Could be rather romantic, at least the stars will be more visible. # Story Highlights # Sydney among first world cities to plunge into darkness Saturday night # Building and landmarks worldwide turning off lights for this year's Earth Hour # This year 26 major world cities, 300-plus other communities have signed up # Even popular search engine Google has displayed a completely black Web page Here is a link that might be useful: First cities go dark for Earth Hour

Hmm, I miss a day or two, I miss a LOT here, ladies! I've been running a lot, distracted, and just plain scatterbrained. Must be spring fever (at least, I'd rather blame that than a mid-life crisis, lol!). I have most of Debbya's box ready to go - I just want to do one more thing, then send it on its way. It's been fun learning about your names and their history. My first name has NOTHING to do with my family heritage - my parents just liked it. My middle name, Marie, is for my mother, Mary. My daughter's first name is Juliana, for the medieval Christian mystic Juliana of Norwich. Her middle name is Pearl, for my grandmother, who died years ago. Our son's name is Ian (Scottish for John - his grandfather, great uncle, and uncle-in-law are all John/Jon, and his father is Sean, the Irish form of John). His middle name is Joseph, for one of my favorite men in the Bible. Oh, how we debated about Ian's name! He's our first, and my mother was pestering us mightily about what names we were considering. So, we had an ugly name contest, and kept telling her all sorts of outrageous choices. Keep in mind, our last name is RUDD. So, Dudley Bud Rudd, Elmer Rudd, Evan Rudd (think Evinrude motors), Vladimir Rudd (just because), etc. etc. AND, we couldn't use any names that started with C or K, because that would make his abbreviated name C. Rudd. CRUD. That cancelled out all sorts of names we happened to like, for both kids, lol! My favorite outdoors tool is definitely bypass pruning shears. Indoors, I have to say that I really MISS my dustbuster. It recently croaked after years of faithful service, and NOW I realize just how much I used it to clean up after the kids, birds, and cats. LOLOL about the moon story! Our son stayed up late to watch part of the eclipse, and really thought it was cool. Laurel

***doing a happy dance*** gmom! I've got your block all sealed up and ready to go into the mail tomorrow! after asking you to e-mail me your addie, I took a chance on the computer and tried accessing that file of gw addresses. well, that didn't work, but then I thought of how aol is kinda, half-working for me, so I checked in my saved e-mails and there was one with your address in it! I usually delete those once I've input the address into the gw file, but thankfully I forgot to do so this time! lol! so, the envie is all addressed, and I'll be mailing it out tomorrow. I'm glad you spoke up because not knowing who these extras were supposed to go to was making me feel bad. I tried to not short anyone with what I thought was a fool-proof system, but it looks like my "system" fooled me! ah well, live and learn, right? so, in the paraphrased words of the Monkees, your 10th quilt block is now saying "here I come!" -dan

Home Design show When: February 24th to March 4th, 2007 Where: The State Farm Show Complex, Harrisburg, PA Exit 67A, the Cameron St. exit, off I-81 Get directions : View parking map : View floor plan Hours: Weekdays, 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sundays, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Admission: $7.00 Adults, children 12 and under FREE when accompanied by an adult. Home Expo GIANT CENTER - HERSHEY, PA Homes are located outside on the parking lot of the HERSHEYPARK Arena. Homebuyers are invited to come to tour the homes on March 17 and 18th located on the HERSHEYPARK Arena parking lot. Homes are open for touring March 17th from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm and then on March 18th from 9:00 am - 5:00 pm. This is an outdoor show. Homes are not necessarily handicapped accessible. There is an adult admission charge. 6.00 for adults $Children 12 and under admitted Free