Patty... Please post back when you try planting them in the spring, I'd really like to know how your seeds saved from the green pods do. I looked every day up until frost got mine & never could find any like the picture Gypsea posted & really wanted to save some seed. I'd love to have some seed if anyone has any spare seed, can sasbe or offer something in trade. This is my first year to save seed so don't have a great choice but plenty of Turk's Cap seed I can offer in trade. [a Hummer favorite] Thanks

Abortion is being used as a main form of birth control. I don't want to tell any woman what she can do with her body but I don't want my tax dollars paying for the ruining of millions of lives not to mention the killing of millions of babies. Why is it when someone who believes in the Christian way of life and talks of abstinence, they are laughed at and ignored? Does anyone remember that not too many years ago there was this thing called decency and the right and wrong of having sex before marriage. Why isn't PP teaching about abstinence, but instead encouraging 12 yr. olds to take birth control pills and have abortions? Why do a lot of liberals believe you cannot control your sexual urges even when you are a young teen? I was 21 and married before I had my first sexual experience. I didn't die from not having sex before than. I wasn't considered a freak either. When I was a young woman PP was there for me also becaus back then insurance didn't pay for women's preventative health. No one teaches young girls what it means to respect their bodies. No 12, 13, 14, etc. year old is ready to have sex. It's not just the physical ramifications but the mental. Today we don't teach anything. We just allow young people to make very bad decisions and they are the ones being hurt and ruined for life by some of their decisions. Who is raising our children? Not the parents with any morals that's for sure. Bumblebeez I understand why you had to be specific in what you were saying to make a point. I know you are neither racist or ignorant. You didn't insult anyone on this board yet you were insulted. When someone can't make you believe what they believe they resort to name calling and character assasination. Those of us who are Christians are the minority on this forum. That's why I usually keep my opinion to myself, but after you were attacked I felt like I had to back you up.

When I first heard her sing I got goosebumps. Daughtry did that to me too. But this morning when they were talking on the Today show about her they showed a few clips of her singing on the talent show. I was brought to tears. Her voice is undescribable. How someone so "simple" could possess such profound beauty, it just amazes me. I almost hope that she wins and then goes home. No album for promoters to make money off of. But then there would be no way to hear that lovely sound that should so be heard. But how does one share such a gift without the press and glam affecting their lives?? Is there a way for her to do this and still be Susan?? It is a shame the world is such that there is no room for someone to be themselves. Just thinking of her singing, it just stirs my soul.

Thanks, Linda. I've been sick. Got the flu two weeks ago, and I'm not back to normal yet. I'd forgotten how wretched the flu is. And this was my first time getting sick by myself, without family members to walk the dogs and bring me soup. I don't recommend it. :-) I have to venture out to Walmart today in the cold rain to fill my dog's prescription. I really don't feel much like it.