i would like them email me exmktgjanitorial@yahoo.com

Around here the corn burning stoves went into houses like crazy. Corn seems to burn well, much less work than wood, little mess left for cleaning out. Takes small amount of corn to keep the WHOLE house warm. I was rather surpised at how enthusiastic the new owners are over corn stoves. Transportation may not be the whole cost, but tractors are fueled with gas and oil, to work the soil and bring in the crops. Tractors are not especially efficient in fuel usage, cost a bunch to produce those crops. Costs that farmer has to pass to buyers so farmer can at least pay his bills. Hay is supposed to be costing more, I know the truck to go get it runs on fuel that has more than doubled in cost since last year. Much equipment is diesel powered, even costlier than gas. Diesel has always been cheaper to produce, now they just WON'T produce it, keeping cost high. Bush and his Oil friends are making plenty of money. Keeping cost of doing business for truckers very high. Consumers pay that extra. I don't know if Ethanol is going to be cost effective as a fuel. We have a local plant being built 5 miles away, 60 new jobs in a very hard hit job market area. Everyone is excited, but for corn fuel to be useful, it can't cost more to produce than it costs to sell. At least the farmers can sell their product, so many were just losing money planting corn. Prices just never got where you could turn a profit. I buy our grain, mixed at a local mill. No commercial bagged food for the animals so I am not seeing those costs. We use quite a bit of corn in the horse feed, prices seem to be staying higher than other years. I think the oats come from Canada. Not sure why they are not local, we do have oat production. Dry dog food prices are higher, even on the junky stuff. Again, I would point at mostly fuel prices to raise a crop, then transportation to get products to market.

So let me ask you Paul- I've had S. Saxorum for a couple of years. Last year I cut stems off a fairly old plant and rooted them. Once they were nicely rooted, I planted them in a basket. However, they don't seem to have rhizomes like regular streps do. Perhaps I was doing something wrong? I seemed have ended up with two basket's full of single plants (Saw this when I was re-potting). Thanks- Judy

Around here, every time the rates increase our mailman takes a couple dollars from his own pocket, buys a bunch of penny stamps, and uses them to bump up the postage as needed for a month or so, until the new rate sinks in. He's saved me from having bills, letters, or cards returned for insufficient postage more than once! Sometimes the guys on the front lines have more sense than the bosses ... probably true in every industry.