Hey, Greg! Once I get started, I get in a zen-like mode and hours can slip by in what seems like a few minutes. I started a couple weeks ago, small, manageable loads. Some of the bulbs are very easy and obvious to dig up, but there's so much stuff still dormant that only I know where it is. Nobody else could avoid stepping in certain places, or slicing through stuff yet invisible. A long explanation of why I don't really want help I guess. I think I'm about halfway done but I'm just not sure yet. I've moved gardens before, but never this quantity of plants, and never with this luxury of being able to replant small loads within hours of digging them up. It's actually been a lot easier and quicker than I'd envisioned when I first started to think about what would need to be done. What I'm really excited about is seeing Mom's yard in about 2 years when everything's fully recovered. This stuff was on all 4 sides of this house, in separate little beds (comparatively,) but will (almost) all be visible from one spot at her house. Thanks for reminding me! Will try to remember to take the 'before' pic of them for this years' outside foray at Mom's house. Otherwise, the pic of them this coming Sept/Oct won't be very visually informative! ...to go back toward the topic of trading... Sans are so similar to Cannas, in growth habit, so easy to multiply and share/trade. Anyone who has put Cannas in the ground should know what I'm talking about. When I lived in OH, it was necessary to dig up the rhizomes for winter, and it was always a shock - how many MORE of them there would be in the short few months they had the chance to grow. The Cannas I had there are the same ones here, moved a small patch of them and now have some at Mom's, in about 6 places here, and I've sent big boxes of them to at least a dozen people over the past year. A discussion about sharing/trading should definitely drum-up interest in doing so. Of course there are risks of pests whenever one takes plants outside, but I would encourage folks who have the space and interest to do so to put some Sans in the ground for summer. Not everyone would be willing to experiment with their plants, understandable, and please don't if you feel that way. But there's nothing magical* about the 'dirt' in my yard, or the care (none) plants were given the past couple summers in the ground. I probably shouldn't be saying this because once everyone gets some Sans, I won't have 'my main leverage' in trading, but it was so fun and the results were so amazing, I'm spilling the beans. To draw attention to the fact one is actively interested in trading, say so in your profile, then make sure your exchange page has current info. If your 'looking for' only has 1 thing and you don't say something like "open to suggestions," anybody who doesn't have that 1 thing may not bother contacting you. Oh, and keep forgetting to say, trades of multiple items are more fun and...

Ok...Peggy, You now have a link on your page, so one can email you via the form here. The email addy is shown to No One...not me, not a non member, and it will not show in your posts. There for a few days (in Jan) maybe, it was showing everyone's addy on their posts, but I have not heard of anyone having individual problems since that was fixed. I guess I am just not understanding what you are saying. If you post to a thread, it shows your addy in your post? If someone emails you via the form here they can see your addy? Remember, that is only a member who is logged in that can see your actual email addy. I see your page says you cannot be reached via the link. as it goes to a 'bad' addy on purpose due to the problem. My settings are:Show my addy to Members and Allow others to email me via the forms via GW That places a link on my page. That shows my addy to other Members when they try to email me via the form. That does not show my addy in post. If I reply to someone else's thread, and they have chosen to receive replies to their thread in an email, they will see my email...thus it will not be blocked. Have you set your settings like that? If so, why not try again, and then refresh your browser after updating the info. Likely you will then see the new info. Once you have it set as you want it, you might go to the test forum and check it out there. You can see then if it appears in the post, and I can also tell you what I see when I click on your page, and if I can see your info. There are several 'regulars' there who can/will help. Sue Here is a link that might be useful: Test Forum

It is possible that you move the mouse a little bit downwards while clicking the tab and that can cause the tab to get detached and opened in a new window. Firefox 3.5 versions and later have a feature called tear-off tabs. You can detach a tab from the current window and open it in a new window by dragging a tab in the browser window. You can drag that tab back to the tab bar in the original window to undo that detaching.

azinoh- You explain clearly. I wish I'd had you teaching differential calculus way, way back in my college days. I've had a computer for 26 years. I've never used any browser other than IE that I remember. I've always been sort of afraid of change. You make trying a different browser sound sensible and at this point what have I got to loose. I'm old and slow. It may take me a good while to get around to it but you've peeked my interest whether or not I get the current matter resolved. Thanks.