Seems to be a lot of that RRD in those warmer zones, esp eastern coastal states, and I feel just terrible for the people stricken with it. It is in my state, but the only multiflora I found about a mile away has been given the Roundup treatment. Somebody has one in a garden not too far away, nice area, it looks suspiciously like multi, hope it is something similar. It was such a pretty thing, the one growing by the cemetery. Not knowing the troubles it could cause, it was my first propagation attempt. Luckily that failed. The blooms were just charming; they all aren't quite the same. I won't let my guard down though. Trying to dig 6' horiz roots would disturb lots of things even though shallow. Glad you had the persistence to get them.

Barnmom, thanks so much for posting the links. I spoke to the editorial department at MS Living today, and they told me that the shoes are by designer Michael Kors. Unfortunately, the picture was taken a year ago, so the shoes are from last year. Maybe I'll find them in a shoe outlet! I need size 9 in case anyone comes across them :)

I made this poncho longer by adding rounds to it. The Lionsbrand pattern states that you should have 60 blocks at the end of 20 rounds. I can't remember exactly how many rounds I made, but I made sure that I ended with blocks in multiples of 3 (63, 66, 69, 72). When I crocheted the first round of the edging, I figured out the number of blocks was not going to work out and so I took out at least 3 rounds of blocks - I think I ended up with 72 blocks. Then I re-crocheted the first round of the edging and it worked out. The scalloped edging wound up working out beautifully (there were 24 scallops and the last round of the edging consisted of 72 shells). In retrospect, to lengthen the poncho, you'll need to add 6 rounds at a time for it to work out. I think the original pattern of 20 rounds with 60 blocks probably makes 20 scallops, so when you add 6 rounds, you get 2 additional scallops and that keeps the poncho balanced. So when I added 12 rounds I got 4 additional scallops. Good luck! Avalon

Well, she did call the police for a ride, but was most likely in panic mode. Police did not give her a ride, though (maybe they would've, I dunno): Her driver was ready to take her to the hospital. But if I were a TV personality, I would also be in panic mode about a cut so noticeably front-and-center. She wasn't in New York City at the time. She was at her home in Northern Westchester County -- a little less than an hour north of NYC, and I am familiar with the roads in that area, having lived in the Bedford/Mount Kisco area. They are winding and narrow (until you get to the main street in Mount Kisco, near the hospital), and if that snowstorm was getting heavy, I might've also called the police to ensure I could get to the hospital. (Not as bad as calling an ambulance, IMHO, and that's not a crime-filled area that it would've been a horrible thing to pull an officer off his/her patrol to take her there.) It also happened at night -- not during the day as someone else posted -- which makes driving on some of those roads a bit more treacherous. I'm sure that her house is off a winding one-lane road, for privacy's sake, much like other celebrities' homes there. I remember a shortcut I used to take that ran past a house (mansion, more like it) owned by Mariah Carey at the time; it's not one I took unless the weather and road was clear. Facial cuts? Yeah, I would want a plastic surgeon, too. They're not there just to do nose jobs and eyelifts. (The 40-something photos taken by Martha's stables manager, tho? That one of the wallpaper border cracked me up! I'll bet that person will soon be on Martha's PR team--altho I wonder if Martha herself hollered at her to grab the camera on the way out and "Photograph everything you see! I'll use it for my blog!") Bottom line? If there was a time to act like a diva, in her public-life circumstances, that was it.