Based on enablers photos from this year, I have orders in for Rainforest Sunrise and Cathedral Windows. They look wonderful! I bought several on McT's list the year before or earlier, so they don't count for new 2007 favorites. But I will comment that El Nino is my most favorite hosta, and looks great near yellows like Sun Power and Stained Glass. Orange Marmalade is a large that grows slowly, so its neighbors may overwhelm it. I bought 4 in 2006, and the ones getting more hours of sun grow much better. I love them! I think Eskimo Pie is slow, but worth the wait. Love the color varigation. I bought Tick Tock this October, a nice little potful. The edges were sunburned, so not photo-worthy. I can't wait to see what it does next year. Cowboy, I noticed that you bought Hadspen Samphire. Mine grew really fast, and the show in the spring is spectacular! It's a decent limey green later on, with a nice full shape. Phil, ditto Cowboy's comment about Hole Mole. It grows wider and taller than Guacamole in much less time. I am going to have to move mine. It is at the front of one garden, and needs to be switched with one of my runts that is behind it. My faves from last year include: Ice Cream...I liked it so much I kicked another hosta out of my favorite island garden to make room for it. A nice clean, tidy little guy. Silver Bay. Gorgeous thick blue wax, lasted all season. I damaged it by spraying deer repellent on it, however. Heat Wave. Thick leaves, a tetraploid, lovely colors. Don't know its rate of increase. Ice Age Trail. Another one I sprayed with deer repellent early in the season. Duh! Mine doesn't have as many creamy steaks as others, but I still really like it. Tortilla Chip. An all yellow sport of Stained Glass. Tolerates sun enough to be planted with some of my daylilies. Ginsu Knife. A small specimen when I bought it, grew very nicely throughout the season. Another I plopped in with daylilies. The fragrant ones do just fine in this area, and of course have wonderful flowers. Fragrant King. I ordered Fragrant King, Fragrant Surprise and Fragrant Fire. The last 2 grew slowly for me, and I was unimpressed. Fragrant King really jumped, and I like the ones that have wider edges. My big obsession is finding hostas that look good all season in midday sun, and have other than all-green leaves. Fragrance is a major plus. I need them to brighten my daylily gardens after the daylilies are done flowering. My favorites in this category are Stained Glass and Diana Remembered, but they were bought before 2007, so don't make this list of new hostas. ~Bunnycat

Good post Bob. Mine is nothing like that- but I wish it was! The pps come as attachments to email, Windows Live Mail -I hate it. Right click on attachment pps: Mine opens little window/box in center of screen. Top left says "mail attachment" Top right has red "X". "Do you want to open this file?" "Name: Beautiful pictures.pps" "Type: Microsoft PowerPoint Slide Show" Then offers choice of "Open or "Cancel" Selecting "Open" brings message: Big Red X "This file does not have a program associated with it for performing this action. Please install a program or, if one is already installed, create an association in the Default Programs control panel". I do have Windows PowerPoint viewer installed- and have booted several times since then. It is in my programs list.

I am not sure Azinoh is exactly right. Why wouldn't/couldn't a person buy OEM or upgrade? When there was the big sale back in the summer I bought Win7 Professional upgrade for delivery October 22nd. Never even had to confirm using one of my XP CDs either because I altered an .ini file so it accepted the beta version I had been running. Totally legal according to MS. Wouldn't a valid Vista owner have received some kind of coupon at the time of purchase to enable the Win & upgrade? All my XP copies are OEM and I have shuffled them to different motherboards as the need arose. Buying OEM saves money but Microsoft offers no support, but who needs MS support when anything and everything is online somewhere waiting to be found.

To verify in Win 7 click Start, click Accessories, click Run. Type CMD hit Enter and the black screen appears, type ipconfig and hit Enter. Does it show IPv6? If other computers are not Win 7 click Start the Run and go forward as above to verify.