Where in Utah are you? I do grow for a few other landscapers already. I am north of Ogden. I have perennials, annuals, veggies, herbs, flowers and some trees. Bryan

My tile person checked with the vendor today. The tiles have already left port of origin (somewhere in China I think) and have a EDD the 3rd week of June. Our remodel is supposed to start at the beginning of the 2nd week. So I think we are moving ahead with these tiles and hopefully they will be here not too late. Meanwhile we will be prepared to get all the other stuff done and just wait to tile the shower wall and finish the plumbing. lillo, we have a tile picked that is very similar to the first choice but it is slightly too brown. That one is in stock so we can get it whenever we want (same day) but hopefully we won't hae to use it.

Hello owbist, Thought I would get back with you and let you know that what you told me to do worked, it is no longer popping up at startup. When I went to where you told me to, I found Kodak Easy Share in there and removed it. Nothing has ever been in there up until now and I wondered what that was for. Now I know "Smiles" One thing I forgot last night was to give my operating system. You must have read my mind. Ha! BTW it is WinXPSP2. Thank you so much for your help, I really appreciate it. thirdfrt!!!

I've dealt with handling affairs for a dying friend who left us his estate, and we are in the midst of dealing with my MIL who has dementia. Just a few thoughts: -Power of attorney, even 'durable' etc. is no longer a simple process or document that will easily open access to people's accounts and allow someone to handle financial issues. I suspect most of those who are insisting it's an easy and painless option haven't tried to use one recently :). As mentioned banks don't accept blanket POA docs any more; there have been some legal standards updates in the past few years and they now need to be fairly explicit and detailed as to what is covered and what's not. -Be aware that, as has also been pointed out, with elderly folks life can and often does change in literally a moment. One fall, one illness that spirals into complications, one stroke, and everything that was fine yesterday is now a huge and enormously complicated mess. Or the decline can be a slow process in which the reasonable parent becomes the paranoid mess, utterly convinced that the kids are just trying to steal his/her money. And then there is the parent who is clearly sliding deep into dementia while adamantly insisting he/she is just fine and anyone who says different is simply wrong. For most of us pinning our hopes on the dream that mom or dad will live to be 100+ YO in their own home, competently managing all the activities of daily living until some far off day when s/he goes peacefully to sleep and doesn't wake up is probably not the wisest way to prepare for the future. -Spend some bucks to hire a reputable estate planning attorney. This is one area of life, IMO, in which Google and DIY legal forms are not your friend. A good lawyer is well worth the expense to get things set up right. Elderly folks need to have all the docs mentioned: wills and living wills, medical proxies, power of attorney using *updated forms*, trust documents if appropriate, joint accounts if necessary and so on. In my life, the friend who died left a will, but he was an odd bird who refused to set anything else up legally so probate was a royal mess. It took almost 2 years to get everything finalized and things that I would never have imagined being difficult were ridiculously hard: it took court orders for example to transfer titles for his car and motorcycles and that took months and months and months to complete. My MIL had started showing signs of serious mental decline as I was working on the estate and I pushed my husband and BIL *hard* till they took her in to the same estate attorney and got everything done-trusts, medical permissions, bank account signatories. And sure enough, within 3 months after that she fell, broke several bones and the resulting physical injuries ratcheted the dementia to a level at which she could no longer live safely at home and had to go into assisted living. I can't imagine how difficult it would have been if things weren't in place legally. Then too, the lawyer insisted, as he is legally obligated to do, that my MIL answer and respond indicating she understood what was happening. She was foggy at the time and if we had waited even that few months, regardless of the fall there is no way she would have been legally competent to sign off on the arrangements.