I'm just going to say something that's been on my mind. Last year, I asked about a variety which seemed to me to have no special "cachet" whatsoever. I had grown Large Red Cherry tomatoes forever and it was just such a dependable choice. Some questioned the wisdom of spending $$ and space on the plants. Others here pointed out that LRC was a Quisenberry collection heirloom - news to me! Gonefishin' said that he had room for one more plant and he brought home a LRC. Once it started growing and producing, he couldn't say anything but nice things about it. In some of his last posts, he talked about saving seed and about having started cuttings for 2008. I can't fully tell you how his interest in the variety made me feel. I felt he had fully vouched for my own appreciation of this relatively unacclaimed variety with its "generic" name. Bill P. always set out to help and encourage others. He was very successful in his efforts. SteveÂs digits and all the rest of him

I really have to say I feel for every post I have read. Although Vancouver BC has a lot going for it in theory, it's landlords are not one of it's perks. Take M Block Holdings...seems like a nice little company until you realize the M is Ms. Milos. Now I will set the stage by saying...my fiancee and I are weirdos. Really. 6'5", pink mohawk, don't shave as much as I should, housewife (by choice!! and a good one!!) and my girl is a little bit technicoloured also. That said my idea of fun is playing classical guitar and meditating and my fiancee paints and designs clothing. So we never had a neighbor complain, never made a lot of noise, we aren't tidy people but we are clean...So things started falling a part 3-4 months into a 12mo lease when she would do stuff like... 1 - Her unlocking our door and barging into our apartment while we were "in bed" (and not asleep). 2 - Her screaming at us from the parking lot to come down stairs and talk to her...and when we did she accused of doing drugs because someone in the building was smoking pot. Neither of us do drugs, and we barely ever drink. She assumed it was us because my winter, indoor garden got supplemental florescent light. (Come on who smokes tomatoes?) 3 - Someone broke into our mailbox - she tried to bill us for the new lock saying we had broke into it ourselves. Because I guess we were too stoned to use our key? I still don't get this one... So we move out, 2 months notice instead of the normal 1 required by the lease... What happens? She misses not 1 but 2 walk throughs... She breaks into the apartment and gets very upset that she had to mop up the spilled water...(we left a full bucket of water right where the door would hit it for exactly this reason...if it spilled we knew she had broken in) Writes a bad check to return our damage deposit. The bank manager at our bank even stamped it as a bad check because she had used white out, wrote 2 different amounts on it...etc. When we went to get a new check she started calling us racists and screaming obscenities at us. Accused us of being white supremists and hating immigrants...( for the record I am white, my fiancee is Haida(Native), and I am a recent immigrant to Canada...so....) Now we live downtown in a great little place with a great landlord, of course our neighbour (who has a different landlord) is a wanna be Gangsta-with-subwoofer so...sometimes it seems you can't win!!

That's wonderful! You can have some really great views now too.

Cordovamom, yes, I think it was your story that gave me the idea for the contingency in the first place! But I chickened out in the end. I've seen the waste removal services, but when I was half way into it, it was kinda like "no stopping now, might as well get it done." Live and learn!! Roselvr, I know the plates are here, just haven't gotten to that box yet (murphy's law says it will be the last box I unpack! LOL). The only thing we forgot were DH's vitamins and prescriptions (I never go in that cupboard and thought he grabbed them himself). As we drove to the old house to pick them up, my DS started crying, "No, new house! Wanna go new house!" So needless to say, he loves our new house too, and the very kid friendly back yard has to be his favorite (complete with some pretty roses to replace my old!). He settled into his room right away, even with the cold he started on moving day! Our dog is another story, he's still pacing a lot and whining when I leave. We had to pull his crate out of storage so he'd feel like he had a "safe spot" in the chaos. He's not too thrilled about the dog run yet. We let him go in the main yard the first 3 days until we got the run cleaned, but I'm sure smells remain. I might have to topsoil it afterall. Thankfully, it's gated off, so our DS doesn't have access. Hope things work out well for you as well and your DH feels better soon. I agree, everything happens for a reason and certainly feel completely satisfied with the way our "adventure" this past year ended up. :+)