Now, now, now ladies! Calm your feathers. Ianna was just asking a question. It was not an attack on your poor little defenseless Annie. :[ (wink) ianna, I took pictures of the morels I found today, but I cannot reveal the exact location of where I found them for fear of having people come stomping through my property and me having to get out old Betsy to warn them off with a few rounds over their heads. JK, but it is serious business around here and someone would come onto my property when I am gone and rob my shrooms. As it is, I am in competition with the wildlife to find them first. Where I find them every year though, is unprecedented according to some "experts". What can I say? I guess I am lucky. A few tips: When I rinse the morels before cooking them, I do so in a dishpan. Then I take the rinse water out to the exact spot I found them and throw it out there. I hope that any Morel spores that get rinsed off get returned to the wild and will make more next Spring. It seems to work. When I collect them, I use a mesh bag so the spores can fall out and thereby go back into the woodland soil to grow more next year. It would be a shame if people end up harvesting them out of existence. We have to be responsible stewards of the earth. Morels like to grow at the edge of trees (the drip line) where soil is rich and moist. I find them in grass or in leaves. Around here, they grow under the native Cedars (Juniper trees) and under Elm trees, at least where I have found them, but where the soil is rich & moist. You can do a GOOGLE search to read all about Morel hunting - when, where, how and all that. You can find images of them and lots of recipes. They only come up in the Spring - no fear of getting poison mushrooms because nothing else looks like them. I will also post the photos I took of the Morels I found today as soon as I get them uploaded. I'll post a special topic about it so you can see. Tomorrow I will go out again and see if there are new ones to be found. At $80 per lb, they are a real treasure and luscious eating. ~Annie

I have often noticed a similarity between avid gardeners (myself included) and those people on Hoarders. We get more than we can afford, more than we can take care of, more than we have space for. It is a bit obsessive, BUT I think it has to be one of the healthiest obsessions around. Instead of a house full of crap lying around we get a yard full of flowers, tomatoes, blueberries. Plus, the act of gardening I find very spiritual and mentally beneficial.

I would go back to the store and select a new sectional from a different manufacturer.You are not going to get a refund so this seems like a logical next step. If the store was not willing to repair the sectional or offer a replacement I would have a much bigger issue with them.

This happened to a friend of mine. Numbers altered and fictional name given. It took a very determined police officer about eight hours of detective work to find the lady. She was charged as it was more than an unintentional reversal of numbers. Hard when you are hurt and stressed but if at all possible ask to see the actual info yourself to verify the information. Sad that you can't trust the honesty of people under stressful situations especially when the other party is at fault. Hope you feel better soon.