This is a very deserving daylily, and I'm happy that so many people like it. I got it from Linda when it first came out in 2005, and later that year wrote an article for the DJ about new favorites. The then Journal Editor, Allen McLain, was kind enough to publish my picture of LINDA BECK along with the article. Then when the new Eurekas came out that year, I believe Ken Gregory also used my picture of it. So I've been a big fan of this daylily for a long time. Yesterday another one of Linda's bloomed here, her THREE WOMENS. I hope the person who has taken over her program will continue to register and introduce her seedlings. Here's LINDA BECK blooming here this AM, beautiful as usual.

If we did not want to hear something as kids, I always put my hands over my ears and said LALALALALALALA, for as long as it took. Sigh....and that is where I am at this moment. Having updated the index of my garden plants to include the recent spate of hosta orders, yet to arrive, I might add, I have put my hands over my ears (I have excellent hearing down to 1 db) and it sure cramps my style at the computer keyboard. My list of just plants in my garden, by name only, includes 64 different hosta by name. Not counting that I have about 4 plantaginea species and various doubles of others I really liked and did not want to chance being without. I think 64 is a good number to halt at for a few weeks anyway. At least until the late summer plant sales start up again. I might even persuade my DH to go with me on a hosta hunting trip as far north as Strasburg VA, maybe NC, rent a van, come home loaded, by way of IKEA in Atlanta, in case there is a little empty space for some book shelves. Is there a 12 step program for hosta addiction? In my life so far I managed to avoid addiction to tobacco, alcohol, drugs, gambling, whatever, but hosta may be the ruin of me yet. I can see my DH holding an INTERVENTION when he gets back from up north.

When I was working, I would walk for 30 min and I had a 30 min rt commute, so I got 60 min of listening to audio books in every day, so I burned through a lot of audio tapes. I started lisa gardner and they were good, but they got to be so much more of the same, that I'd read the blurb and have no idea if I'd read that one or not. I read some of the prey series...eyes of prey was just too chilling...but given past life events, I can no longer do the super graphic serial killer type things any more...they are just too upsetting. The Grafton alphabets are much more my speed. Now I get books on tape out of the library when we do a driving trip...the two of us have laughed our trips along listening to the Evanovich mysteries...makes driving much more pleasant.

Well, the library continues to grow ... I just this afternoon recieved Carla Emery's fine reference book 'The Encyclopedia of Country Living' (the updated 9th edition) and have been browsing through it between bites of dinner. Gosh, what an excellent piece of work this is! It's obvious the love she put into it during the 32 plus years that she spent compiling and writing. As an aside, a book doesn't need to be new to be useful ... mine are because I don't have a nearby source of used books of this type. So I get the new ones from Amazon.com and offset that by donating all my unused used books to the Mark Skinner Library ... so far two decent sized boxes of them. But I also have a number of very old used (obviously!) books that I found in a trunk out in the barn.