Thank you Renee for all of the great information! I have 3 Grndma's Purple Flag that I received in a trade. They were about 1/4" (NOT a typo) when I received them last fall. I planted them and they grew a little, went dormant for the winter. Reemerged in Spring (I thought they had died) and have been growing well but not near blooming size I think. Not that I know what blooming size is for that one mind you. That's great news on No Count Blues as it must have remontancy in its genes. It sure is pretty. I bet it is even much prettier in person. Because our summers are so hot and long I have heard that a lot of cultivars may rebloom here that don't normally rebloom elsewhere. We'll see... I have Total Recall on order because I had read in one of your posts on how much it bloomed. I have 2 Immortality planted and they are growing slow as a slug. Recurring Dream is growing and multiplying like crazy. I have 2 Feedback planted also, they are both growing well. But I've not seen this one bloom either. I hope that I get a fall bloom on both of these cultivars as I've not seen a bloom in person. I bought a Persian Berry one year ago and it bloomed beautifully this Spring, however it has not multiplied at all and I'm thinking of moving it but I think it might just up and die if I do that. So I am going to order another and plant it in a different spot. I figure if 2 die that were planted in different places then they will be on my X list as cultivars not to plant here. Thank you very much Renee! Rena'

Well, here is the problem... here is the BM Color Preview palette as it would be displayed in the store. The blue arrow is Sweet Innocence, the red arrow is Gull Wing Gray the color that looks a tad purple in my room. Now, I don't claim any color expertise, I'm just am going off of what the design consultant at my BM store told me. Gull Wing Gray is not Purple, it's Blue Green, (she showed me the color notation in a database). BM makes things harder by mixing paints of different hues on the same strip. If what I read online is correct, Sweet Innocence is also in the Blue Green family. As I said, I'm not an expert, but I have spent a lot of time pondering gray paint. I love gray! The idea that something supposedly blue green can look purple boggles my mind, and I'm trying to understand it. (sorry, I just edited this post to correct a typo and it messed up the picture :( if you click on it, you can see the whole thing)

There's a farm near us and sometimes I drive by when the baby goats are still itty-bitty. So cute! Even cuter than puppies and kittens I think.

When we are the subject of a bully's aggression, we can choose to defend ourselves, either aggressively, or in a reasonable fashion, or lie down and play dead. I've done the "lie down and play dead" part, and don't like it - it belittles me: if you're going to belittle me, most of the time you're going to get a response. I thought that it was appropriate that the bullied person gave a spirited response. The fact that it was a man acting as something of a bullzdozer against a strange women was not lost on me, either, and I was pleased that she gave him back in kind. Bullies need to be confronted in their lairs. it seems to me. The role of the bystander as enabler and the ideas of training them to not just sit back and do nothing is not O.K., but that bystanders should support the one who is being bullied, by telling the bully to treat people fair is important as we grow to be concerned and participatory citizens ... that the kind that it takes to make a democracy fly, isn't it? ole joyful