" I got a Dawn Redwood from them in the Spring of '10. It was about a foot tall and the top half died. Nonetheless the tree survived and is approximately 19' tall and looks great. I'm not sure I'd go back and buy from them again though as I'd rather get a more advanced specimen than what they send." Aw man, no pictures?!?! Neat tree. What made you decide on it? My metasequoia came from them a decade ago. Best $10 I ever spent. Honestly for these fast growing trees I dunno if I would risk the transplant trouble and shock of buying a 20 gallon tree. Musser sold me 100 of them a few years back. All were just slightly larger than my Arbor Day single tree and every one of em leafed out. For fast growing easy transplant species with a good story Arbor Day is really ok. Dollar for dollar they MIGHT even compete with for profit nurseries. You just have to have realistic expectations what $10 is going to get you. And yes, be aware big government may help fund the department of conservation trees I have ordered by the bundle.

I've ordered from them in the past and stock seemed good. checked ratings on the other place and looks like they are still getting alot of positives.

So, as for some of liriodendron's specific points: At the amount that wholesale sheets would cost me and the ease of obtaining them, I don't think I would have to worry much about them wearing at the edges or getting polyester-y. I don't sleep in AC at the timeshare condo in August and the sheets are fine. I sew a lot and making fitted sheets + pillowcases would be trivial for me. You know, I have to admit that part of my motivation for switching to wholesale hotel supply sheets would be that I am sick of the retail sheet industry and would love to stick it to them in my own small way. A sheet is a plain, basic staple of bedding. Everyone I know buys and uses them. They're not inherently a specialty or luxury good. Now, I know that sheets *can* be indulged in as specialty and luxury goods. I know that people *do* make a hobby of learning about bedding fibers and collecting their favorite types. In no way do I have anything against people who want to do those things, but my point is, it shouldn't be necessary for someone who just wants to buy a household staple that won't fall apart or cost them an absurdly inflated price. In order to do this, no one should HAVE to collect esoteric fiber information. Nobody should HAVE to pass along clues by word of mouth as to who makes a decent product this month or year. Nobody should HAVE to scour eBay or find specialty stores to buy a plain, staple household item! The retail sheet industry seems to have done its best to twist and obfuscate facts in order to sell millions of poorly made products with planned obsolescence and few real alternatives. I would love to opt out of their marketing horsepoo and intentionally shoddy goods, and simply never worry about it again. $125 or so every handful of years, even if the sheets wear out faster than I would hope (and I think that rotating between 3-4 sets would do much to extend their lifespans), seems to me like a very small price to pay for that freedom.

We have hens and a rooster and the eggs are fabulous. I don't sell my eggs but donate them to our family and families in our church. We get over a dozen a day when it starts to get warm. In the winter we only get a few eggs a day. We don't add light in their coop to encourage winter egg laying as their bodies need the rest that they get in the winter. Some of the eggs we get are so large we can't close the top of the boxes and the yolks in the eggs are a very deep yellow, almost orange. You don't have to refrigerate fresh eggs because they have a bloom on them that protects from bacteria. We do refrigerate our eggs because we get too many to let them sit out and I would want to use unrefrigerated eggs within a week, but if the place you buy them from washes them before boxing they need to be refrigerated because the bloom has been washed off. Our chickens are so spoiled. They eat organic food and each night they get treats of Cheerios and/or dried mealy worms. They have a nice coop with a large run that has trees in it for shade in the hot summer months and their coop is heated enough to take the chill off in the winter. They don't free range all day because of all the hawks we have but we let them roam for about four hours each day. I encourage anyone to find a small provider as it is an expense to feed and properly care for chickens and the cash brought in would be a huge help. I love tomatoes but cannot stand grocery store tomatoes. When the children were still at home I actually preferred to use canned fresh tomatoes for tacos when farm grown weren't available, they were much tastier than the awful pink fleshed, rock hard fake seeming grocery tomatoes.