Just loveeee it! It looks so cute and you really have a way with that green thumb of yours, your plants are beautiful! I really like the way the sides are all rusty and how awesome that it comes with wheels. I got one at a flea market awhile back but its not as cool as yours. I just put a birdsnest in the wringer part. Think I have a pic, Ill try to send it. blessings-sherri http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn132/daisydal/homepics170.jpg http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn132/daisydal/homepics169.jpg

flora, so thoughtful of you to provide the link. it didn't work for me, but google quickly did so now i'm getting a renewed geography lesson on great britain. i find it such fun as an older person to get into geography because i bring so much more knowledge, and references , to the table of connecting things!so, rather than waste my time feeling stupid, i just get on w/ the excitement of learning! at any rate,i certainly never would have thought of 'sw' including the area due west of london, but there you are. SO. on our one(march!)trip to eng, we did go to bath and westward (tresco abbey being the furthest west in england that we went). google says that bath is 4 hrs from lands end. are you near bath(what a lovely place) or maybe in gloucestershire?( i haven't been there.) i won't waste time repeating the old adage and everything, but i will tell you that even in march we found tresco to be a real treat. actually, it was the first time i ever saw(consciously, anyway)echium. i'm guessing that it doesn't grow many places in GB(?); maybe up at that fairy community in scotland, with the gulf stream and palm trees and everything? I think of echium as kind of like a cross between blue buddleia and acanthus, on MEGA steroids! Now i see echium when we go to carmel CA every march, and there are few plants i love more! anyway, lord knows you live in the land of great gardens every place you look, but i hope you'll treat yourself someday soon- and go there, to tresco. and have you been to the lost garden of heligan? i bet that has really shaped up since we were there at the very beGINNing of that restoration, whenever that was..... best, mindy p.s. i had no IDEA that it looks like you could walk from ireland to scotland in a short time....! the other night we watched a (dreadful) travel film of scotland, but we at least learned that it was settled by irish people, so now i get it. onward with my map study!.......

I'm speechless. Well... maybe not completely! What a perfect solution to my storage problems. DH needs to get busy building that room. As y'all know I had a post a while ago asking for storage ideas. A few days later I shared all of your ideas with DH. That night he thought of the answer in his sleep! Our livingroom is very long. I have my sofa back about 9' away from the wall. Behind it is an antique buffet, an antique washstand, and piles of dishes and accessories I've collected. There is also a doorway to our bedroom back there that we never use. (Because you couldn't get to it if you wanted to for all of the stuff piled up.) All we have to do is move the buffet and the washstand and build one wall. Problem solved. DH wants to know where I'm going to put all of that stuff while he is building! Did y'all notice that those shelves were 2 stacks deep and they were ALL full? And she has stuff on the floor! WOW! And the stemware! Betty

The first time I tried it, there was nothing--I got to doors, but nothing happened. Then finally a problem came up on the door, but I had no idea what to do after throwing the snail balls (I didn't know you were supposed to type in the number answer). It's pretty simple once the stuff works--you run into the snails, which then turn into balls you can throw at the door. Then you have to type in the numeral that is the answer to the problem on the door. After that, the door opens up and an ogre comes out. The multiplication problem(s) appear on his front and you have so much time in which to type in the answer. If you answer wrong, he blasts you with his club thing. After you give the correct answer(s) several times, he goes back behind the door and a key appears, which you grab by running into it. After you do this at several doors, you go on to the next level. That's as far as I know :) We've played this game with dd doing the keyboard and me manipulating the mouse. That has worked well so far. She's still trying to get used to pushing the right number key(s), which is hard for her to do quickly.