Aggie, Wow! He has definitely added a number of fab things to his 'collection' over the years! Several years ago he emailed me and asked if I'd send him some of my pictures so I know that there's a 'gallery' of some of my pics on his website. :) Here is a link that might be useful: Collections of butterflies...

What is happening here is: We've finished one of the two trellises that we are putting up for the clematis. Still working on the other one. Getting better at routering and not breaking the bits LOL. Still taking out dead scapes. Amazing how many just aren't ready to come out easily. Found scapes on LESLIE RENEE and RASPBERRY BANANA CHEESECAKE. They are not giving up here. Bearded Iris are also blooming. Odd since they didn't bloom in the springtime. This pic was taken on October 11th and they are still blooming. Found about 10 stalks in the garden. Still having to mow the lawn when the weather cooperates. Vegetable garden still has to be cleaned up. Nearly 90% finished with two new planting areas. Still need to put mulch on top and just let them sit till next spring. Waiting for the cannas to die back so I can dig them out and store them for the winter. Weekend is suppose to be sunny, so I guess we will be back out working outside for the next couple of days till the rains come again. Julia

Just finished round 2 of Chemo. It was less harder hitting than round 1 in general,so far. Things seem to be easier on me than I expected - so far. 1/3rd done ,4 more chemo's to go. Lost about 80 lbs. ,I was about 100 lbs.overweight... A salt and fat free diet sucks! Better than the alternatives I guess... Thanks for the good thoughts and prayers. It means a lot. Garden died so I'm sprouting new stuff,good thing we don't have a winter here. Mostly going to be Manzanos and a few wilds and Annuums I think. Did anyone figure out if the Mag. in Dolomite lime dissolves in the vinegar to make something the plant can still use or? Does it combine with the Ca. to make a compound of some sort or do the Ca. and Mag. disolve to make 2 separate things? It might make a difference since the same receptors in plants can take up either Ca. or Mag. So if they make a compound in whatever ratio of Ca. to Mag. it would be interesting if said ratio matched the average ratio plants use. No more hassle with possible Ca. or Mag. lock out due to overdosing a plant with either or... A possible reason to use Dolomite Lime rather than pure Ca. This post was edited by smokemaster_2007 on Sun, Aug 10, 14 at 13:37

FDH had a chuckle too. SD11 wanted to know what he was laughing about, so she read it too, but it went straight over her head I think..hahaha