Susie- Just wanted to give you a BIG hug for that Frosty Pink that you gave me- it grew HUGE! Probably 40x BIGGER than the double white Candida that you also gave me! Anyway- Frosty just started blooming 2 nights ago- then I today got a frost warning, so I had to cut her down! I took many GREAT mature cuttings from her. She had so many unopened blooms, so sad! :( I am preparing them for rooting in my garage til I can contact everyone who wanted them- ALSO- I will most likely have plenty left if someone out there still wants some for postage & handling! By the way- I really love Phyllis, my neighbor- she is the true picture of pure Southern charm & hospitality! Last summer when her field full of iris' stopped blooming, she asked me if I wanted any, cuz'she was thinning them out & was going to throw them away anyway... so I said sure! So she drives her John Deere lawn mower over with a wagon full of iris in it, & dumped them on my driveway! I couldn't deal with all of them so I planted many & threw the rest in the woods & covered them with leaves to protect them from the heat.. later, my sweet sister in law came over,- & went away with tons! Still have more left there.... I will probably be trading them off next spring.... I am blessed! Friends are the sweetest riches one could have! Later- Kasha77

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I agree a little with all of you. Yes this hit a nerve about the baby thing within me - - and I do think he is very male and didn't see the deeper issue with how to a woman this is a special, intimate thing that an ex should not be involved with even if it's in good fun. Maybe I take it more serious. But I do think he is still too entangled with the ex, she still hasn't learned to let up on asking his opinion about things and he still hasn't learned to set boundaries. He's gotten better but there's still a way to go. I told him how I felt about it after venting on this board and he said that he agreed with me. I told him that this baby has a father and the last thing this baby would want to find out it that his mothers ex was involved with his name! This is a biracial baby (father is black) and the mother wants to give him her last name which is Irish and I find it odd that everyone is pushing for an Irish first name as well when this baby will have many ethnicities to celebrate within his family. That's just my opinion and I am keeping to myself (and to ya'll). I know - it's not my call but it's the way I would handle it. My concern is now that she has asked about names I could very well see her asking him opinions on schools, etc in the future. My husband is very intelligent and a "leader" type so people often look to him for guidance, but in my opinion he is no longer her "pack" leader and the perks of having his opinion and advice in her life was over when the marriage was over. I explained this very point to him in the past when we argued about something else to do with her and he agreed at the time. But he doesn't realize when he's doing it! So frustrating.

I think it was the Haunting of Hlll House? I read it as a kid, but that might not be the actual book-I think I've looked at the synopsis of that book and it doesn't sound like the same one that I'd read-so it might have had a similar title. As an adult, I have never been able to finish Pet Sematary by Stephen King. It is the only book that has unnerved me. I was pregnant with my first child when I read it, then I put it away because I just couldn't finish it. I picked it up years later to try to read it again-figuring I had just had pregnancy vapors the first time. I couldn't even get past the first page before my hairs started standing on end. I ended up giving it away and have never attempted to read it since. It's been 30 years and that is the only book that has affected me like that.