I also recently received a plant that Bluestone had run out of when I ordered it earlier this year. The plant was well rooted and the roots had even grown through the coir pot, but like prairie love's plants, mine was bare root, the potting mix having all removed itself from the pot during mailing. I think that Bluestone will have to either tweek their potting mix or their packing. Unlike prairie love's plants, mine came though just fine. I cut away the upper part of the coir pot where the plant hadn't rooted through and repotted the rest in a slightly larger pot and it's looking happy. The plant was quite a bit larger than previous plants I have gotten from Bluestone. I did send them an email letting them know of the issue since I'd just as soon they figure out a way to fix it.

It would have been a year or so ago when Dell responded to my message. She mentioned she was from Dothan which is about 3 hours from where we plan on moving and I think there is a good nursery there which might be worth the drive. Vicki

It's indicative of peri-menopause, I would say, rather than describe it as "normal". You are probably not ovulating every month, which is bound to happen sooner or later. Some women stop ovulating in their 40's, others in their 50's. Some even in their 30's. The problem is, of course, that lack of ovulation causes a hormonal imbalance, which is evidenced by the symptoms you described. Many women find relief by using the natural progesterone cream from the health store.

Goldsmom is right. I just tried to call my mom tonight and the same thing happened to me. I purchased a new ATT card from Walmart (900-minutes) this past March 2007 and when I made the call to my mom who lives in the same state as I live, all of sudden the number of minutes instantly dropped from 900 to 112 minutes. As the ATT representative explained to me all calling card users are now required to pay the same intrastate calling fees as customers with domestic phone service who have been paying these fees as part of their monthly phone service. So in other words, for each minute I use on my card, ATT would charge 8 times this amount for intrastate access. This equates to 23-cents a minute to make an instate call here in South Dakota, or almost a buck for every 4 minutes that I talk to my mom using the ATT calling card. This is probably true with other calling cards out there. Does anyone know if there are calling cards available for low "intrastate" calling? I searched the internet and can find phone cards as low as 1-cent a minute for long-distance state to state, but can't find any card that has low rates for making state to state calls. Please help, else I will have to cave in and buy some monthly calling plan which always costs me more in the long run, because I make so few calls a month to begin with.