would love a box -- how much postage do you need? i have old fashioned purple scented lilacs, bishop's weed, tall ferns (name escapes me) -- please let me know. thanks, lois

Hmmm, so it is actually an Italian word that refers to the actual brebas and not the fig type. Very interesting and thank you! So, would the word "Beefera" be the same meaning as "Bifara"? Depending what part of the boot Italians are from, there are so many different dialects that now it makes me wonder if Bifara and Beefera are the same meaning just spelled differently because of dialect differences. If only I could of retained the Italian my grandmother and family spoke when I was younger, I may have know this! LOL! So maybe there is no relation at all to Sicilian Bifara and Italian Beefera, and they only share the same type of breba habit and not the same type of fruit habit. I did see the Italian Beefera for sale from Adriano's Figs, but he only ships to Canada :( Maybe one day I will find it and can compare to the Sicilian Bifara just for fun. Again, very interesting info! I have read this forum for a long while, and just did not post much. But now I may start to come out of my shell and post more often! You guys are so knowledgable! Thank you so much! Christy

Definitely contact them. Newspaper editors are trying their best to hang on. Unfortunately (and I work for the Gannett chain) Gannett is doing what they can to cut costs, so they can hang on. We see it at our paper--a lot of consolidation--work that used to be done in house is now being done elsewhere, so that one location can service several different newspapers. Newspaper editors, from my experience are extremely approachable--do contact the paper and let them know what the problem is and that it may cause you to stop reading. It makes no sense to me, to make the print that small--even if it does save paper--because more often than not, newspaper readers are older rather than younger readers. Let's not make it easier for anyone to give up reading the paper!!! Let us know if you get an answer from the paper. Good luck. And now that you mention the paper, I've been buzzing around working all morning, and forgot to read 'my' paper. Think I'll do that now.

I am unable to make a call, even 921, send/receive texts. I can look at internet but have no idea if something like this thread follows through. Some people have been out for days. I have been out since early am. ALL of Florida is out. New York akso. Seems east and west coast hit hard. Is this lack of Metro? (Poorer reception since TMobile took over for me). Is it due to 'xmas gifts of phone- more dragging insufficient towers down? Let's hope nothing has been hacked.