Thanks, Ludi; chin is still up :) I'm still excited and optomistic, I'm just a little peeved that this bull**** weather has wreaked havok on my gardens! But what can I really be angry at, nature? It's just the way it is sometimes, and thankfully not too often. I'm just waiting for dawn so I can go out and do some gardening ha ha ha seriously I don't work for a few days, and the idea that this may have actually been the last below-freezing night until later in the year has me too wired to sleep! I'm gonna go survey the damage, clean up some and site some Hostas! Still have to plant 'Elegans' among others ;P Have a great day everyone, talk to ya later! Don B.

I was outside this evening until exhaustion and mosquitoes ( I sweated off the OFF!!) drove me in...and I am amazed at what a 2 eye start of hosta will do in 2 summers. The hosta I planted in 06 are amazing! The bed I started by stuffing some stuff in the ground in a bare spot under a tree in mid summer of 05, needs the "filler hosta" removed. I am a firm believer in Alfalfa pellets and water....and lots of wood chips!! Linda C

Hi Linda, I'm not sure I'm going to be much help, but here goes. The 2240 x 1493 is an appropriate size for images coming out of your camera. You wouldn't want to change them to 640 x 480 in the camera because you wouldn't be able to print them at that resolution. So the question becomes whether or not Photobucket automatically resizes them upon uploading. I wasn't aware that they ever did this, but they must have if you remember uploading without resizing. I keep a folder on my desktop of resized photos for emailing and uploading to Photobucket and Flickr. I've never tried to upload a full-size file. However, it's easy to resize photos that are already on Photobucket. Just click on Edit (right above the image), then Resize, and follow the instructions. There's a preset 640 x 480 that you can use if you like. Hope this helps. Susan

Rhino Hide, the little babies are just new leaves coming up. Mine got upset about something and came up with tiny leaves like that all last year. This year the leaves are the size of your bigger leaves. The substance is very thick but not as much as BME.