Hi Amanda & welcome!! Scroll down the page all the way to the green ribbon/bar at the bottom. Click on the Member Pages link and you'll have a choice of what you want to do. One of the links is Edit Your Exchange Lists. Click that link and you should be able to add the information about seeds for trade, seeds you're looking for etc. Happy trading!!!

Hi Sherry, We are under construction and the house is almost totally "dried in". I had some trouble deciding on a few window placements, but we were able to support the structure until we worked it out. Today we placed our window order, and they will arrive in about 3 weeks. I think we're realistically looking at about May before we can move in. We're doing tongue and groove cypress inside rather than sheetrock, so that is going to add to the timeframe. I am also very good with wood, and very fussy, so I will be doing the finishing work on it myself. I might have mentioned before that we are building the old Florida Cracker style house with a full wrap around porch, and log siding. I love it and it is becoming everything we envisioned. I am starting to picture roses and trellises around it. I can't wait to get my hands dirty in the soil again!!!! Things have taken longer than we expected, but it took a long time to design things out and get it the way we want. My husband spent a few months engineering the structure out, and then there is the permit process, etc. I have great plans for gardens, but they have been on hold for the time being. I just couldn't design a house and work on building it and break new garden ground at the same time. I do have a few roses planted and they are doing well. The greatest joy about these old teas is that they are so beautiful despite total neglect. The potted ones have been sorely negelcted and I will be lucky to have more than a handful come out of it O.K. Your Le Vesuve is gorgeous. I wouldn't do a whole lot to him (or her). I think if you just do a little cleaning up and nothing drastic you'll have armloads of blooms this year. I can see some chickens running around in my future too. The locals tell me they are wonderful bug eaters. Sandy

Sorry, it's hard to see. Can you try again and get the leaves in focus?

This IS a fun thread, and I hope more will chime in! Love the wonderful painting and the uplifting way it's been interpreted. And of course I think Lynn's spearhead is absolutely fabulous! A real treasure from long, long ago. I'll add photos from my phone (am on the laptop now), but here's something I'd like to share. I love Acoma Pueblo (also known as "Sky City"), which is about 60 miles west of Albuquerque. It is remote, sitting high atop a rugged mesa, and has a rich cultural significance spanning back 2,000 years. I first visited this place with my father a couple of decades ago, and about three years ago I was able to take DH for the first time. As would be anyone who is interested in Native American culture, he too was quickly smitten. Today there are around 50 tribal members who live year-round in Sky City, and many continue to make the wonderful earthen pottery that the Acoma people are well known for. You can only access Sky City via organized tour, and when you're walking down the dusty streets, you're met at various places with residents selling their work. I thought each piece I saw was gorgeous, but most were WAY out of my price range. There was an elderly woman with a small folding table set up outside her modest home, however, and she had one piece in particular, hand-coiled in the traditional manner, that caught my eye. I chatted with her for a few minutes, asked the price of the piece, but then had to hurry to catch up with the rest of the tour. All along the way, I continued to think about her and her pottery, and as the tour ended, I asked the guide if it would be possible for me to retrace my steps and go back to the woman's house to see her pottery one more time. The young tour guide cheerfully left the rest of the group, and took DH and me back to the woman's house. He knocked on her screen door, and explained to her why we had returned. She had by that time packed up all of her wares and returned inside, and I was thrilled when she invited us IN to her very old adobe home. She had two little black-eyed granddaughters who sat eating bags of chips and watching us warily, as she unwrapped her pottery and placed it on the kitchen table for us to see again. I selected the one that had caught my eye, and paid her exactly what she asked for it. I'm sure I could have negotiated a bargain, but there was no way on earth I was going to pay this woman any less. In retelling it, it sounds like such a simple thing, but just being invited into the woman's home and having the opportunity to interact with her and catch a small glimpse of her real life meant the world to me. I treasure this piece of pottery, made by her own hands, and hope that today she and her loved ones are happy and healthy. I so admire her people.