Hi Guys! It's good to hear from everyone! Yes - work is going well. I've been with the same client now close to 2 1/12 years. I spent a year and a half doing west coast work in the digital sector and now I'm in INTEL in the DC area - all virtual from Florida with some on site required travel.. Working long, long hours. I'm pooped, to be honest, but too busy to step away for time off. I have had a lot of house remodel projects and now have my kitchen remodel on the list. But, of course, ran into a structural snaffoo, so everything is delayed until that can be sorted. I'm doing a lot of the work myself but hiring out certain things. So, it's going 'slow', but I'm not in a huge hurry anyway. Tom- was wondering if you ever did venture into flowers as you are definitely the Veggie Pro! I always aspire to have veggies like yours and Silvia's - but alas, it's just a goal at this point! This is the worst tomato growing year I've ever had. I think I have a virus in my soil in my pots...maybe that's the culprit? Or, it's white flies.....no telling. Silvia: I always think of your gorgeous veggie garden...it's amazing to say the least! Ladywinger: I thought I saw a new hummingbird in Florida! ;) So, he I have continued to put feeders out when I see the first Hummer. I have gotten more than one Hummer in my yard the last two years. But, that could be a weather fluke. I'm hoping with the addition of Fire Spike and a few more humming bird plants they'll stick around a bit longer. Tom: We "should" see the first Hummer in Sept (perhaps late Aug depending on storm season) as the migration typically begins in September. I always add red and a bit of yellow food coloring. They seem to like that deep red-orange color. They love my Cape Honeysuckle which is a deep orange. I also have been planting Orange Justica -- apparently, it is supposed to bloom in shade....we shall see. I have in both shade and sun. It's an expensive plant ($16.95 at Lowes) so I want to start rooting cuttings once it gets established. My Plumeria branches keep getting broken off by rambunctious baby raccoons, so I've rooted several of the broken limbs and have a small Plumeria farm now! All my citrus trees died except for one--a white Duncan grapefruit, which is on life-support....it will probably be dead next year.... I bought a small Key Lime and Meyer Lemon Hybrid which is in a large pot on the patio. That's how I've been keeping busy these days! Kimberly aka: SaintPFLA

Hi Nanner, Is this your first spring in your new home? Glad to hear from you again. Anyway, I always wait til after tax day to sow seeds, that way I don't have to worry about frost anymore. I saved these tropical butterfly weed seeds from last year, going to try to see if they come up in a pot this year. They aren't perenials here in SC, but I enjoy them just the same. Was working on my little pond today, cleaning all the leaves out, I'm so glad it's finally spring. Took long enough this year, everything is leafing and sprouting. I am relieved, I love the spring. Hate the cold weather, it's depressing. I saved my black EE I had in the pond, I put them in a pot over the winter in front of a sunny window, and they look quite happy. Hope the black and green EE I planted out in the garden make it this year. Nice hearing from you again. Hope you enjoy your spring in your new home.

Would like to trade for flower seeds. Here's my list. Doreen Trade list doreen kallfisch <ddkcat@yahoo.com> Nov 9 at 10:44 AM To Doreen Kallfisch Message body Flowers Celosia – Red [brain flower] Columbine – red [canadensis] Cosmos – orange Hibiscus [hardy] – Cherry red/Luna pink Million gold Pepper, Ornamental [capsicum annum] Phlox [hardy] – white,pink & lavender mix w/ bicolors Rudbeckia - Autumn Sun [r.herbstonne] Rudbeckia triloba [prairie coneflower] Vegetables & herbs Broccoli – Calabrese green sprouting Carrot – Nantes coreless Catnip Chicory – Blue southishe Cucumber -White spine/Marketmore 76 Dill Lettuce – Buttercrunch Peas – Sugar snap/Little marvel Pepper , bell – yellow/orange Pepper – Nummex Big Jim chili Pumpkin – Jack O'Lantern Radish – early Scarlet globe Spinach – Bloomsdale longstanding Thyme Tomato [heirloom] – Black Krim/Solar Flare/Hillbilly/Wins All/Rutgers/Great white beefsteak/Beauty king/Pineapple/Paul Robeson Turnip – Purple top white globe Vines Morning glory - mix [includes Milky Way, Grandpa Ott, ivy-leaf blue, Crimson rambler and various others] /Grandpa Ott Trumpet vine – orange/red Trees/Shrubs Crepe myrtle Hydrangea - white [Annabelle] Rose of Sharon – single pink w/dark eye/purple Vitex - purple Doreen Kallfisch 49 Handyboy Ct. Red Bank, NJ 07701

I'm glad to hear the date. I'll ask for it off. I don't understand why the information would be posted somewhere other than here, on the MidAtlantic board? I can say I'd never dream of (wasting time) checking Facebook for something that can be arranged on the board for which it was created. Why would anyone think of that? I don't mean to sound b!tchy about it, but why don't we just post here, as usual, where people will think to come look? This board could use the traffic to start with. Hardly the case with Facebook.