heather, I don't know about Sue or anyone else but I found your page to be very, very difficult to read. Problems are too much photo print of blue and butterflies. List on the left hand side of the page instead of in the middle and the print was in blue. Blue print on blue background is difficult to read. Same would for green print on green background or any other combination of the same color print on the same color background. My personal preference is white background with black print, no fancy background or photos on the page, just links to photos. Also, I wish people would not use any kind of flashing photos on their pages as well. Flashing photos and flashing anything can be a health risk to many people. Those that suffer with seizure disorders can not look at a page like that because it can trigger seizures within seconds to minutes of looking at the flashing pics on a page. They can also trigger migraines as well. Fran

Something that bothers me in particular to this situation of mowing into the neighbor's property, is how so many people have a lawn service now. Those lawn services (at least in my perspective) don't show any regard for others properties. The yards here where I live are relatively small, yet they all use huge ride on mowers. The lawn service guy is typically a lone male having his own small business, while another might have two other guys there so, again, they created a small business with their own work ethics. I don't know what governs them and speculate they just make up their own rules. The city ordinance allows them to begin at 8 a.m. and in other area's it might be 7:30 a.m.. Here, the services across the street and next door, both sides, all arrive first thing in the morning, roaring loudly, and many times there's 4 or 5 different services arround at once! The riding mowers and the powerful blowers produce noise that is so loud, it's frightening and drowns out phone call conversations. So if the services arrive on a work day when you have a conference call, it's never good. Eagerly, I await when these loud mowers will be against the rules and outlawed. I've been reading how California is headed that route... YAY! I get why they look for fast ways to mow, but realistically, these lawns are not big enough to justify riding mowers. The one service is out there now, it's just him, so he spends over an hour mowing and blowing with professional equipment! We (neighbor and I) have side fencing. The riding mower can't get into small spaces or some around landscaping, so he just mows 4 feet, even 5 feet into my yard so he doesn't have to do any of her yard by hand. He mows so far in that he's mowed over 3 of my sprinkler heads, which are far enough away from the property line to not mow, but he seems to care none. I've gently spoken with him. He blows her yard leaves up against my home side and side fence, creating a large mound. This also happens on the opposite side of my property by another lawn service. Their services cause my property to appear to be a total of at least 8 feet less wide, at times 10 feet. They mow so low they scalp the grass, and, because of the wood fencing, it's visible they've mowed plenty over the property lines. The sad part is the lawn services do it for their mowing conveniences, so it says they have no respect for my property as long as they can more easily do their jobs for the neighbors, yet the neighbors don't ever mention it to say how sorry they are, or that they're trying to remedy it. To add insult to injury, the one neighbor has been burning pinion wood in her patio chiminera that is placed so closely to my yard and blows downwind, that my home often reeks of the burning wood. The smoke fills my yard and the smell permeates into my home. She is too close in proximity to be doing that wood burning. My home will reek like it's on fire, which I used to think it was in the walls. We are not neighbors at odds, so there's nothing going on there. She burns so much pinion wood that I wear a cloth mask to sleep in because my throat has become scratchy, and now I cough a good bit, which I suspect is due to the wood burning. My sinuses seem to be highly irritated by the smoke. My bedroom is in close proximity to her patio. I'm not far from age 70, own my home and have lived here over 25 years. Her inconsiderate styles are becoming such a pain that infringe on my life, and I'm afraid the laws don't care about me in any of these situations.

Kayjones--Here's how to make a column of text lined up at the left and right sides, with dots between the words (like shown above): Type your first word Click the tab setting button (way at the left of the ruler) until it looks like a backwards L. Click on the ruler bar at the position you want the tab to be to line up the text at the right side. (The tab is set at 2 1/2" in my example above.) Go to Format, Tabs on the drop-down menus. You'll see the 2.5" tab shown in the list of tab stop positions at the left. Under Leader, click the number 2 option, with the dots. Click Set. Then click OK. On your document, press the tab key. The cursor will move to the tab position and dots will appear in between. Type the word(s) you want in the right "column." The words will move to the left as you type, aligning the text at the right side where the tab is. Press enter to type the next line. It will keep the same tab setting. If the words on the right side are getting too close to the words on the left, highlight all the lines of text, then click on the tab in the ruler bar and slide it to the right to where you want it. (When you hover your mouse near it, it will pop up "Right Tab"; when you click on the tab setting, a dotted line will appear showing where the text will be aligned.) Or, go to Format, Tabs, and add the new tab setting, click the #2 dotted leader option, press set; highlight the old tab, press clear, press OK when done. (Sliding it on the ruler is faster.)

Don, I was especially interested in who had a birthday today and made it to one of your lists. My son Jim would have been 61 today and I wanted to know with whom he shared a birthday. Glad it was Achebe, an amazing African writer whose works I have taught. I miss my oldest child more than I can say. This was a hard day. But his daughter will deliver a beautiful boy at the end of November. We don't yet know what the baby's first name will be but his middle name will be James for the grandfather he will never know. I've been crying all day!