I did a quick bit of slug research and found these little tidbits that I had not seen before. - Grapefruit, slugs love it and will choose it over your plants. (Sounds like an opportunity for a "bait and salt" to me.) -Oat bran, slugs love it but once eaten it expands till they die - Slugs hate mint, geraniums, fennel and garlic -soot sprinkled around the base of plants will kill slugs by drying them out - a squirt of ammonia diluted with water will kill them Then of course there are the slug eaters such as Starlings, toads, ducks, chickens etc. Those moist mild winters do increase the populations. Freezes have to be tough to get them. Oh and by the way, fish love to eat them. Of course your not likely to have fish hanging around your flower beds but you can toss them in the pond if you have one. Well, I'm off to spread some oat bran and feed the fish.

Until a few days ago, I was able to merely click to this web site and was recognized as a member. Now, if I wish to reply, I have to remember to go to the bottom of the page and log in. I think that the last time I allowed my spy sweeper software to sweep my system, it probably took out the Garden Web cookie that was used to "recognize" a registered user. Web Root's Spy Sweeper probably saw this as a tracking cookie (and maybe it was). Anyhow, it's no big deal if I have to log in to reply (so long as I remember what my password was).

One of my early apartments was extremely small, but I liked to have friends over and there was insufficient space to seat them all. Floor pillows weren't enough for the hardwood floors, so I bought a bunch of beanbag chairs because they were squishy enough to stuff under the bed, behind the couch, etc. I could fit something like four under my twin bed, three behind the couch (the only two pieces of actual furniture in my apartment, but if you wanted milk crates I was your gal!). When I had a party the floor would be a sea of multicolored beanbags, and since I was the only one in the crowd who lived alone most of the parties happened at my place. People would just fall asleep in them when they got tired, and then the party would sort of re-start in the morning with someone getting up and making pancakes and mimosas. LOL I had to sit on a HUGE beanbag chair at a party recently because that was the only way to get a semi-reclining position - obviously the host did not have a reclining chair. I had to roll out of it sideways onto my hands and knees, and lever myself up with my cane, which I've gotten pretty good at since I'm falling more often again. To be honest I was laughing the whole time, and I WAS totally sober (probably the only person there who was... the homebrewers' efforts were apparently very good this year, as was someone's *polite cough* smokeables crop). I just turned 39 - and usually feel 93 - and contentedly flopped out in that crunchy ball of a chair I felt about 23 again. Now inflatable furniture, OTOH, don't get me started. IMO it belongs in the pool and that's IT!

Bump. The deadline passed so we can let this sink in the list now.