Signups are closed for this swap. In June we'll be having a cutting swap. YEAH!!! Mariann

Melanie - PLEASE tell us what you made those markers out of! I have made a few from the clay you bake but it is a little pricey. Karen - WOW WOW WOW!! I got my box yesterday and I love what you sent : ) Iris: From a Distance & Thornbird, Daylilys: Kindly Light & Little Joe, White tiger Lillies. These are not tiny puny little starts - they are HUGE, very mature plants! And then lots of seeds! Annuals and perenials and wild flowers. These are wonderful as I have 39+ acres to cover and I have been collecting wild flower seeds everywhere I have been this summer - my neighbor 'Steve' is rather shy (we have been neighbors for over 6 years and he has only been to my house once - my cows were out) & I even have him leaving little bags of seeds on my step LOL I don't think he cares so much for collecting seeds, he just would like something better to look at besides the over grown weed patch that it is now. hehehehe Also - my cleaning lady 'cleaned' off my desk and I can not find my sheets of paper that the names of those Iris that I sent you are on. All the bills and junk mail that were cluttering it up are present, though! :( I don't think they are gone forever, just MIA for awhile... but when they turn up I WILL get them to you. I hope everyone had as good of a weekend as I did! I caught & released fish, took pictures and saw my eye doctor. My vistion is 20/20 and everything is healing wonderfully! Life is good : ) Marie

When I'm in the high desert, my heels crack even though I wear socks day and night, (so it's not UV light). When I'm in a more humid climate, the thick skin and cracking gradually reduce. Anything greasy helps. I use lanolin. I still have to scrape the thick callous off at least once a week when I'm in the high desert, or it will crack, grease or no. When I have a painful crack in my heel, what heals it quickly is to simply cover it with tape or a bandaid. I wash my feet, dry them (so the tape will stick), stuff a tiny bit of greasy stuff inside the crack, such as Chapstik or lanolin, and then put tape or a bandaid over it. Then I wear socks, of course. Within 8 hours it stops hurting, sometimes within 1 hour. Tape works even without stuffing a greasy dab in the crack, but not quite as quickly. Sometimes in the driest weather when cracks seem inevitable, I tape my heels preventively and it does work. My father used to get visibly thick cracked heels, in a humid climate in the US, but he never complained of them hurting, and i never saw him limp from it (so it's not only women, though it's true I've only ever had the discussion come up with woman friends or sisters).

Get some Cerave cream. My mom's doctor recommended it and within a couple weeks, her feet were so soft. Also a pumice stone to scrape away some of the dead thick skin. https://www.luckyvitamin.com/p-432959-cerave-moisturizing-cream-16-oz?locale=en-ca&scid=scbplp127660&sc_intid=127660&utm_campaign=SC-CA-ShoppingCampaign-NB-Canada&msclkid=7cc004289bd61272d4765899b772f008&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=4582214711041179&utm_content=SC%20-%20Shopping%20Campaign%20-%20Canada