Ma wrote: >Be hospitable. Invite them into the living room. Gardeners aren't >housekeepers. What is a little mud compared with roses in June? Oh, Lord!! Now I know I have a fever. I am hallucinating when I read notes like this from The Empress of Clean. Mother, confess: no mud has ever dared cross your doorstep, and I've never seen you invite the roses into the living room except properly dunked into vases. Catharine, the messy one in the family.