Wishing you a "Happy Birthday" April!!! Im so sorry Im a little late, had to take an unexpected trip to Florida, I hope your Birthday was wonderful! Karen

Ah, I use the post-it note planning too. It makes it easy to rearrange things. I'm now on my 4th or 5th version of this year's beds. If you make the post-it squares 1"x1" and scale that to 1'x1' bed square it is easy to see what you have room for. Also, if you do succession planting just put the second planting post it underneath. you can lift up the top one to see what to plant after harvesting. The next best thing to planting your beds is planning them.

My dad was so good about telling family stories, etc., but now I can think of so many things I wish I'd asked him. He spoke often about Alice's sisters (his Aunt Anna and Aunt Margaret), but never mentioned her parents. They were Scottish immigrants, and I learned from the 1880 census that they were Margaret and George (a servant), parents of six children. Growing up, I was close to my father's cousin Peggy, daughter of Aunt Margaret. It never occurred to me to ask her about her parents or grandparents. Who knew we would become so interested in genealogy and family history when we got (much, much) older? Maire, my newly-found cousin was told Alice's parents were very upset when she left, but her sisters kept in touch with her. I guess that means the parents did not? Maybe they did later. My dad never mentioned his paternal grandparents either. That was another hugely musical family. I just assume the musical talent was handed down from my great-grandfather (an assumption that makes no sense), but when I followed the family line back to England I found not musicians, but caterers and the Lyons Tea Company. This might explain my family's obsession with food. :-) So then I suspected the musicality came from my great-grandmother, but with a name like Phillips I didn't think I'd get very far tracing it. And I didn't. But thanks to FindAGrave, I encountered my distant cousin Roderick, who has done a professional job of tracing his family line--which includes my great-grandmother! Turned out the Phillips name started out as something quite different--a Polish name, as she was born in a part of Prussia that is now Poland. And Roderick tells me the family is quite musical. A mystery solved.

Forgot to say Ashley 24 today.Thanks for letting me share this.Hugs Judy