Dorothy your weather is even worse then ours. Even thou I had to move everything in the shed again too. Then I just covered some seedlings popping out of the ground, canna's and other newly sprouted perennials up with pots and milk jugs. Even the Dats are growing along with some brugs I had left in the ground. Gross my fingers for ALL of us that have bad weather again after thinking we had spring already. Man were we dreaming or what lol. The wind is here SO bad that it had knicked off lots and lots of leaves from the Candida double white huge brug on the patio. Is back inside again. I should have left it outside and rather loose some leaves then limbs lol. DH would not listen that he has to watch it too when we carried it in and so it went :-( Eloise you know if YOU come and say you got to move it in, then the weather really goes downhill for the whole world. I mean someone got to get a headstart with the angel babies right! You know I have talked to many folks and many have lost lots of cuttings. I am with you. The best success rate of rooting and growing a cutting into a brug plant was when I let a side shoot or what have you grow out long enought to make a cutting out of it and pot it up in the summer, put it in a pot in a shady place and voila...Success!! Barb yes it is a pretty one but you know that one has shown the slowest growth from the 5 I have. Oh gosh not long and that number will be up to 15 lol Lucy

Elizabeth I hope that you might find a e bay bargain on brugs!! Yes my Christmas was great also Dorothy and Elizabeth. It was MY resting day lol. Oh I believe that we all had a wonderful Christmas. My Son used to do paint ball shooting. Lucy

It's indicative of peri-menopause, I would say, rather than describe it as "normal". You are probably not ovulating every month, which is bound to happen sooner or later. Some women stop ovulating in their 40's, others in their 50's. Some even in their 30's. The problem is, of course, that lack of ovulation causes a hormonal imbalance, which is evidenced by the symptoms you described. Many women find relief by using the natural progesterone cream from the health store.

benjesbride - We did not. At the end of the day, there are aspects of that I like, but I'm not so in love with it that I'm willing to make all the changes necessary. Because it was an addition, that part of the house is not over the basement, which is the biggest obstacle. I will think about it some more. I really looked at the revision to your idea, not your original idea (at the back of the space, which is currently where our built-in bar is). It does merit some consideration, because our long-term plan would add plumbing to the other side of that wall for a new master BR. I think we would have to move the door to the deck, which is doable. A lot of my hesitation is that I spent years planning my last kitchen renovation and never did it. I really don't want to plan a big renovation in this house and just never do anything because it's too much.