Ok our local smaller hospital close to us will do my wifes treatments tomorrow! SO much red tape these days here! After 15 years of home treatments, no more I guess! We have a wheelchair Lisa..Thanks!

My wifes using a Walker with wheels Vap...

Jim, I hope your DW was able to start her IV treatments today. I’ve been thinking about you both.

I have some good news. Ingrid’s nursing license was posted online this morning! I’m so proud of my little girl. Yes, she’s 31, but she’ll always be my little girl. She felt that her interview at the hospital went well yesterday, too. When I asked how she felt about the interview, she said she was feeling “cautiously optimistic”. That’s exactly what she said after taking her NCLEX. I’m hoping she gets hired at this particular hospital, since it’s about 3 miles from my house. She’s been working part time as an aid at another hospital, while in school. That hospital would be her second choice. We’ll see what happens.

I cut some roses and flowers today, meaning to arrange them for this post. They’re still sitting in a plastic container, waiting for me to arrange them. I kind of forgot about them. Tomorrow I’ll take a picture of the cut blooms from Bolero, Madame Alfred Carrier, and other garden flowers. I just need to fix them up a little bit.

Goodnight everyone. Lisa

Congratulations, Ingrid! What a wonderful nurse you will be. I would be so proud, Lisa. What a wonderful family you have.

Thanks, Sheila! I really overslept this morning, from not being able to sleep the night before. I still haven’t arranged the roses properly, but I better just show a picture. Bolero and MAC look so nice together. Lisa

Give Ingrid my congratulation! You must be thrilled,especially now. I hope it helps bring a little joy. :) Lisa, you should sleep all you want, but thank you for this lovely picture. It is truly ethereal loveliness. I can't wait until I get my MAC cuttings. I hope they make it.

Thanks, Vap! I fixed the blooms just a little, and this picture looks better. Right now, I can hardly tell Bolero and MAC apart! Lisa

They are lovely, Lisa, and that's good news about Ingrid. I would want her as my nurse, she looks so kind, and she's obviously clever.

Thank you also for putting them together. I really like climbers with similar forms at their feet and am always looking for such. I guess I may have to get a couple more Boleros if I get MAC going and finally get a pergola built. It's a great combo.

Lovely photo! Every time I hear MAC, my heart hurts. I have tried this rose 6 times. Will order it again this year. Out of 3 MAC bands I ordered in 2017 from one nursery, 2 root rotted, and one bloomed last summer was in yellow, not a MAC! Do you guys know what this is?

summers, I've never grown it, but could it be Marechal Niel? HMF says it has a strong raspberry fragrance.

Thanks. I have to smell it this spring. I have a Marechal Niel band from a different nursery, I will compare them.

I don't think it is MN. MN has a more cupped flower. My photos do not show a bloom this reflexed as far as the petals go.

Vapor, since you are our tech person, I have a question about posting photos. The only way I have ever posted a photo here is by dragging them onto my screen from my photo file - probably an unnecessary step, then click the photo icon under the comment box. A dropdown box appears with my file where I click on the photo I want to insert into the comment. Never a problem until today when the dropdown box with my file doesn't appear. I contacted Houzz who hasn't responded, but it's probably computer related, not Houzz related. What would you do? I use a Mac desktop. I haven't tried it on my phone, preferring the desktop. Any ideas?

I haven't had much time to be on here but todays my wifes third MS treatment at hospital...Shes still down and can't walk well...

We're all thinking of you both Jim. Hopefully, the third time's the charm!

Beautiful uplifting pictures everyone, thank you!

Jim, I hope by now your wife is feeling much better and that she won't need more treatments for a very long time.

My congratulations to Ingrid, too, Lisa. It was good timing for some good news.

Lisa, golly jeepers! Those pics of Bolero and MAC are dreamy. I have hopes of seeing something like that in my back yard someday. I planted Bolero last year and MAC is in her band in the garage. She probably won't like it here, but I have to try. I know how Summers feels.

Sheila, those pics of Marechal Niel are so pretty draped on the edge of the pot. You have some gorgeous teas I would like to see more of.

Diane, when you go this long between posts, I get concerned. Please let us know you're ok.

Does anyone here grow rambler roses out of curiosity? On a piece of property my family owns there's some kind of rose that I believe is a rambler. The flowers are dark pink, very small and clustered together. Growing in very sandy neutral ph (or VERY slighty acidic) soil so it is not fussy about growing conditions at all. Unfortunately I have no pictures, but any guesses would be appreciated.

I somehow missed Lisa’s one post, congratulations to Ingrid! Hopefully she gets the job she wanted! :-)

perennialfan, I'll hazard a guess -Dorothy Perkins?

EeekEeekk, I did a walk about through my mess of a yard and noticed that most all of my roses are budded out. It seems early.

We prune here on Presidents weekend. I guess it doesnt matter if they are budding now and pruned next month. Atleast they all show life

I have lots of work coming up so I better rest up.

Kristine, me too! Plus it’s so nice this morning I was tempted to prune early. “Bad Tina! Bad Tina!” The clematis are really hopping as well!

Gee! We woke up to three inches of snow and it's still flurrying! : ) It's so pretty. Unfortunately, they already did the road, so no skiing down it. : ((

3 inches of snow ! Wow! 60 degrees today. Where us winter ? Fortunately we do have mountain snow but on the valley floor, nada.

Yeah. It was in the 60s two days ago. That's Cincinnati for ya! ; 0

Tina, it was all I could do to not pick up the pruners and get going. So instead I watched a ton of videos on pruning english roses. It didnt help. Now I really want to get pruning.

I guess that I could start weeding. Boy, do I have a lot of weeds.

I got most of my pruning done new year's day. we've had a lot of cold weather (well, cold for us), and, shockingly, a lot of rain, with more in the forecast. They're a bit worried about the rain coming tomorrow night -- hope no debris flows happen in the burn scar areas. We don't need another debris flow like 1/9/18. The ceremony to mark the one -year anniversary was very touching. Children from local schools sang, all lifted (electric) candles, and repeated some phrase about bright hope and light. Then all walked from the place of the debris flow down to the church that literally served as a sanctuary for folks coming in with no clothes left on from being caught in the flood, folks who'd lost loved ones, families having lost homes and all material possessions. Then, we get more crazy rain. It has to give people the shivers to wonder if the rain will come down too hard, too fast again. I think we're good on our hill. I dug out all of my holes for new roses before the rain so that I won't be disturbing everything else in the garden when my David Austins arrive and I can finally plant them. So weird to see them fill up with water. As long as they drain, right? Actually, one is slow to drain, but that's also the best spot for a rose -- so maybe the roses like having a bit more clay to keep their roots moist. I have to dig massive holes to fit the 5 gallon gopher wire cages. It's nice to have an excuse not to be out pulling weeds this weekend. In coastal California, we get our weeds the minute we get the first good rain of the season. So right now the hills are covered with lovely grass and growth. The not lovely thing about it is that most of the growth is from non-native invasive plants including annual grasses that will shoot up to 5 feet tall, then die when the heat of summer hits. Then become a fire hazard. That has nothing to do with forestry management, Mr. You-Know-Who! Anyway -- it's pretty now. As long as I don't look too closely.

Hope all of you are having lovely, quiet weekends. Jim, please keep us posted!

It’s the land of frozen here. 21 F! Going out to buy some milk. :-)

Kristin, I started weeding but it was insane. I’m 48, been gardening at least 28 in the same area and have NEVER seen weeds like this. The “poppers” are going bonkers. I don’t know their technical name But they POP everywhere!

Somebody post Pics! My hands are sore and I can’t buy anymore until I see how my hostas and roses are developing!!!!!!

I will take ugly weed pictures tomorrow and see who has the same kind.

Deborah, congrats on all your pruning. And I hope you don't get heavy rain. That must be such a worry for everyone.

I missed your post from a few days ago. Sorry to her about your miscarriages. It must have been devastating.

I hope your run in with that thorn is going ok. Sounds very painful. My cut responded well to repeated applications of the anti-fungal cream. I thought I'd mention it, in case anyone else has the same problem. There's still a 1" red stripe where it was. That's interesting about tetanus. I got dirt into that cut, and not into any of the other cuts that I got on the same day. And I didn't go up to the house to wash it out for an hour or two.

I don't think anyone has heard from Cori Ann.

flowers, have you heard from Diane?

We are getting sea mists. I don't think I'd ever experienced one here till this Spring. They're now happening regularly. Sometimes they're so thick that I can barely see beyond the bottom of the garden.

My wifes slowly regaining use of her legs...:-)

That's wonderful news for a Sunday morning! Love your picture, too. Looks like you got the same white stuff we did, including a few more surprise inches last night. I think he wants IN! )

Titian, I'm glad your cut is healing and thank you for the tip on the anti-fungal cream. Even with heavy clothing it's still hard to avoid the cuts, especially as they always seem to happen when one isn't really "gardening". Zinc oxide cream is excellent to prevent scarring and one of the best is baby diaper rash cream known here as Desitin. When I slid into my super thorny rugosa it left nasty gashes in my arm, but they all healed perfectly except the tiny one I didn't treat. They use it in hopsitals and it really does work.

Jim, that's good news. Let's hope your wife keeps on getting better quickly.

vaporvac, I'll add zinc cream to my list of things I need to get from the chemist. One of the others on the list is vitamin B3, which a friend tells me helps ward off BCCs. I'm also going to get myself some goatskin gardening gloves from Amazon. I had a pair a couple of years ago, and they were easy to work in, and gave excellent protection.

Jim, that’s wonderful about your wife! I knew you received snow because my daughter sent me pics! She said one of the reasons she moved to Pitt was for seasons but we all know it was purely for the Steelers :)

:-) on the Steelers...lol

Yep we got about 3 inches of snow...

Here's the view from an upper window. It's a winter wonderland out there. Hoping to do some cross-country skiing tonight in one of the local parks. It's so rare that we get enough snow to do it. Be sure to click on the picture to see the full panoramic view. it's hard to get the distance in size and pictures but that's a huge hundred plus year old Beech out there.

So beautiful:)

Gorgeous, vaporvac! I didn't knwo about the zinc oxide and desitin. Too bad I can't go back and re-treat all the knicks on my forearms. I look like I do weird drugs!

This came up in my Amazon search:

Vap, you have a pretty view!

Thanks everyone! I need to catch up on this thread..lol

What's your amazon search Deborah? Is there a link or a pic? I missed it.

Snow storm is coming this weekend, we will have the coldest night on Sunday.......1 F (-17 C)!

Are you guys in the storm zone too?

@titian possibly...I'll have to google it and compare it when it flowers this year. I probably should have mentioned this earlier, but it only flowers once every year. Usually in the middle of summer. I am going to try to fertilize it this year to see if it extends the bloom time a little.

big storm coming our way... 1-3 inches tomorrow...(thursday) Possible 12-18 inches on Sat...

My wifes improving each day! :-)

Have a great day everyone! And thank you everyone!

Great news about your wife Jim!

We are going to get 12-18” snow too this weekend. The low temp will be -2 F! Stay warm everyone in the storm zone!

Beautiful snow scene, Vapor. Wanna trade trees? Love those big, beautiful beech trees, especially the Tri-Color Beech. Green leaves with pink edges!

Good to hear your wife is improving, Jim. She must be getting cabin fever. She deserves a day out, doing something she loves, when she's up to it.

The weather is so different this year. We have snow coming tomorrow, too, but temps rising the next day so it'll melt. Every time we get snow, it's gone the next day. It's been more like a zone 8 winter. I'm not complaining!

Trish, I keep forgetting to let you know I did some research on the feline renal failure sites my vet referred me to, and found that phosphorus binders are not necessary if they're on a therapeutic kidney diet, which she is. The binders are used if the cat won't eat prescription food. Daisy's numbers are good and she eats her prescription food. So far, so good. That will likely change as we progress into this awful disease. I'm glad it was helpful for your puppy. We were discussing this on another thread that's no longer active, that's why I'm bringing it up here. I bought some goat skin garden gloves 4 years ago and can't bring myself to use them. They're so pretty! Very soft.

Stay safe in the bad weather, all you Midwesterners, Easterners and Canadians.

I started a NEW winter thread....Thanks everyone for making Part 1 great!

[https://www.houzz.com/discussions/winter-madness-seasonal-thread-part-2-dsvw-vd~5589162[(https://www.houzz.com/discussions/winter-madness-seasonal-thread-part-2-dsvw-vd~5589162)

@summersrhythm -- I did a google search for the zinc treatment recommended for the cuts -- and an image of butt paste came up! I guess it's a good thing Jim started a new thread...I'll go catch up over there...

hilarious Deborah! I'll try and remember some links. I wish I hadn't deleted pictures of my arm from last year unbelievable. Just Google zinc oxide wound healing. Many scholarly articles and synopsis will come up.