Hello Mitzi, 1. Never use potting soil with carnivorous plants, it will rot their roots. 2. Is the container a terrarium? If so, you would do best using it as an open top planter as those plants do not need additional humidity, especially in Florida. I would use a container with holes in the bottom for drainage as moss breaks down and stinks horribly when not allowed to drain well. It becomes a cesspool of bacteria. Use a large water tray under the container with a couple inches water in it and clean it every week or so to get rid of mosquitoes and algae. 3. The pitcher plants you are getting are North American plants that go dormant in winter. All of them can grow outside all year long with no problems. Just give them lots of sun, lots of mineral free water, and no fertilizer at all. Bringing them inside in winter can throw them off dormancy if you place them under grow lights and can induce mold and infection.

Now I'll have to go scrolling myself to see if the ones i sent him are there as well. I send the best of each seasons growouts to Glenn and a couple of other places as well, for trial. But, but, I'm not going there tonight. The Sandhill catalog has been printed and soon will be in the mail and I much prefer reading that than staring at a Monitor. LOL I feel the same way about all the seed companies I'm interested in following; that is,let me sit in my recliner chair and look at catlogs that way. ( smile) I know Glenn said it was a bad summer and he lost a lot of varieties and I know that Indian Stripe and Earl of Edgecombe were out last year and are out again this year ( 2009). But there are other sources for both of those if someone needs them ASAP and can't wait. Carolyn

Hi Bouncing... Here are a few random thoughts from someone who has worked in "Office Environments" and had my own home business for 15 years now. You've mentioned some of the types of items you'll need to save. Think them all through and create a list of categories. Then think of where you would be most apt to look for a document. Truly the art of a good file system is what works for YOU. Would you be most likely to look for billing with the contract for that customer? In a separate binder filed by month? Set up your accounting files separately so that tax time or pulling out a paid bill is fast and easy. I find it easiest to file paid bills by expense type (all phone bills together, all computer maintenance bills grouped, etc). A good guideline for categories is simply the expense line items shown on schedule C (I think!) of a tax return. Create a very basic index of how/where things are filed. If your DH wants to find the invoice issued to the Smiths, where should he look? Set up your files in a manner that allows you to easily box them up at the end of the year and start fresh. If you have to sort through folders when it's time to archive, chances are it won't get done. Make your archiving process as simple as possible. Know that you will have to spend time on "company administration". You've just become the office manager, bookkeeper and head of computer and systems maintenance. Allow time in your day for billing, filing and maintenance. Finally, I know you weren't asking on advice for *where* to put your office...but I'm going to throw some out there anyway ;-) Please reconsider setting up your office in your MBR. IMHO to work at home successfully you have to be able to focus on business - and you have to be able to shut that off from time to time as well. It can be hard to separate home life vs business life if the business is a few feet from your bed. Find a little corner of your home for your office. Truly, office furniture doesn't have to be really nice...just really fuctional. Determine what you'll need for file space and worktop space then determine your furniture needs from there. I've read your profile here and maybe you could even incorporate an ebaying station within your home office area. Best of luck for a very successful business for you!

Can I get in on this conversation with a question? I have something similar in my 22 year old house. It is three stories. We do not have city sewer. We sometimes have a sewer gas odor that comes up the vents in two bathrooms only. They are exactly on top of each other. We have had a plumber out to the house three separate times. At first he said make sure to keep traps wet. We did that, smell sometimes comes back. He came out again, same thing and checked everything. Last time he said that all fixtures go into one large vent pipe on roof. Husband got up there and sure enough only one for 4.5 baths, washer, etc. The smell is only in these two bath areas. There is one bath below these two exactly as well. He said tub downstairs is not used much and trap could be dry. He extended the vent pipe up several feet in the air. He said sometimes when weather system moves in, it can hold gases down. We have absolutely no idea what this could be. It only happens every couple of weeks, but when it does, it smells so bad. We have also smelled this outside once or twice and it was so bad, I was so embarrassed. We were gone one week and our friends walked by the house to make sure everything was okay. They said they thought something BIG had died there and they actually walked around the back of the house but could not find anything. Please any thoughts. Desperate in NC