I can identify with the joy of seeing anything in the sky after days and days of rain, fog or clouds. One time I saw both the sun and the moon in the sky at the same time, one was setting the other was getting up. Beautiful. I'm not surprised that you heard noises, I bet there are a lot of critters (other than us), looking for the light of the moon.

Ha! I've found pink string in dend roots, too. They probably grow it. Once I found a thumbtack and a bottlecap. I never have thumbtacks in the house, so it was really bumfuzzling to find that the pot. Stacy

Several ways to do the fish bowl... 1) cut the flowers and stick them under a piece of smashed pot rim. I think that was the photo you saw, can't remember. I do new displays every other week. The fish like to hide in the flowers. 2) The fish bowl is not round. The back is flat to accommodate 2 fish bowls back to back. It ends up making 1 round fish bowl when put together.. Yes compartmented. Even in person, people can't quite sort it out. Love my fishies too, wouldn't want to hurt them with fertiliser 3) When I have no blooms I buy silk blooms and stick them in. They make some excellent fakies these days! Clara

I have not been here in a long time, either, but now and then I look to see if anything is going on. This forum has been really quiet for a long time. On the cloth bathroom wipes, I'm admitting I started using them about a year ago -- with some modifications. I only use them for urine. Let's be reasonable here about urine. Some people actually put human urine in their compost to help it "work" faster. The architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, is said to have had his construction workers pee on the copper he used to speed up the process in "weathering" it. I've heard that some people actually drink urine, and they say it whitens their teeth. Ugh. We all have places where we draw the line and I would not step over it for that one. People's dogs pee on everything. If you put your trash bags on the curb, chances are some dog's going to come along and pee on them. I can't leave my laundry basket under the line while I wait for my laundry to dry because my dog will pee on it. Any time you touch a plant outside or pick a flower or sit down on the grass, you may be touching dog pee. So let's get a grip on this one. I think what is turning people off is the comparison of wipes to diapers and really that is not a fair comparison. A diaper is holding the entire load. The wipes have just a few drops on them. Compare instead to a man's underwear. Men do not wipe when they urinate. They just shake, and their urine splatters all over the bathroom, and then they tuck themselves away where any little droplets left deposit on their underwear. So there's no difference between washing underwear and cloth wipes. The smell of a bathroom containing a container of used wipes is no worse than the smell of the bathroom that a man has urinated in while standing up. I once worked for two well-respected attorneys. The senior partner was an older man who never washed his hands in the bathroom. The wall next to the john was stained yellow. How's that for bacteria? I cut up an old worn towel into 3" x 5" pieces. I intended to zigzag around the edges but never got around to it. Consequently, I can't throw these in the washing machine because they ravel. I keep them in a box in the bathroom that I use during the day. I use each wipe once, then drop it in a small trash container that has one of those discrete lids with a swinging cover. If, before I wash them, I detect an odor, I pour in a little distilled vinegar. I don't like the odor of bleach and bleach eats up the cloth and is not good for the septic tank. But normally I wash them by hand every few days, in their container, starting with a soak in water with vinegar added, drain that, then a little hot water from the tap with some of my cheap homemade laundry detergent that contains borax, washing soda, baking soda and Fels Naptha soap, swish that around, drain that (and both vinegar water and soapy water can go into the bowl of the john, where it does as good a job cleaning and sanitizing as any expensive bathroom bowl cleaner you can buy), and then rinse and hang them on the line. There is no odor other than that of the laundry detergent. All this takes only a few minutes. I repeat. I still use TP for #2. Also, I don't ask guests to use the cloths or even tell them that they're there. Hubs sits to pee so that he doesn't splash his urine all over the bathroom. Some men think this is emasculating but if you're so unsure about your masculinity that sitting down to pee in the privacy of your own bathroom bothers you, you have bigger problems than I can address here. If I had children in the house I don't think I'd let them use cloth. Children have no motivation to be careful about dropping things into the toilet bowl and then flushing. As small as these cloths are, maybe they'd flush ok but that would be a risk I wouldn't want to take. People talk about how washing cloth wipes is an added expense when actually they're small and can be thrown in with your load of underwear. So no additional cost there. Remember, there's no more urine on these wipes than there is on the inside of a man's underwear. TP is getting more and more expensive all the time. Some brands actually contain cloth fibers and these clog up septic tank laterals. I save money in many other ways. I wash plastic bags, if they have not contained raw meat. Before I wash my pots and pans, I put a drop of dish detergent in each bag with a tiny bit of water, smoosh the bag all around, and dump it into the sink as I rinse them out. Then I add a little more water to the sink and wash my dishes. So it has not cost me more of anything to wash bags, like some people like to say when they oppose the practice. I hang the bags up so they dry inside and out. In using a bag several times, I'm saving money and keeping lots of bags out of the landfill. If you watch your pennies, the dollars will take care of themselves. BTW, we are almost never sick.