Do not dig bulbs now. Wait until the foliage begins to yellow. At that point you can dig and store the bulbs for September planting or replant immediately. In my zone roots begin in August and there's a huge root mass by Sept. (found this out accidently). Foliage first, buds next. Sounds like the soil is depleted. Your 5-10-5 fertilizer sounds great. I also like to dig in bonemeal when prepping a new bulb area. It supplies phosphorus in future years. PS: new roots can be burned by contact with fresh granular fertilizer so dig it in. I also put an inch or two of soil over the fertilized soil with the bulbs on top of that.

I have lots of hand problems and the best thing I ever did for myself was get a mouse that is ergonomic and keeps the hand in a more vertical or hand shake position, I have had to order 2 for my husband he liked mine so much he wanted one for home and work, I have 2 of them myself, they are not very costly and she could use that instead of the touchpad. I can not use the touch pad at all. Wow-Pen Joy WP-012 - 5-btn Mouse - Wired - USB that is it and various places to find it. for laptop I would also go with the larger size if she will be mainly leaving it on a desk, check for full size keyboard, most of the major brands would be fine, I like HP, Acer, Asus, Toshiba, I am not a Dell fan. I prefer an AMD processor to Intel and they are usually a bit cheaper. Most new ones will have windows 7 64 bit so you will want plenty of memory 4GB and up, she should be fine with what ever graphics card comes with it since she will be doing basic use. I would not go with an emachines. Here are some options that you can view and see what the specs are. Acer Aspire 17.3" AS7560-Sb416 HP Steel Gray 17.3" Pavilion If she wants to go smaller with the 15-16 inch these might work Acer Black 15.6" Aspire this one is a dual core as opposed to a quad core so will be less powerful. HP Dark Umber 15.6" Pavilion dv6-6119wm pretty much you will see from a 500GB hard drive up which should suffice her needs. Just remember she should make sure it has full size keyboard and of course she can plug in a regular keyboard to it also if she needs to. It would be a good idea when she gets it to clear off all the extra junk that comes on one and to get rid of the trial version of the antivirus program and put on AVAST or MSE which are free, we can help with that and removing the extras.

jean001- I understand what you're relaying about your conversation. However, if it's backwards compatible to XP, it means that it works with Vista. Now if he is telling you that he can either have it set to handle Vista connections, or XP and Win7 connections, but not all of them at the same time, maybe that's so based on some odd configuration he has set up. I have my own $60 wireless router running four computers (and a Roku box and a printer): one computer is XP, two are Vista, and one is Win 7. They all worked immediately after I put in the keys for my security settings, and I did nothing to configure any of them specifically. I've never had a problem connecting. And I have friends who visit and tap into my system using both PCs and Macs and they have no problems either. If you don't want to question your guru any further, that's your call, but I'm still not buying his story.

Read your manual. It probably has the guidelines best suited for 'your laptops design and its circuitry . Toshiba here was first time ever taken out of the factory box about mid December 2007, so its 1.5 yrs old, I don't know how long it sat on shelf - its battery right now shows a 6% wear level, 44000 mWh design capacity new / currently 41151 mWh at 100% of charge. Probably more than 99 percent of the time its on the AC adapter and runs 24/7. Sleeps after 100 minutes of non use which really doesn't happen every day like I should. I should force sleep for it & then maybe I'd force more normal sleep on me too ;) Battery is under the left palm rest where I feel no heat. It would be rare for me in the things I do to shut down windows before moving the laptop while the on battery. Only have the one ac adapter, meant to buy another for a second location but price always makes me dizzy.