That was exactly the plan, Dan. I got there right after a huge shipment arrived so I had the pick of the lot, and I had a person there helping me choose. If I didn't see 2 things that matched my needs and looked healthy and happy I would have walked away. As it was, I got 2 healthy looking 7-8' trees for $19.50. :) I usually go to a garden center for plants/trees, but for the price I figured I could make an exception.

Thanks, owbist. Funny thing, but the one person who sends e-mails with the smallest print I've ever seen, uses a Mac and he is a couple of years older than I am. 8-). I have complained to him about this, and one time he did use a slightly larger font setting. I'm wondering if he just doesn't know how to set his font size larger. Not being a Mac user, I don't think I can tell him, either, since I don't know his mail program.

dudsiam- I have an HP all-in-one that I like, but it occasionally decides to go offline, too. I went through the fixes with HP tech support, and it worked for a while, but occasionally and inexplicably will go offline. Sometimes I'll hit "print" and nothing happens. When this occurs, I can typically open up that printer from the taskbar icon, click the "Printer" tab in the window, and just remove the check mark that has mysteriously appeared in front of the "Work Offline" option. Then the printer prints. I know zep mentioned unchecking this entry when he explained the initial setup, but I just thought I'd emphasize that this can recur. Hopefully, yours won't have a relapse. But keep that in mind if it does. After I uninstalled and reinstalled the software several times, I decided this is a simpler way to get mine to work.

Oh boy, BM left them with no washer. SD 17 called today and said "I need to come over RIGHT NOW to do my laundry, I have no clean clothes". I was like "huh, I am not getting you, why don't you just wash them, I have seen you do laundry, what's up?" and she is like "the washer is broken" so I said "did it just happen, do you want me to call the landlord to ask him to fix it?" And she is like "no, he knows". BM and Skids rent a house and the landlord and his wife and child live next door, landlord and his wife bought the house next door to them and renovated it and BM and the kids have lived there for like it must be 4 years now. Skids used to babysit landlord's daughter, they had a good relationship with them, but I think BM has been late with the rent, also BM and Skids have regular "screaming matches" so the Skids no longer are asked to babysit the daughter of the landlord/neighbour. Skids and BM now call him a "jerk", which I don't think is warranted. DH and I think that she has been late on rent a lot, and she is a "difficult" person to begin with so she has probably yelled at him or been nasty in some way, more than likely. Anyways, so SD says "it's an old washer and he won't fix it." Istill need some "retraining" Sweeby, because my FIRST reaction is "we should just buy a new washer to help out the kids". My DH is like "WAAAHHHT??!! are you nuts??" I realized that was not the way to go, BM has made so much difficulty for us with Skids but I guess I just wonder, do I ask the landlord what's up and run interference nicely for the Skids' sakes? Do I ignore it, what do I do? leave it alone? I mean, SD17 can do laundry with us, but what about when BM gets back, then what does SD do? BM gets over $1300 a month in CS, plus she works full time, so I don't know why she doesn't just buy a new washer or get it repaired, it's weird...anyways, any suggestions are welcome, thanks!! :)