Sweet luv let me tell you the most important thing about your situation. You are sinning against God for being with a Married man only consequential things are going to occur to you and he still is going to be married to his wife but your spirit is going to be ruined. Take it from me I was in the same situation as you exact but for 16 years. Everything was so good and every year he was going to divorce his wife and every year it was an excuse. Don't fall for it. I made triple the amount as he did, but 10 years later my sin caught up with me. I lost my income, lost my great career he got nastier and blamed me. He was very verbal abusive then turned physical when he knew his cash cow was living. Get out while you can it will only get worse. I was with him for 16 years you only done 8 I know what the love feels like but it's only one way. Jesus loves you more go after his love. Ever since I left him and got back with the lord my life has been restored. Don't wait to got humble you from your sin and take everything from you. Please trust me it's going to get way way way way worse. Please take it from someone with experience in the truth of what your going through. God Bless you and I hope you do the right thing. Kick him to the curb.

A year is a long wait! Good luck with the marble install. Can't wait to see the pics. Go ahead and finish the wine. Especially if it's RED!

How odd I'm seeing many roses on there that they have never listed before. Not to mention many of their older varieties.

I am in a similar zone to you (Indiana) and this is how I do it. I treat all seeds the same whether from evergreen parents or dormant. I have planted them in late summer and overwintered them in a greenhouse that stays around 60 degrees in the winter (unless it is sunny and then the temperatures go up for a while). I have found no benefit from doing this. They don't grow much; in fact, many will go dormant. At least they quit growing but don't lose their leaves. When they start growing again, the center looks like a daylily coming up in the spring. We have also had a lot of trouble with spider mites in the greenhouse. Furthermore, when it's time to plant the seedlings in the ground, they are no bigger than the ones you waited to plant the following spring. As far as loss of viability is concerned, you do lose some seeds while in storage. I don't worry too much about that because I figure they were not viable in the first place. I dry the seeds for at least a day or two (sometimes longer--just depends on when I get around to putting them away) on paper plates in the living room. I think what's important here is that they are dry when they go into storage. I store them in small plastic bags (the 2 by 3 inch size) in the refrigerator. I don't have any experience with storing in a cool basement. In late January I start the process of germinating the seeds. I have found that I get quicker germination if I use moist stratification. So in late January, I pour a little distilled water in the baggie and put them back in the refrigerator. Many of them will start germinating in the refrigerator, sometimes in even a day or two. Others will stay in the refrigerator for 3 weeks and show no signs of germination. I used to wait until at least one seed in the cross germinated to plant them. Now I don't bother with that. I like them to soak for several days (at least 2 to 3). Then I plant all the cross. I find that germination is much quicker. It used to be before using the moist stratification that some seeds would take months to germinate. Now they all germinate in a week or two. That's important to us because we like to start planting in April if the weather cooperates (this year it didn't and none of the seedlings are in the ground). With this treatment some seeds won't germinate at all in the refrigerator but as soon as you plant them, they germinate quickly. We have been hybridizing for 10 years and it seems that every year we refine our methods. This has worked well for us for the last several years. We have over 3000 seedlings to plant this year. Daylily hybridization has been the most exciting thing we have done with plants. Good luck to you. I hope every seedling you grow is a keeper. Nancy