As is typical in Tennessee, we'll have ALL of the weather in one week. Six more weeks of this? Yep. Try 4 more months of this when it turns to hot, humid, and sometimes rainy. And maybe only a 20 degree range instead of the 42 degree range offered here. I've been fine, but today starts my cold that will last for 2+ weeks. Today: Mostly sunny, high near 47. Tonight: A 20 percent chance of snow showers after midnight. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 28. Tuesday: A 20 percent chance of snow showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 36. Tuesday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 18. Wednesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 35. Wednesday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 18. Thursday: Sunny, with a high near 45. Thursday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 30. Friday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 56. Friday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 40. Saturday: Partly sunny, with a high near 60. Saturday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 43. Sunday: A 20 percent chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 59.

roselvr, I wonder if your DD has patellar subluxation? My kneecap "popped" to the outside and the knee would give out to the inside. Mine's a combination of repeated twisting injuries, general abuse :-) and a mild congenital defect (the "notch" the kneecap sits in is too shallow) and it, too, looked fine on imaging but it did not function properly under strain. I had arthroscopic surgery in 1990 on the right knee to deepen that notch a tad, adjust some ligaments and build what would eventually become a "collar" of scar tissue to keep my kneecap in place - I can feel that but can't see it. (Just the three eensy little scars from the arthroscopy, which after all this time are just little puckers in the skin. Instead of general anesthesia I had a spinal block and sedation and was happily stoned to the gills for two days afterward! LOL) I'm sure the technology has improved drastically since then, but that knee has never gone kerflooey on me again. Has your daughter had any physical therapy to stabilize the muscles that work the knee? It really can help a great deal, and it's totally non-invasive so it's an excellent place to start. Women are particularly prone to unstable knees simply because of our skeletal anatomy. I was able to avoid surgery on the left knee with physical therapy (the right knee was far worse off, which is why it got the knife and I chose to be much more conservative with the left) at the same time I was having extensive therapy on the right knee (long story). Even after 15 years I find myself doing some of the isometric exercises when waiting at stoplights, out of sheer habit!

Thank you so much for asking! The party was great - had a few last minute cancellations since there was a softball tournament the same day and their kids were on teams that kept winning, but I am thrilled that the girls did well so it was all good. The menu was everything listed above, except I skipped the ice cream sandwich thing - it was overkill, and I am glad I did. Several friends (who know me well) know that dessert is usually not my thing, so they all brought desserts! The contributed a pecan pie, a walnut caramel cheesecake (OMG it was delish!), a strawberry cheesecake, and a huge plate of chocolate chip cookies and chocolate covered pretzels. Everyone had a blast and the hat parade was a riot. My GF had been in San Diego on business a few weeks earlier and bought a fascinator there. It was incredible - purple, black illusion lace, black feathers... just amazing and she looked so beautiful in it. I was happy she won, since she has had a tough year battling breast cancer. I am already looking forward to next year! Alexa

Steve - Congrats on the getting from graft to flowering in a season! I noticed some of my citrus are going through another small flowering cycle too. Hope you can get at least one fruit from that as a prize. :-D