Great pics Kristen! Just beautiful. I wanted to go out and get some pics this past weekend, but just never had the time. Micke - I'll have to go hunt down the notebook and see if those are indeed some of the daylilies I have, LoL. Maybe I should post all my "I forgot" or "tags washed off" daylilies, smiles! Deb - Thanks to you, LoL, I am now addicted to AVs. Can't get enough. Gesneriads (sp?) of all kinds actually. Thank you for the pamplet (sp?) Deb. I learned quite a bit from that. You should see my cuttings ghetto, HA! I have anything I can get my hands on rooting. Will help to make the winter go by quicker. That and WSing. Washed some jugs out this weekend. My poor kitchen looks like a greenhouse at the moment. Too much to do, and not enough time to do it in.........argh!!! Marryanne - Consider the phlox yours. I have enough from all of them to share I do believe. I want to get some more of the variegated varieties. I have seeds for Red Ridinghood that I am going to WS this year. Hope they bloom true. Well, off ot the garden to get some bulbs in before the winds decide to carry me away. Keep the pics coming!!!! Tina

Annabel: Sounds great, but I'm confused as to the kids - they are your boyfriend's or the bf of the family member's to whom you just reconnected? I'm thinking you wrote about two separate incidencts and it sounds as close to perfect as can be. I'm glad it was a fun time. Sometimes, it's not the amount of money spent on an occasion, not the show, the vacation, or the presents received, it's really the little things that will stay w/ the kids for the rest of their lives. I think you made a few very fond memories for these kids. Dana

Pssst Lars, I do need your entire record collection please, but I think there might start to be some loading issues soon. No pressure, but we may need a new thread, or, you should definitely do this again soon/at some point:)

I'm just now getting caught up on this, and I found a lot of music that I love! Here's one from Nina Hagen, with simple lyrics: Mama, wer ist denn da? Mama, ist es Papa? Das lass ihn wieder rein Er siehst so einsam aus Mama schmeiß ihn nicht raus! Du, hilf ihm aus dem Mantel Fehlt'n Knopf, näh ihn gleich an! Frag ihn ob er Hunger hat Und ob er bleiben kann S-s-sagt er dann mit feuchtem Blick Für immer käme er Heim in das Familienglück Und gäb es nie mehr her Zeig ihm seinen Sessel Der so lange, lange, lange in Feindschaft lebt! Note: There are more lyrics, but this is as much as I could find on line.