Thanks for the ideas, Beverly. I'm not sure how much I can concentrate on this area of my life for a few weeks. I received bad news last night. My uncle (only 2 years older than me) has been on chemo and the cancer has doubled since he started treatment 5 weeks ago. He's stopped everything and will take it a day at a time. He's more like a brother....we double dated, I married his best friend and a year later, he married my best friend from high school...we raised our children together....unfortunately, both of theirs were killed by a drunk driver while in their teens.....all of this still seems so fresh. After losing a sister and brother within the last couple of years.....I think I'm gonna lose it. Sorry for the downer......... SharonG/FL

She's a beauty, and so is Pogo. I am very partial to torties. I take ferals that have been spayed or neutered. The shelter called me yesterday to see if I would take a couple more. I said okay. When you have as many cats as I do, I guess a couple more won't matter. As long as they have been neutered and can be outside cats, I take them. I get free cat food and the shelter helps me out by helping me get a break on spaying some of my cats. It isn't an ideal situation...they are wild cats, but at least they have a home and won't have to be euthanized.

I think that your room can handle it, since it's not uptight and reads a very authentic room. I usually dislike just about any thing that's purely functional(yep, vehicles, refregirators, electrical outlets lol, you name it)-but so what, they still make life easier. I'm also thinking about the pool-but it seems it'd be 50K with the features I want(and we didn't touch basic hardscaping yet-still tired from remodel), and I don't want to spend much space of the backyard, want a smaller pool..and it seems also a buldozer that should get there to dig must have 5 feet clearance minimum to drive through-frankly I'm not sure we have these 5 feet. But it's a huge consideration to me since it's about only exercise I might be able to handle these days. And pools that come with the gyms, I'm hesitant to use already. I feel very unsafe in showers, etc. Also harder to get there. Minimizes one's chances of keeping to the routine At this point of my life, I highly envy anyone that can exercise, you know. Where an elliptycal stands, with all my aesthetical preferences-that's really secondary. I do like screens, theoretically-I've never had one. Everything I really like is really expensive (we looked into it-sometimes we have many guests and some have to sleep in the family room which has no door-so a screen would give them more sense of privacy) In some other room, would go for a screen. Here-I don't know..it might be that screen wil end up being too big, more obtrusive than helpful. In short I'd put up with it too..if drives me crazy with time, then I'd think whether to change anything. But I support your priorities more than I can ever express.

Here to the T5 and then to a 600 watt metal halide full spectrum, with mylar. I have experience with indoor lights. I was only going to grow it as an annual and save cuttings, but you can cut them to a stump and they'll still leaf out. I need a heated greenhouse. Apple of Sodom? Well, if they were eating them that would explain their rude behavior. It would be worse than eating artichoke silk.They do really use the sap for poison arrows. No fire and brimstone wilt come nigh my house! Here's a log of a member growing Calotropis from seed. She has since mysteriously dissapeared. And she's from Arkansas! It's good you kept the Impatiens. https://www.gardenweb.com/discussions/4453958/growing-calotropis-procera-from-seed