thanks everyone :) Actually the peeing Pit (Luke) isnt mine, lol. He belongs to my sis. The solid GSP (Daisy)is mine, & the ESS (Duke) is mine. The little Pit puppy (Jade) I had given to my sis. She was there there that day to pick her up..was my last day with the puppies..was sad. O duh, there are no pix of Duke in that batch, lol. Karma, you can keep the rain!! My yard has been so wet and swampy the last month or so, I can't even deal with it. Caren, ooo, what kind of palms?? Lucy, hon, I NEVER wear gloves. Cant stand 'em. I need to feel what I am doing! So I'm sure I probably grabbed that bag, right where he peed on it, threw it over my shoulder, and probably with my luck, had the pee spot touching my neck, lol. Was decent here yesterday b4 the rain snow mix started coming down. I was outside till it started, trimming trees, and I cut a couple smaller mulberry trees down..shhh dont tell DH, lol. I cut up & hid the evidence b4 he came home! I dont know why he likes those stupid trees. Theresa, the MG tree is lavender. But the first blooms were white, the more blooms it got, the darker the color got. I wish I had pink & white too..gotta work on that. I'm glad your fishies are still alive. Did your MOO flower? thanks again, everyone :) Can't wait for the new season to start and take a million more pix, lol.

I sow most of my seeds in the basement in trays under lights. Lettuce, broccoli, spinach and kale are already up and at 'em. Carrots, onions, garlic and shallots are already growing from a fall planting. Any day now I will sow peas (Snow and Garden peas) and nasturtiums - in the ground outside, they hate to be transplanted. I have a whole new area behind my blueberry row that I have been working on all winter. I will fill it with pumpkins and melons this summer. After that I am officially out of room...well, except for that stretch along the driveway leading out to the mailbox...

Karen : Thank you :), I really took what you said about putting the mind effort elsewhere and went with it. Ah yes, my roomie.. he's a pretty big guy (the same one who lost his home to fire on V-day eve), so I think I'm in good hands there. Poor man doesn't know what I'm like when in a tizzy though. Bless him! LOL The way I am now with just DH flying away, I KNOW I wouldn't make it if a whole bunch of my people got up and left. LOL I never do vignettes as I'm just not to good at grouping items together but it struck me that I could use that little space for something. Anndd when you mentioned berries , I just remembered , I have some! LOL I think they are out in the shed so I will have to go find them and try it out. Bless you woman! Jeanne: Thank you! Coming from someone who creates such absolutly beautiful vignettes that means allot (maybe I can be taught, I hope..lol). BOTP is "back of the potty" coined by I believe OA (and please forgive me if I have the wrong person , I don't mean to). In my case though , it could well be "bottom of the toilet paper" though as I have the white cabinet over the potty and the TP is above the vignette. LOL I really like the saying you have on your keyboard. I'll have to remember that, TFS it with me.

Bill H--I hope you are still around. We live in OTOTW. We bought our attached villa in September. So far, we love it. The units are well-insulated and we never hear our neighbor. We have 2BR, 2BA, living room/dining area, Florida room, eat-in kitchen and screened porch. It has a 1-1/2 car garage and attic storage. All appliances including the washer and dryer came with it. It's plenty of room. I think ours is around 1200 sqft. Prices are running between the high 70's to low 100,000 for the attached villas. You can find some good bargains if you are patient and spend lots of time looking. There are single family homes, and villas with 2 units, 3 units, 4 units, etc. per building. If we'd seen the 2 unit homes we probably would have bought one of those. For Sale signs are not allowed which is a bummer since you can't tell! There are tons of activities, clubs and classes to take. There are 2 or 3 golf courses, 2 restaurants and a coffee shop in the community, a library, several pools (one indoor) and a health and fitness center. The people are really friendly. It was a little difficult for me to get used to only seeing older people. At first I thought I was in a remake of the movie "Cocoon". haha! We moved here from another town, and Ocala isn't very large but has all the amentities of a larger town. Lots of restaurants, a nice mall (with a larger one being built right now). We haven't been yet, but Silver Springs Park is just on the other side of town. They have some pretty top-notched entertainers perform there. If you have specific information you'd like to know, please e-mail me. I don't sell real estate nor am I employed by OTOTW, by the way.