Thanks. Flew off healthy and strong. This hatching confirmed my thought that the rue had some chemical sprayed on it before I bought it, which resulted in the deformity of 2 butterflies. Everything raised on orange leave was healthy. K PS...I never knew butterflies were hairy!

Yep, Tom and Kat. That's the plan. I'm booked with family in town this weekend, but next weekend I'm going to get the bed all fixed up and put some store-bought plants in there so we can get going. Then when the new batch of seedlings is ready, I'll put them in too. Then I'll spend all winter defending the tomatoes from the puppy, who thinks farming is just the most wonderful thing because it allows him to supplement his diet with tasty almost ready to pick tomatoes, sapodillas that fall, entire broccoli plants (broccoli is going out front this year - only broccoli we ate last year was from two plants that didn't fit in the broccoli bed in the back and got stuck in a front bed, a shame because broccoli was always so happy in the so-called broccoli bed, but it only took Atticus a few minutes to decimate them one morning when our backs were turned, he's sneaky that way) and so many cherries he gets sick (we've gotten rid of all the cherries finally.) As for the book, I'll definitely let everyone know when it's out. I'm pretty excited about the whole effort.

NO MORE TILE!!!!! The gross stuff they use to make the seams. I just realized the guys butt is in the pic!LOL I watched them make one of the seams. A pretty interesting process. THe final. My girls wouldn't leave. Pic with the tiles we love in the background. I love the TILES, but I'm not sure the full GREEN will work with the stainless. The green isn't coming through our slabs as much as it did in the sample piece. I have another tile coming as well that has blue AND green in it, so I may end up with that one...or the mosaic I still really love. At least we are CLOSE to picking the backsplash. Unless my DH changes his mind...AGAIN! Close ups of the tiles

Well, Happy Birthday which you happen to share with my son who is turning 25 today. I hope you have a great day.