WATCH OUT!! Me and Nona tend to act as the 'Posting Police' HEHEHEHE Yes, please keep this side 'conversation free' and only post things you found, bought, or made for the garden. Oh, and questions you may have concerning how to make or how someone made something, or if someone can find a post or may have saved a pic about something that was made. Did I leave anything out concerning the 'discussions' side?

Thanks everybody! We've done all the work ourselves, and it's not fancy. There is a hand pump in the back and an outhouse across the road. We have an electric generator so we do have it wired for electric and can use an electric hotplate and lamps, plus being able to watch vcr movies on rainy days and charge things like cell phones and so on (oh yeah, and Emi can even use her hair straitener which appears to be VERY IMPORTANT to her :-). We have an old antique metal icebox, and about 4 blocks of ice will handle our cooling needs for a weekend. Fancy or not, we absolutely love it. It is our getaway. Laurium is not a high stress town... but it seems like when we get out to camp, all our cares just fall away! We work hard out there, fixing things up, but we also relax totally. It is our breath of fresh air! That old red and blue camper at the end of the deck is serving us as a tool shed right now, but later this summer we'll be moving the tools elsewhere and remodeling it into a 'spare bedroom' or maybe even a 'master bedroom' as the fancy hits us :-) We also have a pop-up camper for extras to sleep in, plus my sister-in-law and her family have their pop-up out there most of the time. And we just moved in my oldest step-daughter's camper. Makes it sound like a busy place, and some weekends it is, but other weekends it's just Gary and I. Those are the absolute best weekends. Just Gary and I, or maybe the two of us plus Emi and her boyfriend, Josh.

Up at the top right hand of the main screen, for this forum you will see: [Switch to: Exchanges : Gallery : Conversations] Click "Gallery" for pics. and "Conversation" for all things "off topic" not necessarily excluding Hosta, but where we can "chase rabbits" and post "graphics" that otherwise may be a waste of time for some or are annoying to others on "this side" of the world! :o) Come over to the "lighter side"! :o) janice

I am still struggling with posting pics. Hope to get it under control soon. I have 6 tanks totalling 175 gallons. African "Rift" cichlids are generally small so I am totally with L. Tanganyika cichlids at the time in my smallish tanks. I have spawning pairs of beautiful Neolamprologus helianthus and Julidochromis transcriptus "Pembi" going and past spawns of N. Leleupi in the past year. I'm having a hard time unloading the young and may have to display tanks. I've been keeping and breeding cichlids since I was 12. My cichlids and hostas really compliment each other timewise and help keep me young. Les