Hi Deborah and all I will definitely pick up Rescue Remedy and keep it for those times at work when I feel like biting heads off! LOL I only took the kava once today because I was off on a vacation day...............no stress. Getting off of HRT was not an easy decision for me at all. I was feeling so wonderful with my every other day regimen, I wish it could go on forever. But then I stared to think about the five years I have been on different HRT and thought maybe I should try it ala natural! Things are getting better now, but my life has certainly changed. For one thing I was never ever warm...........cold yes.warm never! That has changed..sometimes I get those warm feelings and I feel so uncomfortable and then it passes. I think I slept deeper when I was taking FemHRT...now I awake several times a night...........no biggy because I do go back to sleep...but still that's not the same. You know about the nerves, but thank goodness for my Kava! LOL The weather her in NY is to change drastically tonight, so maybe I will be cold once again. Have a good evening everyone.

In defense of Realtors from someone who has sold three homes FSBO, the Realtor is an agent for the home owner, which can be a very valuable resource. However, the home owner is the one that sets the price. Price is the single most important determining factor in what drives showings and, ultimately, sales. The reason so many homes don't sell immediately is because of something called the endowment effect. Here is Wikipedia's explanation: In behavioral economics, the endowment effect (also known as divestiture aversion) is the hypothesis that a person's willingness to accept (WTA) compensation for a good is greater than their willingness to pay (WTP) for it once their property right to it has been established. People will pay more to retain something they own than to obtain something owned by someone else "even when there is no cause for attachment, or even if the item was only obtained minutes ago. This is due to the fact that once you own the item, forgoing it feels like a loss, and humans are loss-averse. Blaming an agent is often (but not always) misplaced. Many home owners tend to mistake their perceived needs for funding to translate to a higher priced home sale than is realistic. The facts and psychology back up my position on this.

Okay all sounds great! The potting soil does seem very dense so I agree with that. And I'll also change the pots but just thought they would need a big pot to grow in for years to come... I also tend to make my own potting mix and I'm wondering if I should use the potting soil and just mix in some perlite for more airy mix and some sphagnum for a ph around 6? This is what I do for my cacti and they thrive but don't know if the mix will work for peppers. Thanks to everyone for all the help and hopefully these pants will spark back after I fix some things!

Carol, It sounds like you and I are planting in the same style---sticking plants in the ground whenever it finally is dry enough that maybe they won't suffer too much from waterlogged roots. I have a lot of peppers in the ground, but still have habaneros, serranos, one Anaheim, cayenne and something else I cannot remember waiting for a little spot of drier soil. This really is starting to feel like 2004 or 2007 all over again and I had plants in June both years still waiting for the ground to dry out enough for me to put them out there somewhere in the garden. I also have about six dozen ornamental peppers that are still smallish. I'm not in a big hurry with them. Every year when the ornamental pepper plants hit the stores ,practically full-sized and covered with peppers, in June or July, I wish I had some of them. You know that I won't buy them when I know that I can raise my own, saying to myself every time "I could buy one packet of seeds and raise 30 plants for what they want for that one ornamental pepper plant." It happens every year and I ask myself why I didn't plant some (or more) ornamental pepper seeds, knowing I'd want them in summer. So this year, I raised my own---probably 5 or 6 or 7 varieties of ornamental pepper plants. I am going to pot them up into larger cups of soil-less mix on these rainy, dreary days and let them grow on, in flats sitting on a table near the patio, for a few more weeks. When the ornamental pepper plants hit the stores in hot weather, I'll have my own supply right here and can tuck them into spots in the garden where cool season plants had been growing or where excess water has killed something or whatever. Bon, Yay! I'm glad you got to do some work in the yard and get something in the ground. Any day I get to play in the dirt (even when it is mud) is a good day. It rained on and off all evening, and of course we have new mud and new puddles, but we only got 1.2" so the garden pathways shouldn't be so wet that I cannot venture into the garden. I'm hoping to at least get some weeding done, especially along the fence lines where the weeds and grasses get tall and try to creep under the fence and into the garden. I find it hard to weed the fencelines once snake season starts, and technically it has started, but I wouldn't expect snakes to be out and active on a cool, rainy morning with temperatures in the 60s. This ought to be my chance to clear out the garden's fence lines. I can tolerate just about any amount of rainfall, knowing the rain is so beneficial in so many ways, but when it falls too heavily as tomatoes ripen up and it waters down their flavor, I get cranky. I don't have much hope for the tomatoes we'll harvest in May. Their flavor is likely to be watered down significantly, but maybe the ones we harvest in June will be better. It is the luck of the draw. I'd rather have rain than not have it, but it is hard on the garden when it is too much at once. I still can make salsa with the tomatoes even if they are too bland to be very enjoyable for fresh eating since the tomato flavor is just the base flavor and the stronger flavors of the onions, peppers, garlic, etc. dominate the tomato flavor in the salsa anyway. My bean plants are having a great spring. They are too wet and the water logging of their roots (even though they are in raised beds) is causing a lot of yellow leaves, but they are covered in blossoms and small beans so at least they are having a great spring in the excessive rainfall. I'd rather deal with bean rust than spider mites any day of the week, and that is the difference in a wet spring and a dry spring. Dawn