Sounds like a really cool title for a children's book. I'd say you have VOLES, my dear. When you water or it rains, they will tunnel through the soft earth, munching on your plant's roots. Moles and gophers and shrews (and snakes of all kinds), use their nifty tunnels to get around your yard subteranean - like a handy-dandy animal subways. Crickets use them, earthworms, and slugs, too, and lots of other critters. Some good for your garden and some that don't seem to be so good. I've lost tuberose salvias and my favorite tea roses; tulips and petunias, even cactus roots. If its edible, they will eat it! I've tried various things, like tarpaper collars around my roses and concrete or rock barriers, even strips of sheet metal buried around them. The tarpaper worked pretty good until it disentigrated, but eventually, mice burrowed through it and then it rotted to dirt. Flooding does no good, as those tunnels are hundreds of feet long. Those holes will never fill completely up. I've tried it. :) If you have a serious vole (or other rodent) problem, like I do, your yard may be completely undermined with tunnels that links with your neighbor's, and their neighbor's, and so on...hence you may find a flower in your yard (or weed) that you didn't plant or never saw before. Birds can bring carry them in or deposit them in your garden, via their poop, that's true, but so can rodents. Rodents carry seeds back and forth through those tunnels to and from your place. Keeping things in balance with Nature is what works best for me. If we can stop fighting all the elements of nature and work with it, we will get better results and enjoy gardening even more. I sink bottomless buckets in the ground for barriers for my big lilies, around berry bushes and roses, and even some of my garden plants, like my tomatoes, and that works really great. For shallow rooted plants that send out roots horizontally, these don't work so well. Planting daffodils, irises, liriope (Monkey grass), garlic, zinnias and stinky marigolds around the borders of my flower beds and/or around blueberry bushes, roses and strawberry beds, even apple trees, is about the only things I've done that works relatively well for an indefinite period of time, without killing the beneficial micro-organisms in the soil and harming animals like shrews and earthworms and preditory insects and snakes. Garlic really does a great job warding off rodents from my roses and they both mutually benefit from one another. Daffodils, irises, and liriope are poisonous so rodents just don't dig 'em. I think we gardeners and farmers will always have our challenges, but isn't that what makes our successes so awesome! ~ SweetAnnie4u

You are lucky you had it working for 2 years I got a logitech combo wireless mouse and keyboard for Christmas it worked ok for about 3 weeks then it just went wacky. Started typing random letters across the page and the mouse seemed to only work when it wanted to. I returned it. Went back to my plug in keyboard and my GE wireless optical mini mouse. Works great.

It sounds like a "mechanical" problem, like some dirt or lint may be stuck under the pad. But check the "sensitivity" setting in case that's somehow been changed. Open Control Panel, then Hardware and Sound, then Mouse...try changing the sensitivity setting there. Otherwise, you may need to open the pad to clean under it, and I'll leave it to more knowledgeable people to tell you how that's done!

Didn't matter much to me - I was doing things in the garden, including staking tomatoes. I like to listen to the radio, but it automatically switches to batteries if power goes off and I was too stingy to buy batteries: didn't want to listen to afternoon radio that badly. I'd go occasionally to switch on the light on the trouble cord where the radio was plugged in. Left about 6, away till 11 (radio worked in the car) and called power co. on my return home. After some milk (no coffee possible ... toast, grilled cheese, etc. either) I went to bed ... they called after a couple of hours to ask if power was on ... it was. I thanked them for their service. On computer, including THS most of the rest of the night - got a can't get there from here re THS about 5 a. m. I hope that you all have a trouble free approach to the weekend ... and weekend. ole joyful