You're welcome Mark! In my dreams, I keep thinking I'll make it up to your wonderful gardens one day to see all the magic that you have done with rocks and plants!
Jim, as an aside for something like this in the future...Having been faced with the same situation, a very experienced semp person told me that with the leaves that stick downward, he gently and cleanly removes the leaves off the stem so that the rest of the rosette can be positioned closer to the soil. I find that grabbing most of the leaf and giving a firm pull/tug or sometimes a twist to the right or left of the stem helps to remove the leaf cleanly off.
