How do you think the lawyer ripped me off he has not even done anything yet he is waiting for me to decide what i want to do. i paid him $200.00 for a consultation visit and he gave me options, but you need money to hire a lawyer and i spent all mine on my yard. Remember this was done a year ago and he has been working on it off and on for a while this year. They were just here yesterday and brought 20 yds of good top soil and filled in all the washed out areas, still alot of rough areas to go. His worker had top soil left and no more time to spread i guess or he thought he was done, they had the soil dropped in the road so instead of putting it in a pile he spread it out in the yard about 3 inches thick by 30ftx30ft in a area that the grass wasnt to bad well now all i got is dirt in that area, and it is going to rain tomorrow and wash it all out this is the kind of stuff his guys do, he is not here to see it. He told me he personally was going to take care of the job and work on it. The boss, he is never here its always the same people that screwed it up to begin with. He finally made it over here yesterday tuesday after he told me friday that if he wasnt there monday by 1:00 then he would give me $1000.00 cash well he never showed monday hmmm maybe i get the cash. this is the kinda stuff he does. alot of promises , he is just waisting time and money. i feel like telling him to give me 3k back and i will fix it myself. Do any of you guys think that slit seeding the yard will help. that is his next step. The yard is so rough that it hurts your back just to mow it. let me know what ya think .

I absolutely love these Zuzek roses from this Norwegian tradition and at times I've had all of them. Sigrid and Sven are pink balls of virtually nonstop blooms all season. Those two top out at about 3' high and about as much wide. The blooms are probably multiple petals but they're small and the appeal is the blooms en masse rather than any individual blooms. They stay mannerly but are nearly constant bloomers. Ole and Lena (which I presume are the first bred, given the ubiquitous nature of those names in Norwegian stories) are lower whitish blooming flowers that are maybe 1.5 feet high and wider than tall. They have fewer petals but the same nearly nonstop blooming habit. I had my rose society out to view my newly reconstituted rose garden this spring and out of all the Austins or Hybrid Teas or floribundas blooming, the president took multiple pictures of Lena in full bloom. My impression of these four roses is that they fit well within the scope of hybrid musks, though they are shrubs by designation. They have an informal quality but the pop of bright pink color of Sigrid and Sven add a punch to the usually pale colors of most hybrid musks (of course Wilhelm and Nur Mahal have that pink color too). They are tip hardy in zone 5 so the zone 3 designation is something I find personally quite plausible, but obviously not testable in my garden. I love these roses and am anxiously hoping to replace Sigrid (my favorite) this year from Northland (an awesome rose vendor). Cynthia

It reminds me of the Cocteau movie La Belle et La Bête, 1946, and so it seems rather derivative to me. It also reminds me of scenes from Forbidden Zone, 1980. I recently bought the color DVD version of this movie. Forbidden Zone has the chandelier version, but I really prefer the wall sconces in La Belle et La Bête.

Next winter it would be great to do something that would face the street or the neighbor next door. I would love to see the expressions on the children's faces when they saw it. See Paula---you make us think about our hosta and so much more!