I was one of those involved in the recent discussion of a particular ebay iris seller. Even though my rhizomes were rather small and kind of dry, I reluctantly left good feedback because others in the feedback forum stated that if they left negative feedback to that seller, they received undeserved negative feedback in return. I have 100% positive buyer rating with ebay, and I didn't want to have it damaged, as I hope to sell things on ebay soon. I think their feedback policies need to be revamped to protect honest buyers. Luckily, when I first read about this seller, I still had all the information on the auctions, emails from her, description of items, name and address, etc. I am saving them until I see these bloom. I'm labelling each iris in my garden, and also making a chart of my bed on paper in case any labels are lost or become illegible over the winter. I'll have to give the seller the benefit of the doubt until I have proof that she was being dishonest. I did become suspicious when I did an internet search and the names of 6 of the irises I bought from her didn't come up anywhere. So now I play the waiting game. I got beautiful rhizomes from every ebay dealer except this one. I did buy 3 other irises from a different dealer. She said they were from her grandmother's garden and that she was very careful about the names on her irises. As a newbie, I also ordered these before the legitimacy questions came up in this forum. I did a search on these three and didn't find them either. Is anyone familiar with Grape Tango, Electric Lavender, and Sultan? Thanks. Charlotte

So can we put to rest the Snidely/Cynic comparison now? I'm glad to know he is doing fine as well as his furry friend. I think we need him to come back here and start debating again. He was very interesting.

Who the heck is calling mj a hero?? That's just silly--he was an entertainer. Someone is comparing apples to oranges and it makes no sense. We've lived in a celebrity-driven society since the dawn of movies and t.v. because it brings in the $$. It ain't right, but there's no reason to dump on someone else who has died because our media gives more attention to celebs. When the magazines and tv gossip shows stop selling, maybe their attention will shift.

Hi Dotmom, I'm fine. Other way around is more like it. Went out and sat on the boulders in the yard to keep the boulders from blowing away. It was pretty windy for a while and some heavy rain. Not all that bad in my area. There's about 23,000 houses without power. I have mine - I lost my power *last* weekend! (And when I called in to report it, they called me back and said "Nobody ELSE has complained! Did you check your equipment?" Just got back home. Went out for breakfast. There's a lot of small branches down and I saw the power company truck driving around. The stop lights on the highway are out. I just got my trees trimmed up last week and I'm glad I did it then. Could have damaged my roof, which I just replaced last year. There were some big storms that slipped south of me. I was tracking them from when they were a little west of St. Cloud and I thought they'd track south of me. It's kind of funny. My cat LOVES a good storm! When this started up, she awoke, stretched and sat there about 10 seconds listening and looking around and that was it. She headed to the window to watch! I've never seen an animal enjoy storms so we're a good match. Thanks for the concern. Hope all's well up your way!