This morning, all hell broke loose in Fargo. Red River is over 22 ft and expected to get to a unprecedented 43 ft level by this weekend. Even if the rains and snow stop, the river levels will continue to rise for several days. The rising waters are putting tremendous pressure on the sandbag levees and these dikes are leaking and breaking. Helicopters are trying to get people out. Thank you Canadians for your help! The Weather Bureau stated this morning that there are no records dating back to the first white settlers in NB for anything like this! One official said this morning that the only humans who might ever have seen anything like this would have to have been the Native Americans who were there long before white men came because there are no records for anything like this. Although massive flooding is not unusual in itself, the scale of it this time is beyond any historical records! As an Environmentalist I must say that Global Warming is a fact - it is not a political device. We tree-hugging-hippie-environmentalists made these predictions back in the 70s when too few heeded our warnings. We organized things like Earth Day to try to make people everywhere aware and get them to make changes that could something to stop it. The three R's were not just a catchy slogan - we were serious! It wasn't just an excuse for having fun, planting a few trees and forgetting it the rest of the year. We created many organizations to get people on board. I am a proud 30+ yr. member of several of them. I am a life-long active environmentalist, but my DHM took it further and became a professional. His specific area is Management Control in Chemical Environmental Science and emissions control - how that effects the air, water and soil and controlling these emission pollutants. He knows his sh*t! So, these climate changes are now serious warnings. It was preventable back in the 70s...No one took seriously what Pres. Carter tried to do back then...and dismissed most of his so-called wacky efforts, but now it is a serious threat! (Does anyone else recall when the Great Lakes were dead- full of pollution and dead fish along the shores? The lakes were closed to public access. Remember when the oceans were so polluted that it was life threatening - beaches were closed! Pres. Carter helped reverse much of that.) Hind sight is 20/20, as they say. Thank God for former Vice-President Gore who has helped us by using his notoriety and own resources to renew public awareness to Global Warming - now known as Global Climate Change. Massive flooding and massive drought are some of the first results. Check it out!! The snow packs, permafrost (in Canada) and glaciers are melting rapidly, flooding the oceans with fresh water. The Polar Ice Caps, particularly on the north pole, are disappearing at an alarming rate, and without them to deflect the sun's bad radiation and heat from the earth, life as we have known it on Earth WILL change drastically. When the ocean currents shut down from the diluted salinity an ice age will occur. It is a fact. It has happened before over and over, but the difference is that this time, mankind has spiked the change to happen within a few decades instead of a few thousand years. Methane gas is the foremost cause of global warming, but unfortunately much more has been made about Carbon Emissions, which is absolutely the other cause. Both need more attention. One thing you never hear about on TV or in newsprint is that increased, even massive scale of famine, pestilence & disease will also occur. When, only God knows, but we do know that it will occur. Take care all of you in affected areas. Kansas is being NAILED, even as I write this, by the late SNOW STORM. Highways are closed or closing down and it is moving into Oklahoma and Texas with bright red alerts. Not a good time to be out on the highways! I am sure airlines will be shut down, if not already, they will be. ~Annie

I would like to get white or pink wisteria plants or cuttings for a memorial garden. I can exchange blue wisteria

So glad you finally got some blooms on that wisteria (was it the one that was barren for years?). Not sure what variety mine is (wasn't aware that there were quite a few!) but it has lovely dark blue flowers & heavenly aroma!! I have one I have trained as a tree form (it is about 50 yrs. old), a newer one I trained to grow across the top of the chain link fence. The other tree form was next to a porch post & had grown around & twisted the post so had to cut it down. It was the neighborhood beauty when the top was in full bloom! The cut base now is trying to put out more shoots so we have kept just one to train -away from the post- & let it grow away from the house & up the trunk of a near-by tree!(we may find THAT a mistake later on though?!). Seems wisterias do well with little care... & sometimes with no care at all ... or being ignored! Can be trained to different styles too.

Wanting pink, white, red or yellow wisterias if you have any please message me directly at yunkerfaith@aol.com