Lololol,,Good one Al! My mother got a kick out of that...The eating part..lol Xuan! Isn't she just the cutest thing! I have no idea why I thought she was a boy at one point, but she is definitely a girl with that almost Ballerina look on..It is just so cute. Are you teaching her to shop at such a young age? Let the soiling begin..lol Thank you for checking in with us. Yes, please do stick around more often even though I am sure your little princes consumes quite a bit of your time, more so that your plants these days:-) Mush love from us here in good ole Siberia. Laura, I would love to see a recent pic of yours too, now that I am sure you have many recent pics of your face, Wait, I mean grandson:-) By the way, why do I think you are all too young to have grandchildren these day? Hello Josh and soon to stop by Jojo, Jodik and many others. Happy New Year and may the next one spoil you in more ways than last, at least with the plant department:-) Love from my Mom by the way! She has been resting with severe back pain and feeling a tad bit better after the massage I gave her. I hope she gets better for the next and coming year. Mike and Sis

Dripping dark and grey here. Temp up to 50 degrees and windy and WET and did I say DARK. Inside the house is bursting with Amaryllis,2 Exotica,Madrid, 2 Ruby Meyer, 2 small Scarlet Baby?, Exotic Star, Trentino, 3 Pink Surprise, and a Chico just opening. Lots more coming on in the workroom including 3 Dancing Queen, 3 Rilona and 3 ELvas, and something labeled Royal Velvet that is scarlet orange so who knows! WIshing you all a houseful of beauty and many new bulbs to grow in the coming months!

Hi Kasie, Yes, has been 3 years we have been chatting and you have been so supportive to hold me together many times, when I almost gave up. I still am little nervous about how to water and take care of my plants each year. buttt. this is the first time I have watched dormacy, some yellowing and try and keep them warm, and not so wet and wind. have one dumb plant, dropping yellow leaves and thriving and growing new leaves..good heavens ha. Most of my plants are in full leaf, red claws and not going dormant, all on my patio. Last year, just all went smoothly, yellow leaves and done, course then problems. Hope temps stay up. Most of my plants are in full leaf, and some growing new leaves! intersting when you grow plumies!!! thanks for being there for me. Are your plants ok???????? Happy New Year. Karen B.

Whew - I read all the threads on this post! We are building our first home and I am very excited about it I have to say! I have not had any negative feedback from friends so I am lucky there. One of my good friends is building her house at the same time so that helps a lot. She is not as excited as I am as she has done all this before but we love to talk to each other about the houses. I have gotten some negative feedback from family though. It has not been to bad, just little comments here and there. "Do you like the lay out of your master bath"....I just want to say if I didn't like it that why would I be building it! :-) I just smile and say yes. I do have two sister that have never once asked how the house was coming along. It hurt at first but I need to just get over it. I am sure they have other things on their minds and I know my house is not the focus of everyone's lives! The one main thing that I have learned from this thread is that I think I will keep the 'updates' to myself. I have sent out emails with photos of the house and how it is coming along, but in my mind I am just so excited I wanted to share with everyone. It never crossed my mind that people would not care! LOL! I look at all the pictures and endless scrapbooks from friends and in all honesty I could careless about their scrapbooks but I sit for hours and say how nice they are just because I could never say anything negative knowing it would ever hurt anyone. I had one friend tell me I am the only one who sits and looks at her scrapbooks. I felt bad because deep down inside I am hating it, but it makes her happy and she puts so much work into it. They are wonderful and she does a great job but it just clicked to me that I am doing the same thing with all the pictures I send out. So, I am so thankful my cousin sent me to this forum! I have already gotten such great advice and made some great friends in the short amount of time I have been here! Now to just tone it down on my happy news. I think I will pass on the depressed thread..... :-) Kelly