This post should have been titled: Aglaonema 'Stars:' when bad growers try to grow good cultivars. I finally managed to cut the tops off of the plants today, and when I dumped the soil out to search for roots, the dirt was like straight topsoil cut with just a little teeny bit of sand. Heavy, heavy, heavy. So it's no wonder it was always losing leaves: it was suffocating. The poor thing. I'm starting to see a pattern here. The last plant I posted about was a Syngonium that also had some soil heaviness issues. Who would ever have suspected that soil might be important to plants? The tops will probably be just fine once they start rooting; the bottoms I'm a little more concerned about. A lot of the roots seem to have broken or rotted off the rhizomes. I went ahead and cleaned them up as best as I could and repotted the rhizomes in some loose soil, and we'll see how that goes. If I'm lucky, and the plants don't hold a grudge, I'll get a big second plant out of the deal. And speaking of holding grudges: I apologize to all the Aglaonema 'Stars' plants out there for my vicious and uncalled-for slander.

Hi Carol: I challenge you and others to finish our internationally acclaimed novel, using roses' name, entitled "When we are bad, and roses are good". See the below: â¢Posted by dove_song WA State Z 6b (My Page) on Wed, Aug 1, 12 at 8:09 ...some MOONLIGHT PASSIONATE KISSES. ST. PATRICK's HEART 'N' SOUL was ALL ABLAZE with anger at THE KNIGHT's and the MERMAID's MONKEY BUSINESS. CHANTILLY LACE had believed she had found TRUE LOVE with THE KNIGHT, But his FLAGRANT, OUTRAGEOUS behaviour with THE MERMAID would break her HOPEFUL HEART. :( â¢Posted by Strawberryhill 5a (My Page) on ST PATRICK invoked the help of king NEPTUNE, who sent a BLASTOFF of cold water jet into the BLUE OCEAN. This froze the knight's ass, so he had to jumped on his boat to continue with the journey. â¢Posted by dove_song WA State Z 6b (My Page) on Unfortunately for him, THE KNIGHT's boat ran into an ICEBERG thus thwarting his journey. In the meantime ST. PATRICK's sailboat was heading out into the BLUE OCEAN FULL SAIL... ST. PATRICK had a HEART O' GOLD, but he was weary of life's hard knocks to him and to those he loved. Therefore he decided to sail to FAIREST CAPE which was well known for it's EASY GOING lifestyle. Upon his arrival at FAIREST CAPE he was greeted by ... â¢Posted by WinterCat z10 (My Page) on ... a BLONDE BOMBSHELL with a BLACK HEART and a penchant for the use of BLACK MAGIC. "Oh! a HELPING HAND just at the right MOMENT IN TIME!" cried the TEMPTRESS. "The CHOCOLATE PRINCE is after me! He wants my HOT CHOCOLATE SECRET RECIPE! Quick! Please let me into your MERCEDES! He's CLOSE UP behind us!" "So much for EASY GOING lifestyle," mumbled ST. PATRICK, but how could he abandon a BLUSHING DAMSEL in distress to her fate? "Hop in LADY! Let's go!" "You're a saint!" sighed the BLONDE BOMBSHELL. "Don't BUTTER ME UP" replied St. Patrick. "What I need is a break from it all. Besides I'm thirsty. You wouldn't have any of that famous HOT CHOCOLATE left, have you? Even some MILKY TEA would do". "I've got SOMETHING ELSE that's much better. A real SURPRISE! Close your eyes", whispered she. ST. PATRICK closed his eyes and ... â¢Posted by Strawberryhill 5a Chicagoland (My Page) on Sun, Aug 5, 12 at 9:45 The BLONDE BOMBSHELL stuffed a GOLDEN DELIGHT into ST. PATRICK's mouth. It tastes so GOLDEN DELICIOUS to him, that he kept eating until he exploded into GOLDEN BUDDHA. Thank God that his entourage of the 7 dwarfs came to the rescue, running on their CUTIE PIE little legs. They are: BASHFUL, DOC, DOPEY, HAPPY, SLEEPY, SNEEZY, and GRUMPY. The dwarfs carried the bloated ST. PATRICK onto his boat. The 7 heroic dwarfs steered the boat toward the ICEBERG to rescue THE KNIGHT, whose YELLOW SUBMARINE got jammed. Here is a link that might be useful: Our novel using Roses' names This post was...

Awwww, those poor piggies didnt know that corn wasnt for them...they are soo sorry ! Id say...make sure ya dont put corn anywhere near them..pigs are smart...LOL Please dont eat them....they didnt mean to do it !!

Awww...geez. imho, Nurse Kim's Mom moved way too fast. My Mum and I had this chat when my Dad died. I told her that she should stay in their home as long as she liked - I'd make the commute, nag cousins, pay people, to keep the house up. Four and a half years later, she came to live with me, under her own steam, all the way. The people who bought the house, she called them old people, lol, Mum was 81, I said how old are they??!! had sold their home and moved into an apartment. They hated it. They were in their late 80's. Nell, you need to make a pact like this, with children, or someone who will be your executor, a living will. You don't need to be able to do the actual work - be able to point and articulate. That's it. I truly hope that Nurse Kim's Mom does not regret her decision. In some cases, the social aspects of of the care facilities may be a plus for someone who is lonely. Nancy.