Jane, I had bad luck with my only venture in fall planting. Owing to an unusually warm winter, they kept growing out & freezing back. About 1/3 died. However, there is a reasonable chance yours would be OK if planted in the second half of November. Alternatively you can get the holes ready this yearfor planting in the second half of March, so no wet digging is required. You would backfill loosely in stages and use water to settle each stage, so as not to compact the wet soil unduly. What you need to bury below grade is the graft swelling where the canes diverge. Do an image search for "bare-root roses" if you aren't familiar with the concept. Then at planting-- whether fall or spring-- you mound soil over the bare cane stubs temporarily to protect against freezing and drying. Chances are Lilian would get through winter OK, but I see fall planting as an unnecessary risk, except for hardy once-bloomers.

Thanks everyone. Mikie - I will try that link soon. I sort of agree that if everything's fine, don't go borrowing trouble. But my laptop isn't quite fine - and I don't know what's wrong with it. The past month it's been weird. When I unplug it (to move it to another room), it just shuts down. The battery was staying at 87% all day yesterday - while plugged in. Then it sometimes takes many, many minutes to boot up after it's suddenly shut down because it was unplugged. Sometimes I have to reboot a few times til it functions properly. I updated and ran Avast, superantispyware,malwarebyte and spywareblaster. All were fine - so I don't think I'm infected. I sometimes keep a lot of tabs open at once(I'm embarassed to say how many - but since it's relevant - perhaps 2-3 dozen). I'm comparison shopping and keeping open the tabs for whatever I'm currently researching or shopping for. I know this taxes the resources. When I shut the computer down, I run ccleaner to get all that stuff cleared up. Lately it's done something else weird. Sometimes when I click to open something up in a new tab (Firefox - which was like version 5 - but they recently sprung 9 on my which I never authorized - Windows XP). So I click open a new tab. And the tabs just keep scrolling across the top. As I try to click on a particular tab, the tabs keep scrolling to the left. This happens even if only a dozen tabs are open. And this doesn't happen every time but has become frequent. I have to let it scroll for 5-20 seconds before the tabs stay still - and I can click on one. I have no idea what's going on. At first I thought I had too many tabs open - and overtaxed my system. But since it's happened with closer to 10-12 tabs (and no other programs open), I'm not sure that's the problem. Is it Firefox? My laptop? driver? Thanks. Lynn. PS damccoy - they wouldn't let me print out the page. It kept disappearing - bc. of course they want me to spend money for their program to update - they don't want to hand me the list to do it on my own.

"I don't know what the reasoning behind that statement was?" There is a lot of reasoning behind waiting a year after you get married. First of all, sometimes non existent parents find out you are remarried and all of a sudden, they pop out of the woodwork and want to reclaim their family/child. It isn't about the child, it's about their insecurity and having some other man/woman raising 'their' child. Then there is the issue of second marriages having a higher divorce rate than first marriages and adoption, unlike marriage, cannot be reversed. It is a legal obligation until the child reaches majority and you cannot divorce an adopted child. angelnetta, you need to speak to an attorney about adoption, not seek advice from the internet. I'll share my honest opinion, it seems that there is a lot of instability in your situation. Now, I don't know it all from your short post but your ex ran off with your friend before your baby was born and you've all moved to different states and he moves around so much you can't track him and nobody has ever put a dad on the birth record. and now you are getting married to a guy that was there when your baby was born... after you say your ex left just a week prior? That's a lot going on in two years time. This is just my opinion but an attorney would know for sure. You should establish the father with DNA testing and then proceed with terminating his rights and then proceed with adoption. If you shortcut it, saying you don't know who the dad is (and I don't know if you can even do that) then the real dad may someday pop up, ask for DNA test and toss any adoption out of the window. See an attorney.

Bry911... I believe the post is referring to the fact that if sellers do collect more rent from the tenant that is above the market rate, some contracts are written that the monies that are above and beyond the market rent will be put into escrow, and if this is the case, (the seller offering money back so the buyer can use towards a down payment), then these monies will have to be verified by the lender. For sellers... remember to legally and ethically treat the person as a tenant for the term of the tenancy. They need to be reminded that they are tenants until the deal closes as a sale. Too many of these renters go into a rent to own situation and then customize the home to their tastes w/o the owner knowing it. There should also be two separate contracts... one being a lease agreement for the tenancy, and an Offer To Purchase Real Property for the sale part of it. Just think of the sales agreement as one with a very delayed closing date. Inspections and all due diligence is best performed up front, even before the lease agreement is signed. And, the sales price needs to be agreed upon up front too. And any wording as to what the consequences are for a tanking economy during the lease agreement term. Really, I don't understand, from a renters view point, why they would want to trap themselves into a purchase of one particular home, when during the lease term they are renters if they sign a Purchase Agreement or not. Why not just wait until your lease is close to being over, and THEN making the decision that this is the right property for you.