Ah, I'm sorry to hear your husband has to face such challenges. My niece has CP and she is continuing to go through surgeries that may allow her to walk- she says thank goodness for the internet! Anyhow, have you ever considered walkie talkies? My parents live in a cell-phone poor area and they like to walk in the woods a lot so they got walkie talkies. They also use them to communicate between barn and house. Just another possible solution for when you have to replace your phone someday. Cheers!

About 7 or 8 years ago, I spent a week on the small island of Bequia, part of St-Vincent and the Grenadines. St-Vincent has a great lager beer- Hairoun. In the small main town of Bequia, I searched in vain, trying to find some limes to add to my beer. Alas, none were available in the marketplace On our final day, the property owner came to pick us up and take us to the ferry. As we stood with our bags ready, just outside our front door of the cottage, he asked if we'd enjoyed our stay. I told him that my only complaint was that I couldn't find any limes in the marketplace for my Hairoun beer. Without moving a step, he reached out beside him and plucked a lime of the small tree beside our cottage, and handed it to me! Sheepishly I put the lime in my pocket, and forgot all about it until I was back in Canada. (I forgot to declare it at customs- a BIG no-no!) I used that lime in some Canadian beer, and saved the seeds- and grew a couple. You can see a picture of the tree(s) elsewhere in the forum here, with my concernss. Here is a link that might be useful: Bequia info

Casey we have had that to happen to us many times.But greg and hit hot temper,he would just bout flip the machine up side down,making my face blood red because I was so so embarrased.One time I protended I was not with him because others were around him ,seeing him trying to flip the machine,so I asked Greg,Saying it this way,"Sir would you want me to get someone to help you,knowing all the time I was looking for the security man so I could tell him to come do something to Greg.I just knew we were going to jail for breaking the machine because greg would try to flip it ALL the way over,just for .75.But greg would say,I worked hard for this money and I am tired of these machines cheating me.I would beg greg please just let me give you .75 and let us get the heck out of here.But PLease its just .75.That make greg even madder for me to say that.LOL Also dances the coke machine you are speaking of,we had those kind around here and there is still some like that at a few places and I love those kind.Were the cokes in bottles that after you placed the money in just open the door and pull one out?They used to be in bottles you could turn the empty bottles back in and get a nickle for.We used to go around collecting empty bottles and take them back to the what we would call the gas station.We collect enough so we could get all of us 6 kids a coke to drink,alone with a "MOON PIE" some never heard of that have you?Those were the good ole days.

We got bird mites in one bedroom from a similar problem with wild life. I had to call the county agriculture department to find out the problem. Swallows had built many nests under our eaves, and when the babies fledged and left the nest, the bird mites crawled through the window screen into our daughter's bedroom for their next meal and chewed her up one night. When she complained about the itchy bites all over her, I checked her bed. I could see what looked like black pepper on her window sill and sheets. Staring closer, I saw legs on the pepper! We moved her to the guest room for the rest of the summer and I washed down the nests.