I grafted an unknown early peach that my neighbor has grown for 10 years or more ( It was there when he bought the house). It's very delicious but as soon as it got old enough to have good fruit, I only had 2 years of sweet peaches and the last 2 years when the tree flowered in Jan. not Feb. the weather has been too cool and overcast and the ripening peaches all taste terrible. The same for the neighbors tree that I made the graft from. I could just wait and see again what will happen. Still, it's a cheerful sight in bloom and the bees are grateful for the pollen to bring back to their hives. I like to sit and listen to them. It's one of the earliest trees to wake up so I called it my rooster tree but now has been named Cogburn's Peach by my friend. Cogburn's peach has been such a good tree for my neighbor and many people enjoy it because it hangs over the fence and the sweet peaches hang down over the sidewalk. There never is any mess because everyone eats the peaches as soon as they are getting ripe. I would trade tangerines in January for peaches later on and the super sweet ones were so much better than the just ripening ones that people got hanging over the sidewalk as they walked by. I wanted my own tree so much in case something ever happened to the neighbors tree. We never could find out what it was. That tree is looking stressed out now but mine looks in the prime health of its young adult life. I would hate to remove it but I worry about the loss of our cold and wonder if I wouldn't do better with something more reliable. About the strawberry fields next to Disneyland. They were owned by an old farmer and although Disney tried to buy his fields many times, he refused to sell. The soil in that part of Anaheim is so wonderful. It's fine and sandy river bed soil. Whenever they work on the roads, you can see the magnificent soil that was paved over for parking lots and hotels and the parks. I would love to have that soil. Anyone who grows crops would love that soil. Strawberries do very well here. You see them here and there but mostly now nearer the beach cities. The children sold the fields right after he died and they put parking lots on them. It was very sad to see it happen that way. I wish they would preserve some of the agricultural heritage of early Orange County. I remember when my parent's home had orange groves for miles along the roads and the air was sweet with orange blossoms. There are a few remaining orange trees in backyards of that neighborhood ( built in 1963) and they still produce great oranges today. The builders left some of the trees instead of knocking all of them down. The same thing happened when they built an industrial park on an orange grove. They left some rows of trees instead of planting grass like all the others did. The value of the strawberry fields on Harbor Blvd. was too tempting because of its proximity to the Disney resorts and being on the main road where all the hotels are. The same thing is happening in Irvine. Soon all the farms will be gone forever and replaced with planned association neighborhoods and shopping.

first thing to try is using a different browser to see if this is a browser specific problem and not an air card problem so go download firefox browser, let it import all your settings and faves from IE when installing so you have it set up like your IE, when you first open it you will be at the firefox homepage to let you know that it was successful once you close it and open it next time it will be at your regular home page if you imported your settings. Then try going to various websites as you were trying on Ie and see what happens. It is always best to have at least 2 browsers on a pc just for these reasons, should one fail. Let us know. Here is a link that might be useful: firefox

oh yep my bad I was talking about my desktop have never done one on a laptop sorry. do you by any chance have McAfee on your pc? I found many many of my problems I had been having on my pc some to do with connection issues were all remedied when I completely removed McAfee. OH WAIT hold the phone you said about a week ago would that happen to be right after you got the latest MS updates??? Because that was one of the problems some were having after getting the updates! If it was right after patch Tuesday then I would bet it is one of those updates. Here is the link to the thread about that over on BBR forums. Loss Of Connection After Installing Windows Updates Oct MS Updates this latest batch of updates also had a problem with some versions of zonealarm firewall. If it did start at that time I think I would do a system restore to a date prior to that and see if that works, then you could go to the windows update page and try getting only the critical updates one at a time to see which one is the culprit and not get that one, once you know the KB number you can just remove that particular one from add remove. If you need system restore directions just ask it is super simple and reversible.

Your plant (tillandsia brachycaulos) looks healthy. It's small pup, so it will take a lot of time to grow up. Few tips from me: - It needs fresh air. If possible, keep it outside (garden, balcony). It doesn't tolerate freeze, day temperatures over 20 °C are best. - This species dislikes much direct sunlight. Lot of diffused light is better. - Keep the plant base dry. Never let it sit for a long time on a damp surface. It will lead to rot. - You can glue it to a piece of diftwood/branch and hang somewhere. Or you can make a holder from a piece of rubber-coated, stainless or high quality zinc-galvanized wire. Never use copper wire, it's toxic for tillandsias. - This species prefers more water. If it's not too cold, mist or shortly dunk it in water daily. During hottest days, you may let few drops of water inside the plant. Once per month you can add few drops of bromeliad/orchid or any fertilizer to the water. Use at least 10x more diluted concentration than lowest recommended on the bottle.