You sound like me Maggy. We have the same stuff. And since we are always using this stuff it is always out. Between my sister and I we have to store all the orchid society stuff: coffee pots, paper plates, cups, knives and forks, napkins, tablecloths other kitchen stuff, digital and slide projectors and screen, display lights, name tags, showtable tags, potting media we sell, orchid clips, mounts and other supplies we sell at meetings, raffle plants, gift plants, orchid books and magazines for sale..... I could go on and on. I would love not having all that stuff around! Plus my office area is full of paper and supplies for the newsletters and other publications. I have no room left for all my own stuff. We greenhouse owners really need a potting house for all our greenhouse supplies too. They take up space in the greenhouse and are always getting wet but the orchid society stuff is in my garage and basement where my own supplies should go. So I've also got piles of pots, stakes, wire, string, baskets, etc just outside my greenhouse door that needs to be put away. I've got to find room in my garage for all my tomato ladders and poles I hang the orchids on outside during the summer yet and all my metal plant stands. There is no end to the outdoor work let alone the indoor work. I was mowing leaves in the dark tonight hoping I could get them all mulched up before the snow comes. Brian was asking whether i ever sit down and relax, but I really don't have time with all my hobbies. But that is my relaxation. My sister gave us two chaise lounges for the yard, but I have yet sat in one for more than 2 minutes. I always think of something I need to get done as I go to sit down. As you say, it is amazing how fast the week goes by. I can't believe it is the weekend already and I say that every week. I used to have to take care of the beach house too. Now I wonder how i did that and worked too. I must be getting slower. I hope your orchid is open for the meeting. I have a few really big ones coming out too. I have a huge C. Big Ben 'Blue Mountain' with multiple spikes with 5 or 6 flowers on each spike. It will be so beautiful! So far no bud blast on this one thank goodness. You remind me I should get back to my rug making too as i haven't worked on any in a couple of years. I have lots of wool yarn to make sweaters too that I haven't had time for. Hurricane Sandy really disrupted our life. I am still trying to find places or new homes for the last of the stuff we were able to salvage. I had as much stuff there as i have in my regular home, actually even more. For the little bugs, try s soap spray or alcohol. There is a recipe for a soap spray using Dr. Bonner's Peppermint Oil Soap and maybe alcohol and water on the Kelly's Korner orchid supply website. I use that or some version of it as my first bug spray attack. It works well but you have to spray often for a while to get all the eggs and babies. It smells good too and doesn't set off my asthma. The Rosemary or Lavender varieties also work well if you like those scents better. Good night, Cory

I think it is a GW problem. At least, GW is the only site where I am having it. I can now enter my password and post using my computer and my iPad, as I am now doing, but I still cannot log in via iPhone. It keeps telling me that I must log in after I enter my user name and password on the iPhone. My updates are current, if that matters. No, no error message appears, no passwords have changed. This post was edited by kitchendetective on Wed, Jan 30, 13 at 18:02

Followup: What I have found and probly my last post on this trivial problem. This is bottom on my list of things to worry about. Tops on my list of things to mess with It's totally crazy. If the CN 12pt underline fails and I open ANY window and slide it over the top of Wordpad the underline functions for that word. If I adjust the size of the Wordpad window the underline functions. My guess is the switch is stuck and needs a jolt of electricity. I tried a loud stream of the filthiest possible vituperation which didn't solve it but did cause my wife to turn up the TV volume, the dog to crawl under the couch and the cat made it to the top of the refrigerator in a single bound. :-)

I found the Blackberry very straight forward. You could be reading your mail, click a link and read the web page and return to your mail without having to close the web page and return to the home screen. The I phone does not have a back button which I find so frustrating. My son has an Android and I find it more comfortable to use. It does have a back button. I like the screen better, seems clearer/sharper than Iphone. Iphone brags about their retina display. Sons, Samsung is brighter and colors seem better. Iphone is a data hog. You must remember to constantly close programs or they continue to run. There is no 'xing' off anything. You have to leave a page by returning to the home screen. There are so many things I dislike about the Iphone I won't bother taking the time to list. My guess is, if Iphone is your first smart phone, you'll love it because it's all you know. I also think it is appealing to younger people because of the Apple status symbol. Blackberrys were more 'business' orientated. They operated more like a computer. You could work from multiple screens and pages. Can't do that with the Iphone. Snidely, I've been following Blackberry over the past year hoping the company would come out with a new phone. I thought it was going under. I hoped Microsoft might buy them out. Now it seems they will release their new phone in the next few weeks. The tech reviews were very good. Blackberry will not have a physical keyboard but the testers report loving how well their new touch keypads work. The reports loved the ability to have multiple windows working at once without losing your place. I know many professional people who gave up on Blackberry and upgraded to Iphones. Not one of them thinks Iphone is better than their old phones. Many state they might switch back and are waiting for the release. If I can't get a Blackberry, I'd get an Android. I think its a better phone. Jane