Well this thing I thought was a grub was brown and very soft bodied and ugly! I could see him threw the bottle on the side as if he was a baby in the womb! Like duodecad,I only had stems,no leaves! I wish I would have snapped a pic before I stomped!...lol..If I find another one I will do just that!Thanks for your help! :) Brandy,you crack me up! ...lol.... Alyse! I miss you! We must find time soon! My Agastache you sent is sprouted under lights and getting ready for the big world soon,the Bachelor Buttons you sent are all sprouted also,I will be starting the Mignotte tomorrow in peat pots. I cant wait! Thanks again for those and I am so sorry to hear about your poppies,I hope you have spare seeds! Yuck June bugs! I can not stand them,I had a bad experience once at an Aunts house in the middle of a corn field,she put the screen on backwards in the guest room by accident and left a night light on for me,I guess you can only imagine my horror of waking up to them everywhere,even on me! :O I read of your Sea Holly loss also Vera,what a bummer! I do have plenty of Sea Holly seed left over,just let me know if you want to try again,I'd be more than happy to send you some. I am going to hold on to this bottle and see if maybe they will survive,I beheaded a tomato seedling trying to help it out of the shell and thought I had done it in,well it is now putting off a few leaves and seems like it will be ok.I am still going to resow some more of those Sea Holly though,just to be safe. I have visions of lots of it!:)

I finally got an answer. The single scales can produce a new plant but it's not always successful. I'll give it a try. It's kind of like planting scales from an Asiatic lily bulb which I've had decent success with. They just take such a long time to reach blooming size. I wonder if the Kohleria does too?

Uhh, well, if you eat hot dogs, chances are you've eaten most of the things on that list, LOL! But seriously, I'd definitely draw the line at some of those things...assuming I knew what they were before I tried them. If they were being served to me, as a guest, I guess I'd buck up and eat them! Or at least try.... Looking at it objectively, if he finds all of those foods "weird and disgusting", Ray must have been raised at McDonald's! However, I suppose many of the things listed are probably weird to people (or generations, maybe?) who don't really know anymore where food comes from, or how to eat well! I'm sure poverty, and simple "use it up" philosophy made for lots of "interesting" recipes in every culture, too. I have tried many of the more "westerly" foods mentioned. Blood pudding is just blood sausage - you can buy it at any supermarket (though the more commercial varieties are usually way oversalted, I find). I admit, probably a pretty hard sell to generations raised on fast food and products from M&M Meats! A lot depends on what you were exposed to as a kid, and how adventuresome you are in later life. (We haven't travelled extensively, but it's sure depressing to hear about tourists in Milan asking for directions to the nearest McDonald's, LOL!) Crisps are just potato chips. Right here at home, Hostess used to produce some pretty bizarre "flavored crisps" - ketchup, dill pickle, bacon... There was some especially odd combination I can't recall right now, too. Tongue, cooked for sandwiches, and ox-tail soup are both delicious. Anyone of middle European extraction is probably familiar wiht head cheese; I never ate it as a kid, though my mom made it for my dad and sister, and they ate it with vinegar...which made me cringe at the time. Escargot, truffles, borsht, seafood - delicious! "Boudin" is just a generic term for sausage. Schmaltz is just chicken fat, used for flavorful cooking, in the same way that some people might use bacon grease. My brother-in-law, from Kansas, eats some of the odd things on that list - rattlesnake, frogs' legs (from huge bullfrogs), scrapple, Krispy Kreme doughnuts...ooops, maybe the last one's not on that list! Scrapple is pretty much like head cheese but with oat meal added - again, I declined to try it when my mom made a batch for him years ago! He ate it fried, which would make it a little more palatable, I think. Well, all cheese is based on mold, so blue cheese and roquefort are only a little weirder and more disgusting than the norm. Actually, what I find weird and disgusting is that tasteless stuff from the supermarket! Yeah, I guess there's no visible mold on it, or a funky crust that someone may find nasty, but it tastes of...absolutely nothing. Of course on the topic of strange foods, one always has to consider where eggs come from, LOL! Have you heard of the live food restaurants in the far east? DH's brother is an executive whose company markets products to the far east. Anyway, back before he became the president (and could get subordinates to do this kind of thing!), he used to have to do a lot of dinners with clients. Apparently, Korea is/was a very macho sort of culture for doing business, so he'd be taken to restaurants that featured live food - live fish or snakes in the soup, for example. And to get a sale, I guess you had to make a good "manly" impression....gulp. I don't know how popular this sort of thing was in the general culture, but it does exist.

I had a couple of pink flamingos in my yard for awhile. I named them 'Tongue' and 'Cheek'. They finally died. I think of,embarrassment.