Carla et al, Thank-you so very much for the immensely thoughtful and kind Birthday wishes. It was/is tremendously appreciated and very sweet of you to think of me and wish me well. I did indeed have a wonderful and very relaxing Birthday. I spent most of that entire week up at my boat on Lake Simcoe and enjoyed it thoroughly as the weather here has been hot, dry and just outstanding so far this summer. I returned to work this week and picked up all of the emails yesterday. Now that I've managed to clear my inbox, I had some time to come here to write and to thank-you. The pictures are all wonderful and a very nice touch to the B-day greetings. They certainly put a smile on my face and would brighten up anyone's day. So, thank-you to all of you who posted B-day wishes and your beautiful pics on my behalf! I am actually in the process of setting up a Flickr account so that I can post pics here from David Austin's gardens and Mottisfont Abbey. My old pic site is no longer active. The new account is set-up, but it will take me a while to upload all the pics. Please be patient with me.... I also took some notes on what i witnessed regarding disease/disease resistance, colour and growth habit of his various roses, including DA's newest intro's that are not yet available in North America. More to come on this also.... Niecey/Michele, Received your emails. Thanks! Will write soon. I truly haven't been in the office or online very much after the 2 weeks overseas, 1 week back to work, 1 week on vacation and now back again. I am very behind on my personal emails and reading and posting here. Things should soon be returning to normal however... Okay, I'll leave you with a couple of pics of my own garden this year and what I returned home too after a couple weeks in Europe. I just uploaded these to my new account, so hopefully this works and you can see the pics... Well Being with Lavender and Delphinium Outta The Blue with Delphinium Front Garden Bed View

Hi everyone, Sorry I've ebeen AWOL for awhile. Spring is always such a busy time. I've been trying to get the yard & gardens cleaned up. DH is expecting to start a new job in a couple of weeks, its suppose to pay about twice as much. He'll be driving OTR again with only one day home per week so we're trying to get stuff here taken care of beforehand (building GH, fixing stuff, etc).He gave his current job his 2 wk notice just 2 days ago and they called today letting him go (on his day off)! Now we're really hoping the new job is as good as it sounds!! I got the last of my WS potted yesterday. Out of 160+ jugs there were only about 15-20 that didn't sprout...not bad I guess for my first WS attempt. I'm waiting for my BIL to till my new gardens so I can plant stuff...alot of my potted seedlings have bloomed! Bluebonnets, Lacy Phacelia, and Nasturtiums of every color! I hope they're still blooming by the time I get them in the gardens! Kym, thanks for sending the May list in advance! At least I won't get behind on that! LOL I'm fine with recieving emails from forum members...sounds like you have an interesting game up your sleeve. Count me in! I hope all April Bday buddies are having a wonderful BDay month!!!!! Chell

I'm not sure about doing it through Photobucket but here's how to size it when you post it. After the img src="http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/0903/althetrainer/Wiicake.jpg" add a space and then size it how you want. This photo is 600 wide by 800 high. To make it about 1/4 the size, 150x200 add width="150" and a space, then height="200" and it'll look like this: html would be: img src="http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/0903/althetrainer/Wiicake.jpg" width="150" height="200" with the brackets on either side which I'm sure you know. To make it about 1/10, width should be 60 and height 80 and you'll get: html would be: img src="http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/0903/althetrainer/Wiicake.jpg" width="60" height="80" with the brackets on either side. Hope that makes sense.

Hi Caroline! I had to revisit your post and the cute pics of Harry this morning..how he can make me smile! :) And thank you for posting the pup pic..how cuuuute! How many litter mates did Harry have? Just luv Harry looking down at his special cake..think I'll have to share this one with my fellow dog lovers and change my desktop today. :) Shhhh..don't tell Harry I asked, but do his veggies give him gas? ;)