Cheryl, just saw your post on Marilyn_Sue's "tick" thread. Glad everyone is okay with little or no damage. You sure have a mess in OK. Feel so bad for those who lost family or friends.

Maire, I have been battling my attorney to get my divorce degree (Divorce happened on May 10), at&t to get online, ex husband to get the house sold, and wishing I could get my apartment in shape, but with the hurting back all I manage to do in my off time is lay around and do nothing, to keep from hurting. Sue, my back still hurts. I am about to ask for part time hours till it gets better. I am in the lawn and garden department. Hot hard work, that just isn't the best for my back at the moment. Ruthie, yes, I moved again. Could not handle that wet/damp smelly apartment. Saw the grand kids via skype this morning. Have they grown. Allison's word vocabulary has increased. Nathan crawls every where and pulls himself up to stand. Doesn't walk without hands yet. I actually bawled when I saw them. My emotions are on a all time high for tears right now. But the first battle is won. I am back online. The other hurdles should be manageable before long. Moni

Answers To Quiz: 1. The one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends: Boxing. 2. North American landmark constantly moving backward: Niagara Falls .. The rim is worn down about two and a half feet each year because of the millions of gallons of water that rush over it every minute. 3. Only two vegetables that can live to produce on their own for several growing seasons: Asparagus and rhubarb. 4. The fruit with its seeds on the outside: Strawberry. 5. How did the pear get inside the brandy bottle? It grew inside the bottle. The bottles are placed over pear buds when they are small, and are wired in place on the tree. The bottle is left in place for the entire growing season. When the pears are ripe, they are snipped off at the stems. 6. Three English words beginning with dw: Dwarf, dwell and dwindle... 7. Fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar: Period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark, exclamation point, quotation mark, brackets, parenthesis, braces, and ellipses. 8. The only vegetable or fruit never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form but fresh: Lettuce. 9. Six or more things you can wear on your feet beginning with 'S': Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, skates, snowshoes,stockings, stilts.

I hope you're successful. There was a mostly undisturbed area on the Arkansas River in Tulsa that used to be very good for birding. But you can't have "unused" space in this world and so it is now "The Gathering Place". Yet the levees above Tulsa on the river are deteriorating and I guess no one remembers when the river used to flood.