Make a trip to one of your larger nurseries and work with what's native to your area. Spireas are

• Need gardening help. Can anyone suggest a flower sm - Kim
  • Thanks everyone! I went with 2 lovely hostas. I appreciate all suggestions. I did sm - Kim
    • So, what do they look like? You can - Misha
  • I also live in AL - try these - - missy
  • Herb garden - pdqtrans
  • Hydrangeas and azaleas are two of my favorites - Dreamweaver
    • Need to know about the hydrangeas - Kittie
      • Love hydrangeas, but my problems is too much shade. - Misha
      • They may still bloom in the sun, but the most intense color will come in the shade. Love 'em! nm - Check a gardening zone map for your area. nm
        • Just 1 more question about the hydrangeas - Kittie
          • I wait until spring, too sm - Dreamweaver
          • I do that in the spring. I usually get a tool - Me
  • Great shade plants are coleus, ferns, hostas, begonias - primrose..... nm
    • Astilbe, bleeding heart and columbine - Misha
      • Maidenhair fern is great. - Misha
  • hosta is always good for shade and comes in --sm - DumDum
  • Make a trip to one of your larger nurseries and work with what's native to your area. Spireas are - nice and perennial. :) Clematis vine? nm
    • I have 3 spirea bushes. - Me

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it cracks me up to hear people with large cars complain.  Since I bought my Mountaineer (2007), the price for a tank of gas has gone up about $10.  I fill up every other week, so that's $20 a month.  Unless your car payment is right to the limit of what you should be spending, that increase in fuel cost should not be putting you over the edge.  Now I understand that for those on very limited budgets who need to save every penny this can be a real problem - these are not the ones I'm referring to. 

Case in point, I have a friend who bought a much larger, more expensive vehicle than they needed or could afford, and now they can't afford to sell it either because they owe so much more than it's worth.  She complains about the price of gas all the time.  I keep telling her that if she can really AFFORD to drive a Cadillac Escalade then it shouldn't matter to her how much gas is.  Needless to say, that just pisses her off. 

To answer the original question, our travel plans will not change bsaed on the price of gas.  We look forward to going to the beach every year, and can make the trip there and back and do all the running around while we're there on three to four tanks of gas.      

and should be tolerant.....our ancestors wanted tolerance too (and not all received tolerance and for decades, eh?).....

we should all have taken many lessons from history.....and be more tolerant.

just my nickel's worth...

Been trying to get my mom to go with me to Ireland....she lost her DH last year....I'll keep trying!  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQDPenBUC68

Hey Hoku,

Well, give us all the dirt!!!  Did you or did you not have a great time with your friend best friend in Vegas?  Enquiring minds need to know!!!

I have heard from a few people it is fabulous and worth every penny, but I wonder what anyone out there has heard.  I really want a special and very memorable trip because this is our 25th anniversary.  Are there any tips anyone can offer?  Any insight anyone has would be much appreciated! 

16-year-old comes in from school today and says the drama teacher has invited the 3rd and 4th year drama classes to go to New York in March for a week to see shows and tour the city.  Supposedly the cost would be around $700, including airfare from Atlanta, lodging, meals, tickets to shows, etc.  I asked what fundraisers were going to be held and she had no idea if any would be.   Personally I don't see how they can do the trip to include meals, travel, hotels, shows, etc. for just $700 a person and am presuming that's going to be around the amount that would be proposed to the students to pay after fundraisers are done. 

My daughter asked how much I'd contribute to the cause. 

She doesn't work and doesn't drive (scared to learn so we don't push it - don't want her to drive if she doesn't want to). 

She is a good student.

I told her first off that she would also need to get a job because we're not going to pay all of this ourselves and take away the money from the family vacation for next year (we do a family budget of $1000 for vacations and that's for 4 of us). 

We're not rich but do put "x" amount of money into the savings account each month as we want to move to a different area in a couple of years. 

So.... how much do you think we should require her to raise herself and how much should we pay?   I was thinking that maybe to contribute $200 would be plenty generous and let her get a part-time job after school/weekends to raise the rest + spending money.  Do you think I'm being a cheapskate for that or do you think it's a fair amount? 

Where can I go just north of Atlanta, GA, to see a good amount of snow that isn't too far? I have no clue! I'm thinking around mid Dec. Want to take the kids.  With or without hubby. I'm not looking to snow ski, just take them to see snow for the first time in their lives.  NC? TN? I have no idea! 

My husband has a habit of making plans and then telling me where I am expected to be without discussing it with me first. This drives me crazy and I have asked him many times to stop.  He also makes lots of plans for himself for weekend and sometimes 3 or 4 day trips and just e-mails me a note to put it on my calendar, without asking if I mind.  He does this all the time. 

Yesterday he came home from work and announced that "Joe and I are planning a family trip for this summer, so start saving your money."  I said, oh is Joe your wife now?? Do you think you could ask me if I want to go there before you tell me to save my money?"  So he got really angry and started yelling at me that I never understand anything.  I told him I like to be treated as an equal in the marriage and that I would not plan a trip for him without discussing it with him.  It is a HUGE trip, to California, and we live in NC.  I would have been happy if he came home and suggested it to see what I thought..but I was angry that he planned it out that way. He wants us to go with a family that I have never met.  My kids are elementary age and their kids are in high school.  The two men would be in conferences all day so this other lady and her kids and me and my kids are expected to hang out together.  He is very furious with me for not being receptive to this whole plan.  Should I have not been mad?

First-graders in San Francisco took a field trip to City Hall to celebrate the marriage of their lesbian teacher on Friday, but opponents of same-sex marriage in the state say the field trip was an attempt to “indoctrinate” the students, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

The field trip was suggested by a parent at the Creative Arts Charter School, and the school said the trip, where students tossed rose petals on their teacher and her wife as they left City Hall, was academically relevant.

"It really is what we call a teachable moment," said Liz Jaroslow, the school’s interim director, according to the newspaper. She said same-sex marriage had historic significance. "I think I'm well within the parameters."

California will vote on Nov. 4 on Proposition 8 which seeks to ban same-sex marriage in the state, and supporters of the measure say the field trip shows that allowing same-sex marriage will mean it’s taught to school children, the newspaper said.

"It's just utterly unreasonable that a public school field trip would be to a same-sex wedding," said Chip White, press secretary for the Yes on 8 campaign, told the Chronicle. "This is overt indoctrination of children who are too young to have an understanding of its purpose."