Personally I wouldn't want a boulder or brick wall because I don't wan to kill anyone even if they are stupid and talking on a cell phone while digging around on the floor for change. To save your house and front lawn a long term solution you might try is putting in what I think of as a tire trap. Dig in 2 to 4 rows perpendicular rows of 8 x 8 treated landscaping timber. See if you can get it pre-drilled somewhere so you can pound rebar down the holes into the ground. Bury them a few inches. Anyone coming off the road's front tires will, hopefully, bump up over the first one, go back down and not have enough energy to buck over the second, if they are at higher velocity, they will hit the third one. You might want some cop traffic expertise on spacing. They will look kind of weird, you could try hiding with some shrubs because weeds will grow inbetween, but you cant fill in with anything like flowers and mulch because that would defeat the purpose. Maybe some heavey duty weed barrier and dark colored gravel? As for the mailbox, I've seen some country people put their mailbox's out on a long long long horizontal pole, the base is set way back. Paint it a bright color and put reflectors on it. May not stop people from hitting it but would help in court if it ever comes to that.

I belonged to a Curves two years ago. It involves circuit training where all the exercise machines are in a circle. You start on one and the taped music with female voice prompts you to move to the next machine. You stay at each machine 35 seconds. You are supposed to get a great work-out in less than 30 minutes. No child care that I know of, most places are very small. It was 29 dollars a month when I went. I had just about no results after 2 months. It is just not strenuous enough. By the time I left there were mostly much older women (I'm 43) going and enjoying the mild work-out. Why not walk in and watch for a while? You may like it, but I thought it was useless for me. Hope this helps! Gouda

I agree that the guaranteed, short workouts in a group activity at Curves is much of what makes it work. In my case, the upbeat cheerful atmosphere is a bonus. I don't know if the machines are anything special, but I can tell you I feel much stronger than I did 3 months ago -- MUCH stronger. So they are doing something! I don't have time to spend more than that at a gym each night, as I have a very early bedtime therefore I need to eat dinner early as well. The guaranteed 30 minutes of exercise is great for me and I have never missed a week of going at least 3 days. I can't say that about any other gym I've ever gone to. Jen

Bakers Square restaurants are closing around here. "Kicking off April, Denver-based restaurant chain operator Vicorp Restaurants Inc., which Wind Point Partners and other co-investors closed a $225.5 million leveraged buyout of in 2003, filed for Chapter 11. Vicorp owns and operates the Village Inn and Bakers Square restaurants." Also Mrs. Fields Cookies. "Mrs. Fields Famous Brands LLC is the latest PE-backed company to consider a Chapter 11 filing. The Salt Lake City-based cookie company, which is majority owned by Capricorn Holdings Inc., is weighing a prepackaged filing, the company said June 5." Clare bankrupt companies