Well right now The only seeds I have are from these 2 filifera. Today I am in southern Cali and I probably will have more with in the next few days depending on where I go.

I think handprints in concrete is just stupid. No offense, but I also think plaster casts of kids handprints on the walls is also 1950's grandma style. yes I have two kids that have grown up. What did we do when we built our home: I had the kids paint and leave all kinds of messages on the studs and bays of the home before final drywall went up. they grew up knowing their "secret" messages were in there and someday they'll be discovered. To each their own, but personally having some kids handprints in my driveway would be an irritant, looks very unprofessional so in resale terms it's a negative.

We've vacationed on St.John and St.Thomas in mid-January and the weather was lovely there then. We actually rented a villa on St.Thomas in Peterborg Estates. It overlooked Magen's Bay and was just down the road from the place President Clinton stays at. The place was very family-friendly (3 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 6 patios, big gourmet kitchen, infinity-edge pool and drop-dead views) but it was a bit of a nightmare driving around the island to get anywhere. I swear, 95% of that place is on an incline! Parking and negotiating roads with no signs was a bit frustrating at times. Still, it was a fun place. We'd take the car ferry over to St.John's to snorkel and relax. For a family-friendly place, of the two, St.J's would be my first choice. It's drop-dead gorgeous and the water is great there. It's quiet, peaceful and looked to be very safe. No nightlife that I saw, though, but we weren't looking for any ;^D We had taken the kids (then age 18 & 8) on a week-long Caribbean cruise the year before. As Carole mentioned, it's a safe choice for kids and *some* cruise ships have a lot of things for them to do. We were on one of the Princess ships and booked two staterooms that connected by their private outside balconies, as we didn't want our 8 y/o DD to have to walk out in the hallway to get to our room. Our 18 y/o son had a great time and met lots of teenage girls on the ship. They hung out together, while on board. 8y/o DD got bored with the kids' camp and stayed with DH & I after the second day. The pools on board were very crowded and DH dislikes crowds, so he spent a lot of at-sea time reading on our room's balcony . . . which was lovely, BTW. We saw some shows on board. The kids liked the food and having their own stateroom. We never did hit the midnight buffets or their happy hours. At every port, we avoided the ship's island excursions and hired a private car & driver for the day. It honestly cost us about the same amount as 4 tickets on one of those open-air, jam-packed tour buses . . . and we could go where WE wanted, when WE wanted, for as long as we wanted . . . and it was air conditioned! Our drivers were great tour guides and avoided the congested, tourist-packed places in favor of some great shops, beaches and restaurants. Both our kids loved our island days, swimming and snorkeling, stopping at fun shops and restaurants. It's the only way I'd ever go on a cruise again. DH, on the other hand, thought the at-sea days were a waste of time, hence, our next trip back to the Caribbean was the (above) trip to St. T & ST.John. Another possible place you might want to check into is the island of Tortola in the British Virgin Islands. As a couple, we stayed at a hotel resort, but next time (with kids)I'd definitely rent one of the small, private beach villas on Long Bay or Apple Bay. Great beaches, fabulous snorkeling; good food. The main town, Road Town, was fun the first day, but there's not that much to see. West End is fun and much busier, as it's the jumping off place for bare-boating in that part of the Caribbean. Crowded, though. The island is fairly small and had not one traffic light that I recall, just roundabouts here and there. To get to Tortola, we had to catch a plane in Puerto Rico that took us to their small airport on the connected, Beef Island. BTW, you definitely need to rent a car on any of the above islands. Lynn

My family and my sister's family loved the outdoors so we camped. We started out tent camping then as we could afford it moved up to a tent trailer. I had a trailer type camper in California but my favorite was a tent trailer. You may not care for camping but if you do it's much cheaper in the long run. We belonged to a camper's club and had winter meetings in the winter. We camped for 15 years.