Hey, I found an interesting article about Virginal Supreme court ruling on tree nuisance. "The court ruled last week that if your neighbor's tree poses a danger to your house, you can force the neighbor to prune or even fell the tree." Just so you know that you may have a right to ask for the neighbor's tree removal if it actually harms your property's foundation, pipes, etc. in the future. But the article says "casting shade or dropping leaves, flowers, or fruit" doesn't count as this type of nuisance. The dispute on the article was also on a sweet gum. ;-) Here is a link that might be useful: Washington Post Article This post was edited by ttonk on Fri, May 10, 13 at 17:18

EmmaR I haven't had a cold or flu for many years as I have hand sanitizer in purse & wipe down handle or cart in store & as soon as I get in car clean my hands again as germs can be on money clerk hands you or the clerk may be getting sick. My daughter had foot & mouth disease I think she got from always picking up stray animals. Hers was mostly her feet & hands & fever. I took her to Dr. but you just wait it out & it goes away after few days. Pain reliever OTC was all she got.

I am definitely feeling better today, but the antibiotics make me feel tired, weak, and a bit nauseous. I am glad I stayed home from work yesterday, as I was up until 2:00 AM the night before because pain medication had worn off. I didn't feel pain yesterday and did not have to take any more pain medication, however. I had some chicken bones from an Algerian Roast chicken that I had made before, and I made stock from that. I wasn't sure how it would turn out because it had a lot of seasoning on it, and I normally do not make stock with salt. However, I did like the way it came out. I boiled the bones (with a fair amount of meat left) with a carrot, celery, parsnip, onion, garlic, and three bay leaves. I took some of the stock out after about an hour to use in some Ramen soup, and then I added more water and cooked the stock for two hours more and let it rest until almost cool. I used the last part of the stock to make egg noodle soup with mushrooms and broccoli. I removed the florets from the broccoli and then sliced the stems very thinly and threw those into the stock. I also made a roux, to which I added part of the stock and the mushrooms, and then I cooked the egg noodles and broccoli florets in the main stock, which I had already strained. I only put a small amount of black pepper in because I was told to avoid spicy foods. This soup came out fairly bland (by my standards), but I still liked it, and I think Kevin liked it more than I did. I made quite a bit, and I still have enough left over for me to have tonight. After today, I hope to go back to more regular food, but I still have to irrigate the surgery area with a syringe type tool that my doctor gave me. Jenny, have you gotten your flipper yet? I imagine that front teeth will be harder to deal with, and my molar was at the very back, and so it is fairly easy to avoid that area. Annie, when Kevin had one of his implants, he also had to have a bone graft, which sounded painful to me, but he survived it okay. He only recently replaced his bridge with an implant. They are fairly expensive, but I cannot imagine not having the teeth. I hope I am done with this for a while. Lars

sleeperblues, if you want to get a possible indication of the truth, should it be suggested that you need additional services, ask for a referral to a periodontist. Or, ask if they can recommend another dentist for a second opinion. See what happens. With service providers in general, not just dentists but certainly including some, it's become a standard tactic to try to drum up extra business by scaring customers/patients with "if you don't do this, I'm worried that......" or other nebulous type comments. Sadly, I saw this in my consulting profession with competitors and even with colleagues, but of course it's done by too many professionals and tradespersons as well. I have a relative who's a dentist and they bemoan how a few bad apples have undermined patient expectations of integrity even with honest dentists, as this one is. When you find providers with honesty and integrity, hold tight and hope they don't move or retire anytime soon.