Mia, I think overwintering cannas in pots in central OK is iffy. Your success would vary from year to year depending on how cold it gets. Last winter they likely would have survived in pots, but the year before they would have frozen. The general rule-of-thumb with any container plants is that they are considered to be growing one zone colder since they are above ground and subjected to outdoor air temperatures without the insulation of the ground all around them. So, if you are in zone 7a in OKC, your cannas in containers would be overwintering outdoors in conditions the equivalent of zone 6a. I also think whether they survive in a container is dependent on how the weather cools down. A long, slow gradual cool-down before freezing temperatures arrived would be better for them than going from warm weather to shockingly cold weather in a matter of a few days. With a long, slow cool-down the plants acclimate better to increasingly colder conditions over a prolonged period of time and seem to handle it better than going from hot to cold pretty suddenly. Dawn

Good advise. i don't have fish but there are plenty of others that do so thanks. vickie

"I read that and couldn't believe it! The bank didn't even offer them an apology for putting them through all that--just sorry for the delay paying them the judgement.- Wow, all that aggravation.... they should have won a lot more money." What else is new? TARP recipient BOA (Bend Over America) has always acted as if they are above the law. We had a card with them years ago. We accumulated thousands of dollars worth of shopping rewards but they made them go away one day and refused to explain why. I wish this couple would have sued them for a whole lot more.

"I didnt say she posted the positive side, I said she posted a biased view, and the entire article had some other points. For example, where the article said SM was a bit of a misnomer, and it might be better for a SM to forget the mother in the name, and be more like an aunt." It did have other points you are right, but what is wrong with putting the ones on there that will lift the group. Also, I completely disagree with the act as an aunt role idea. I do not pretend to be the BM of my son, but at my home I AM the mom and I refuse to go back and forth between roles. This is easier in my family since my SS was young and excepting of me when DH and I got together. The aunt role would work better (IMO) for someone coming in later in the child's life. IMO I am a parent to my SS regardless of step or bio and I will act as such. "I do regard my DD as a victim of divorce. I am not aware of any study that doesnt put children of divorce at a disadvantage to children in intact families. And she certainly didnt cause the divorce". I did not say they are not victims. However, it is not a good idea, IMO, to go around considering yourself or your kids as victims, at least not to them, or they will always pitty themselves instead of learning from the situation that they have been put in. I agree that it is not fair to them and is definitely not an ideal situation to be in. I did say that with the way you and others act about second marriages it is almost like you are disregarding the fact that other children are born out of these second marriages and that they could be put in this situation to. Do you not understand that by constantly telling everyone that statistically they are more likely to fail than succeed in a second marriage it comes off as you almost hope we do, our kids bedamned. Also, I completely agree that kids of divorce are at a disadvantage to kids in a intact family. Unless, that intact family is an unhappy one in which they are better of in a divorce situation. "I think the point about second marriages failing is taken out of context. Its more about Dad should have more a role, as child may end up with serial SMs." You are generalizing here. Dads are not the only ones who do this. In fact, in my own person experience my DH and I have been together for quite a while and I was the first and only serious relationship he had after his divorce. His ex wife has been involved in a serious relationship off and on since right after they seperated. Between her and her long-time bf's fall outs she has had many bfs who my son has had to stay with, be babysat by, and all sorts of other situations where there were serial SDs.