Considering the plant is close to 4ft tall the blooms are huge...Good thing I got that last picture of her flush..the tropical storm system that is coming through here has done a number on them..the wind was terrible..whipped the flowers to shreds and lost alot of leaves on the brugs that I do have...the scent was kinda spicy sweet..taking on more of a rose scent as the blooms got older...oh well..it was wonderful while it last..at least I wont have to knock off so many leaves when I bring them in..lol I do have a bud on Frosty Pink..err I should say I did have one..dont know if its still there or not though lol..pouring rain and wind have kept me from checking ..hopefully it will still be there and maybe bloom for me before frost...

hi janice... i guess i just have some "Whacky" friends...LOL... just like to throw in some humour once in awhile... jill

I agree the child should be free to express their feelings in whatever way they can word it. They don't understand hierarchies and family politics. What irked me is I didn't bring any sort of ranking into the equation at all in the post that people keep refering to and yet that's what it got turned into. I nor the girls ever mentioned anything at all in the post about their mother or I being better, or the best or #1 but since the bio mom was the one who the girls were questioning that's what it got turned into. Mom was perceived by the other posters as "the winner" so I got tore apart. The double standard just gets me. I all the sudden went from step parent sewing having a conversation with step daughters to the underhanded wrecker of bio mom who was in some way trying to make her look inferior because the girls father bought me a sewing machine. I handled the situation no difference than you and "ranking" never even came up but I turned into the competitive witch. I think you did nothing wrong at all. A____ should be able to express himself however he feels and so should the girls.

I got a smile just seeing your name on the front page (since I "know" you from the CF). But the quotes were really good too. waving at you from over here! -Robin