Hey, that's why I love posting here, because I'm definitely NOT a know-it-all. I need backup. :D It all happened so quickly (gliding, landing, sitting pretty), but I really think it had a banded tail with darker colors! I know the chest was white, with brown vertical speckles, if that makes sense. I took the camera out yesterday morning, as I will today, but it didn't show up. There is another bird, though, maybe someone can ID for me. Again, not a very good pic, but it's one of a few birds that have been hanging around. They have a weird flight pattern, where they take off from their perch, swoop out (or up) and around, returning to their perch, almost like a boomerang (or like they're snagging some insects in mid-air?). Anyway, I've mentioned it before as having a light yellow front, and you can just see some peeking out from above the tail in this pic. They usually hang around in pairs, and they're very protective of their "area". This is the one and only time any of them have ventured this close to the house, that I've seen, anyway. It was very hot that day, and it definitely wasn't doing the swoop thing. Maybe someone can help! :) Brenda

OMG..I love this forum. You people have the best humor. Thanks for making me laugh.. My daughter got me a few light gray bullfrog tadpoles. I have grown to love two of them. I haven't seen the other three since I put them in my pond. I named the biggest one Puffy, and the smaller one Fatty. We would stare at each other for the longest time, and they are soo cute. I am dreading for them to get big. I don't want to be afraid of them. I am not worried about them messing with my fish. They don't seem aggressive at all. The fish will taunt them and bully them around and chase them around the pond, but they won't do anything to defend themselves except to try to swim away from them when the fish won't leave them alone. I like seeing pictures of you holding them. I hope I don't get eeked out by them when they mature.

Unfortunately, once a thread drops off the list it never comes back to the list. If it's a thread that's had a post since at least late-2007 and you've bookmarked it, you can link to it directly. Anyone who's bookmarked it and retrieves it can post to it, but it still won't jump back onto the list. The post will be there, but the thread is still missing in action! So, my advice to you and everyone else is...if you want to save a thread for later reference, bookmark it or save it to your local machine! One caution: If someone deletes or moves their pictures that were posted in the thread and you only bookmarked it, you will lose those pictures when you retrieve the thread later. To be sure you save everything, you really need to save the thread to your machine. Note that later posts won't show up in the saved thread b/c you've saved it at a specific point in time. Future posts won't be there...but, you can always re-save it. Once you save the thread to your machine, all pictures are saved with it. How do you do this? There are a couple of ways that most people use. Saving the thread "as is" from your browser: From Firefox: Go to the Menu Bar (File Edit View History Bookmarks Tools Help) Click File Select Save Page As... The file name will default to the msg#.html (in the case of this message, it defaults to msg0322471215999.html) Click the Save button In Internet Explorer: Go to the Menu Bar (File Edit View Favorites Tools Help) Click File Select Save As... The file name will default to the - Kitchens Forum - GardenWeb.mht (in the case of this message, it defaults to Buehl, Q for you re missing posts - Kitchens Forum - GardenWeb.mht) Click the Save button Note: In both cases you can save to a different File Type by clicking the "Save as type" drop down menu and selecting another type. Saving the thread in an MS Word document or similar: Open a new/empty MS Word (or other) document Select the entire thread using one of the following: Click the keys [Note: This will select the entire page, including the GW header & footer.] ......OR...... Using the mouse, select whatever part of the thread you wish to save by clicking & dragging. I usually start with the subject line of the Original Post and drag to the end of the last post. Copy the selection by using the keys Paste what you just copied into the MS Word (or other) document [Note: In most Microsoft products, the paste keys are ] Save the document using whatever name you like [Note: In MS Word, click File and select Save As...] A note about much older threads.... Prior to 2008, when a thread fell off the thread list (i.e., fell off of page 67), the thread was lost forever unless you had saved it down to your machine. Even when bookmarked, the thread was gone. If you tried to retrieve it using your bookmark, you received a page that said "Missing File". Occasionally you could find it using a Google search...but...

Gorgeous gardens and plants all. Sunnywood: your beds are so neat and hostas are beautiful. Nelson and tj: dahlias are amazing. Irawon: I especially love your mini bed. I'm getting more into minis as I am running out of space. They are so cute. Here are a few of my favorite pics from 2015 Here are many of my minis. Stepping stone path through the hosta. Getting really crowded. I did some moving and thinning out at the end of the season. Blues look really blue in this shady area. Really missing my garden. Can't wait for spring!