So how does something so beautiful get a name like "Ivan the terrible" ? lol.. I once had a parakeet named that but it bit me.. does this one bite? Amazing flower!

Rita, I don't think garden work ever gets "caught up" but it sure sounds like you've been making progress! I'll bet that really feels good. Good for you! Saturday will be a big catch up day for me. The town holds a free "clean up" day where you can dump anything you need to be rid of for free. I hope to get the rest of my sunflowers and some tree suckers pulled too. I have been saving all the seedy weeds and big stalks like sunflowers on my trailer all summer so that I can haul it all to their dumpster. It is a mountain. Then the community gardens require so many hours of volunteer time and their last work day is also on Saturday. I still owe them 1.5 hours so I'll be helping winterize things down there too. If I get done with all that I have a plot there ready to till and cover with black landscape fabric so that it is ready for spring planting when I start moving daylilies & iris again. I would love to mulch my yard too but need to buy & install edgers first as the soil is already washing into the walkways in some areas. Then there is the rest of the 12.5 yards of sheep poop that I still need to spread. I guess it could be used as a mulch too. Then there are the beds around the house that I didn't have time to weed this summer & now need to really be dug......then...it never ends :)

Lol, to this day LEH still gives me the shudders. She was such a disease magnet, lol! But up in Ohio at least you got indirect sunlight. Bustopher's garden has nice dappled shade/sun so she's not going to have such blotchy yucky colors like mine in the blazing direct Midwest rays. It made her blooms as small as 2.5" across, that is even if they bloomed at all. They were too busy wilting. Would have to keep watering sometimes as much as twice a day. There was a span of 4 weeks that we had merciless heat. You won't ever get as hot as in our locale. But boy do I love looking at Abraham D'Arby! Each time Boxofrox shows his, I start to droooool and my fingers keep twitching each time I look at Crepuscule and wonder what A.D. would look like in its place, lol! Makes it impossible to resist the temptation. But as the Kansas gardener with the 70 roses warned me, do not do the Austins if you are all-organics. And if I killed A.D. I would go as berserk as when I killed my Gemini. Too much heartache! I still also think of the tea I killed, Mrs. B.R. Cant. I loved that tea, a wonderful unique grapefruit fragrance. I had no business growing her. Her canes still had plenty of green until February, then our wildly fluctuating temperatures drove her to her grave (from 80 degrees to 28 degrees within just 5 hours' was the worst for example). Well, this year will be the last year I will grow a rose inappropriate to my climate conditions and to my zone. I have one more poor rose that I'll be torturing but I dare not even mention who she is. When she blooms I'll be called out as the Most Evil Gardener, :-X

I wish my pause button would work so I can open door, sometimes it works 1 out 10 xs maybe. The tech wouldnt listen to me about that problem. I just did the test of 9 towels-10 handtowels-10 washclothes and they did work this time, they didnt tangle up and the machine didnt stop and it did balance out, I dont know why the last time I tried this, it wouldnt spin, or why it wouldnt spin with 5? I mentioned to the tech that the other guys told me that it would ruin the rubber seal if I put what the manual recommended, he said that is bull and said not true, these machines are made to wash full loads, I guess medium size loads is when it doesnt work. Now I will have to do the test with all long sleeve light weight items, maybe that is why they tangle up, maybe there is too much room for them to tangle? I would be much happier if this was the problem "easy fix" I just wish that they would have told me this to begin with instead of telling me I had the right amount in. We'll see. Now the soap thing, I didnt use soap in the towels, I'm kinda scared to, but I think after I see no more suds I will. I am going to go buy somekind of powder, I think I will try Gain? do any of you use it? how does it work in the newer models? I use to use Powders in my Frigidaire FL with FS and I didnt like the way the powder didnt rinse from the dispenser, it always left a bit in it, and the FS I didnt dillute with water like they say now days to do, but my washer got the mold on the dispenser where the FS was, I think that is what caused all the mold?