ajtgirl: oh, how funny...it seems i have completely internalized the short form i always use - "far as i know" - to the point where i can't figure out what the acronym for "as far as i know" means.

it does make perfect sense, Lady.

and yes, thank You, i am staying dry...now. i was getting a little moist when i went out grocery shopping before, but that's all behind me now.

yes, we needed it...and it's very cozy here inside with the rain coming down out there...mmmm. :)

plaintiger:

I hope you have a warm body nearby to comfort you, but I am sure you are never alone afaik

Rose...no wonder Hollyhocks don't grow like weeds where you live. Their little bodies would freeze dead in the winters you have. They don't work for me as perennials at all. I wish they grew like weeds here. I love their flowers.

ajtgirl: thank You, Lady. whether i'm alone depends on what You mean by "alone," but i've got my kats and my computer and my friends on BK to keep me company.

and Ms. Fox, i'm looking for a way to tie that in with gardening...i really am...

...but i'm not finding it. so that's all we're going to say about that on this board.

ajtgirl: no, wait! i wasn't thinking of "far as i know" - i thought faik was "for all i know." that's why i couldn't figure out what that initial 'a' was doing there. duh.

ScarletRose: ajtgirl please excuse my daughter view on these wonderful flowers. The thing I love about them is every year they come back with different shades of color. they do take over, they are nearly destructable so why fight them ours grew along the back of our motel where nothing grew. all up and down that long stretch of building 6 ft stalks with abundant flowers grew year after year. 2. When I was a child my mom and I and girl friends made lovely flower dolls out of them and also used a shrub rose called Rose of Sharon. This was in Pennsylvania. 3. all the beautiful farm gardens of ole had them in a row at the back of their big flower gardens....a "Kodak" momment for me when I found that 9 years ago I had them growing at our newly bought motel. sniff sniff

amandalove: the only reason why nothing else was growing there.. was because of those dang weeds!!

The flower is pretty.. but, the stock is ugly!! Ick!!

amandalove: LOL you tell her Mom.