Hi there! Cathy, I got the Beauty of Leafland and Hazeldean thru Roses for the North,,, many years ago. I think they are closed down now. In fact that is where I got all my roses. I needed to find a place that grew their roses on their own root stock for northern gardens. I have been trying to sort of "kill" Hazeldean for a few years. I redid my front garden a few years ago and dug up the rose and moved it but it keeps coming up in places I don't want it too! LOL Your OGR sound lovely! I have seen pictures of them in gardening catalogues and I would love to be able to grow them, but with my health being not the best I just don't have the strength to baby them like they need. I didn't know that some roses have such a history and can certainly understand why u love to grow them! The bunny is still around outside, I saw him again tonight. I know he has eaten some of my tulip leaves and I can only imagine what he is going to do with the hosta fingers! I am trying to get him to eat the food I put out for him in the dish, but he seems to like the self serve type. LOL I figure once I start sitting outsie with the dog he might go somewhere else. We still have to figure out how to build a fence along the side where the garage was, so the dog doesn't get out onto the street. Marcia, hi there! I thought u got buried under a snow pile.......LOL Corban is 3 months old now but is still pretty small. I hope he is going to have a bit of his father's height and not a shrimp like his mom. Dad is 6'6" and mom is like 4' 10" ........and all of her family is short! Darius is walking at 10 months already? Yikes! That is great she is pointing to pictures already.....she is a little smartie!! Corban is just starting to smile and trying to giggle. I have gotten into the front garden, but it is still so wet in there I don't want to walk around too much. I have yet to do any clean up and I'm not looking forward to it. My back is hurting already. LOL Are u sure u want to hurry and move your roses? You know it might take hubs another few years to getting the wood bought........LOL We are waiting for our contractor to come around and start on the roof. I'm not looking forward to that as I'm worried about my plants. Plus we still have a bunch of wood and siding laying down in the front garden that was in the garage and there is no way I can move it into the backyard. So somehow I have to figure out where and how to get it back there. I sure wish we didn't have to take down our garage it sure is making life more difficult. My petunias are growing pretty fast now, since I figured out I wasn't giving them strong enough fertilizer. OOPS LOL I had fungas gnats around the plants and I think they killed 2 of my rooting geraniums, but i've been using soap so hopefully that will get rid of them. Well that's it for now. Take care Debbie :-)

Hi all! Thanks for asking about me Debbie - I have been very busy this summer and have neglected my internet friends! My veggie garden did o.k. but my tomatoes got wilt. They produced all right but looked very ugly. My asparagus beans - a new variety this year - were a waste of space, I won't try them again. My garlic did great, as did things like lettuce, carrots, beets, chard,and beans. We are slowly taking out plants now, cleaning up those raised beds and getting ready to plant garlic for next Spring. My shade garden was competely ignored this year. Because the weather was cool, we never even went back there, sitting on the porches or lawns instead. Our pool was just plain cold, I went in about 6 times, grandson about 3 times (including the one time he fell in head first - he always wears a life jacket inside the pool fence, thank goodness.). Husband was there and kept calm, helped him out, told him he was diving already at only two years old, child went from being frightened to being rather pleased. We are starting swimming lessons this morning! The pool was cold because there were huge trees all around it, so the sun wasn't getting there. I had a tree service take 8 trees down (mostly Manitoba Maple, which often fall down all by themselves!!!)to allow sun on the pool. The tree service chipped them up for me and left it for me to use as mulch, so Mulch Mountain has kept me in shape all summer *LOL*. We both have arthritis in our hips now so we decided we should sell our beautiful home and move to a bungalow. This means that we worked like crazy to get done all of the things that bugged us about this house in the first place *LOL* and then started looking in nearby towns. Found the perfect house, offered, accepted, then someone else bought it out from under us. Found another *almost* perfect house, but the owner refused to negotiate any terms - no flexibility on price, closing date, wanted double down payment, refused a survey - the house has been for sale for 6 months, guess why it hasn't sold!! So we took down our sign, had a glass of wine, and decided to stay a while longer. Meanwhile, I had DS dig out the dead weeping mulberry and planted a Gingko Beloba Pendula instead; took out most of the sad looking flowers from the front (north side) and put beautiful ferns there instead, ripped out the lilies (decimated by red lily beetle) and prepared that bed for daylilies instead, did the Weed Control thing on the lawns, did the Grub Control thing on the lawns, did the Grass Seed thing on the lawns, and mulched, mulched, mulched, so the place looks the best it has in twenty five years. And the pool is in the sun! My side garden has red leaved and green leaved cannas, and giant nicotania that I got on a trade, shasta daisies, purple coneflower, and datura, all blooming now, very crowded but looking very lush, thanks to Frances. (I am near Ottawa too, so last week we got the rain of the century). Havent had to top up the pool all summer - good for the water bills *ha ha*! So all is well. DD is working away, loving her job as a 911 responder and enjoying the Fire Department; DS is driving us nuts, hanging around here with a long face because he isn't working and has no money (duh!); DH at least feels we made an effort to move, which is what he has wanted for a while, and most of the work here is done or is contracted. So I am looking forward to a little consulting work, and some fun with our little one, whithout the nagging feeling that I should be doing something else. That's all, folks. Enough already, too, I bet you're thinking! Cheers!

thanks for the update carol. i'll keep my fingers crossed that it's soon. no shaking....they'll come when they are ready. afterall, there's several of them in there that have to be ready. i sometimes think i would like to move too, but i think it would take several months just to pack all the plants i would want to take with me. our weather today was still hard to take. the weeds are getting away from me. and i finally have some color on my tomatoes. been picking beans like crazy. the broccoli is really growing in a strange way. peppers are in abundance, picked several varieties of squash and corn should be ready real soon. i have a lot of work to do in my flower beds, i'm itchy to transplant things, but this isn't the time, also, this certainly isn't the weather for it.

My oldest grandson seemed to lose interest in interacting with me at one point in his early development. At that point, he seemed to take more interest in his relatives which provided more excitement than I normally did. Years later, however, my grandson has demonstrated that he loves me and knows that he can depend on me to have his best interests at heart. What you're seeing is your grandchildren's normal development. If you consistently remain a positive for your grandson, he will come to appreciate that in time.