Morz, I may have mentioned it before, but I do not think so, but I had the pleasure of seeing Justin's platinum album of "Nights in White Satin" at his studio in their London home when I was staying there. I know this is blatant name dropping, but I apologise, can't help it! teehee! Triple B - there should be a rose:) I think of many names they could have. Even Tuesday afternoon - that could be a lovely name for a rose, as well as Moody Blue, after me (just kidding), Nights in White Satin of course, Forever Autumn for a nice orange rose, etc. Oh and again, this is final! Bye bye Moody Blue! Pauline-Vancouver Island-Zone 8.

sdello -- No, on the 1995 XJR the KBB of $9K - 10K is private sale value. Trade-in value is $7 - 8K. Retail, $13K. So, I see the dealer making $5K on my trade-in, and think the price on the X-Type should be lower. Even if he had to put something into the XJR to ready it for market, it should profit him well. The salesman said he thought they would market the car rather than auction it. Steve_o -- Well, that's my problem. I don't know what depreciation to figure on the 2005 X-Type VDP with 2700 miles. In three months, when the 2006's come out, the car becomes "last year's model". Seems to me a car drops 20% to 25% when you drive it out off the dealer's lot. In that case, even a new 2005 (MSRP of $37,280) would be $29,825, or even $27,960. FWIW, State Farm loan department tells me June retail value is $31K. I'm thinking of proposing $30K less $8K for our trade-in = $22K cash (plus tax, license fees, etc.) Maybe that is too much? The dealer bought two of these cars in May at a Jaguar auction in St. Louis. Now, if we could just peek at what he paid... Thanks for helping me with my "car wars".

I agree with Mona--you did a great thing by helping him find his home. And you get extra points for the use (and correct spelling!) of the word "gambol". We don't hear that word often enough anymore--maybe because there's just not that much gamboling going on anymore? ...but it's so evocative, isn't it? :)

Kim, 25 years ago, I tested allergic to zucchini. The Dr was surprised because he said it was an uncommon allergy. He asked how I fixed them. I said, rolled in egg and flour and fried or made into zucchini bread--with egg, flour and milk. He had already told me I was allergic to eggs, flour and milk so said my body decided zucchini was quilty by association. It was not the permanent type of allergy. I had to totally eliminate those foods for two years--that was HARD--and then return one at a time. I can now eat them again, but I don't eat any of them every single day like I did for years. The weather forcast showed a probablilty of us getting 2-3 inches last night. I slept late this morning, hearing nothing overnight so I was surprised to see 2.2 inches in the gauge this morning. Yay! I am so glad because while dad was in the hospital over the weekend--48 hours--we stayed with mother because she is disabled and cannot stay alone--our water was running on three 50 ft soaker hoses in the garden. Our water bill is going to be outrageous! So we won't water anything until after the 15th when the meter gets read. There are enough buckets, tubs, and barrels under the eaves of the house and greenhouse to take care of the container plants until then. We have had a very cool summer so far. 97 was the highest temp so far and that was just one day. We have had more nights in the 60s this summer than in the 70s and none in the 80s. We've had good rain too. 6 inches in June, 3 in July and Now 2.5 in August. But all the rain and cool has been hard on my tomatoes. Every plant has a fungus disease. Early Blight I think. 3 have died; all are affected. Leaf footed bugs are also in good supply this year and doing damage, sucking juice out of the tomatoes. But we have had more squash and cucumbers than we can eat. I planted too many and they have just kept producing with no sign of SVB and only a very few squash bugs. I don't know if I will plant a fall garden. Dad has sold his ranch and we are going to be super busy helping him get ready to move. (Anybody know of a good assisted living place in Tulsa?) Besides now that we plant cool weather greens in the greenhouse in October to eat on all winter there isn't as much need to plant them in the garden. Plus, I learned several years ago that since I take thyroid medicine I shouldn't eat turnip and mustard greens every..single...day...for 6 weeks as they suppress thyroid function and make me tired and when the Dr increases the dosage and I quit eating them after a while I get too hyper and she has to decrease the dose again. "Be consistent!" she said. The Kentucky Red cowpeas I got from George several years ago are in full production. The nasty Japanese Beetles don't like them, preferring the Kentucky Wonder pole beans. Next year I will plant more KR and fewer KW. The 8 ft fence we built three years ago is still keeping the deer away from the okra and sweet potatoes and they are doing very well. UNfortunately the squirrels are still working the fruit. They didn't bother the Hosui Asian pears at all. I guess because they are so brown when ripe, they didn't know they were ripe. But they took half of the American pears and probably a third of the Yellow Delicious apples before they got fully ripe. So we picked them early, froze, dried and juiced some and saved a few to eat. And now to bed. Tomorrow we will pick okra and cherry tomatoes to dry and then attack the grass and weeds in the garden with a weedeater.