I've been divorced twice; it's not easy on either side. Mr Pesky just lost his mother; Pesky is still trying to heal from a fall. The last thing she needs IMO is for things to get nasty right now. I also only know the story from here; while I don't recall good posts; many of us come to post when we're frustrated & need to vent. There has to be something there for their marriage to have lasted this long. She has a lot to lose if he wants everything divided. Easiest to keep the peace right now & move at her own pace. If they stay together; then that's what's meant to happen. I didn't have time to reply the other day; I was going to suggest he move out; work on himself & focus on a trial separation with him not living there. If he's normally "good" for 3 months; then you give it double or triple that before even considering him moving back. He has to know what it feels like living alone so that he has a taste of what it's like to lose her & their life; or he'll realize once & for all that he needed the kick in the ass to move on & grow up. I've been through a messy divorce; it's very costly. I know I spent close to $10k if not more. My 2nd ex spent over $50k accusing me of whatever that got him no-where. I kept giving ex #1 more chances. He was good for a month or so; then back at it. 26 years later he's still with the b*tch that he cheated on me with when I had my son. ~Hugs Pesky. This post was edited by roselvr on Sat, Jul 6, 13 at 19:49

LOL, Colleen, you are courageous! I once bought canned strawberries. YUK! Dark, mushy, small. BUT the liquid they were in was delicious! I drank that, threw out the rest. As I recall, it was QUITE expensive. I was a young Navy wife at the time, and where I was, I probably could've bought fresh cheaper. But I was "stocking up" and didn't want something going bad in the refrigerator before I could use it. It might've made good strawberry pie, but then I never have liked strawberry pie made the traditional way. I like my strawberry pie made with fresh uncooked berries in a cornstarch and strawberry glaze and a pre-baked pie shell, with whipped cream on top! Colleen, you could probably make quiche or veggie fritata with those canned veggies. I found a big bag of frozen "winter mix" veggies in the freezer and I had some frozen spinach and shredded zucchini I wanted to use up. So I mixed together a couple of eggs, about a cup of homemade Bisquik, a cup of dry nonfat milk, the spinach, zucchini, some of the winter mix, a chopped onion and about a cup of grated cheddar cheese, poured it all into a 9x13 cake pan and baked it till the center was done. I thought it was quite good. Without a crust, I don't know if you can quite call it a quiche. That's interesting that the cucumbers were actually bread and butter pickles! Who would have thought! It's funny how people call things by different names in different areas. I've known people who call cucumbers -- ANY kind of cucumbers -- "pickles"! Another thing that goes by lots of different names is what my family always called home-made egg noodles. Apparently some people call them "sliders" and other people call them "dumplings" (I don't know what word they would use to describe 'real' dumplings -- maybe they don't eat them! I've never had pickles out of a can. Did they taste like the can? We used to go to one of those "all you can eat" buffets (I was raising a couple of teenagers and DH was working as a welder then so he always had a big appetite. They liked to go there.) There was always pudding on the buffet and I would never eat any of that because it came out of a can and had kind of a metallic taste. Yuk! Some of their other stuff was good, though.

Redsun The deer did not touch the Rattlesnake beans on the same trellis last year or the year before or anything else in my garden beds last year for that matter. I think the sweet corn I planted in a new 1000 sq/ft bed drew the deer into the area and the newly born fawns were willing to try anything. They also ate most of the leaves from the cucumbers on the trellis next to the beans. A deer proof fence to surround all of my garden beds would need to be about 50' x 120'. Please do tell me how I can do that cheaply Redsun.

Cori Ann, I was able to root other roses, not florist roses. I only ever got one florist rose to root. And yes I understand there is something they treat the roses with that probably does inhibit the rooting process. But I know it can be done. There was a lady on the Forums several yrs ago who rooted lots of them. I haven't seen her on here in a long time. Ya know, last night I looked at that video you posted about growing roses from seed. It's funny, I kept watching all sorts of rose propagating videos on YouTube. Some are hilarious. And some are very informative. And some are interesting, but incomplete. They don't show the end results. Anyway, in one of the videos, I saw a rooting product that intrigued me, and I ordered some from Amazon last night. It's called "Clonex gel." It's a super-concentrated rooting hormone that seals the end of the cutting. The reviews sounded great. Most people got well over 90% success. That's of course many other types of plants, but some that were difficult to root otherwise. I can't wait to try it now!