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Nice to see you! I am a master gardener.... and I have lots of experience with salvia! I grow a ton of it. Most of it is the type that is in California, not supposed to survive winters here in Maryland, but it comes back every year because I grow it against a wall that gets the setting sun. I have a little micro-climate on the side of my house! What do you need to know about red salvia? And if you know which one you have, that would help......Pineapple Sage?? Or the annual type? Or some other type? There are many, many different types of sages (salvia).

I remember the SMELL of crayons! That's what I miss!

Awww.....thank you for sharing this! How adorable these two are!

That is a weird thing that happened to you! Working where you do, you're bound to run into all sorts of people and maybe run into them later. But this? It would have me thinking about it, too. It's a reminder, for me anyway, on the fragileness of life.

PRETTY! As pretty, if not prettier, than LR's. Did you see Mike Rowe's response to this? Copied it below from an article. A few people with jobs that involve getting “down and dirty” are pretty miffed. Among them is Mike Rowe, the former host of TV’s “Dirty Jobs,” who channeled his befuddled anger in a Facebook post that’s been shared more than 13,500 times and liked more than 31,000 times as of Wednesday morning. “This morning, for your consideration, I offer further proof that our country’s war on work continues to rage in all corners of polite society,” he wrote of the jeans. “Finally — a pair of jeans that look like they have been worn by someone with a dirty job … made for people who don’t.” “But forget the jeans themselves for a moment, and their price, and look again at the actual description,” Rowe wrote. “‘Rugged Americana’ is now synonymous with a ‘caked-on, muddy coating.’ Not real mud. Fake mud. Something to foster the illusion of work. The illusion of effort. Or perhaps, for those who actually buy them, the illusion of sanity.” He added later in the post, “The Barracuda Straight Leg Jeans aren’t pants. They’re not even fashion. They’re a costume for wealthy people who see work as ironic — not iconic.”

These wonderful stories have me tearing up, as well. My cat, who passed away two years ago, was 18 years old when she died. She was a person to me, an angel who seemed so intuitive - more so than some humans! When my mom was in hospice, I got a call one day from them saying "don't ask me why but today is the day". I went there and stayed until almost 1:00 a.m. and my mom was still alive. The hospice nurses urged me to go home, and I did. I went to bed when I got home, and around 3:00 a.m., my cat came walking up, got on the pillow so she could be near my face (She was very loving, but didn't particularly like to walk on pillows, as they made her feel unstable, so she never ventured beyond your waist in bed!). Then she just put her sweet little paw on my face and stared at me. I was petting her, wondering what had gotten into her, but she just kept that paw on my face until the phone rang, 5 minutes later, with the nurse at the hospice center apologizing but letting me know that my mother had passed away. It was like my cat knew I would need that paw as a comfort, that I would need her, and it felt like she already knew that my mother was gone from earth. I will never forget that. So glad you have made it through the storms of life! And B.B. is beautiful!

They are such pretty cats! I concur with how you feel about purebreds. Growing up, my family always had Siamese - blue point, chocolate point and seal points. Wen my husband and I talked about getting a cat, my go to was a Siamese, because that's all I knew. My husband is the one who urged me to consider pet adoption, and once we started going to shelters, I wanted to take all of them! The nice thing about a Heinz 57 cat is that you don't have some of the issues that you might have with a purebred - Siamese are known for early kidney issues......and I'm not sure what other breeds have problems. Sorry to hear you've had shingles four times. Yikes! That is awful!

They are so cute! I love the outline on the lighter one's eye! My husband told me about this....if it's started, I'm sure he's watching. Must be a guy thing!