Hi Pete ...besides from being obsessed with growing roses I am also a passionate flyfisherman. I just bought this light 2 handed SAGE fly rod. Only Madame Issac pereire gives me the look about the price tags on my fishing rods. You can see on the price tag that I paid 6695 DKR /or calculated in dollars...$ 1175: She has to understand that we needs these things and that the only difference between boys and men is the price of their toys. Now a Rosegarden is also a nice background for the pictures of some of the fishingflies I tie. I tie flies during the vinter for salmonfishing in the summer: here a pic of a Black Green Highlander: I have not had much luck this year. Only caught a few searun brown trout in the salt, but not a salmon in the rivers yet. Last year I caught this big 29 pounds Atlantic Salmon: So show her these pictures and tell her you need a good fishing rod to catch the big ones. She will understand! I love to go fishing in my local rivers, the rain we are having will make more salmon and Sea trout run the rivers:

I taught my granddaughter, at age 4, with a used book called 'Making Children Better'. What I did(and it worked well) is teach her the sounds of the letters preferably before (or with) the names of the letters like B is B and sounds 'Buh'. Of course start with the vowels and letters used frequently. Then I make a tic tac toe(3X3) on a large piece of cardboard(about 20"X20", even a 4x4 (squares)tic tac toe later, and placed words like cat, bat, hat,cap,as, I,etc (I added the word 'the' in one square and just told her it didn't fit the sounds and she would have to learn to recognize it. Then I put pennies on the ones she learned to sound correctly. I'd buy little candies or presents from the dollar store. When she would get 3 "bingos" or 3 tic tac toes, she would get a prize. Also, once she was learning them, I'd point to these words in books and newspapers and ask her what it said. I did this as frequently as she wanted to 'play'bingo(4-10X week) and she could sound very well and knew many words before kindergarden. By 1st grade, she sounded words as efficiently and quickly as an adult and could read a sentence with unknown words and hardly pause when she came to them and sounded them correctly or very near correct about 95% of the time.

The reason I didn't comment on Angel is because I am not familiar with that dog's problems. An in-home consultation with a behaviorist might be good to evaluate the situation and suggest ways to re-introduce the dogs to one another. I also think that once wolfie is dealt with, he will be more calm around the house and this problem with angel being annoyed by him might go away. If I had 31 acres, I would find some place to dig a hole. Then I'd wrap some food treats in a paper towel and bury it in the hole and backfill with dirt lightly. Then I would drop crumbs to leave an extra scent trail back to the house. I would then take your active dog and go outside with him on a leash and let him follow the scent back to buried treasure. Tracking and digging may not be as exciting to all breeds as it is for my dogs but it's a lot of fun for mine to track down the treasure and dig it up. It gives them an opportunity to uses their senses and their noggins and it's not that physically strenuous on me. I'd rather do that than a long walk. If I had as much land as you, I'd have some rather extensive trails and would set up lots buried treasures.

A "Starker exchange" was codified by the IRS. You may be looking to TIC exchange (Tenants in Common) governed by some fairly strict IRS regulations (although no SEC oversight as they are real estate investments not securities). You need to find a registered-rep to hook you up with a TIC Facilitator. This is the TICA website. Maybe you get in touch with them through the contact page and they can recommend a qualified intermediary (accommodator) or you can learn more about TIC exchanges? Hopefully the TICA association can direct you to someone in your general area and more information concerning your questions. If you decide to take the cash because you are wary, the tax rate is currently only 15%. Deferring tax on the gains by reinvesting may not be a wise move for you.