I wish every seller eBay or website could read this whole posting. I plan in my future to sell plumeria and I'm reading and understanding what is being said here! Good Lessons, respect, ethics and care. Either your in it because you are passionate about what you do or it becomes "Old Hat"...."It's a Job" mentality. If I grow a cutting and intend to sell it as a rooted cutting, it must spend more than 10 months in a pot and hopefully a year to establish good root growth. Sounds like they might be forcing them to root fast to sell? Also it could be possible that a mix in cuttings before the sale was offered on eBay ( Still no excuse! ) Reputation and Customer Relations is so very important especially when it comes to selling something so unique as plumeria and tropical flowering plants! As a Seller (of plumeria) you must remember: #1 Your Plumeria are always remembered where they came from long after the purchase! *Especially if it came from Hawaii for Pete Sake!!! #2 Build a reputation that increases sales to a level you can maintain. ( Ship exactly what you are selling ) #3 Take Pride build a relationship become a mentor of your passion. ( Look for ways to help your buyer become more knowledgeable about their purchase ) #4 Photograph current flowers from the plant the cutting came from ( I'm so appreciative seeing a photo of the cutting before it is shipped!!!) #5 Respond to all calls / emails! ( Listen to your Customers ) From everyone's responses to this post, it sounds like the seller has been at it for years and has lost some of their passion for what made them into who and what they are today. Customers will always find a better place to shop! Thank you all very much! I mean that! Stuart @ Tropic7Plumeria

It is hard to explain because there isn't one right way to wean. You just kind of take it one day at a time. Don't think of the big picture, think of one nursing, one day, at a time. Just something to consider, in a few weeks he'll be old enough for whole milk. I weaned my kids from breast to whole milk, skipped the formula. I actually started giving #2 and #3 whole milk a few weeks before their first birthday, but that's not the recommendation of pediatricians, so don't do that just because I did. My point is, it might be easier, if you can tough it out a few more weeks, to do that switch all at the same time instead of weaning him to formula in a cup, then switching the game on him to milk. He might go along with it better. Wether you start tomorrow or next month, I think I'd start with that 11:30 nursing, try to elimate that one first. Instead of nursing, feed him regular lunch and give him a sippy cup. I'd skip the whole bottle thing, he can learn the cup as well as he can learn the bottle and you won't have to figure out how to wean him off the bottle in the near future. If the cup is tough for him, try the sipper bottles with a straw. Feed him lunch, whatever balanced choices you usually offer him, and the cup of formula/milk. My kids only drank a few ounces from a cup when they were eating foods. When you've got that nursing eliminated, start replacing the 4:00 one with a little snack, graham crackers and milk/formula or something like that. If he is in the habit of nursing and wants that routine, try doing something active and fun after his meal to distract him, or cuddle up and read a book. Then he still gets the mom time, it just doesn't come with food or require you to undress. :o) I had more luck during that time if we weren't home during those nursing times. If we ate lunch out or at a park, he/she was distracted and never thought about nursing.

Hi, I deeply appreciate your interest and support on my new baby. Very touching. I looked up Whippet (never heard of them until this adoption) and he has many, if not all, the characteristics. I will see if I can figure out how to use my camera again and post a picture. He is a golden color. I took him to the dog park yesterday and used the small dog area - he really was not interested in the other dogs until the very end and then showed mild interest in only one dog. He was more interested in the large dogs on the other side of the fence. I was hesitant to take him there cause there were elephant dogs in there!! He acted quite superior, actually, like he was the King visiting the peasants and there were some pricey dogs there!!! When we had been there about twenty minutes, he had had enough and was very good on the leash. Must like to release some energy and then is willing to walk right beside me with little pulling. He gives a lot of eye contact now and soon will know my deepest secrets. On occasion, he will seek me out in another room, visit briefly and then returns to his new bed or the couch. Hey!!! Lay on the towel, little boy. Loves to be covered up completely and pulls his blanket over his head.....reminds me of my kids when I tried to get them up. I appreciate all of you letting me babble about him - my heart was so broken when Sandy had to be put down over a year ago and it has taken a long time for me to decide we should try again. My only complaint is that he loves to relieve himself on my rosemary bush outside that I have managed to keep alive through one winter so far. I guess he likes the "room deodorant." Small price to pay. Susan

Hi Jessica and Anne, Funny, my DH wanted to clad it in wood, too. But I don't want to hide that it's a file cabinet, i want it to look like a nicer, maybe vintage file cabinet. That said, we do have some scraps left over from our wide plank floors, and I am thinking that it would be nice to use as a top for the cabinet, to bring a wood tone to that side of the room. Great minds think alike! We bought paint to match the trim and bookcases, and plan to paint it. I really wanted to use skeleton keys with a backplate, but Anthropologie no longer sells them! (see below). I used them on some of kitchen cabs and I think theyd have looked great here, but c'est la vie. I like the ones you linked too, but the opening is 5 1/2". so I can't use those. I ordered the ones linked below, hopefully they will work! I got them in a dark bronze finish, to echo the anthropologie hardware on the bookcases (http://www.anthropologie.com/anthro/product/shopsale-decorative/A22665178.jsp Oooh, i love that chair. But mine is a leather high back swivel with goose neck arms ... not sure I can give up the comfort for that style... sigh Thanks, SueB, Deedee, Pork and Kitchen! Here is a link that might be useful: in bronze..