OK, I thought about it some more... after all, who in their right mind would drink a gallon of bucket-stored wine made by impoverished monks in one sitting? Fill up the three gallon bucket. Dump its contents into the fiver. Fill up the three again. Completely fill the fiver. You should have one gallon remaining in the three gallon bucket. Now completely dump the fiver into the big bucket. Dump the one gallon into the fiver. Completely re-fill the three gallon bucket, and dump those three gallons into the fiver as well. You should now have four gallons in the fiver, four in the eight, and none in the three. This is a better solution than my first stab at the puzzle because the mass of the three gallon bucket would have unfairly displaced a little extra wine from the five gallon bucket. If the two wine connoisseurs happened to have been siblings, the bickering that would ensue might have driven the impoverished monks to either murder... or to consuming all of their product before it could be found by wine connoisseurs in the first place!

Really pretty.,..love these church pictures ....nice!

Yes, we only take the dogs. Taking our cats (3) would be a recipe for disaster. I guess we could take them in carriers, but with the three, now two dogs, three humans, taking the cats really wasn't practical. sammy - when we started this tradition with first dog, our church was similar to yours. Mass took place in the "hall". We had folding chairs, no kneelers, no carpet, etc. The whole thing was broken down on Sunday evening to get ready for the week of CCD classes and other activities that were scheduled. Our town has a small church that was built early 1900s, when most of the land was working farm land. The small church can only seat about 150 people. As the town's population grew, our "hall" was used for Sunday Mass, accommodating the growing number or residents who practice their faith. After many years of fundraising, we have a now have large church on the property adjacent to the hall. The blessing of the animals still takes place outside in the parking lot of the church, and the Mass still doesn't include the animals - only people:)).

Gary Gee is the other nurseryman of America (after Bob Fincham) whom I met. It was in Cesko, he came there from Holland with dutch colleagues to Mr. Malik. Gary is a low level mailing person, by this way we have no more connection. He takes part in the Minnesota Broomhuntings as grafter and finder. The Minnesota broomhuntings were started in Duluth MN by 2 gardeners, who discovered 534 brooms with GPS in and around Minnesota. This story started about 2010 as Joe Braeu and Josh Horky used their GPS for discoverings. Since that time year to year many nurserymen are garhering in Duluth in February for the broom harvest. Dennis Hermsen USA Dennis is a well known nurseryman, who is also taking part in the Minnesota Broomhuntings. Joe Stupka USA Joe Stupka is a member of the 80's generation, as Chub Harper and a bit later. He found sometimes together with Chub, but mostly separated of him. His cultivars are over 100. Randy Dykstra USA Dave Horst USA Randy and Dave were working in Bickelhaupt with Chub Harper, sometimes cooperated with Jerry Morris. Their hands are on the Bickelhaupt collection. Dax Herbst documented their conifers in the last 10 years. The Conifer Master Diploms were posted by Dax Herbst some years ago. Tom Cox USA I met with Tom Cox in 2008, as he visited the Holata nursery in Cesko with ACS President Lady Kelly and members. I introduced them a vision about my conifer plans. This was a big ACS database, the Breeders Hall and other possible ways. I think I was bad or they didn't understood what I'd like. Maybe they thought, that I want money of them... After a while it was clear to me, that I must make myself, what I suggested to ACS presidents. That was the burn of the Conifertreasury.org. I made what ACS not wanted. Opened an org portal, based on my payments, hired servers for my portal. Jean Iseli USA The name Iseli is a good fame in America. I linked many facts about the Iseli selections. I sent him the Conifer Master Diplome personally. I tried also to build a connection to Don Howse, the former conifer propagator there, but I was not successful. I asked a guy to connect to him, but he closed the way before me to a man, who had a great knowledge of conifers. This guy was an ACS officier. Thats why Don Howse may be not well represented in the american conifer book. I'm very sorry of this, but its not my problem. Rich Eyre USA I always liked the conifer videos of Rich, but he realized his own conifer world. Sometimes alone, sometimes with other friends, like Jerry Morris. The Picea pungens RM series is their common find, 60 brooms in one place. His own selections are available in the book. Brent Markus USA Sam Pratt USA And finally lets have a synthesis of the previous news. Anyone can find the conifers on Conifer Kingdom. Brent started with a new concept of conifers. He collected a wide sortiment of the american conifers. There is the best of them. Every important ancestors are represented there. The Conifer Kingdom is so deeply american, that you cant imagine. If anyone say, that he doesn't sent any scions to Brent, simply eat them guys. Brent and Sam are the future for America in the next 50 years. Any problems, Dave?