I searched for you--for a great bathrobe I saw in a store here but I cannot find it online. Our natural foods store sells it. It's organic cotton and is really plush, not too expensive either, and is something a little different than your run-of-the-mill gift. I wonder if your nearby natural food store has something like that. I just found out that making bamboo into fabric requires tons and tons of chemicals to make it soft, so even when you think you're buying something sustainable and organically grown, it's processed using lots of chemicals that are bad for the earth and may be absorbed through the skin. May be better off with organic cotton. (Verify this first, I saw this on the Green Channel & haven't looked it up.)

The +/- formats are competition generated like the recent DVD contest which BlueRay won, or even farther back the beta vs VHS conflict. Today most DVD units read and/or write both formats. My most recent reading reported minus was the more prevalent of the two. Personally I do not like any RW to use for permanent storage. I have to at times use copied video, audio and text at work. Several times a year RWs which have been rewritten on several times fail; CD and DVD. Not too often, but they do fail. Without knowing what brand and model of DVD burner along with the software you intend to use, my initial position is as long as the disk is amendable you should be able to continue using it for additional storage. DA

When You Say Nothing At All by Alison Krauss DD and DSIL played it in their wedding. It suits my DSIL to a tee and is a beautiful song! I know its on Utube. Here is a link that might be useful: Lyrics

Thank you all for your continued suggestions. I haven't seen Shirley Valentine and it's been mentioned twice so I will not only add it to the list (which I'd already done) but will check it out myself. Mtn, The Big Night is one of my favorites.. but you really sent me back with Fanny and Alexander. I know it's too long and not everyone's cup of tea but it was a favorite of mine as a kid. A church in walking distance from my house used to show old movies in the basement for a small fee-- cents, as i remember. I was the oldest of 4 kids-- and our house was a gathering place for the neighborhood kids so going to these movies was a way for me to escape the chaos. I think that's where I first developed my love of old movies.. that and I had insomnia even as a kid so I'd stay up late at night watching the old movies. Your mention of F&A brought back happy memories. And who knows what movies in this list will do the same for my grandmother? The Songcatcher was one that did that for her-- the music and sets took her back to a place in her childhood. I think the best gift I can give to her IS the Netflix membership after all.. so that she can discover her own gems. That's part of the fun, isn't it? Finding the gems. Daisy.. are you anywhere near PA? The screen itself would be a lot to send (the blower is attached and the screen and support add up to some bulk and weight).. but I do have an old screen that we're no longer using. It has a touch of mildew stain on the screen but I am sure it would clean up. Also, some people just build a frame to suspend an old sheet or a painter's tarp. I figured the 200 bucks was a lot easier than building and assembling a frame each time. It literally goes up in about 15 minutes.. and it's so fun for the kids to watch it go up! We had many many great nights around the outdoor screen. It was a lot of fun to bring together kids of all ages and interests.. and parents loved it too! I hope your neighborhood can resurrect your movie night. And P.S. an inflatable screen would be a great Christmas gift! Oh, and it's not just great for movies-- you can use it for any digital content. I have heard of people who use the screens to show big football or baseball games-- or for Guitar Hero or Xbox game tournaments on the big screen. Just remember that you need you need a projector with pretty strong light (high lumens) and you need to wait for full darkness. I usually set up before dusk.. and then wait for the dark.