Thanks all, tomorrow I'll be enjoying hospital food. Hmmm, somehow those words really don't go together well. I hate and despise opiates, I hallucinate and see things that I would rather not be seeing. If there is any other way to moderate some pain I will request it. When my shoulder was replaced they practiclly had to tie me in bed until the opiate wore off. I was fighting things that don't exist. They switched me to something else that did tone the paind down a bit but I AM not going through that hallucinatory bit again.

Hello: Yes, Carmen is in heaven now, for that I am sure. Carmen did not, that I know of have a digital web space for garden photographs. She was so busy these last few years starting a business. Carmen had a gorgeous fenced in vegetable garden hiding in her back yard. You would first enter a gate from either the driveway side, or the other side of her home, and enter into this very sunny, and flowerful back yard living area. When you entered on the right there were some camellias, and a taller tree overhead. To the left her hydrangea selection started, and Carmen had a beautiful selection that bloomed from late spring into late summer. When I was last there, she also had a tree dahlia ready to bloom. It was a suprise from a trade and she was delighted to behold such unusual beauty for our area. On the other side of the hydrangea area were knock out roses along a short walk. This walk curved around the back wall of the home and ended at the other garden entrance and a HUGE stand of giant calla lilies which were in constant bloom except in our coldest months. Along the neighboring fenceline there was a sweet of September Charm anemone and Carmen said you could always count on a mass of pink blooms Sept. 1st, this fed into a cottage garden selection of plants that also attracted hummingbirds. This area moved into a slightly shady area and then the vegetable garden. Everything encircled a nice expanse of green lawn. Carmen's front garden was under quite dense shade, but being such an excellent gardener, Carmen filled it with unusual selections of shade garden plants, many of which had very colorful bloom or leaf variegation/color. This description is the best I can do to give you an idea of Carmen's lovely garden. GGG

Thanks! There wasn't much to it other than getting poked twice, once to check glucose and the other to put in a needle thing so they could put the tracer in it. Got home at 9:45, drank two Boosts and ran to Wal-Mart. I needed a plastic box to hold the Christmas tree. Got that and a bunch of other stuff (of course) and now I'm home. Not used to so much running! I'm ready for a nap since I got up at 4:30.

Congratulations! Is this the year he gets the pony? BB gun? Corvette?