Sara, johnny jump ups are perennials....tender herbaceous perennials! Actually, we've all listed several perennials that are used as annuals. Even though most of those would be classified as tender perennials, lots of people will bring them inside to overwinter and propagate. I kept a huge geranium in a classroom greenhouse for years, where it served as a stock plant (Mother Geranium) for a very long time, giving us countless cuttings.

Ee-vonne is the way I always heard it, too. I love your grandchildren's names, they're melodic & individual without being hard to pronounce. During the late fifties & the sixties, prime baby boom years, I was in so many classes where the teacher would call girls "Debbie 1" & "Debbie 2" or "Debbie R" & "Debbie M", etc; at least when I heard "Sylvia", I knew someone was talking to *me*! To decide if your preferred name for your child will "work" & wear well no matter where life takes your child, you can apply these 2 tests, the Screen Door Test & the Supreme Court Test: Say, out loud, "RaeJune Marcelle Smith, don't you slam that screen door one more time!" that works purty good.... "Mr President, members of the Senate & the House of Representatives, ladies & gentlemen, may I present the new Chief Justice of the United States, The Honorable RaeJune Marcelle Smith." hmmm.... might need to think of some more names.

Well, I'm banishing our Chihuahua, Che Ayatollah Hussein Chavez, to the garage! Never did trust that little rat . . . .

Those are good. I especially like #1. Linda