Did some winter sowing of seeds, still have more to sow, but I've been lazy to get around to it this year. I've been doing some writing, that has occupied most of my time. I'm just now getting back into the gardening groove, cleaned out most of my beds the past few days. Searching the web for any new plants I may have to sneak around to buying (the boyfriend thinks plants are a waste of money). Looking forward to seeing increases on my daylilies, if ones that hadn't yet bloomed for me will this year, and see which of my baby hostas lived or died through the winter. Karen

Beautiful blooms!! Too bad they didn't have Jades too, I'm not a Cacti lover but those blooms are just gorgeous, there's def. plants there I've never seen before, very interesting and very cool. Thanks for posting!! Jojo, keep trying it took a while for the whole thing to load for me...almost a minute. My computer is running a little slow for the last couple of days :o(

We live on a busy (well, sorta busy) street on the corner of a residential street. The street is busiest during the commuting times. This is when all the people from the side roads take our road to the "main" road. During the off times and weekends our road is not very busy. We bought our house because it was a good price (because of being on a busier road) and it was EXACTLY what we were looking for and we were looking for an old (old!) house with a nice yard. Our lot is the largest in the area also and has trees surrounding the property and the backyard has a 6ft privacy fence. The back yard is like our oasis. We are big gardeners and we have plenty of land for that. We do get garbage on the front lawn but my sister also complains about that and she lives in a small neighborhood. When I complained about it one day she commented " it happens everywhere now". People seem to be stupid now and don't care where they throw there junk. The biggest thing I would like to change about my house is not the traffic but I would LOVE to have sidewalks. There are many walkers/runners and having sidewalks would be nice. I love the location of our house (close to everything that WE want to be close to). We used to live in the city and I loved it but my husband wanted to be out in the burbs. We almost have the best of both worlds (close to everything yet big lot and house ect.) If I could move my house to the city and had to deal with more traffic, I would. I like to be able to walk to stores. So, I know I would buy a house another house on a busy road if we knew it was a fit for us. Our friends purchased houses on quiet streets and they got less house, in a less nice area for the same money as us. It is a tradeoff and only you will know if it is a tradeoff you will be ok with. Also, I wouldn't mind if my street became busier if they put in deli's or little shops that I could walk too. I like the main street feel. We had little choice when we bought our house. The majority of old, historic houses are on main roads. If you are looking for a new house you will have more choices and the new house on a busy road may not sell easily. Once we find the right buyer (old house lover) I do not think they will have issues with the traffic. If we wanted a new build, we would NOT have purchased a house on a busy road. -renee

Didn't matter much to me - I was doing things in the garden, including staking tomatoes. I like to listen to the radio, but it automatically switches to batteries if power goes off and I was too stingy to buy batteries: didn't want to listen to afternoon radio that badly. I'd go occasionally to switch on the light on the trouble cord where the radio was plugged in. Left about 6, away till 11 (radio worked in the car) and called power co. on my return home. After some milk (no coffee possible ... toast, grilled cheese, etc. either) I went to bed ... they called after a couple of hours to ask if power was on ... it was. I thanked them for their service. On computer, including THS most of the rest of the night - got a can't get there from here re THS about 5 a. m. I hope that you all have a trouble free approach to the weekend ... and weekend. ole joyful