I'm glad you guy's are enjoying these....:) I can't attest for Watership down as far as full hot sun goes....sorry....I have it in a neat protected, dappled shade, ideal location...LOL AS far as the other's, they get it and all that Mother Nature deals them. Poor Ida's Magic gets it from sun-up to sun-down, I thnk she handles it real well...what can ya say...except that it's a Munson...LOL Course Watership Down is a Moldovan, and that says a lot too! Oh well, gotta go shovel some more pocono river stone...so much for this break...:0) Spacecoast Royal Ransom Spacecoast Fantasy Flight Spacecoast Mulberry Motif Captivating Smile Back Later....Rick

Surprised your Dr is wating so long--probably until the radiogist reads the report and then the Dr. has to evulate the findings. That is the hang up here. Many Dr.'s can read the report as here it is on the computer within an hour or so, but some Dr.'s will wait until the report shows up. Everything here is on the computer for all Dr's connected with the medical center to see, even the eye doctors, etc.

My lenses were over and above what my insurance would pay, too, in order to correct for severe astigmatism as well as my very serious myopia. My doctor was genius.....he corrected one eye just a wee bit less than perfect, which allows me to see near and far; I can read all but the tiniest print without readers and even apply my makeup! There is no way that I could be happier with the results. Even after two years, I still find myself groping for my glasses when I wake up in the morning, lol. The surgery was such a blessing for me. One thing that I had to deal with, especially for the first several months, was uncomfortable dryness. I was encouraged to use a gloppy gel at night, and a couple of different kinds of drops during the day. I still use lubricating drops a couple of times a day.

Anna's hummingbirds are a native species and are here year-round. While we all think of hummingbirds as nectar eaters, they actually have quite a varied diet which allows to stay here and not migrate south. Anna’s Hummingbirds eat nectar from many flowering plants, including currant, gooseberry, manzanita, and many introduced species such as eucalyptus. They also eat a wide array of insects from understory leaves, crevices, streambanks, or caught in spider webs, plucked from the air, or taken from flowers. Primarily they target smaller insects, like midges, whiteflies, and leaf hoppers (one female was found with 32 leafhoppers in her stomach at once). They also help themselves to tree sap (and insects caught in it) leaking out from holes made by sapsuckers. The above quote is from All About Birds. Go to the link and read some more about this species and how it copes with colder temperatures. And yes, snow's long gone, it was an overnight snowfall and it was thin enough that by mid-morning there was nothing left to see. Pieter