I taught my kids to swim when they were a babies since we had a pond right beside the house that was just a deep hole in the ground and would be hard to get out of since it was very deep. My daughter disappeared on day when she was about a year old when I put her down for a nap and one of the older kids had left the door open so I thought she had gotten outside. I looked all over the entire house and couldn't find her anywhere and yelled and yelled. I was so scared to go look in the pond and find her floating since she loved to collect frogs near the pond and stuff them in her pullups. A whole nother story. I called my husband after I looked in there and he came home with the police since we lived on 450 acres in the middle of nowhere to help search and she had been missing for 2 hours. Guess where she was. She had pushed the mattress over a little and was wedged between the wall and matress covered all the way up snoozing away. I thought I was going to pass out when we found her I was so relieved. Kids are never too young to learn to be careful around the pond and not go near it without an adult and to swim so if they do fall in they won't panick and have a chance of getting out.

I almost took it (GH)down Monday. glad I didn't with this predicted cold. I may cut off some of the white after taking the gh down, several limbs are really long. They are both noids from Michigan Bulb, and are planted in the ground. If you want 1 or 2 I will put them in water to root. It will be after Easter before I take the GH down and trim them. princealbert

As it's one of the major components of having one's birthdate used when carrying out identity theft, I've stopped using my real birthday when visiting almost all internet-related situations ... or public ones, either, for that matter. I use my long-dead brother's date and month ... and my own year. Just to add one more item of safety to my lifestyle: there are so many ways available to have it jeopardized! ole joyful

I can't even imagine. The reporting is what annoys me. Several articles are more interesting in how much the house cost and who the mother was sleeping with while judging her for making it out alive. I don't think anyone can really say what they would do in that situation unless they've been there. I imagine if it were at all possible she would have saved her kids but it sounds like that house went up very quickly and they were on different floors. Maybe she went outside to get a ladder to try to reach them from the outside if she couldn't from the inside, maybe the firemen wouldn't let her back in, who knows. That poor lady is going to replay it every single day for the rest of her life. I feel so bad for her.