Thank you! Yes, I pretty much am addicted! I spent the summer obsessing about roses and it has not been any different this winter. One of my fathers rose cuttings is the one currently blooming. I took pictures today. I have a couple that only have two leaves, but they seem to have great roots going. I got them from the head gardener/landscaper for one of the bigger property owners in town here. He takes care of multiple business properties and rentals and happened to be pruning some roses at a local tea house at the time. He offered me the cuttings. I don't know what rose it is so I just tagged it "tea house climber". They seem okay, despite the lack of top growth. They had pretty good root systems when I removed them from their baggies and potted them up into their individual greenhouses. I'm hoping for the best. The ones I am most thrilled about are a couple from the local library. It is a single petaled pink with a white eye and it is so sweet. They are always in bloom all season and are vigorous and healthy. I took many pictures this summer intending on posting them to see if anyone could identify it but haven't yet. They look somewhat like Ballerina, if I recall the name correctly. I don't think it is carefree beauty because I think the bushes have been there far too long to be that. Either way it is a sweetie and now I have two of them, too! Again, JOY!! And, yes, soon I will have roses for all!!

Great package, and Karen is always so generous. I saw one of those lasagna lifters recently. Will be waiting for your review :-) I make the perfect lasagna according to my all my friends and family. It's the Brooklyn Meat Gravy that I make that makes it so wonderful.

Oh, I'm jealous too! DH & I were in Ft. Worth in Oct. last year and I really (no REALLY) wanted to make a side trip to Houston, but we decided it would be just too expensive. Have a wonderful time! Donna

Lots of things I can't do - gardening being one of them still :( It's had me down a bit so I haven't been talking 'cos I've been too much of a misery. Mum always said if yer can't say something nice and cheery yer should hide in yer room. I'm fighting back now - studying art at TAFE. I can still hardly believe they let me in. Doing sculpture. I got a credit for the welding so I get to play with the clay instead. I made an egg carton in terracotta. I understand egg cartons... Still can't throw a decent coffee cup on the wheel - I can centre OK but then keep ripping the tops off them when I start raising the sides... sheesh and Adam makes it look so easy! So no veges in sight. The chooks are still laying tho... Just one day at a time. Amanda