If my cat Puddy were still alive, Marda, he would probably be saying a few choice words about shots. He knew words that would embarrass a sailor. My job was to either throw a towel around him and hold him or give the shot, i'm thinking now that a shot would have been the better choice. Linda, I can't begin to imagine what you had to go through with chemo and having a shot every day. Until the weekend when I was forced to heed my daughter's pleas for help, I was the one that turned my head away when my aunt gave herself insulin shots in the stomach. Now it doesn't seem so bad to me. I could have probably given myself a shot but just the thought of sticking a needle in someone else was just too much. Michelle, you of all people are the one I would have considered fearless. For everyone else, you to, Michelle, if I could do it anyone could. Suzy, I am feeling better and hoping against hope that Neil doesn't get it. Poor dear had his birthday ruined because I was taking care of Katrina and then I got sick. He took care of me, offering to give me shots but I declined, I sort of toughed it out. I really wanted to save the injections for him if he got sick. He doesn't need to be violently ill with the hemmorrhaging going on with his eyes. Andie, you are right about the crud this year being bad. I've never seen anything like it and some people are having to be hospitalized. Katrina should have gone to the hospital, she needed IV fluids. One more day and there would have been an ambulance crew knocking on her door. I hope none of you get this but if you do! Have Syringes Will Travel!!!!!! :0)

YES!!!!!!!! I've wanted a Dawn Redwood since I first read about the discovery. My memory may be a bit scrambled but I want to say I read about them when my daughter, Dawn, was an infant. I am more than willing to pay postage. Is it possible that you could hold a couple for me until fall? I am afraid of mailing plants in our heat. Just a couple of hours in a box on the carport could easily kill a plant. PLMK.

Jon, it's to bad that you didn't meet one person of the Gee family, they're realy nice persons! They have a great nursery and a huge assortment of conifers. Also their big Arboretum is very nice to visit! The nudi lady was there as well last winter. It looks to me that she's looking more happy now. I guess I would also look happier in this time of year with the same scarce cloting on ;0) My friend Gary is on his way to The Netherlands, I'll see him again tomorrow. Indeed, he's a fun guy to travel with, he's joking all the time :0)

As a 9 year old kid in Elk City, OK in 1950, I met Tim Holt, Fuzzy Knight & Randolph Scott who were some of my favorite cowboy movie stars that made personal appearances at a local movie theatre. And, during our town's 50th. anniversary in 1951 I met & shook hands with Jess Willard who had been the Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the World, 1915-1919. He lived in my hometown during the early days & helped lay the bricks that paved Broadway St. and are still there and "in use" now in 2006! Moving ahead several years and after I had moved to PA...my wife & I saw Richard M. Nixon as he arrived by helicopter and dined at the then-famous Bookbinder's Restaurant in Philadelphia one evening while we were eating dinner there also. Then later, during the mid-1970's, we saw "The Duke" John Wayne in New York City getting out of his limousine and greeting the gathering crowd at Rockefeller Center. Guess that's about it... LarryD