This sounds like encouraging news for sure. I pray that she continues to get better and better each day. Thanks for the update. Shirley

Our prayers are added, and big hugs to you Ms. Eva. If you need a place to stay over this way, we have a special room with your name on it! J

Sorry, yes, LeAudra is my niece, my brother's child. I've never had children; she was the first of all the nieces and nephews and has always been "my special baby." Of course, now that's there's 12 of them, all the neieces and nephews are "my special babies," but she's my special first-born girl, just as Christopher is my special first-born boy. I'm very fortunate that her mother, my SIL, has always "shared" and let her visit whenever I wanted. She spent most of every summer, from age one until she was 16, with me.

Thought I would update this, as my DH and I spent from 11AM to 6PM helping my niece and her DH in their garden. Despite her "I know nothing.." comments, they were both very willing to learn (although truly ignorant). Sometimes very intelligent people like to learn new things, and I think that is what happened. By the end of the day, she and I (I stuck to my decision NOT to do much work, just to advise her what to do) had planted a rose I brought them, which was a rooted cutting (which had been in a big pot for 2 years and was well developed) of my ancient huge bush Cecile Brunner. We had also pruned and sprayed (rust) and fed and mulched an old climbing HT which was in her garden already. I had fed it a year ago, probably for the first time it had been fed in several decades. It had responded by putting out several healthy climbing canes, so we tied those to the fence, and when we were done it actually looked respectable. Then we did the same thing to two pathetic, tiny, barely surviving mop head hydrangeas which her mow and blow guy had evidently been cutting almost down to the ground EVERY Fall. I told her to tell him NOT to touch them, ever. Meanwhile, my DH was teaching her DH how to install a drip watering system - they got quite a lot done, and I was pleased to notice that our nephew asked lots of questions, and by the end of the day had succeeded in understanding most of what my DH was telling him. So, their interest and enthusiasm was much better than I had expected, and that was very nice. Now she just has to take back to the store several trees she bought before I got there, thinking (or not thinking) that they would make nice 8 ft tall bushes, when the tags on them said they got 15-20 feet tall and wide! Jackie