The first one "will" be a vine, just like the larger one, it's just green all the way through, no yellow in the leaves. It was a "break off" of my daughter's plant. Thanks for the name. Wrote it down and will put it on the pot. (That one is Petie- lol.) Oh and about re-potting my Spidy, the pot now is 28 in. round. From what I remember, it shouldn't be anymore than 2 in. larger?? If I am wrong, let me know. I'm not really afraid to re-pot it, it is just that it's so large, I don't want to break any leaves. My daughter is going to help me with that when I do it, she's pretty good with things like that. I just don't want to hurt it. When I do re-pot it, should I soak it from the bottom? Or just water it like I have been. another question?? I have some plant food. I don't know if I should put it in the same water that I mist my plant with, would that be too much food? Can you over feed? I try to mist every morning. This morning the spiderets don't look too good. Am I feeding them too much? Thanks for your advice in advance.. :)

Thank you ALL, SO much! When my in-person friends call or come to the hospital, they always ask, "And how are YOU?", to which I answer, in tears, "Fine, til YOU showed up!" LOL, of course. I'm having the same reaction reading your messages, heartfelt and humble tears. The generosity of forum and in-person friends is amazing. I treasure you all. That generosity DOESN'T apply to beurocrats! I have a GREAT RozanneRozannadanna story, or maybe it's Emily Latella. Probably more her than Rozanne! We might have cell phone insurance, but if so, it's buried under 2' of bills husband keeps saying he's working on. As if! So, I wanted to find the phone # of the store where we got the phone, thinking they could help me directly. I went online to find that phone #. Listed is a number for that area code. Turns out it's one of those automated voice things. FINALLY got through to a human (sweet young girl, this isn't her fault), and discover that my husband never signed me up as an authorized user of the phone and phone service we've both had for YEARS! SO!!!!!!!, they can't access our records without his approval. I tell the girl that he's in ICU, and VERY sick. She asks if he could just say his name and the last 4 digits of his social. I tell her "I" can say his name and his last four digits, and besides, not only is he in ICU, he's heavily sedated and CAN'T TALK!!!!!!! I told her my wish for ALL her superiors was for them to have a loved one in the hospital and then have to face beurocracy run rampant. Not her, of course, she's just the unfortunate messenger. She puts me on hold again (all this time I'm on a Land-line Long Distance Call because of the stupid phone # thing), and comes back, and says, "Well, we can try to maybe fix your phone while we're talking." And then I say and realize, "You mean you have to have my phone HERE, while we're talking?" "Yes." "It's in my Daughter's car!" and as Emily Latella would say, "Never Mind!". Well, at least I have an 800 # I can call to try to fix the phone, IF I can get my nerve up! Just talked to the dr, he said my husband is still disoriented and mostly sedated, but his white blood count is down to nearly normal--11,000 instead of a high of nearly 16,000, --and the fluid outside his lungs is not very much, so they're not going to do anything, yet. He said maybe ICU for the rest of today, and maybe a regular room sometime tomorrow. As the white blood cell count gets closer to normal, hopefully his disorientation will go away. It's still taking 5 nurses to calm him down and get him back lying down when he decides he's "leaving"! I did water some yesterday, glad I did. Enjoyed the activity even tho it was cold and I was in shorts, and the plants needed it! The rain may come later today or tomorrow, but they needed it then. Thanks again, all "y'all". I appreciate you enormously. And Ray, I should've sicced my Great Dane on that cell company--wish I could've! Susi.

Thanks everyone...it's good to hear from you all. I guess I missed this place more than I knew. :) Traveling can be fun...I've done a lot of it, especially prior to getting so involved in my garden. Used to work with my hubby and we've been from one side of the states to the other. We have seen lots of beautiful places and had some great times. I am enjoying spending time with him again, but, I still miss gardening. Hopefully, he will retire in a few more years and we can go back home. I'm so looking forward to seeing all of your beautiful photos of your dl's this season. I'll be hanging around here a lot probably. :) Jan

Hey, Dawn! The "baby" is now almost four but I just spawned yet again. The newest, #6, was just born February 16. We're up in the new house now -- only half built but working on the other half in a few weeks if the weather cooperates. The greenhouse was attached to the old house and is now in the process of being rebuilt up here on the new house. I'm hoping hubby makes progress on that this weekend. Nagging is exhausting work! We now have three gardens. One of them, the "wellhouse garden", is a big raised bed kind of monstrosity. (I'll find a pic and attach a link below.) It's planted in onions, garlic, and elderberries, plus I've recently seeded it with lettuces, spinaches, carrots, radishes, and that sort of thing. Oh, anyone know if Home Depot or Lowe's carries soilless seed starting mix? I'd been buying it at the farmers' coop for the past several years but they said they don't have it this year. I've never seen it at Atwood's or WalMart, either. Here is a link that might be useful: Wellhouse garden