Well, I am still one of those without my personal e-mail addy listed on my member page, but can have e-mail sent to me through GW. In the past, I have had my addy listed and have had serious problems with spam mail that comes from other forums on GW. Since I post on quite a few of the other forums on GW, I found that some of them do have their fair share of spam type posts; advertising for various websites, products etc. When my e-mail addy was available for anyone to see, these posts would pop up on these other GW forums and within an hour or so I would have the spam coming to my e-mail box about the product, site etc. Once I realized where all this spam was coming from, I removed my addy from my member page, and that was the end of the spam coming from here. Hope you all understand why I no longer have my e-mail addy available to see, but as I said, you can send it through GW and I would say that 95% of the time I don't have a problem getting it. Fran

Well that's nice... wouldn't let me add the full list, here's the rest... WATERMELONS:Carolina Cross Orange Tendersweet Sugar Baby Unknown Yellow I also have the following veggies and herbs in small quantities:Basil - LemonCauliflower - Early SnowballChinese Bok ChoiGreen Onions - Evergreen BunchingHERBS: CATNIPCHIVES:CommonCILANTRO:Coriandrum ativum SantoDILL:Diana LEMON BEE BALMOREGANO:Origanum vulgare hirtumPARSLEY:Italian Flat LeafCurly LeafSAGE:Broad Leaf SPEARMINTSUMMER SAVORY:(A) Satureja hortensisTHYME:Common FRUIT: Black RaspberryCape Gooseberry Dragon Fuit Cactus FLOWERS & ORNAMENTALS: Cactus “Queen of the night” - Selenicereus Grandiflorus Calendula – Yellow Cassia - Candlestick Cassia – Popcron Shrub Cleome – Mixed Colors Confederate RoseCoreopsis – Plains Cosmos – Bipinnatus Dragon's Head Echinacea _ Purple Coneflower Formosa Lily Gaillardia – Yellow Geum – Mrs. Bradshaw Gypsophila panculata - White Baby's Breath Hungarian Broom Corn Love-in-a-Puff Vine - Cardiospermum halicacabum Lunaria White – Moneyplant, Honesty Marigold – Crackerjack Marigold – Petite Mix Monarda – Bee Balm Purple Morning Glory – Clark's Heavenly Blue Morning Glory – Grandpa Ott None-So-Pretty - Silene Armeria Palo Verde Tree Pink Trumpet Tree Ratabida columnifer - Mexican Hat Royal Empress Tree Sedum – Autumn Joy Shasta Daisy – Alaska Sunflower – Italian WhiteSunflower - Lemon Queen Sweet William – Dianthus Barbatus Yellow Trumpet Bush - Tecoma Stans Texas Bluebonnet Texas Red Yucca - Hesperaloe Parviflora Umbrella Grass Verbena - Bonariensis Zinnias: Tons, saved as various same-variety groups but unknown names. Give me an idea of the size you're looking for and I probably have a group that grows to that approximate height.MORE coming later.....Always looking for unique tomato varieties.Unusual veggies, herbs, sweet or bitter greens; especially Italian and other European varieties.I'd really love to get my hands on some Winged Peas (aka 'Asparagus Pea'), Rat's Tail Radishes and Kohlrabi Gigante or other large, long keeping veggies.Have just starting adding flowers to the garden; so, anything there, both perennials and annuals greatly appreciated.Almost anything I don't already have really.Although you can all keep your Okra and Lima Beans to yourselves, thank you very much...lol

I'm with you, new screen name and all...

Here's why I personally feel buzz words don't work. It's a little like custom features. Everyone's idea of what "luxurious", to use one example, can vary wildly. Even words like "large" can often be disputed as what may be a large backyard in your own neighborhood, may be a postage stamp in someone else's. We've sold FSBO three times and each time when we let the buyer do most of the talking, we discovered interesting information about their home search. And with every home we've had buyers who were downsizing. Had we wasted time in our ads or trying to convince them that our "fabulous deck area" will sell our home, we would have found out that maybe they don't want the maintenance of a deck. Or that the deck they currently home is massive compared to ours. For the majority of people, a home will be the single most expensive thing they ever purchase. So it stands to reason that most of us don't want to over pay. Superfluous adjectives create high expectations. And whenever those expectations aren't met, the buyer sees that as an opportunity to create objections in their own mind in order to offer less. The idea of the ad is just to get buyers in your home. Period. When the buyers show up, you want them to leave thinking that the property has SO much more going on than even the ad promised. That creates value in the mind of the buyer and it pushes them to make a decision because they know their competition (other buyers) will probably be feeling the same way.