LOL right now you wouldn't even be able to see the tracks...we have gotten about 8 inches of snow in the past 24 hours and the plows haven't even gotten to the main roads here in town...Nothing like Kirk and Carol have been dealing with, but more than they can seem to figure out how to deal with.

I explained it in post on french gardens, but had to post the photos separately. So, this is a community garden that runs for about two blocks along an abandoned train track just north of Montmartre in Paris. People grow whatever they like, put out chairs and tables to hang out, and feet the feral cats.

Behavioral issues in children are very problematic. They are not always strictly related to parental or environmental influences. Those can usually help or hinder though. People you can talk to for confidential advice would be your doctor, or pediatrician; and clergy or religious counselor types. They may have experience or be able to help sort out whether the problem should be reportable. (If the youngest is being physically abused by the oldest, that can be a problem worth reporting... but a physician would likely be in a better position to assess physical risks.) This page has a lot of divorce-related links mostly about child issues. http://www.kidsturncentral.com/topics/issues/divorce.htm If she is acting as if she is angry and/or out of control, she probably is. How badly would a mother have to feel or in how bad a shape would she have to be, in order to act the way you see this woman acting? If she seems to need help, this is an area where counselors, and therapists are trained. The point is if she feels like she is suffering, or is otherwise pushed to or beyond her limits; counselors are good at helping people learn better stress management techniques and how to feel more like they can cope. Healthy people take responsibility for their mental and physical health and get help when they are faced with situations which call forth an apparent need for help. leaving a baby with a child who is known to have violent behavior sounds like a problem which could have results similar to more direct abuse (it's 'passive' on her part, but if the end result is that the baby is being hurt or wounded, it isn't that significantly different)

Carol, okay. The offer stands. When I misplace a packet of seeds, I always find them somewhere crazy six months later. So far this year, I haven't been able to find my Yellow Oxheart seeds which I purchased way, way back in Dec 2014. I'm going to tear apart my seed box today, hoping to find them mis-categorized in a ziplock bag full of flower or herb seed packets. I know I have seen them in the last month but cannot imagine why they weren't in the ziplock of other yellow tomatoes. If I cannot find them I'll just substitute Lillian's or Hugh's for them. The big danger in digging through the seed box for them Is that looking at the other tomato seeds will give me a worse case of tomato fever and I'll decide to start 15 more varieties. I'd say the odds of me doing that are somewhat high. I already fought the desire to start Dester, Cherokee Chocolate, Jumbo Jim Orange, Doña, Carmello and a few others on seed-starting day because I had cut them off my list on an effort to cut back. Bon, I am gonna get that list posted today, Lord willing and if the creek don't rise! I have started tons of flower seeds too and hope to post that list. I sort of continually start flowers and usually don't list them because often I am starting new ones almost daily and it makes it hard to keep a current list, I think my flowers get most of the credit for us having a successful edible garden because they attract all the pollinators and other beneficial insects. I just don't talk about them a lot individually. Every time I put edible plants or seeds in the ground, I plant flower transplants or seeds at the same time. Because recurring drought has been so hard on the wildflowers the last few years, often killing them before they can reseed, I am over-seeding several pasture areas with wildflower seeds this month. I bought a little over 3 pounds of wildflower seeds. I am hoping for decent rainfall to help them germinate and get established but not such heavy rain that all the seeds rot or wash away. Dawn