Good for you, Robert!!! Yes, please link your store to your blog!!!! That will be very sad if you can't post pictures here, I'll just have to bookmark your other sites and 'keep an eye on you' :) I have a sliver of a memory of my Granny cracking marbles like crazy when I was little, but I was thinking she boiled them, then iced them. hmmmm, there's got to be a 'how to' on the net somewhere! Good luck on your endeavor, I think your sculptures will sell quickly!!!

I am new to the forum thing but I love gardening! A friend gave me the gardening bug about 3 years ago; now IÂm hooked! About 12 days ago I was surfing the net and found someone talking about winter sowing. I asked myself, "What is this winter sowing?" My searches lead me to wintersown.org and the gardenweb.com. I am happy that there are people in my area who are willing to share their knowledge and experiences. I look forward to helping breath new life into the HV Forum. By the way, in the past 10 days I have WS 52 containers at my house, 34 at a friendÂs house and 7 at school with my student. I will sow more as soon as they bring in the milk containers. IÂm hooked. I already have sprouts in: Painted Daisy Three different lettuces Bachelors Buttons Portulaca

I'd do it in a heartbeat if I thought there was any need to. But I would do it from a distance, since if I had the slightest question about my husband's loyalty, one of us would be out of the house. I would certainly use an annonymous computer, a made-up name and throw-away e-mail address. As to writing style? My husband couldn't pick out something I wrote if I gave him a choice of 2 examples--how often do husbands actually read anything their wives write, anyway? and writing styles are often quite different from speaking ones. It's, of course, a good idea to get some legal advice. You do need to be starting to protect your share of the assets if you think he's messing around and lying, for one thing, and you really don't want to do something that will come back to bite you. You will probably want to get your own lawyer, rather than using the one you and your husband go to. And don't forget to change the beneficiaries on things like--life insurance, annuities, your retirement, etc. I've known a couple of people who were surprised that their ex's were able to get a portion (in one case most of) their retirement incomes. If there's even a slight chance something is wrong, change those things now. you can always change them back later, if you work things out. Good luck.

We only got 1/2 inch from this week's drizzle and expect the well drained clay areas will be dry enough to till to 3 or 4 inches after 2 days of sun; though with more rain in forecast, who knows when the shady spots will be ready. You'll probably have to wait longer if you already have your amendments on top of the clay. Key point is that "damp" is different than "wet". We've been tilling parts of our blacklands prairie clay lot for the past several years. I use klem1's observation: if clay sticks badly to the tiller, it's "wet", otherwise it's just "damp". Another rule of thumb I've heard and seems right to me is that glazing when clay is turned with a shovel indicates it's still "wet". I defer to experts, but my impression is that the concerns about soil compaction from tilling wet clay largely come out of the repetitive tilling done in agriculture; so more a concern for someone who tills a vegetable garden or annual border once or twice a year, but less so for a one time pre-planting till. It's cumulative as a function of the soil exposed to the pressures on the working edges of the tines and under the wheels and feet. The more common issue we've had with single tills has been the crusting that can occur when disturbing the soil structure while wet. One countermeasure for both compaction and crusting is to add organics, which you are fortunately already doing anyway.