HEy Bill, Thanks again for awesome pics!! You make me want to move to SoCal!! Thanks for including the pots. It gives me an idea of what I am going to have in a few years(unless I cut them back like crazy!) That blue is similiar to the pot I put my JJ Orange in. Thankfully it has a nice BIG draining hole in it. I looked around at the pots for some time before finding the one I got. I thought at first that I would just put the blck plastic pot into the blue decorative terra cotta but I didn't need to worry about it. TLD I had a cutting of. Laura gave me a smallpiece from hers but it didn't root:( I was REALLY BUMMED about that. I read an old post that said that TLD also has decorative foliage. I am really getting into the seedlings. I wish I had better acess to seeds. Right now i have two varieties growing from seed. Mardi Gras(thanks to Jandey!)and Kimo. They may not produce the best flowers but there's always that chance that you can end up with a seedling that is actually better than the parent. I believe this is how the Jack ORange came to be. Sonia told me she found it mixed in with John's other seedlings years ago. The plumeria was labelled CS2, so I am taking a guess and saying that it must have California Sunset in it's parentage. I am going to have to look up the yellows you listed. I did get a noid yellow from Mimi. That took over 3 MONTHS TO ROOT FOR ME! I just hope it was well worth the wait. Enjoy your holiday Bill! Andrew

Well Linda in your case it may not save you any money UNLESS you were thinking of perhaps having a 2nd phone line added this would do it. One thing I don't like about cell phones is that they're so small. It's nice to have a bigger handset when your laying about talking on the phone. And you can plug a regular cordless phone set to it. That's what I've done. Mom,, it works well .. no one can tell the difference in the sound quality.

My mother passed away April 13th 2022. she raised me and my sister, as a single mother. she worked 2 jobs to ptovide for us, but we took her for granted as children. When the mother of my 2 children passed away in 2016, my mother moved in with us. My mother helped raise my daughter(16 now) and my son(15 now) for almost a decade. My mother was more than just my best friend, she was my only friend. i have complex PTSD, and she was the only one that i trusted enough to talk about the war with… she went with me to the VA, when i had to. she gave me strength, she always seemed to understand things that other people either couldnt or didnt want to understand… my dog died about a month before my mother did… 2022 has taken a lot from me and my 2 children… they saw her as a mother, as much as me… i go from feeling numb to feeling deep sadness and loss… i don‘t want to give up, but i always needed her support. she died from cancer, after being on immunotherapy for 2 years… she suffered from many side effects, for most of her treatment. she became so thin near the end that it was painful to see her like that… i was with her until the end, and it may sound strange but i held her for some time after she died and just sobbed onto her… i talk to her still thst she is dead for months, but i still wake up thinking that she is alive… i beli my mother is in heaven, but selfishly i just want my mom back… i miss my only friend… i miss the only selfless person that i ever met… i feel so empty, and i did not think that id feel so lost… she gave me direction when i didnt know what to do… i hope this posts, it does give comfort to know that i am not a

Actually the point of the post I intended to make was less about the deaths themselves but more about the voices and how money, success, etc, can't make you happy so thanks for the post and the courtesy. I am not a person who consults the Tarot cards or something before making a move, but often I go with my "gut feeling" on things. There's times it never made sense but my gut just said don't do it, or occasionally says "do it!" and I really think it's something that demands respect. Can it be coincidence? Often yes. I'm not trying to suggest otherwise. But for me, there's been too many times when "something" happened that I do have a respect for it. Not to say I've never been wrong though! LOL There's been times when there was a strong feeling and when I checked it out, it was nothing. So you have to be aware of false alarms too. But if I'm walking down the street and something says take a different route, I'll usually do it. Not much to lose. Or is there? (Do you hear the Twilight Zone theme playing? do-do-do-do, do-do-do-do...)