*L* OK, no worries then. Thought maybe you guys were trying to gaslight me... :) I'm handling my sister's passing a bit better these days, but yeah, it's still painful. I've been busy around the house & coop lately, getting things ready for our annual Chickam webcam live egg hatching thing set up. I also had a favorite hen, Skitters, with an impacted crop--turns out she ate a freakin' RUBBER BAND. I had to bring her in and hand feed her a liquid, then soft, diet and do crop massage till she unblocked. Now she's OK and back outside. I'm starting the eggs for Chickam tomorrow (hopefully) and am planning the hatch on March 20th, and starting the cam the day BEFORE that, on the 19th. After the hatch we'll put the cam into the brooder box so people can see & hear baby chick craziness. :) Also tomorrow, we're stating a new thing: NestBoxCam with live egg laying, wow! OK, watching hens lay eggs is a bit like watching paint dry, but wait'll y'all see my new nest boxes. *L* Velvet ~:>

Hello ladies and happy every Holiday I missed. To those of you who do know me, I am back and mentally back on track (I think). To those of you who don't, well I was I am a member, love everyone here. Went away to do some great mission work and had some very tragic things happen. Many hours of therapy later, and actually returning to the Dominican I think I have healed, I am not bitter, sad, or frightened to leave my house any more. I am able to talk about it and I feel that I can share with postive feelings now. But enough of that. Am I to late for April? Please tell me that I can play in April? Max is 4 and we just looked at Co-op preschool. HE is a mama's boy and didn't want to go to big boy school yet. Maryanne~ I have a box for you that I need to send, but um lost your address.. So Merry Christmas when it comes. Ahh. I just don't know what to say or who to say it to because I am scared I will leave someone out. I tried to read as many posts as my brain can handle, but I am sure that I will need some help. Babies and ornaments, tornados and ahhh.. I am not in Kansas anymore. Please feel free to email me with any personals that you'd love to share. I apologize for being gone so long. If there is anything that you want to know email me. If I need to re-join let me know if there is room. Mayanne_ my big sis.. I hope all is well, miss you and thanks for all your support thru this, even though I was a bad lil sis and became an introvert. But guess what? I am back and better. Missed you all Laura.... beans

Hi those are great pics! I finally got two of mine to sprout, so hopefully in a year, (if I don't kill it) I will have some awesome pink bananas!

linnea56(z5 IL)March 22, 2019 " Sometimes I keep the poor pathetic dried up rhizomes hoping they will sprout again. Have 2 such ones now, and it's been months of no sign of life." How do you keep them over the winter? Never tried keeping this type over winter but have overwintered a tuberous one for 3yrs running. Summer time kept outside on my balcony. After dying down in the fall, dug the tuber up, cleaned it off, made sure it was dry, then into a bag with shredded paper. Kept in my bedroom ... which is the coolest I can manage in my apt over the winter. Wonder if with a rhizome, if keeping it in dry soil and cool & dark over the winter would work?