Afternoon all, Well stick a fork in me because Im well done. It isnt as hot as last week but still high 80s and as humid as it gets and Ive been outside all day. Whew, Im one crispy critter and probably smell like one too. LOL ~~ Yesterday I spent the day polishing up my driveway garden and discovered an infestation of banded sunflower moth larvae in my Echinacea. So the flower heads are all cut off and Im hoping if and when they set new buds that it will be past the stage when the moths lay any more eggs. What a pain. Nothing is ever easy is it???? Today I repotted one of my King Tut papyruses and this will be the final potting up for that plant this year. Its been growing at light speed and was in need of watering three times a day so hopefully this will make it easier to take care of for the time being. Wish I could pot up my white brugmansia as that is another water hog and Ive taken to leaving the hose dripping on it all day to keep it from drying out. It is currently in a tremendous growth spurt and there are hundreds of buds forming so it should be beautiful in another week or so. My Charles Grimaldi is also finally forming buds as is my large variegated Brug called Shortys Variegated. I cant wait for the large Shortys to start blooming. ~~ Im getting ready for company Friday evening. Doug has invited some of the folks he works with for an evening in the garden and Im trying to get things polished up for company. Cindy, just LOVE those pics of the lavender fields; gorgeous and perfect with those orange umbrellas. ~~ How cool youve gotten that E. Hot Papaya I almost bought one last Thursday when I was in RI but I really do not have that color anywhere except in the tropical container garden. Hmmmm maybe I should grow it in a container until I decide where to put it? The specimen in the display gardens was spectacular. Drema, great pics from your beautiful gardens. Youve been holding out on us. Love that raspberry photograph especially. Saucy, glad to hear that Sarah seems to be feeling better. What a worry. Heather had mono in her senior year of HS. I seem to recall she was under the weather for three weeks or so. Bug, love that E Tiki Torch too but Im a huge fan of the new double Echinaceas. They are so fabulous and the flowers last such a long time. Kathy, while I was working in the driveway garden a female Hummingbird came over and was feeding in the butterfly bush not three feet away from me. What a treat! Woody, I cant wait to see the mature swags! Youve been really busy and gotten that huge task accomplished in a short amount of time. OK Ive got to run and get washed up. Its time to think about whats for dinner. Have a great evening all Deanne

To the OP, the pans you linked from Amazon only just help with the shape of the folded omelet. They aren't really "making" the omelet other than helping with the folding part. What about the step after cracking the eggs, which is beating the eggs, and pouring them into the pan? What combination egg-cracker, omelette-pan would be able to beat the eggs? Would there be a teeny egg beater in the machine somewhere? I saw a retrospective of Julia Child where on one of her old black-and-white shows she cranked out omelet after omelet, on a little electric-coil burner, with a cheap aluminum frying pan, in just minutes. Your time saving efforts with some machine or special pan won't be very time saving. I will link a video to Jacques Pepin making an omelet in 2 minutes (though it kills me that he is using a metal fork in a teflon pan). Here is a link that might be useful: Jacques Pepin Makes an Omelet in 2 Minutes

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We have a lot of coyotes where we live in Orange County, CA. I grew up here in a neighborhood close to my current home and the increase in volume of coyotes attacking pets is huge, as a kid we never heard of a pet being killed by a coyote. Now I can not let my pets outside without supervision, neighbors pets have been killed at all times of the day. In our last house we did not have any coyote problems in the 23 years we lived there, so our pets could go back and forth between the house and the outdoors at will. We have lived here 2 1/2 years and my poor dogs still miss the freedom they had and so do I. The problem is so bad that a student was attacked by a coyote at a near-by university. The authorities tracked and killed a pair of coyotes at the school, one was injured and they think that caused the unusual behavior. That said coyotes have also been stalking walkers including those without pets. Very scary. Here the authorities request that we report all coyote sightings to our County as they are trying to understand the extent of the issue. We also get an occasional mountain lion, my mom has a picture of one in her backyard a few months back.