The Montreal Botanical Gardens will be again hosting a Seedy Saturday weekend, this year February 13 & l4, 10AM-4PM. This will be a fun weekend!

I do hope you ladies will be able to see the Montreal Botnical Gardens. Janet, does Ottawa have a Botnical garden There is a garden get together of some sort, in Ottawa for Canadian Gardeners. I forget the date or what it is called, but it was mentioned at the horticultural club here at the June meeting. This weekend I am going to the Hamilton Botanical Gardens and then down to the Niagra Parks gardens. I have not been to either this year. The Hamilton Botanical Gardens need more funding. Unfortunately because of unions, volunteers are not able to help with the work. My daughter has been after me to do a blog(g) Yours is good Janet. Seems it would take quite a bit of time. I have a digital camera that I was given by one of my four children (grown) but I never use it. Love the photos you have on yours Thanks ladies for your interest in going to the gardens.

Well, I believe we have arrived at our destination, tous ensembles?? Oui, yes, we are here. Downs made his first television news broadcast in September 1945 from the still experimental studio of WBKB-TV (now WBBM-TV), a station then owned by the Balaban and Katz theater subsidiary of Paramount Pictures. He became a TV regular, announcing for Hawkins Falls in 1950, the first successful television soap opera, which was sponsored by Lever Brothers Surf detergent. It's been upward ever since!! I had no idea he was such an accomplished guy! He has twice been paired with Barbara Walters: the syndicated television program Not for Women Only in 1975 and 1976 and then the Emmy Award-winning co-anchor of the ABC news TV show 20/20, a primetime news magazine program, from the show's second episode in 1978 until his forced retirement in 1999. His closing tagline "We're in touch, so you be in touch", was written by Brock Brower. The asteroid 71000 Hughdowns is named after him. As of 1988, the U.S. census bureau determined that a stunning 13% of the population believe that some portion of the earth's moon is actually comprised of cheese. Seriously guys?? No cheese-believers here, I believe! For everyone: Thanks for playing, see you all next week!! Nancy. Here is a link that might be useful: First Man on the Moon

Well, as I said, a small thing with big consequences. Here are the 6 effects most commonly reported. 1. A 2012 study by the University of Alabama at Birmingham, reported in Science Daily, found that springing forward by an hour was associated with a 10 per cent increase in the risk of heart attack over the following 48 hours, but it did not pinpoint the reason. The study found a corresponding 10 per cent decrease in heart attack risk over the 48 hours after people "fall back" and gain an extra sleeping hour in the fall. A Swedish study published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2008 also found a higher incidence of heart attacks — approximately a seven per cent increase — in the first three weekdays after the clocks spring forward, which researchers attributed to a lack of sleep. They also noted a similar decrease in the incidence of heart attacks when the clocks fall back. The information was based on Swedish records collected over a 20-year period. "The most plausible explanation for our findings is the adverse effect of sleep deprivation on cardiovascular health," the researchers wrote. University of British Columbia sleep expert Stanley Coren said in a statement released this week, "Spring daylight saving time is a period when people lose a little extra time. Looking at different types of accidents, we found a five to seven per cent increase in accident fatalities during the three days following spring daylight saving time." Another study, by two researchers at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh in 2007, found that daylight time has a significant impact on the number of pedestrians killed by vehicles in the immediate aftermath of the time switch in the fall. People walking during rush hour in the first few weeks after the clocks fall back in the autumn were more than three times as likely to be fatally struck by cars than before the change. Time of day was a factor in the findings - there was no significant difference in pedestrian accidents at noon, but number rose around 6 p.m. after clocks were moved back an hour. The researchers, who looked at seven years of U.S. traffic statistics, also found there was a decrease in deaths when clocks spring forward. It isn’t the darkness per se that increases the number of deaths in the fall, the researchers suggested. Rather, it's that drivers and pedestrians have spent the previous months getting used to the light conditions, and don’t immediately adjust their behaviour to account for less light during morning rush hour. Although most people are able to adjust to the biologically earlier schedule after the clocks move ahead in spring, those who suffer from sleep disorders have a much harder time, according to Judith Davidson, an adjunct assistant professor at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ont. Much of the treatment of insomnia involves getting people onto a regular sleep schedule, and the time change can throw that off, she said. That can mean several days or even a week of poor sleep for those suffering from insomnia. Daylight time isn't used everywhere in the world. Saskatchewan and some parts of B.C. don’t use it, for example, nor do Arizona and Hawaii in the U.S. It is unnecessary at or near the equator, because the length of each day remains the same or varies by just a small amount. The vast majority of countries in Africa and Asia don’t use daylight saving time. 5. It can cause time travel!! Apart from messing with sleep cycles, daylight saving can create some downright unusual situations. In 2012, an Ohio man was arrested for drinking and driving twice at the same time on the same day by the same police officer. While it recalls Groundhog Day, the comedy film starring Bill Murray about a man who keeps reliving the same day, it's actually a case of simple math. The Ohio man was arrested at 1:08 a.m. on Nov. 4, 2012, taken to the police station and released a short time later. However, at 2 a.m. that morning, the clocks were set back to 1 a.m. The man was arrested exactly one hour after his initial booking by the same officer, again for drinking and driving. The time was 1:08 a.m. His blood-alcohol level, however, was slightly lower. 6. It is expensive. There have been a number of attempts to estimate the cost of daylight saving time, factoring in everything from sleep deprivation and related health bills, through to the time lost to the simple act of resetting all the clocks in millions of households twice a year. One such effort, the Chmura Economics & Analytics study entitled Estimating the Economic Loss of Daylight Saving Time for U.S. Metropolitan Statistical Areas, suggests daylight time costs the United States about $434 million per year, based on 2010 population figures. So, there you go - a silly little question I guess. Bobbie, you got 2 of the effects, increased heart attacks and accidents. For you: This star business is a little more complicated. Anyway, thanks to all for playing. Off to see what Cynthia has. See you all next week. Nancy