful & DH is now spending his evenings in a bad mood, trying to learn 6th grade math (at least the lessons SD is being assigned)~She lied about turning in an assignment & when he told her to redo it to humor him since online shows a zero, she wrote a bunch of math answers on the page & handed it to him, knowing he is not great at multiplying fractions ~ so he asked me to explain one word problem "If you give each cat 3/4 cup of food & you have 16 1/2 cups of food, how many cats can you feed?" SD said 2. so he knew that was wrong & I looked at the page & saw all the answers were wrong, she had written down anything that looked like a math answer & I guess she figured daddy isn't good with math so he won't check it... so he got out the text book & started learning the lesson so he can check it. I thought that was GREAT! and he's getting his mom involved by taking SD everyday during Thanksgiving week, while he's at work. (let her put her money where her mouth is since she has acted like I am just so evil to SD because I don't let her do anything or I won't buy her whatever she wants.... grandma gets to step up & taste it now) SD has to do remedial work for each failing grade. She failed every academic class, except social studies teacher bumped her to a D-, even though she had 54%. (I thought 54% was an F) but whatever, so the school requires her to do 'tutorials' online for each failed grade. MIL is going to have her do them from her house & he will drop her off on his way to work, pick her up on his way home. BM wanted to have her for the weekend to go cut their Christmas tree but DH told her no, she has to stay here to do school stuff because of her grades. I thought that was a great consequence... to miss out on something she really wanted to do since she just acts like she could care less when we take things away or don't do things with her. It's interesting to see DH realize just how much stuff I really did for her... a lot more than he thought! Even stuff like taking care of her bus fee. SD 'lost' the paper at the end of October. I asked her to get another one but she didn't so I didn't pay it. Finally the bus driver told her she had to pay to ride the bus & DH has to wait until he gets paid again to pay it... so he tells me that I am going to have to pick her up from school. NO I'M NOT, YOU HAVE TO. So then he says, well can you call the school & let them know I'll take care of it next week? NO, YOU CALL THE SCHOOL & TELL THEM YOURSELF. I think he's finally getting it... all the stuff I do, but get ignored by SD until she wants from me, lied about to her mom & grandma by SD to try & get me in 'trouble', the power struggle over homework, the daily lying about everything, the stealing... Now he knows why I am fed up & done. I was worried he would resent me putting it back in his lap but I think he's developed a better appreciation. SD on the other hand completely ignores me. She waits until I am giving the baby a bath to come out of her room & ask DH for anything. She does not talk to me at all. She comes to my office after work & sits there pretending to study when I am looking. (others have told me she grabs a book when she sees me coming) and she will talk to my dad when I leave the office for any reason. That part of dealing with her is still unpleasant but I've decided to ignore it & let it go. She doesn't have to talk to me & it really doesn't bother me too much anymore. It used to bother me a lot because I wanted us to have a relationship but she has made up her mind & now I wonder if she has ever really liked me from day 1. I think back to the manipulative things she's tried since the beginning & wonder if the times that we did get along were genuine or fake? But I don't spend too much time thinking about that anymore either. She's a product of her parents & I'm still very sad for her, but there is nothing I could have done to change what her mom puts her through & how she reacts to it. That's my update.