Good for you Pat! Looks like you did it and did a super job:) I'm trying to learn that also, at least how to label my photos, I think I can do it now. I've been too busy with other stuff. I think I'm through for awhile outside. I got the last 3 roses planted that I'd ordered and came the other day. I'm done except for a few pots I want to plant. My goal was to be done by the time the heat hit. I almost made it:) Now, I just have to get all my roses healthy again from pests and I can stop and smell them....ha ha. My 3 clematis never did grow that I planted in pots. Next time I'm going to put them directly in the ground. So now I'm going to just watch what I've got planted grow and enjoy:) I really need to see these roses mature and see how much room they're going to take up first before planting anything very large in with them. But, knowing me still haunt Lowes and see what else I might like.... It's still going to be really hot again today so I'm going to hide out, the sprinklers watered for me today. Maybe read a book or finish my fairy sign that still half done. Leslie

Almost every morning I "poach" two eggs in the microwave in less than 45 seconds, depending on the eggs themselves, one egg at a time. No boiling water, no contraptions to find or store or wash, no pots or pans to wash, no added salt or fat, just pure delicious, perfectly round, yolky eggs. Crack an egg in a custard cup, cover loosely with plastic, poke a pinhole or two in the plastic (not the egg), nuke for 13 seconds, check for runny-ness, nuke for another 10 seconds or so until it's how you like it. Repeat with the other egg. Before your toast is done, you have two perfect eggs. I have never, ever had one explode, and someone or other in this house eats them that way almost every day. Potatoes, now, they're another matter! Sherry

If you google The New Yorker and psychopathy you'll find the article I referred to. It's "Suffering Souls" in the November 10, 2008 magazine. I didn't re-read it, but as I recall there was some hope that if children could be identified young enough, they could be helped. Hmm...I'm thinking of Bernie Madoff -- and the guy who let an unpiloted aircraft crash *just anywhere*.

Our cat, Heather, has small-cell lymphoma requiring pilling of prednisolone twice a day and a chemo pill four days out of 21. The first pred was purchased from the vet, 60 pills for $20.70 plus tax. I decided to check PetMeds and the cost for 100 pills, including shipping, was $26.00. I placed my order on a Friday and on the following Monday got an email from PetMeds saying they hadn't received the script from the vet yet. Called the vet and they told me they hadn't received a request from PetMeds. So called PetMeds and they said they would re-send the FAX. The next day, Tuesday, I called the vet and finally they said it had been FAXed back to PetMeds. But, by then, I needed some pred to tide me over until the PetMeds pills arrived and asked for 12. Went to pick them up on Wed. and the cost was $20,70 (plus tax). I asked how many - was told 30. I then asked for just 12 and was told the price was the same. So, then I said, give me 60 as I paid that for 60 last time. Then I was told that they could only dispense 30 as the vet was on vacation (there are 8 vets total in the clinic) and no other vet could prescribe. So, I called PetMeds and they overnighted the 100 pills to me and I told the vet's office to forget it. I can only figure out that they have just one price for the pills, up to 60. Anyway, I'm a big fan of PetMeds now. And the chemo pill has to be bought at a pharmacy. RiteAid wanted $33 for 4 pills. Costco's price was 1/2 the cost. So, check around. We found, with a cat who had CRF (now deceased) that lactated ringers were $24 for 12 at Costco and the vet charged $14 for one.