Thanks guys! I'm relieved to hear that BME grows faster than I thought and a bit dismayed that Mighty grows so slow. These two little guys were expensive and are so tiny. We are planning on moving from UT to Florida in two years and if these guys grow that slow I might just take them with me as I've really been wanting these two for a long time and I would hate to start from scratch. I plan on leaving them in the ground even though we do not have any squirrels in our yard. Only problem we have are racoons and they don't seem to bother our plants (just our ducks). Is there a particular reason why you would need to pot them up? I don't mind having it in the ground due to it's size as I can just plant some annuals around it. They are both planted in front of my hydrangeas and they tend to steal the show anyways.

I use a Logitech MX1000 laser mouse and I am very happy with it. The G7 linked below is the next generation but looks very similar. Mine has 8 buttons (I do not use them all) and the beauty is you can do so much more with the choices. Go back or forward a page is thumb controlled. The wheel can be rolled, pressed down for down scrolls or pressed sideways to move left or right of wide pages. It is a large mouse making life a little easier on arthritic hands. The only negative issue is more me than the mouse, I fail to place it in the charging stand and have on rare occasions had to walk away while it charges. Minor irritation easily corrected with a smarter operator. I have a Logitech roller ball controlled with the thumb. Again, great for arthritics but I found I never had close enough control when photo editing. Other than that I did like that mouse, still have it in fact. Here is a link that might be useful: Logitech G7 laser mouse

Well to keep the censors at bay, let me first say that I haven't made any interesting improvements to my small house. My septic tank drainfield stopped working and had to be replaced. Home maintainence zapped the home improvement budget so everything else is on hold for a while. Add my son's 16th bday on the 9th and Christmas closing in fast and there just isn't any cashflow left. In fact, it all left! My son and I did engage in a rather fun and interesting project two weekends ago but since it was more furniture related I didn't feel right airing it here, but since you asked..... I bought him a flat screen high def television for his birthday. My first. I had a 27 inch conventional tube TV sitting in a typical entertainment system/wall unit. That unit was quite large and included a concealed, swing out rack on the left to hold the CD's, DVD's, etc. and a rack system on the right for stereo equipment. Although the old wall unit was quite large, my new flat screen TV (37 inch) wouldn't fit the hole for the TV. I had looked around for a replacement stand to hold the cable box, my son's game system, etc. and put the flat screen TV at an appropriate height but couldn't find anything. We had unloaded the old wall unit and wheeled it out to the porch so we could load it into the truck and take it to the dump. We had talked about designing and building our own stand and since the old unit was very large and very heavy, we started dismantling it to salvage hardware and make it easier to handle. The more we dismantled, the more I started thinking I could cut this old unit down to size and redesign it. So we did. My old (1985 vintage) component stereo system had developed some problems so the stereo section was eliminated. I liked the concealed rack for the Games. Cd's, DVD's so we disassembled that, shortenened it, changed the location of the shelves and reassembled it. Then we shifted the stereo cabinet upright panels over to the "TV hole" and shortened them, creating a shelf for the cable box, game system and another shelf for the modem and wireless router since all that connects to my incoming cablevision. We shortened and refitted the top and voala! A redesigned cabinet/TV stand for zero dollars. The old unit was about 60 inches wide and 50 inches tall the new unit is about 40 inches wide and 34 inches tall. Perfect fit! And, my son and I had a great time thinking through the redesign and planning it out so most of the old hardware went back into the factory holes. It was a fantastic father/son project and one we won't soon forget. This will do until we find a better solution or until we design and build a replacement unit from scratch. Fun enough? Sorry that took so long to describe. Scott

Regardless of brand, be sure your laptop has an HDMI port (for an external monitor), an Ethernet port (for wired internet) and at least three USB ports (2 for external keyboard and mouse and one for an external drive). During these times, I use Zoom a lot and connecting my laptop to my 55" TV is a blessing, and I hate the keyboard and mouse substitutes on the laptop itself.