I thought about you all last night. And Helen, I was up about the same time you were. The TV weather picture was a sea of red and boy, was there water coming down! I had just shy of 3 inches in the rain gauge. My car trunk in the garage is covered with plants ready to go out, and I had even planted a darling little Supersweet 100 tomato a couple days ago. I knew better-- She got covered with some loose straw and a pot over her this evening. Surely our drought has been broken. I wondered this AM if I should be boiling water, as the last time we had that much water, it was after the tornado. But I thought maybe Folger's would take care of everything, and apparently there wasn't an order out after all. Not one tulip bloom was shattered, nor were any dogwood blooms knocked off, so all we had was rain. The thunder and lightning was terrible, though. "Our" storm pushed off east and made some big trouble today. So sorry. And I'm real sorry I didn't mow earlier! Sunny

started mine last year early and they didn't start really growing till mid may and late may I put outside, and plants that survived 2 late frosts still did great. This year I start aboot the same time and almost all plants are doing really good, having to pot up now.... Hope I do this right as last year I lost 32+ plants... this year I have many more seeds that sprouted. And only one Naga has sprouted..... Oh well, one should be enough, and I shall work on a Purple Nagapeño!

Sweeby is right, it may have come out wrong. she may not understand how germs spread and that she can get sick, maybe she just took it as 'stay away from me' and got her feelings hurt. She'll get over it, like tired says, she's young & they forget as long as you don't make a big deal. You don't have to listen to kkny, her last sentence worries ME. She has a problem with SM having a relationship with SK's, so she thinks your DH should be able to handle it all by himself and you are stepping over boundaries.... especially if your SD is closer to you, which is quite normal for a little girl to be closer to a female, than a male at her age. IMHO.

Sorry to say I am not at all surprised by RH's duplicity in pretending they are selling one of a kind rugs (or one of a kind anything, for that matter), or their incompetence in tracking their stock, their fake shipping dates and timely charging of your credit card. The company is a complete fraud, from the ground up, IMO. Honest catalog retailers state their wares are "unique" because the item being described is hand made and therefore the one that arrives may not look like the picture. RH seems to play fast and loose with that concept as their ad copy makes you believe that a featured item is truly the ONLY one like it. I always wondered how they could spend so much money showcasing single run new items or one of a kind vintage or antique things. Now it appears they have revealed their true business model to you. I always thought their brand appealed to the yuppie worst in us all. I include myself in that, I'm sorry to say. I have purchased a curtain rod from RH about seven years ago and probably would have bought other things as well, but after receiving their massive catalog missives decided not to do business with them any more.