My box from Jules arrived! Sorry for the delay in posting, we cleaned the garage this weekend! OMG can the junk accumulate! We also cleaned all the windows outside! I'm really tired! Back to the box, Jules sent~ A cute broom pen! Bag of fall harvest mellowcremes, Cowboy cookie mix (in a glass jar), deck plant stilts (so that the pot doesn't sit on the wood), cute pumpkin socks. And BULBS.. Hyacinth "City of Harlem", Daffs "Salome", Dutch Iris "Symphony", Dutch Iris "Bronze Queen", Allium "Bulgaricum", Dutch Iris "Professor Blaauw". Plus, a gardening CD! Thanks so much Klick for such a nice box! The bulbs are going in the ground tomorrow! I love everything you sent! Deb

Oh My Goodness! I got my BOX today from Miss Wendy!! Holy Cow!! First, lemme tell you...she put my address on a large ORANGEcolor> sheet of paper. With googly eyes!! The kids liked that. :O) Then, as I opened it up...the kids looking over my shoulder...they all screamed..."A BOX FULL OF CANDY! CANDY CANDY CANDY!!" To which I said...with large stick in hand..."DOWN DOWN DOWN, YOU JACKELS!! It's not like you've never gotten candy before!!!" (ok, maybe not with a stick...but I sure needed one!!) So, with kids climbing over me, on me and around me, I *tried* to write everything down as I found it in the box. Please forgive me, Wendy, if I missed anything! ~An orange & black rubber snake (Adora took off with this) ~A multi-colored skeleton light set ~A LARGE LARGE bowl of CANDY, puzzles, pencils, rubber skeletons & bats, halloween jewelry, whoopee cushions...Just TONS of stuff!! ~A bag of spider web (decorative, not real..LOL..) ~Bottles of Pumpkin bubbles ~Iris- "superstition" ~Mini mugs- pumpkins, kitties & ghosts! ~An IV bag of blood (cherry liquid candy...but STILL GROSS!! ICK!!! LOL) ~Ghost & pumpkin tealight candles ~VANILLA BEAN ORCHID!!! Yay!!! :O) ~Seeds!! Tons and tons of SEEDS!!! Some in cute halloween bags! Let me try to list them all..... corn-bloody butcher pansy- black devil eggplant-ghostbuster white cosmos-psycho white blackberry lily bird's eye sunflower-black oil sunflower-autumn beauty night phlox- midnight candy dahlia-black beauty watermelon-white wonder bachelor button-boy midnight scabiosa-black knight chrysanthemum-court jester viola-bowle's black blood flower snapdragon-black prince maltese cross tomato-black prince batwing acorn squash cup plant black peony poppy carrot-atomic red carrot-cosmic purple cauliflower-purple of sicily pink popcorn beetberry strawberry spinach german strawberry tomato bloomsdale long standing spinach majoram watermelon-desert king asparagus-mary washington banana melon huckleberry rhubarb ground cherry dianthus-spooky sunflower=cherry rose hollyhock-red dahlia-early bird mix pure white poppy lion's tail sunflower-dwarf teddy bear apple scented gold pompoms catchfly black eyed susan-goldilocks scarlet flax schizanthus butterfly orchid zinnia- carousel mix clematis-kilian donahue bells of ireland red sun sunflower gloriosa daisy poppy-drama queen soapwort-bouncing bet pink gas plant carnation hollyhocks oriental poppy partridge pea mg-sunspot tartarian honeysuckle coreopsis-early sunrise hollyhock-summer carnival cosmos-ladybird lemon calendula-mixed mexican hat old fashioned lilac WHAT A BOX!!! Oh! I forgot the wind-up chattering teeth! The kids are having so much fun with those!! :O)

Thanks again for all your kind words! I'll pass them along to Emily, too. OA, you collect children's books, too? I think we own all of Prelutsky's books, including his Thanksgiving one. He used to live down in Albuquerque and give readings of his books for the school kids and parents. I lost track of him when they moved to New York, but he was a nice guy. My all time fav is his Halloween book, though. Another book we love is a beautifully illustrated one of Robert Frost's "Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening". It's always been one of my favorite poems and I was thrilled to find this illustrated book. I took pics of Our Halloween tablescape last night, but will add them in another post. Lynn

Hi Marlorena, There were a couple of threads a short while back about Filroses and importing their plants into the U.S.. I got some mixed messages about inspections and a quarantine that are required (or not). I am still totally mixed up, but my impression is that getting Filroses plants into, say, Canada, is a lot easier than into the U.S. Even Pickering in Canada has had recent troubles with U.S. red tape. I should contact Filroses and see what they say, but negative info about importing plant material has dampened my enthusiasm. Thanks so much for your comments, though. I still need that diplomat with the locking attache case, I guess. Diane