Very nice...like the curves. Your design with the JM, blue spruce and grasses towards the end is your best mix of plants. I bet you did that one after the the soldier line-up with the grass, daylilly and barberry, lol. Thanks for sharing. Gives lots of folks ideas on how to improve their landscape.

well you have to download it to your pc, then close all of your browser windows completely shutting down all instances of firefox, then go to the download and double click to begin the install, follow wizard. to see the plugins you have in your firefox browser open a firefox browser window, in the url box type about:plugins and hit enter, it will give you a list of all current plugins and their state. A really good free little program by Secunia will tell you if any of the programs and such are up to date or if there are newer versions, it is very helpful to keep things updated. Here is a link that might be useful: secunia personal software inspector

you should not lose anything it is just an update version you should be able to just go to the update button on your current firefox and check for updates then select to allow it to update, you will have to shut down and restart firefox once it is done, there are some differences but not that major and there are ways to change the things to look like they did in 2.0 there is a thread on here somewhere that I put a lot of links on to make those changes. (you can search for it) they are ending support for version 2 in the very near future (weeks) so everyone should begin to read up on it and plan on the update. there are a few add ons that are not yet compatible with 3 but 3 has been out so long now that many have already become compatible. I always back up at least my favorites file before doing a version update and sometimes my profile also, to do your favs back up just go to bookmarks, organize bookmarks, click on export, it will open up your storage area on your pc simple save the bookmarks file to some place on your pc or on your desktop where you will remember where it is, that way should anything go wrong you have your bookmarks file right there saved to put into the new version. That is why I really like the add-on foxmarks, it saves all your bookmarks to online, you have a free account, you can log in to it from any where and have access to all your favs, and if you should ever have something happen to your firefox everything is still right there on your foxmarks account and can be synced right back to your browser, and every time you add a new bookmark foxmarks syncs up with the online one and puts them there also. Profiles How to Back up Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird this is an older article but shows some of the differences Review of some changes in Firefox 3 one of the big differences is the URL bar on 3 if you don't like it you can change that too Firefox 3: Make Address Bar Behave Like Firefox 2

A few years back, I gave my stepdaughter (then 11 or 12) a budget of $50/month. This was meant to be used for incidentals. If she wanted an expensive brand of shampoo or nail polish, she could pay for it. The basic idea was defensive. Instead of me having to vote yes/no on every little thing she might want (and she has always been a greedy little materialist), she had to weigh some of her wants against others. This meant that I didn't get into a tug of war with myself, asking questions like "Am I being stingy just because she's a stepkid?" whenever she wanted something she clearly didn't need. The budget worked for a few months and then the kid rebelled. She claimed that every other kid at her school got everything they wanted and didn't have to work within a budget. She described me as a kook to friends on the phone. I dropped the allowance and stopped granting all but very basic requests. Earlier, I'd tried an allowance not tied to chores. That was a waste. I couldn't get the kid to do anything unless I stood over her head. Later, I tried an allowance based on chores. That was better, but was too much stress on me since I had to do far too much checking and reminding about the chores and the kid always had something rude to say or a nasty attitude about being reminded. My stepkid is now 17 and has a very part-time job (1-2 hours a week) and sometimes babysits. She doesn't get an allowance now and is still expected to do a few things (dishes, cat boxes) around the house. Looking back, I should have stood by the budget idea, in spite of the kid's ridicule. It would have reduced the friction between us over the long haul and forced her to rank her "needs". Allowances can be great for teaching elemental financial planning and responsibility, but the trick is limiting how much effort YOU have to put into checking whether the chores are done and the allowance earned.