Thanks guys... Ken...I'm not sure about rotting...but I'll dig one up and look this weekend. I'll try to get pictures tonight. These really look like miniature plants from the ones I divided. I'd say I ended up with 24 to 30 "clumps", and of those about 6-8 look "normal"- are the same size now that they were before division. All these are in dry soil under old oak trees, almost full shade. My Golden Tiara was divided at the same time, and it did the same thing, except that they have really not come back at all...very poor growth, not much new growth. Some of my other hosta that were large growth habit, like Sum and Substance, never have gotten to their full potential, in 8 years...They are right next to the trunk of the oaks. We usually have wet winters, and draught summers. These hosta have a rough time, BUT...I have some in this same bed that are very happy... I'll get pics...THANKS!!!!

My DH has a small insurance policy through his employer, which I am named as primary benificiary, with his 3 kids named as contingent benificiaries. He has no other policy. There is no policy with them listed as primary benificiaries. And remember, his pension has already divided in half with his ex at the divorce. I am listed as primary benificiary on his IRA account (and he is listed the same way on mine). His pension is no where near enough to retire on, mine either. I feel if he died, I would need his pension; and if I died he would need my pension. My home was 95% paid the day we married. The assessed value (which was done in 2008) is $195,000. That is what a home of comparible worth in our area would sell for today. He has not and is not investing in the house since our marriage. Do you mean paying monthly bills like utilities, or what do you mean? The house is already paid for. Neither one of us is investing in it. The investment was already made before I married him. Do you mean the yearly taxes? Or what do you mean? If it's fair for me to pay 100% of the taxes, because I own the house, then it's fair for me to charge him rent. This gets ridiculous. If he didn't move in with someone who owned a house, then he would be paying several hundren monthly for either rent or a mortgage. So I don't think that because he helps pay the yearly taxes that that entitles his kids to inherit a portion. I think sharing the maintainance costs of the house, the taxes, and the insurance is fair. This does not change the fact that I am still owner. He gets the benifit of living there without making mortgage payments. Alot of my coworkers are paying $2000 monthly in mortgage payments, he doesn't have to do this because of me. As far as the airplane goes, it's value is about $40,000. I feel that if he died, that it goes to me. Like I said in my last post, our joint money pays the $3000 yearly needed to maintain the plane. His kids won't even come and help him wash it. Why should they inherit it? It would be different if suddenly we both were killed together in a car accident. And suddenly there were assets to liquidate. Then by all means, sell it and divide the money with his 3 kids. But if he dies, I may need the money from the sale of the plane to live on. The airplane really doesn't depreciate like a car does, they hold their value much better. As far as the college payments to his kids. Well, that all didn't happen prior to our marriage. The only part that happened prior to our marriage was his agreement with them to pay their college. He had loans out on them when we married, and those loans were brought into the marriage. So, the way I see it, some of the money that we both together today are bringing into the marriage, is paying off the remainder of his kids college loans. The loan for SD24 hasn't been started to be repaid, she is still in college. He won't start repaying for another year or two. I was not at all suggesting that my kids get something worth $120,000 to even the score. If he took his kids to Disney Land when they were 8 years old, then does that mean that my kids are owed a Disney Land trip too? Of course not. I just look at it like he chose to give his kids a start in life, and this is the way he/they chose. I don't think that I shouldn't be able to give my kids a start in life too. I was thinking something more along the lines of helping with a downpayment on a first home, or something like that, maybe like an amount of $10,000 or something like that. I don't have that much cash to give any of my kids, and would need to take out a second mortgage to do it. But I don't see this as different than taking out a loan for college. 15 years from now I'm afraid that our 6 children will look back on things and feel that 3 kids got a start in life from their parent, and 3 didn't. I don't think that because they don't want to attend college, that it is fair to pass judgment on them and say because they chose to not do what I wanted them to do, that they get no help. Mind you, my kids are not asking for help, and when I've offered, they say they don't need it. They don't feel entitled to cash from me or anyone else. When DH and I talk about what would be fair to designate in a will, he says that neither will die untill we are elderly (that runs in our families). And that after 25 years of marriage together, that it will seem more like a blended family, it will seem like "our house", and our money. Then anything left in the estate when we both pass would be divided 6 equal shares between all children. In other words, his kids would get an equal share in all of our assets (including my house). I told him that I don't think this is fair to my kids, and he disagrees. Since we haven't agreed on anything, we haven't written a will. I know that I can just go to an attorney by myself and write up whatever I want, but what would that do to the trust and communication that we are building in our marriage? I feel that whatever we do, we have to agree, and go in together to do wills. I just feel like, he basically started over from scratch when he divorced. And because he divorced that he was screwed financially, and his kids also. Had he not divorced, his kids would have inherited his house. It is unfortunate that it happened this way, buy why do I have to share my kid's inheritance with his kids, to compensate for what he and his kids lost at his divorce?

We are going w/SDL-we paid $15 per frame. All our windows are two over twos, so that's $60 each window. I feel the same way PrincessMichele (above) feels about their asthetic value. DH and I visited a new neighborhood consisting of million-dollar homes (that buys A LOT of house here in Texas:) and you'd see both examples side by side. The windows w/line between glass just didn't look as substantial--the SDL homes were much more appealing. All that notwithstanding, you certainly find purists who'd NEVER go w/SDL--simply because it's not a true divided light. In our climate, vinyl is a better choice (for us) than wood. Happily going w/SDL windows. :)

I doubt they ever had the capabilities to make the true divided lights. Are the gas/argon energy efficient. If so I just don't think they can make true divided light windows effciently. Each light would be its own little window with its own seal and frame. If divided lights, not simulated,is what you truely wanted and are going to accept them anyway I would have them do an extreme deep discount, in writting, before you let them install them. What are they going to do with them? My brother in-law has purchased the mis-order windows for about $100-200 each from warehouses selling these rejected/mis-ordered windows. Did they take a large down payment from you? Is it written in the contract re the true divided lights? I have a feeling the salesperson wasn't mis-informed just not telling the truth to you no matter how "nice" they were. Sorry, I don't know about pricing but I doubt there are many places that do true divided lights unless they specialize in restoration. My sister had anderson windows with the wood that was inside the house on the windows, not between the glass. They look more like the true divided glass but the snap into place. She can take them off to clean windows on the inside but is a real pain and has taken them off most of her windows(was a new house) Sorry, I think your salesperson was not being truthful or is a complete idiot.