I really wanted to go to the class Friday on berries and fruits but I couldn't. I did get to go to the lawn and garden show Saturday for a little while. There were a lot of people there. Thanks for posting Violet.

Today has been the BESTEST day ever!! I finally had enough extra $$ to go buy the soil and amendments I need to do my WS'ing. Then my grandmother asked me to go w/ her and my aunt to Costco to p/u the items for a reunion this wkend. They always have me cook most everything. I suppose that's a compliment! lol Meanwhile she kept offering to buy me this n that and ended up buying me almost $100 worth of groceries (what a HUGE blessing right now!!) Then I was browsing some cookbooks and found a FANTASTIC huge cookbook on baking homemade bread and alllll kinds of bakery items. I planned to buy it myself, and she insisted on buying that too, then asked if I was going to use a bread machine to make the bread, I said no, gonna do it the old fashioned way! We don't own one. She says well, you do now. She got one for Christmas and didn't want it so it's brand spanking new! WOOHOOOOOO!!! THEN she handed me $100 to go towards a $350 tire purchase I'm saving to make. This day was better than Christmas!! lol THEN I got home and the mailman knocked on my door with the RR box!! YAYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!! I've got to run now to p/u kids from school tho I'm dying to get my hands into it! I'll post again this eve w/ an update of what goodies I decided I couldn't live w/out! :) Oh.. and I gotta brag.. it's 67degrees and SUNNY today!! ~Happy me

Brittneysgran sends to Squanzon/Sue - RECEIVED DIGGINDIRT49 sends to Veeja/Carol Dieg01991 sends to SandlapperRose/Jeanne - RECEIVED Drgulley sends to Remy/Remy Earthly Delight sends to Margaret2007/Margaret - RECEIVED Fcoffill sends to Theresa24/Theresa - RECEIVED Ilovefarac sends to EarthlyDelight/Maryanne - RECEIVED Margaret 2007 sends to Mellen/MaryEllen - RECEIVED Mellen sends to Ilovefarac/Melinda Remy sends to WYNATIVE/Marie Sandlapper Rose sends to Brittneysgran/Shirley - RECEIVED Squanzon sends to Fcoffil/Frances - RECEIVED Theresa24 sends to Drgulley/Dianne - RECEIVED Veeja11 sends to Dieg01991/Amy A. - RECEIVED Wynative sends to DIGGINDIRT49/Bev -- RECEIVED (accidentally LOL)color> carol, did i miss you receiving? once mary ellen feels better and remy returns, this swap will be completed

I thought I would comment about the delivery confirmation from the rules with FOTESS. Of course it's fine if you want to purchase that service, but we have never required it. The rule is if the item doesn't make it to the recipient you have to follow up and send something to her (if you can't duplicate what didn't make it, you send something similar). I don't understand why the post office is doing worse now than it was over the holidays and during COVID. Usually mine is okay, but I do get mail for neighbors in my mail box. They don't sort it like they should. It will have that person's name and their correct address but will be left in my mailbox. I hand deliver them when I walk my dog. Hopefully if anyone else gets my mail, they do the same. Happy Leap Day! My answers: 2,1,2,2, yes, never happened, no (It would have to be a large or poisonous seed for me to immediately search for it on the floor in order to pick it up.) Off to check the new heading for March ... Thanks for the great participation the past few months. Lots of fun! ** A Follow-Up that I'm adding (you can also see my comment in the March Swap). Although as a general rule our swaps do not require tracking, it has always been that if on the month you are hostess you want to add that requirement when you post the swap, that's fine. Typically we might require tracking when it's a round robin that goes from person to person so we can tell where it's at or when it's a more expensive swap or if involving live plants being shipped. Hope that helps. **