Toasting in your general direction...hope you enjoy this (gray overcast here, but mild) day!

Ditto on the birthday wishes, as you're spending it with Mom And Dad, can't think of much better way.

Best birthday wishes. Do admire your fortitude!

Happy Birthday Jill! Hope you are having a good one.

Happy birthday, Jill!

A belated Happy Birthday, Jill! I hope it was a fun one!

Agree with Sally - hugs!!!

Hope it was a good one.

Happy birthday Jill, a little late. What a great weekend for your birthday, did you special order it? 🌻 🎂

Hi Jill, no wonder all the pretty happy faces of the crocuses and hellebores, snowdrops are celebrating your birthday! Happy Birthday, hope you have enjoyed your special day!--Hugs--

Thank you all very much!

I didn't have the day that was planned, but I got the best possible birthday present... Mom is OK. We'd planned to come up Saturday, but it turned out to be just me visiting, and Mom in the hospital. I stayed with her from Sunday afternoon until we got home around noon today, while Dad came & went so he could take care of the dog and get some rest.

I'll stay another night or two before heading home. For one thing, I need a real night's sleep... hospitals!

I had a great belated birthday dinner tonight, with BOTH tuna AND salmon that I found at Aldi's. Dad grilled the fish and Mom smashed the potatoes. I was as happy as Josie, who couldn't stop wagging her tail -- indeed, she was wagging her entire self, nose to tail!

I'm looking forward to some nice gardening weather, although I think there's some rain in the forecast that could cramp my style. That's OK, I have plenty of rainy-day things to do, including starting seeds!

I missed this. AACCKKK!
I wish you a Happy Birth Month!

Thanks! Since the actual day was spent in the hospital with Mom, I've continued celebrating all month anyway. "Since it's my birthday..." is a great excuse for all sorts of things!

Absolutely!!!

For example... I'd sorta wanted a chocolate-orange birthday cake... so this afternoon, I made chocolate-orange cupcakes, topped with vanilla-orange buttercream, striped with purple, gold, and green sugar. Happy Fat Tuesday! Joyanna carried them up and down the court to share with our friends. She & I took a set next door (along with some Hellebore blooms) also, and we met our new neighbors, a nice young couple with a 1 year old son (big grin, blue eyes) and a sweet yellow lab... Joyanna lost no time in making friends with the dog!

OH oh, I missed your birthday. It is never too late to wish you a happy birthday! Wish you a Happy Birthday. Hope you have enjoyed it. Jill I just received my order from Amazon for Holy Basil seeds and it arrived from Thailand. I would like to send you a package. Forgot your address. Could you please tree mail it to me? I am not very successful doing seeds, what was the seeds I got from you? At the seed swap? With all those fuzzy stuff? I did not put a label and I do not remember. I am going to move the seed planter so it gets more warmth.

Thanks, Francine!

I've had good luck doing basil with Tom DeBaggio's clump transplanting method... I think there are links in the first paragraph to articles on heat mats (and inexpensive alternatives) and light shelves (which also don't have to be $$) and preventing damping-off. That whole "Seed Starting 101" series that I did for DG sets out my seed starting methods pretty clearly -- it's not the only way to do things, but it's a way that many people have success with!

I'm not sure what seed you got from me, sorry. I know there were some packets being split, but I just don't remember which ones. fuzzy stuff... Hey, maybe you're talking about the Torenia seeds (blue mix) that still had pods & chaff in the bag? If so, get them started; they take a while.