Yes join us in the stained glass/ mosaic forum!! Many people do mosaics with just a hammer and old plates like gardner64 said. That's the bare bones to get started. Of course, like any hobby, you can get carried away with tools. I think for a minimal investment the wheeled nippers are good. But most people get hooked........ Anyway come join us on the other side!! Maria Here is a link that might be useful: staind glass forum

My most used tools are my battery powered string weed trimmers that I use to trim the grass and weeds between my plants in my perennial beds. (Trimming is far easier than pulling weeds.) I seldom move a perennial, only if a plant really needs to be moved because conditions where I initially put it are killing it. I never divide my perennials. However, when I do need to move a perennial, when I am planting a new perennial, turning over the vegie patch in the fall, or planting tree seedlings via the "slit method," a good long handled shovel does the job. I have at least a dozen shovels, long handled to spare my back. My older ones have hardwood handles that are still holding up, and they trace their heritage back to the days when we had horses to care for and clean up after. Wooden handles on newer shovels are purported to break easily. Some newer shovels have fiberglass handles - bad choice of material. Like fiberglass fence posts, these shovel handles seem a great idea in the beginning but age and sunlight deteriorates them and you can experience the pain of a thousand microscopic splinters if you touch a "seasoned" pole of this material. The only way to salvage an aged fiberglass shovel handle is to wrap the length of it in duct tape. I bought this shovel a few years ago, thinking that it would be the ultimate tool for digging into root and rock infested soil, but it proved entirely useless. The medieval-looking serrated edge tangles in weeds rather than cutting through them. It has been relegated to a museum piece on my barn wall, interesting to look at, but no practical value. I had such high hopes for it, but it is nothing more than a conversation piece now. As to forks, I prefer my standard pitchfork, also dating back to the days of horses, and moving hay bales. I have a host of short handled gardening tools, but I find that they are only good for planting annuals in pots or containers. My back has seen better days, and long handled tools cause the least damage.

kudzu9 you can certainly do a lot of changes to the firefox chrome which is that entire area where the various toolbars are, it would be by making changes(editing) the UserChrome.css, some things can probably also be changed in about:config in firefox also. I think there are some extensions that are additional toolbar buttons which allow some of those changes by using the customize feature as zep mentions, you would add the toolbar buttons extension which adds many more options and buttons to that list. If you do some searching you can likely find ways to get it exactly how you want it. I have my firefox chrome very customized. The use of various themes is of course another option, and may well be the easiest route, if you go to the themes page and search for AEON Big and AEON Jumbo those are both themes for sight problems HiVis Large 3.5.3 that one is part of the Access Firefox project for sight impaired. Access Firefox I think the Anycolor theme in Access firefox project is the most customizable and allows you to change the size of all of the writing on the bars in the firefox chrome, it is an excellent choice for a very customized firefox especially for those with poor eyesight. AnyColor by Pavlos Touboulidis

jerry, if I interpret your last posting correctly, looking at START -> ALL PROGRAMS -> STARTUP, will not show all of the programs that run when you boot the computer. Try the START -> RUN then type in msconfig as the file to OPEN. This will result in a System Configuration Utility screen. Click the STARTUP tab and look at the files that have a check mark in the box to run on startup. If there is one there that smells like epson, that probably is the culprit. The files there are uniquely named and if you are unsure as to whether to uncheck a file, there are a number of websites that identify the programs and tell if it is okay to uncheck them, e.g., answersthatwork.com.