Could you tell I was tired last night? I just looked at MY message and asked myself : what is borning ??? Not until I read the rest and gave it some thought I realized I wanted to write BURNING up roflmao Deb so sorry you could not get out. It really charges you up to get some sun and a sunburn. While I was doing a few things before I could go in the shower I had thought that the new cream really tightened my skin in the face. WEll, DH took those illusions away when he said : wow you really got a sunburn roflmao. I really did not wanted to look in the mirror after that remark lol So you all got to wait a little longer to get a new updated photo of myself lol Lucy Susan YES we can !!!lol.

Pottawatomie County is a great example. When their fire chiefs, emergency management personnel and county commissioners sat down to discuss a burn ban, they looked closely at the requirements and determined their county did not meet all 4 requirements. So, even though it seemed they wanted to pass a burn ban, in good conscience they could not. A couple of days later they had a massive fire. The next week they implemented a burn ban because they felt that they now met the criteria. Why does it have to be that way? Why can't we legally implement a burn ban before we have raging fires? That drives me up the wall. Last night when I was typing my response above, three VFDs at the western end of our county were paged out to a grassfire. I was just shaking my head. How many fires will we have and how bad will they have to be before we meet the requirements for a burn ban? I'm really hoping the OFS encourages Gov. Fallin to pass a statewide burn ban sooner rather than later. Don't get me wrong. Both the state and the federal government help us obtain equipment. We have a big, beautiful, very helpful/useful fire engine that's about 12 years old and we got it when it was about 10 years old. It cost us about $175,000.00 and a FEMA grant paid a large portion of that. We still have to raise somewhere between $10,000 and $15,000 ourselves and that's the hard part. You have a really limited time frame to raise a bunch of money to pay your matching share of a grant. Many small, rural VFDs like ours just don't have a large enough population in our fire district to be able to raise that sort of money in a timely manner. I noticed yesterday and the day before that some fire chiefs and emergency management directors and other county officials are publicly asking/begging their community for donations of bottled water, Gatorade and snacks. To me, it is a shame they have to ask for these items. Why isn't their community supporting them by bringing them those items? In our county, we were that way at one point but had tremendous fires in 2005 and 2006 and set up a fund to pay for those items, then set up mechanisms (like fundraisers and annual monetary contributions from each VFD) to make sure we always have an adequate supply of Rehab supplies for our county's 14 fire departments. Many portions of our community also have bottled water drives, Gatorade drives, etc. and gather bottles drinks for our firefighters year-round. Often, when we are at a fire, or just at the fire station working, people pull up in their vehicles and start unloading cases of bottled water and hydration drinks like Gatorade and Powerade. In one day at one big wildfire with many firefighters present, we'll use hundreds and hundreds of bottled drinks. They aren't luxuries. They are essential to the health and well-being of all the firefighters and their support personnel. Without adequate and constant hydration, people can get sick and die. Why in the world are emergency personnel having to ask/beg their communities to help them? Everyone needs to help the firefighters and other emergency personnel who put their lives on the line daily. OK, I'm climb down off my soapbox now, but it just really frustrates me to see our emergency responders begging for help. That shouldn't happen! They are always the first to respond in any emergency, and not just fires, but also motor vehicle accidents, plane and train crashes, floods, power outages, severe storms, etc. We need to help the folks who always are willing to help us. The burn ban list was up to 52 or 53 late yesterday and may go up more today. This place is a tinderbox. Our gardens aren't the only things dry now---everything is too dry. Dawn

Can someone help a complete novice! I've just starting to try this, I've downloaded psp X, but everytime I try to send a file to it, it says its not formatted right. If I can ever figure it out it looks like alot of fun! Thanks for any help! Diane

we can receive anything here, but sending it out again has so much paper works, and documents, i got 3 warnings from DOA already for sending fresh peppers going to mainland, so now i cant sell my fresh peppers unless they are dried or powdered, i sent plumeria cuttings to my friend, and dog sniffed it out got destroyed and got another memo, so now if im planning to sell my adeniums, i have to go to the airport so they can check it and aphis will tag it thay its safe for shipping,