Morning Linda, I'd have to see a good pic of yur taxi. I typed in Bucket Taxi, but it's difficult making out. I wasn't aware a bucket needed to be bought seperately. Where did you find a 5-gallon bucket? lol. Reason I asked about time. Don't know if it's our water pressure, but it takes a good amount of time (never timed, either, lol) filling up the humidifer side containers. Each side holds 2.5 gallons. Linda, do you top or bottom water plants mentioned above? Linda, I'm looking at your pics, now. I LOVE your Champagne Pink, 'looks' pure white!!!!!! It is AV? How long have you had this plant? I also love your Chimera. What a beauty! So compact. Linda, I have a problem distinguishing the differences between Columneas and Aeschynanthus, eg, Lipstick Plant. Other than buying a labeled speciment, how can you tell the two apart? Your Can Can Begonia is beautiful..nice colors. Is your Comtesse, Begonia growing as a Bonsai? Shallow pot? You'll have to explain how it's done. Linda, I have a Begonia that was labeled, 'Begonia Bonsai,' lol. I'm assuming, when mature, it's thick-trunked. Your B. Helen Teupel is gorgeous, too..WOW! Ever hear of B. luxurians? It can reach 6'. Leaves are super-pinate. I want one so bad. Linda, all your plants are gorgeous. Sherry, Violet Barn sells really nice plants. There's one I want called Happy Harold. Not so much for flowers, but foliage. I'd also like one Large AV. Elkay, Very beautiful collection. I see the flower stalk on your Strep. I've never grown Steps, for some reason I don't think I'd have luck growing one. Nice AV..What's its name? The pink variegation is so pretty. Never saw pink edges, only white/cream, or pink in the center, but never as an edging. All 3 of your Episcias are pretty, but my favorite is the third...dark purple foliage. Beautiful!! Saving my Episcia. Yes and no, lol. I bought the little guy as a cutting on Ebay. What I didn't know was the seller grew Episcias in her garden, picked and sold them as semi-unrooted plants, on Ebay. When it arrived, it was healthy, but oh, so small. I placed in a window, 'no tank.' A few days later it started looking bad. Oh, to top that off, upon arrival, I didn't notice the tallest stem was cracked. Think that's the reason one stem browned and died. I cut it back and placed pot in the fish bowl, off the side of a west window. Light isn't direct, so no chance of burning foliage. At the time, I thought the plant history, but suprisingly grew into a nice, colorful, Chocolate Episcia. It's now in another terrarium, open top, sitting atop another plant. I have to buy another terrarium/fish bowl. This Episcia does best growing alone, 'in a small container.' No room, in the house for a large terrarium. Before the accident, I bought two nice, glass containers at Walmart, under 15.00. Both are being used for high-humidity plants. So, as for the Episcia, some parts are doing well, others have browned. I bet there's another break. It's the only Episcia I have, and like to keep. Pinks are lovely, but no luck on this end. I bought a pink, Cleopatra a few years ago..didn't last long. I agree with Linda, pinks need more humidity than others. Elkay, good lucks w/your new babies. How will you keep them? Toni

Wow... I was just wishing I had an area to plant... I'm full up plus some. This will all be anecdotal - best guess... Night Before Christmas - bright shade, then afternoon sun? best guess, no... put it in more shade. Of your list, plants pretty tolerant of sun.... I know So Sweet, Fragrant Bouquet, Orange Marmalade, Aphrodite, Paul's Glory are all pretty good in some sun. FB and A are the two most sun tolerant, in my experience. Sum and Substance needs some sun to get its best color... and some years an actual metallic gold kind of sheen. On the other hand, a little too much and it gets scorched. And all of the sun tolerance thoughts are predicated on how much moisture is available. If you keep them deep watered, even some that don't like the placement initially will come back the next year and be just fine after adjusting. They might stay a little smaller, and their leaves might be a little smaller... but they seem to adjust.

Oh, I like Kathleen's idea of the flowers in little vases at each setting. That would be cute. I had tried to use some pink votives but didn't have four holders for them. I did use flowers from my yard in the table topper post. Today I was at Dollar Tree and bought four round pink placemats that I think will go really well with these plates. Karen, I've never seen little flower balls like those--thought they were cute. Wish they'd had allot of them--wouldn't they be cute in my apothecary jar? Okay, I'm off to post my latest holiday painted creation. Ready or not, I'm giving you a taste of patriotic for the 4th of July! Oh, and speaking of that, Dollar Tree had some really cute plates and glasses for the 4th--they are plastic so not sure how those hold up. Seems like they would get scratched from the knives and forks. But they were cute. ;o) Luvs

thanks for responding- i am talking about a desktop- i do not want a laptop at this time. I guess i thought a router was only for wireless computers- so if i get the wireless card does that mean i then have to get a wireless internet plan or will the wireless card and router work with the regular dsl? For about a year the computers will be by each other and after that they will be on different levels of the house.. So is there a preferable way of how i should go meaning hard wire or wireless? And does whichever way i chose determine what kind of router i need to get or are they all the same? So this also leads me to a question and that is how will i know if my current printer will be compatible with the new computer? i only ask because i heard people had that issue with Vista. I also want to ask about the antivirus programs you are referring too. I have always used AVG..can i still use this on windows 7 or do i need to stick with the ones you are referring to. Thanks again