Actually, we have split them up a couple of times to share. We are getting ready to give some to Laura's mom. Not knowing how to treat them seems to be a blessing. when they are dormant, I just move the pot back in the garden, where its kind of hidden, when the weeds get bad in the pot, I yank them out. When I notice that they are starting to push out buds, I pull them out, closer to the patio. That's it. When the sprinklers are on, or it rains, they get watered. When its dry and the sprinklers are off, they don't get watered. Sometimes I pour some fertilizer in, if I think of it... most of the time I don't. No matter what I do, or don't do, they always come back and bloom. That's my kind of plant! Bob

I am in the northern VA (DC) area. I bought my travertine from Marble Systems in the Merrifield area. When I gasped at prices overall, they kindly sent me to the equivalent of the "scratch and dent" area. I have to be creative, but I got almost all for about $2 a square foot. My floor is 16 x 16, the shower floor is mosaic 5/8 x 5/8 with a 1 x 1 boarder (had to do that to cover the floor--there was not quite enough of the smaller tile). We made a border at the top and bottom of the shower of 8 x 16. Most of the walls are 12 x 12 with a panel of that the contractor made with some ogee molding and the 16 x 16 tile on the diagonal. Basically, I bought enough tile to cover the square footage plus a heft amount extra and we got creative. The result is gorgeous. I paid about $700 for my tile. I figure a nice ceramic would have cost at leat twice that.

Did anyone mention Dudley Moore in "10"?!?!? (besides my first GF Bo Derrik...;-)) G(D that was funny! When he's mumbling with his mouth packed full after the dentist... The "I'll alert the media" comment from the butler, when he's gonna take a bath... The "Airplane" series... Johnny saying, "WHERE did you get those shoes...and that dresss, Ohhh!" to the distraught woman. Zoolander, Dodgeball...good stuff! "Oh my god, they're Break-dance fighting!" The Money Pit... When Tom Hanks is "caught" in the ceiling?!?!? (I think I almost "went" when that scene happened!) Beverly Hills Cop I was pretty damn funny too. Faron

I was invited to the wedding of friend's sister, along with another friend of ours. The bride was a pretty obnoxious, spoiled brat but we were very good friends with her brother and kind of felt sorry for her because she didn't really have any friends and wanted the biggest wedding she could have. The ceremony itself was fine but when we got to the reception, the MOB set my friend and me to work bartending. We were horribly embarassed (and had no idea how to bartend) but we muddled through it. What made it even more embarassing was when the MOB insisted on paying us at the end of the night. I have no idea where she got the idea that we were there to tend bar but suspect the bride had something to do with it. As an example of how the bride's brain worked (or not) we visited her home a while later. I was helping her with something in the kitchen and noticed a bunch of tiny labels sticking off of a windowsill. When I asked her what they were doing there, she said that her parents had given her some Waterford glassware they had gotten on a trip to Ireland. When she served guests she wanted everyone to know they were Waterford so she would leave the labels on the glasses, then take them off before washing them and then put them back on.