Oh my...Thank YOU ladies for all the warm Get Well Wishes! I'm doing better...still fighting this 'bug'. Hopefully once the holidays are over, I will concentrate on getting some proper rest and getting rid of it completely. I think we've ALL had our share of - this and that - with colds and such...so I'm just one of the crowd. Anyway... Betty, Again, I want to tell you what a wonderful surpise to receive this ornament, you have no idea. You know you didn't have to 'repay' me for the bowls...I was only too happy for you to have them. That brought 'me' joy, cause I knew you wanted them so much...How could I not! lol Don't you think my new ornament looks great? It's very happy in it's new home..making friends with all the other ornaments!!! lol Thank you again. jane

"& what has happened in Texas is that full-price offers are full price offers as long as only reasonable & customary expenses are requested from the seller." Interesting. "A financing contingency is not considered a concession, but a normal condition, as are good title & acceptable survey. " Now you have changed to "reasonable & customary expenses." So what have the courts decided in Texas? (citations would be nice) You seem less than clear on the matter. Is it purely expenses? Maybe you should take at least a business law class. When is a notice of cancellation of a contract consider received? These may seem like annoying details, but there are volumes of contract law written on this, and while you may proclaim "brokers neither write nor interpret legal contracts; we use the ones stipulated by the Real Estate Commission & by our Association. Interpretation of those contracts is done by the courts when somebody sues somebody else when the parties disagree over what the contract says." Many (if not most states) do not have a state mandated RE contract. Sounds like another reason to avoid Texas. You are participating in the formulation of contracts as soon as you fill in a line on the mandated contract. While the final interpretation may devolve to the courts (and that generally means the contract was poorly drawn or someone is being stupid and refusing to abide by what they agreed was the contract) the first thing the courts look to is the intent of the parties executing the contract.

Well, a few arrived today. Lc. needed dividing - was huge and a note said it would need repotting. The brat and ali were a bit disappointing, half of each has some very wrinkled pseudobulbs. The good news is that they are older pseudos, and the young ones are very plump. The bad news, half the plant will need to be disposed of when the pseudos yellow/brown. And then came the surprises: A couple of the ones DH did not tell me about arrived. Two paphs, in bloom! Paph. 'Odette's Vision': Paph. 'Venus Night':

I think she got the framed wedding dress idea from Adrienne Malooff in Bravo's Housewives of Beverly Hills. It was in the entrance to their closets. Divorced now, so wonder what she did with it. When searching for her dress, I saw this one - "Michaels framed my wedding dress in a custom shadow box. I waited until they had 60% off plus an additional 25% off. It was only $700. And now it's always displayed on the wall walking downstairs. Better than rotting away in a box in the attic." I think she should have kept her $700. Most of the others on Pinterest are bad. Pinterest Dresses.