I stumbled on this decade old thread searching for empathy about the things that frustrate me while gardening last year. This is an oldie- but a goodie. I laughed so hard that I cried. And then I laughed some more and could not stop giggling- it was cathartic! I had to bump this to share- in case anyone missed it. :) My 2016 Garden Vexations: 1. Slugs and black vine weevils. Trying to find a balance between killing them and not harming the wildlife and beneficial insects. The slugs did not give some hostas a chance to get it's roots into the ground before the leaves were eaten off (Cherry Berry and Dancing Queen were gone in days, a few others took about a month). I used the late night and early morning picking off method along with Diatomaceous Earth dusted around ground and base . 2. Feral and house cats roaming free around the neighborhood. Very destructive to the environment by killing the wild birds, marking territory on my porch and deck (ugh, that stinks!), and using my landscape and garden beds as their litter box. 3. Digging out volunteer trash/weedy/invasive tree saplings whose roots seem to go down to the core of the Earth. Cutting it down only encourages more stems to grow. 4. The garden hose- same exact problem as stated earlier in the thread... I spit on your nozzle. :) This year will be considering the possibility of drip irrigation systems (but will it work with only one spigot?). 5. Temperature fluctuations and the high stakes of gardening and container gardening. Is it spring or winter? Last year I asked is it Summer or Fall? Should I bring the pots in or leave them out and risk a black frost? Do I have to guts to see if they will be OK? It seems like with some temperature dips and frosts there is just one one shot... should I risk it because I am tired of dragging the many containers in and out of the wintering space that gets too warm in the day or should I play it safe, suck it up and make the many trips back and forth to protect the tender plant greens each evening? So far I have played it safe after reading about "dogwood winters". I have not been gardening as long to have discovered the humor in annoying things as the others... but it is good to know that many have the same frustrations. Please share yours, too!

Strange thing is my netbook and office desktop work fine, no backbutton problem. All had the same updates and version FF. Tried my husbands laptop and it works fine - same updates. All run XP. Nothing different that I can tell. The problem continues on my home desktop. I can't figure out what the difference would be. I don't think its the mouse as I use a wireless MS mouse. Jane

Look in control panel. Keyboard. Repeat rate adjustment is there. Also located in some bios settings.

I got that this morning! I can't remember which post it was, but I finally had to close the whole thing because it happened every time I opened a post. It's not happening now. My goodness, what a lot of glitches this site has. I still have to sign in through the home forum page.