Summary: <br> Welcome to my Sunroom<br> <br> <br> <br> Welcome to my Sunroom, you guys!!! Fall is definitely here in Chicagoland! <br> <br> <br> <br> I would like to thank those of you who have found the podcast important enough to you that you have supported it monetarily. I have recently received some very generous donations via the PayPal Donate button that you see above. Any financial donations made go directly to help defray the costs of keeping All About African Violets “on the air.” Thank you. Thank you. And thank you again. :-) <br> <br> <br> <br> Tips and Treasures<br> <br> <br> <br> I’m so glad so many of you enjoyed my grooming experiment last episode. I’m also really glad to get your feedback – and it was as I had feared – hard for you guys to actually see what I was doing, particularly in terms of symmetry. <br> <br> <br> <br> Big thanks to all of you who provided feedback!! <br> <br> <br> <br> So – let’s watch some more grooming – from the top, down, this time!<br> <br> <br> <br> A Look at What’s On the Stands<br> <br> <br> <br> Things are starting to look a little roomier on my stands!<br> <br> <br> <br> Get the Bail Money Ready!<br> <br> <br> <br> There are a few places with shows and events coming up! <br> <br> <br> <br> * Saturday, October 23, 2021, <a href="https://africanvioletsocietyofamerica.org/event/central-arkansas-african-violet-society-show-and-sale-little-rock-arkansas/">Central Arkansas African Violet Society Sale – Little Rock AR</a> in Maumelle Park, from10:00 am – 2:00 pm., Little Rock, AR* Saturday, October 23, 2021, <a href="https://africanvioletsocietyofamerica.org/event/portland-african-violet-association-fall-sale-portland-or/">Portland African Violet Association Fall Sale – Portland OR</a>, at Portland Nursery, 10:00 am to 3:00 pm, Portland, OR* Thursday, October 28-30, 2021, <a href="https://africanvioletsocietyofamerica.org/event/lone-star-african-violet-council-lsavc-convention-and-show-fort-worth-tx/">Lone Star African Violet Council (LSAVC) Convention and Show – Fort Worth TX</a>, at the Radisson Hotel from 8:00 a.m. on the 28th to 5:00 p.m. on the 30th, in Ft. Worth, TX.<br> <br> <br> <br> Please check the AVSA website <a href="http://avsa.org/events" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">f</a><a href="https://africanvioletsocietyofamerica.org/events/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">or events</a> in your area.<br> <br> <br> <br> The new URL for the AVSA website is: <a href="https://africanvioletsocietyofamerica.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://africanvioletsocietyofamerica.org/</a><br> <br> <br> <br> Keep Moving Forward<br> <br> <br> <br> Friends, I have some news to share with you and it’s going to sound like bad news. I have <a href="https://www.cancer.org/cancer/endometrial-cancer.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">endometrial cancer</a>. I know – it sounds bad. But I don’t think it’s going to be as bad as it sounds for me. Endometrial cancer is very treatable and it has a 99% cure rate! If it hasn’t spread, I may not even need to have chemo or radiation. Mine is Grade 1, which means we caught it early. My prognosis is excellent and I plan in being in that 99% group :-) <br> <br> <br> <br> It is important for you to know that I am not a doctor and anything I share with you of a medical nature should not be construed as medical advice. That being said, I want to mention the importance of knowing the symptoms of <a href="https://www.cancer.org/cancer/endometrial-cancer/detection-diagnosis-staging.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">endometrial cancer</a>. It is one of the most common types of uterine cancer. Uterine cancer usually occurs around menopause or after,
