Hi Brenda , the mystery bird could be about 8-9 inches but in a slim way not a chunky way. It really gave my bluebirds a working over too! LOL...It seems to have taken a liking to a particular part of my chainlink fence that happens to be close to the nestbox so this upsets the bluebirds. It wouldn't give in to the blues either it kept its ground. Which usually the blues run other birds away from their box but this pretty bird wont go. The way it twitters i thought maybe a swallow but it just doesnt look right and it does look like a king bird shape. You may be right about it being a kingbird because i looked at some pics of kingbirds to see if it could be and i really think you are right. But it says the kingbird we should have has a white belly and this one has a yellow belly. It also puffs its head feathers up when it gets upset so it looks like it has a fuzzy hat on. Its really cute and holds itself very straight and perches on the fence to see insects in the grass. Do you think it could be a western kingbird that got lost? I saw it flying with the group of sparrows that are here migrating so maybe it flew here with them. I didn't see it here all summer, just this past week when all the little different sparrows started showing up. What if it got with the wrong group of migrants? I think they go to south America dont they? Maybe mine can go to Florida and keep warm. I haven't seen it today but there has been a big gray hawk hanging around all day so i haven't seen many birds at all today. I dont blame them, its a big gray hawk that i thought was an owl at first but then i seen it was a hawk. So i guess that was my bird sighting today! LOL.... Thanks Brenda Bonnie

Heuchera gemination- you want seeds that are last year so keeping them for more than a year not a good idea. Seeds are tiny, while it possible to WS them, one has to be very careful not let drainage from the top. Seed is easily germinated at warm, just sprinkle it on surface and keep moist. Wonderful way to combat winter gardening withdrawal- start seeds inside, they really do not need much light and because they stay small for longish time they do not take a lot of space. There is no need to transplant them early in separate containers since their root system is small/ one of the reasons while they heave so much during the winter/. They separate very easily when they are larger. They could grow bigger until you are comfortable with their size and then you can either transplant them into garden or transplant in separate cells. By next year you will have decent size plants. Coloring does not show well until they are into their second year so suggest keep most of the seedlings- you can see if it is going to be dark or green form but veining and tone comes later. It has been my observation that heucheras grown from seed of the plants in my garden have better survival rate as compare to store bought- which I can not keep alive more than a year. So far I have seed only dark or green form, am looking forward to see if I could find a yellow one. This year I have tiarella with good yellow coloration but not heuchera. Fun stuff!

Thanks palmcirtusbananavaz7! Dennis, I think the largest majesty I saw was in the part 1 of the pics. Im trying to remember if I saw a larger majesty palm because I think I did, but their definitely weren't too many large majesty palms. But the majesty palms I did see looked very healthy! Thanks for looking! -Alex

Okay, you can all come down for margaritas on the screen porch! The house is in RI and it's about 1-1/2 hours from our primary house. We had another house in the same area for about 4-5 years and then sold it and bought this one 3 years ago. We are very fortunate because we have a big yard (lots of wiffle ball games) and we're about 4 blocks from the beach. And now, we have water views from almost every window! Previously, the second floor was really tiny and the windows were small so you hardly knew we were near the water. Thanks for all the kind words! I really have to pinch myself because I never thought we'd have anything like this.