Hi Squirrellypete, I would LOVE to have one of your 'Honeycomb' Butterfly Bush (rooted cuttings) 'Black Knight' Butterfly Bush (rooted cuttings) 'Corries Gold' Gaura (rooted cuttings) I have at least 2 of the hot pink azaleas (see pictures) potted up (others I will be getting this summer/fall from under the big ones) and several different colors of bearded iris. I KNOW I could easily pull up/divide the dark gold and the pink that are pictured in my plant galleries (link below) - The rest i will be dividing and moving this fall. Follow subgalleries by type of plant....now bear in mind, the azaleas ARE babies - but they have been potted up for over a year now and have good roots. Let me know please, b/c I won't pull the irises out except by request. Rosemary Here is a link that might be useful: My plants

We installed the magnetic locks in all of our cabinet doors in the kitchen and bathrooms when our kiddos were that young. They were a little bit of a pain to install but once in, they worked like a charm! If you go this route i'd highly recommend buying a spare "key" in case you misplace the one that comes with it ;) http://www.amazon.com/Safety-1st-Magnetic-Lock-4-Lock/dp/B000K6L7Z6

Ajsmama, that trim looks great. Yes, DH gets OT. I think his job is pretty safe. But you never know. I'm back in school working toward a degree so I can go to work FT in a few years just in case! Update on my cabinets. My replacements came today. Everything looks good, except the replacement door came in without the drillouts for the hinges. Hey, I'm good, but not that good! I can't hang them by magic! Just met with my KD at HD on another issue. This guy is a doll. We designed something that the system took and charged me for, but didn't deliver. It can't be done. He figured out how to do what I wanted and they absorbed the cost. The fix was closer to what DH wanted to do anyway, so that worked out! Told the KD about the door and he said that was the wrong door then. I should get pre-drilled. Also brought in another door that I found a problem on at the hinge when I removed it from the box that was getting replaced. He agreed that needed to be replaced. Then I brought up about the hinges not sitting flush to the frame. Showed him what I meant and told him a number of them are so far out that I was able to put an envelope with two pieces of paper triple folded behind them. Others are out, but not as far. They are adjusted back as far as they will go. He is having the rep come out. He said there are too many issues with my job and he wants me to be happy. It seems to be largely the wall cabinets with issues. My custom sizes (made deeper) are fine/perfect. I have 3 3042 cabinets. Two of the boxes had to be replaced (chips, cracked frame). One door is now going to be replaced. The other box has hinge issues. The 3642 had to have a door replaced (our only finish issue) and 5 of the 6 hinges are markedly out of place. And so on. I am pleased with the customer service response. However, if we were on schedule with our reconstruction (and we aren't because we are fixing work previously done on the house) the cabinets would have needed to go in by now. We've got a little over two weeks before we're ready. Hopefully this will all be resolved by then!

My reaction may be different because I am *old*! Seeing characters come to life *eventually* still means their best days were thrown away. Reconsidering the story, I think of the lives ruined by Harold's early-murdered and late-revived Self. As much as he was to be pitied, he was still a blight on the lives of his wife, child and friend. I couldn't understand why Maureen married Harold -- or martyred herself by staying with him, especially in their early years. Her attraction was supposedly based on a brief moment in which he *expressed* himself -- dancing. We are to believe he only regained a sense of self after he stumbled into his self-appointed savior role. (That's a LOT of empty years!) Harold's need for his work friend to 'stay alive' bothered me a lot. Neither he nor the the equally thoughtless cheerleaders of his 'cause' gave a thought to Queenie's suffering -- or that SHE might have been better served by his getting to her bedside immediately. Queenie is yet another 'fringe' character, living on the memory of having been loved only as a child -- and her horrible, prolonged death. How *convenient* that Harold was so late to her bedside that they could not converse. Yes, the ending speaks of the possibility of a fuller life for Harold and Maureen. Do you believe they can sustain Change once they settle back in the old homestead? That's a far stretch for me. (I am not religious, so perhaps I've missed a 'message' in the book.) At least they'll be able to see out their windows again!