Wow where did the time go? Seems like the weeks are flying by. I was in LOWES again and all their garden decor is on sale and even dollar general has stuff 25% off. Need to have a yard sale so i can go get sme stuff..LOL Does everyone have their boxes ready or already mailed? I think Im running late but priorty mail is a blessing.. I have been busy with my new monarch cats..LOL Lowes at san pablo had milkweed for $1.00 I grabbed the 2 they had left and my 6 new cats which are now 2 chryalis , 2 big boys and two small cats in a critter keeper with fresh stems twice a day.. I can wait have neer done a release yet so this is a first. Just wanted to stop in and say hello to all! Happy Gardening Donna

For the first time in 9 days, None!!!!! I have been so sick, I've been up almost every hour or so coughing or aching of some sort. Last night I went to bed at 10:30 and woke at 7:15 when I heard Grant calling me from his room.

Secondhalf - thanks, wish they were marble too... Oh the things we second guess ourselves on... :) starisasgarden - Thanks! But do tell what your name means... motherof3sons - 4 grandbabies, how lucky! Regarding the financial drain, what's hard to remember is classic can be so simple and clean (like Aansch's beautiful herringbone). Angie_diy - thanks, no I did not know that but I did know the end result color might change. I am a baker so always follow the recipe. A compliment from you for a tiling job means a LOT - big smile here!! Deedles - oh gosh thanks, but grouting is really pretty easy as long as you mix mix mix :) a2- Thanks!! DH was sitting there and while polite, he made his opinion quite obvious, and after he made it a few times I politely acknowleged (while frantically grouting as the grout quickly dried) that he'd made it a few times but I was going forward with plan A... Angie_diy - purgatory - Ha! Love it, so true!

Maybe hair styles are like politics: Local. That comes to mind because we just flew to and from Maui via Dallas. We saw a wide range of hair and dress styles on our flights and in the airports. I agree with Elmer in liking a 'whole-person' look that is simple, neat, smooth, and not 'fussy' -- on men and on women. It's sometimes called looking 'put together'. HS boys sport sparse whiskers to 'look manly'. HS girls buy every 'beauty' product in the drugstore to needlessly decorate their beautiful young selves. The same insecurities often result in balding men who add facial hair and 'locks' down the backs of their necks -- and ladies with flowing manes who turn their heads and shock you with their surgically stretched faces. 'Simple' doesn't mean childish-- like the haggard country and western singer in a full skirt with her hair hanging down her back, a caricature of the weepy girls in her songs. There is such a thing as the general perception of 'age appropriate' and 'occasion appropriate' in hair styles as well as clothing. Hair styling is one way to 'age' an actresses in a story. In "Victoria", the unformed girl is presented with long hair held back with an Alice band...and she skips and runs. Ah, but to be perceived as more than a child, she 'puts her hair up'...and she walks with poise. Women didn't cut their hair in that time, but today they still 'put their hair up', by sleeking it close to the head. The high 'pony tail' that flips around in youth is fastened at the nape, becomes a chignon -- or is cut. The visual is no longer childish, *girlish*, but adult -- often adult in the workplace. How a woman wears her hair in bed is a whole 'nother story. Were I a man, I'd hope my lover would save her most *attractive* style for me.