Cactus wrens sleep in nests year-round as well. Honestly, this nest looks like it was already partially destroyed to begin with... and not in use. Could it have fallen from another location during previous winds, GT? Also, certain birds will pull apart nests of other birds. Other than doves, birds are not nest-building right now. Though nesting season is winding down, there are still a small number of active nests at this time of year... but courtship and nest-building have ceased.

I might trade you my one geriatric bladder compromised cat for two of your cute little kittens. lol My old cat probably needs to be put down but I don't have the heart. I have to keep her shut up away from the carpet unless she's right with me. I put her out on the deck or patio occasionally but I can't leave her outside long because she's a bit crippled and couldn't get away from a dog. Ok - Here's my story about Jackson: My daughter who just turned 18 is the one who brought him home. She LOVES dogs and always has from the time she was big enough to point at pictures of dogs in books. Everything she wanted for Christmas for several years had a dog/puppy theme, clothes, books, toys etc. Anyway - A few weeks ago we were in the living room.... Daughter: "Mom I need to tell you something" Me: "okay" Daughter: "I've been wanting to tell you for awhile" Me: "okay what?" Daughter: "Promise not to ground me" Me: knowing not to argue "okay" Daughter: "Promise not to take my phone away" Me: now getting a bit concerned "okay" Daughter: "You know how I said Jackson was a stray?" Me: now getting more than a bit concerned "yeah" Daughter: "Well he wasn't" Me: "What?!" My daughter has never stolen anything that I know of but that was my first thought. She didn't (thank goodness). She told me that a friend of a friend was planning to move out of state and couldn't take her dog with her. She was looking for a home for it and my daughter wanted the dog. She'd never even seen it but it was a dog after all. So they cooked up a scheme. Her friend and the dog's owner met her across three fields on another road more than a half mile away with the dog. My daughter walked, and they drove to the spot at an agreed time. My daughter MADE mud and took it with her to rub on the dog so it would look more like a stray. They scratched out the writing on his rabies tag so it couldn't be traced and she carried him home. She had been told that it was a dachshund mix which he is, but STANDARD dachshund not the itty bitty kind so he's very heavy, between 30 and 40 pounds. She carried her new muddy dog about a quarter mile towards our house and then called me out of breath from her cell phone to tell me she had "caught" a stray dog at the back of our field and could she bring it home and feed it. So after I spent a few weeks looking through every lost-dog site on the internet, posting in the paper, making signs, taking him to the vet to have him scanned for a chip, etc, we gave in and decided to let her keep him. The kids had all voted on a name for him and decided to call him Jackson. Well his name was ALREADY Jackson. My daughter had told her two sisters where he really came from and they kept her secret for a few months until she finally told me. My hubby still doesn't know. I'm not sure he would see the humor in it. I'm having some trouble seeing the humor myself. lol So...That's Jackson's true story (to the best of my knowledge) lol Here's what I posted back in June and it has another photo and a video of him. Here is a link that might be useful: Me - in the dark - posting about the

Amanda, you're not the only one. Shame on us, but as long as you aren't killing or damaging the plant, taking from someone elses yard without asking first, I don't see the harm in doing it. I've been doing it for years and don't feel bad about it either. Never damaged the plant etc. never taken from someone's home. Sure have "helped out home depot, walmart, kmart, lowes in pruning their plants, dead heading all kinds of plants. In july actually had someone in walmart thank me for cleaning up the "ugly plants" by dead heading them, right into about 10 different baggies. Looked the woman in the face, smiled and said, "my pleasure, anytime I can help, glad to do so." She kind of looked at me like a sprouted another head. Got caught collecting dianthis firewitch seeds from a local garden center and was told "you realize those seeds will take a couple of years to grow and bloom, don't you?" I smiled and said "that's ok I'm young and can wait." Got in the car and couldn't stop laughing long enough to drive. couple of years, ya right, mister. My WS dianthis firewitch where blooming in my yard when he said that, the WS ones I transplanted in June 2005. Oh yes, he thanked me for doing some of his work, deadheading the plants for him. sometimes you wonder about these places don't you. and in August I went to a nursery, wanted this beautiful huge coleus, new breed called black night. This one was in a huge 15 inch pot. Marked down to half price they wanted $20 for it. Spent lots of time talking to the guys there about it and they said it is for outside and will not survive the winter indoors. A coleus that won't grow in the house all winter. They kept saying it and I kept thinking "you guys are nuts." almost bought it, put it in the cart, figured I could get cuttings and all. then spotted the seed heads on tons of coreopsis sunray. You know the rest, while I was busy, my friend got very rough, nicely rough with that huge coleus. cleaned up the six small pieces that had the "poor accident", put the injured parties in her purse to "nurse back to health" and yes she's a nurse and returned the monster to it's rightfull place. We have 10 small plants well rooted, planted in pots and growing well. (Yes, she's a great nurse, isn't she?). They look nothing like the original plant, but in the spring out in full light, they should be right back to what they are supposed to look like. don't feel guilty, I don't see where we did or do anything wrong. Just don't post on the aroid forum about it. Fran

Yes that is a typo. The face plate of the brain was marked 2002 with a black marker but the metal plate holding it in place was [heat] stamped 2007. Sorry about the typo. I read about implied warranties, Thx. Here is what it says on the bottom of my bill of sale: "WARRANTIES SELLER DISCLAIMS. There are no implied warranties or merchantability, of fitness for a particular purpose, or any other warranties implied by the seller, covering the products sold pursuant to the Sales Agreement." Nothing is marked AS IS either. But I guess these legal words above mean 'as is.' It seems that ordinary people buy these spas, why would they put a mumbo jumbo legal term in there. Both of us have extensive business educations but neither of us have ever had these terms in any of our under grad or graduate Business Law classes. Hmm. Seems odd to me. Well we dont want scrap we want the brand new model, if this is what it means to buy a used spa. I dont want somebody else's trash, I really thought I stumbled on a good deal, especially when they upgraded the warranty to 5 yrs. It's a Calspa by the way.