hello all Yes Kathy everything found it's way here in perfect condition! much better luck than I have with ebay!!!!=) I wanted to let everybody know what else I received! can't forget the box of girl scout cookies dosidoes (yum) bell pepper mix yarrow white pampas grass white rosemary vitex chaste free primrose tall yellow Heuchera dale's strain grape hyacinth mix coyote (ind) cherry tomato's dwarf red plains coreopsis long red cayenne pepper jewels of opar mg lavender diathus black caps berry lav/purple wisteria black pearl ornamental edible hotpepper cosmos cosmos daydream eccremocarpus scaber tresco hybrids mg scarlet o'hare tovarah-painter's paletteafrican sunflower jaffa ice bread-seed poppy purple pink petunia big leaved blue hosta tithonia fiesta del solfreesia soapwort lotus marigold dwarf french mix and beach chair post cards I sure hope i did not forget anything! Kathy thanks again for everything Now I need to make time to go and play in the dirt. Joseph

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After our afghan irish setter cross died 24 years ago,we gave up on dogs for awhile.My DH would suggest one every now and again but I didnt ever ever want another dog, so he stopped bringing it up. Fast forward to a day I was walking my DD in K and son to school. Passed by a friends house and she had her old golden and another dog as well. She was trying to find a home for it, it was saved from an neglectful person and they had hoped to keep her but they didnt have a fenced yard. I petted the wet 15month old just bathed dog and said sit and the dog- Goldie sat. didnt know what kind of dog it was. I told her I would take her, and picked her up on my way home.I called my DH and told him and he didnt believe that I was alright in the head. I convinced him that I was indeed ok and there really was a dog here. He feel in love too and we later changed her name to Cody so she could start fresh. We called my friend to ask what kind of dog she was! LOL It took poor Cody months to ask to go outside. she never went inside, but I watched her and worked so she would finally ask.( she had her own room and was taken out by the maid and hooked up all day.)It took 6 months for her to not sit in one spot all day to learn that it was ok for her to walk around anywhere she wanted. It was hard to bring her in at night- she wanted to stay- she had never been outside after dark before. Cody was not a frisby , adventuring kind of dog,but she was the dog of our hearts and we gave her a great home and she came to be a part of our pack. we knew nothing about training dogs and it was horrible to be pulled down the street by her. She lived to be 11 and that was a sad sad day. 6 months later we all started talking about how we missed having a dog. and that our hearts were ready. so I secretly started a search for a golden retriever puppy. We had never had a puppy but have rescued many dogs and felt we werent ready for dealing with someone elses problems, and our kids have never had a puppy. In April I found a purebred litter at a farm waaaaaay waaaay out and my DH and I went to pick one out. Not a kennel I could't pay over $1400 for a golden so I was lucky to find this farm. There we were looking at a boy when the dad ran up and as he was the biggest Golden we had ever seen, we looked at each other and thought uh uh. So we just had to have the girl with the most red in her ears(Cody was a reddish golden) MY teen son melted when he saw the pup and my teen DD burst out into tears! We named her Bailey's Chance of Osborne, as Cody died too young of an aggressive cancer and had no chance of survival. We started training and learned how to make her a well trained socialised dog( we learned a lot) My DH started agitating for another dog and I thought he was nuts. One year later: After her club field hockey practice one Saturday in April,My DD and I stopped off at a garden center and a woman walked by with a fuzz ball on a lead. We immediately got on the floor with the puppy and asked how old. she said 10 weeks and he is for sale and they had one more at home.($200) I wish you had seen my DDs face when I asked for her phone number!! Later that day, we packed up Bailey and went to see about a puppy. The one that she had with her in the store followed Bailey everywhere but the other was too busy digging holes. We took a look at the parents- both regular size so we brought him home. And named him Cooper.And he grew into the biggest golden a slim 104lbs! LOL And of course Pics are not in order. Cooper on graduation day from advanced training, Bailey and Cooper sleeping soon after we brought him home. And Cooper on the second day at home,before he was named.