Hi - I do have some black cherry seeds - I'm not sure I have 25, but I am happy to share what I do have. I am interested in >Allium fistulosum,bunching onions,C,'04(3)** >Cucumber,Lemon,C,'04,still good ** >Edamame,soy beans,C,'04(5)** Cabbages; Pigeon Purple >French Breakfast melon"Charentais,H,6/07(4) >Honeydew melon,unknown,grown from trade seeds,H,8/07** >Lavandula angustifolia,Tall English Lavender,C,'04still good,sewed some fall of'06** >Squash,C,'04,still good: baby round(8)** Waltham Butternut** >Turnip,purple top,C,'04 (OUT) ** (OK I know it says "out" but I really like turnips)

When I was living with roommates, these are some of the things we talked about ahead of time: 1. Girlfriends/boyfriends - Can they stay over, or should you stay at their place? Any limit on how many nights at a time? (It can be annoying having someone who doesn't pay the rent basically living in your apartment.) 2. Food - Will you eat together? Buy food together? If either of you has good pans or knives or whatever, may the other use them, and how should they care for them? 3. Utilities - You should each have your own phone line, in your own name. *Many* people have been stuck with phone calls from roommates. And check your bill often, so that if someone made a phone call on your line, you can get the money for it. 4. Common areas - During what times may you listen to music or watch television. Especially important when one roommate is a morning person and the other a nightowl. Invest in headphones. 5. Talk about your views on drinking, smoking, and drugs. If they're not similar, you'll have problems. 6. Agree on how you'll pay bills. Some roommates open a joint checking account, others use their own. Both people should be on the lease, but realize that if your roommate won't pay at some point down the line, you are responsible for the whole rent. Never pay a bill before you have your roommate's share. 7. Talk about your financial background and your current source(s) of income. It can be tough, but it's necessary. Don't ever get into a living situation with someone who doesn't have adequate income for the apartment. You can easily get stuck. 8. Household chores are another issue to consider. Some people draw charts, others pick chores out of a bowl. Try to come up with an equitable system, but be aware that what usually happens is that the neater person does more of the work, just because it matters to her most. 9. By renting an apartment, you are entering into a legal contract. As I said before, both of you are responsible for the rent, but if one of you doesn't pay, the landlord will look to the other for the whole rent. If you have a month to month lease, you can be asked to leave at any time. (State law says how much notice the landlord must give.) If you have a yearly lease, you are responsible for the entire year's rent. Even if you move out after six months, or if your roommate moves out and you can't find a new one. Read the lease, and if you don't understand it, ask a parent or another person who might understand to explain it to you. I'm sure there are other things, but this is a start. About regrets - I've lived with a dozen roommates, and have rented rooms to a dozen more. The vast majority of these people were responsible, pleasant people, and I enjoyed living with them. I have only two regrets, and both happened when I didn't listen to my gut feeling. So my advise is to talk about everything you can think of, all the while understanding that things will change when you're actually living together. And trust your gut. Good luck!

chisue, I'd think that in the vast majority of cases involving deviant and or violent behaviour, there's a very good chance it was learned behaviour, where the perpetrator was exposed to something similar in their youth. But without receiving mental health treatment, many are unable to control their impulses, even in the cases of those who recognize these impulses as abhorrent. When I was young, I remember hearing of the murders committed by Charles Whitman, who was the young man who killed his mother and wife, then climbed atop the Tower at the University Texas at Austin and became a sniper mass murderer. What is even sadder than the great loss of life his shooting spree caused, was that he had tried on several occasions to get help for his violent thoughts, which he did not wish to become violent actions. But the perfect storm of mismanagement by both his doctors and the police occurred, when Charles attempted to have his impulses quelled. First he sought professional help and consulted a psychiatrist at the University of Texas Health Center about his periodic and uncontrollable violent impulses. When he disclosed that he was thinking about going up on the tower with a deer rifle and shooting people, he was simply told to make another appointment for the next week! Then he called the local police and confessed his fears, asking to be arrested, but was told that as he had committed no crime, they couldn't arrest him, so he should seek help from a psychiatrist! Neglecting to recognize the inherent danger of ignoring someone who realizes they are mentally ill and begs for help, ended up costing the lives of many innocent people. Charles left notes vowing that he loved both his mother and his wife with all his heart, insisting he had no rational explanation for why he felt compelled to take their lives. He never confided any 'reason' for wanting to sniper shoot innocent people either, so apparently that was merely a larger scale abhorrent impulse that he clearly could not control. He also wrote in his journal "After my death I wish that an autopsy would be performed to see if there is any visible physical disorder. I have had tremendous headaches in the past and have consumed two large bottles of Excedrin in the past three months." A note he left behind included "...If my life insurance policy is valid please pay off my debts...donate the rest anonymously to a mental health foundation. Maybe research can prevent further tragedies of this type." After Charles was killed that day, the autopsy he had requested revealed that he was indeed correct, in feeling that something was going wrong in his brain. But sadly, his doctors hadn't done any diagnostics that would have discovered Charles had a tumor in the precise area of the brain that governs emotions and impulse control. This was one of the rare cases where mental illness was directly linked to a diseased brain, making it possible that treating him, (rather than ignoring him) could have avoided the terrible tragedy that ensued. http://brainmind.com/Case5.html

We have Victorian era deer legs/hooves made into hooks. I think they were to be used as a gun rack. My grandmother at one time had a tiger rug with a fully taxidermied skull in one of the bedrooms, we always turned it and put the head under the bed because invariably you would stick your foot in the mouth in the middle of the night. They all predated the current feelings about such things. I think many men must either have no particular opinion about color or not be bothered by pink or pastel colors in certain rooms because I still see it a lot, (Or at least men at one time did not care so much). One of my design professors said most of the men whose wives he decorated for did not care at all about what color the bedroom was, as long as it felt okay, which meant no ruffles or lace.