I would guess that oviposition is taking place early, prior to petal fall on later-blooming trees. Obviously this is problematic because you don't want to risk bee injury. A possibility might be to selectively spray the Euro plum block as soon it reaches petal drop leaving the rest of the orchard for later. Still a risk though bee-wise, I would think, especially if you only have a few trees so that the bees will be in the vicinity of the plums. I would also suggest putting out some traps on the trunks of the plums starting at blossom so that you can monitor the situation and better understand what's going on.

You gauge isn't reliable. None of them are. That is why buying the calibrated 5-10-15 lb weight set for the Presto is so strongly recommended. The weight, assuming we are talking about the 5-10-15 lb weight and not the standard 15 lb counter-weight that comes with the canner, is what is reliable. So if you are using the actual Presto weight set and it is set on say 10 lbs. and the steam vent is open and working then when it is slowly but steadily rocking you are at exactly 10.5 lbs. pressure. If you gauge doesn't read that and reads more or less then your gauge is off by that much. Now, if you are talking about the standard 15 lb counter weight instead then it doesn't rock until you hit 15.5 lbs. If you have had your gauge tested annually as recommended then you can go by the gauge. Run the pressure up to over 15 lbs and the counter-weight should start rocking. If it doesn't, something is seriously wrong so turn it off immediately. Follow me? Dave

More than likely, you could add one G on memory yourself for less than $90, the Vista upgrade from the XP OS that the system came with would be $99. So, to get your HP installed with Vista, you are looking at close to $200, plus the time it takes to install the memory module (quite easy, the module will come with instructions) and the time it takes to install Vista, and the fact that if you are going to do a fresh, clean install, you will need to backup any files and reinstall any programs already on your hard drive. Some folks enjoy doing this kind of work (myself included), others find it to be a giant pain. If it's not your cup of tea, you might wait. I am betting that the manufacturers are going to have some great deals comming up in Feb. March, in anticipation of folks wanting to upgrade to Vista. I don't believe Vista will add very much at all to the price preinstalled from manuacturers, as they are paying much less for their Vista lisencing than you would buying Vista out of a box. Even though I think deals will get hotter, I broke down and bought a laptop, but the smart move probably would have been to wait a month or two, IMHO.

Des- The Kindle for PC would store books on your hard drive, so you don't really need to worry about a limit since book files are not that big. On average, a book file might take up only about 1 MB -- sometimes more, sometimes a lot less -- so you could store maybe 5000 books in 5 GB. My computer has a 500 GB hard drive, so storing that many books would take up like 1% of the hard drive. And once your husband read any of those books, they could be deleted. Bottomline: It's a non-issue. Using the Kindle for PC application will not hurt the performance of your PC or affect its storage capacity in a meaningful way even if you store 1000's of books on it.