Oh, I'm sorry about your pendant--what a shame! I hope that the cleaning company will pay up! I've had the same cleaning woman for almost 20 years now. But we've had our share of mini-disasters! The biggest disaster was that her assistant knocked a painting off a shelf. It tumbled down the stairs, shattered the glass, destroyed the frame, and punched a big hole in the drywall at the bottom of the stairs! The painting (an original) was thankfully not damaged, but I had to get a new frame and glass. I was miffed--that painting had rested there for years and years, through troops of children, house guests, and dusting with nary a nick. I feel as if I have been pretty lucky. But I think I will go dust my Murano glass pendants right now, just to set my mind at ease...

Sorry,didn't mean to post this twice,but it didn't show up the first time.

These are (supposedly)actual comments made by 16 Police Officers. The comments were taken off actual police car videos around the country: 1. "You know, stop lights don't come any redder than the one you just went through." 2. "Relax, the handcuffs are tight because they're new. They'll stretch after you wear them a while." 3. "If you take your hands off the car, I'll make your birth certificate a worthless document." 4. "If you run, you'll only go to jail tired." 5. "Can you run faster than 1200 feet per second? Because that's the speed of the bullet that'll be chasing you." 6. "You don't know how fast you were going? I guess that means I can write anything I want to on the ticket, huh?" 7. "Yes, sir, you can talk to the shift supervisor, but I don't think it will help. Oh, did I mention that I'm the shift supervisor?" 8. "Warning! You want a warning? OK, I'm warning you not to do that again or I'll give you another ticket." 9. "The answer to this last question will determine whether you are drunk or not. Was Mickey Mouse a cat or a dog?" "Fair? You want me to be fair? Listen, fair is a place where you go to ride on rides, eat cotton candy and corn dogs and step in monkey poop." "Yeah, we have a quota. Two more tickets and my wife gets a toaster oven." "In God we trust; all others we run through NCIC." "Just how big were those 'two beers' you say you had?" "No sir, we don't have quotas anymore. We used to, but now we're allowed to write as many tickets as we can." "I'm glad to hear that the Chief (of Police) is a personal friend of yours. So you know someone who can post your bail." AND THE WINNER IS.... "You didn't think we give pretty women tickets? You're right, we don't. Sign here."

Well, Maryl asked so here is what we do with all the seedlings. I am sure it will make some of you cringe. Seedlings generally stay in the ground for 3 years, even the dogs. It's just too much work and too much damage to the others to dig them out. At the end of three years, the selects are dug out and put in their own bed with more room to grow. Then we mow the bed off and plow the others under. The selects stay in what we call the 'observation bed' for at least one year, but more likely two or three. As they prove themselves worthy, they are moved to the sales bed and are earmarked for introductions. When they prove themselves unworthy, they are dug out and thrown on the compost pile. We even have some that overwintered there and are blooming now. I know it seems harsh, but we just don't have the time to catalog each non-selected seedling and try to find a home for it. Besides, there are plenty of registered daylilies to be had at reasonable prices from us and many other sellers. Besides, the nutrients from our soil went into growing those seedlings and when we plow them under or apply the compost, we are putting those nutrients back into the soil. We got over treating the seedlings as precious babies years ago. Today's seedling queen may be tomorrow's dinner for a vole. We can't get that attached to them. Nancy