My dear Jeff and Lavonne, God sure has blessed us by bringing the two of you into our lives. Thank you for such a beautiful letter to us all. I wrote a letter of thanks to Jan and Jim earlier today for having such a good son that he is willing to protect each of us from harms way. I can think of nothing any harder than to have to give your son or daughter into God's hands in a strange land. I know that God is protecting Bryon and his family. It's hard to believe how far our Nation has come in such a very short period of time. We are a young Nation compared to so many in this World, yet we are the World's leaders. When our fathers started this nation, I wonder if they thought that they were starting the stongest nation of the World. Did they know that by believing in the strenght of God, that he would make this Nation so very great? And to think, people actually want to take God out of our Nation. Out of our Nation after he has given to us the greatest stength of the World. We must all stand firm in our beliefs that with God we can do anything and without God, we are nothing. Priase to the Lord for all the men and women that are protecting our homes and Nation from evil. Thanks to all the men and women and most especially to all their families for allowing them to be away from their homes on this holiday. A very specail thanks to all of the wonderful people that I have had the pleasure to meet and now love from your great state. I feel so blessed to have met Jan and Jim and all of my wonderful friends from Tennessee. You are all so very special to David and me. I give all the Glory to God and ask for his blessing for all this holiday weekend, Mona

Same to you Grandma Bonnie. Hope you have lots of good sales and a fun time too. ;o) I'm with you Toomuch, too old to want to deal with the crowds at the public events. Son and his family are off camping this weekend, so don't even plan on allot of cooking. Big ban on fireworks here in our city--$1000.00 fine! Luvs

I just got one along with 'Purple Splash' but don't know quite where to put them, I got them because my friend has 'Fourth of July and it is always blooming and smells good too! Perhaps way out in my woods where someone will come upon them and be delighted! Jackie, your garden is always such a delight to see!

Trying some more. My newest seedling from So Lovely and Priscilla's Rainbow continues to change. It has a full cream edge now. The eye is darker that the photo, and the throat just glows. It has become more lavender and veined. Wilson Spider is going to have a small year. I thinned it last fall so less scapes and buds. Metaphor looking exceptionally good. Main bed shots. They come out better using panoramic view on the camera. That's all for today. These 5 were easy to post. Brad