Here are some pics from last year if they help you get an idea of my property: Late summer 2010, looking from top of flagstone patio (old drain at bottom of ladder) Ignore the tree ideas in this one: After fall planting 2010 (the weeping cypress is temporary until I find someone who wants it) Another veiw, late summer, from the top of the slope in my backyard (again, ignore the tree plans): PS - I should also note that since the rest of our foreseeable budget is going into fixing the roof gutters, I don't have $ to bring a landscape architect and have to pull this off myself.

Welcome back to OUR WORLD, Charlene! Glad you finally got back in! AUTODIDACT Both Charlene and I have tried to email you, and the comcast address isnt working for either of us. Please PM one of us with a different address to try or enable PMing on GW so se can contact you that waybut I suspect Charlene would rather send her address directly to an email address, rather than running it thru the GW system. LAURA 42 AND PHLOXY MARY, we still need email addresses for you so we can send you the address and directions. Please PM Charlene or reply to the email I sent you via GW. Charlene, if youre able to contact any of the last 3 above, let me know, and if I do, Ill let you know. The weather reports now are for mid 60's to 70, depending on whos doing the forecasting, but still only a slight chance for rain, so still sounding pretty good! See you all Saturday, Skybird

Well - after 1 1/2 hours of playing around with this, I feel like a complete dummie. I have resolved myself to having nearly 3000 contacts to import to my Gmail contact list. But I can't get anywhere. I have my AOl address book imported into Yahoo. When I try to import into GMAIL (doesn't matter if I use the older or newer version), it asks where to import from - and I can't find the .csv files. I have no idea where they'd be. Whe I select browse, it takes me to my documents - and it's not there. If I try to browse someplace else, I can't find it. It also occurred to me that it may not be in .csv form yet - but when I try to export from one Yahoo account (to say, thunderbird or another yahoo account) - it suggests I can export as csv file - I click on ("Yahoo! CSV: export) - and then it brings up a screen that says: you have chosen to open yahoo_ab.csv file from http://address.yahoo.com. What should firefox do with this file? My choices are "save file" or "open with: browse". If I click "save file" - I don't think anything is happening. And I wouldn't know what to select if I used open with .... Going back to GMAIL import, I have tried entering various names that I've seen in Yahoo mail. Including "yahoo_ab.csv" - but again, nothing happens. I had a similar problem trying to import into thunderbird - I simply don't seem to be able to locate the files to do it. I'd rather go directliy from yahoo to gmail (without going through thunderbird - bc. from what I was reading, thunderbird does not maintain my address groups - and that is important to me. In fact, if I could only import my groups - that is most critical part). I'm sorry I can't be more articulate about where I'm getting hung up. I have truly never felt so in the dark dealing with computer things (even as untechy as I am, I've had a little more grasp than this). Thanks. Lynn.

@Kristin S: thank you - I love my neighbors and neighborhood! Blessed @jemimabean: we have 'soft' curbs: they are about 14" wide concrete, flat and flush with the street. No painting on them. (And if someone is parked on the street they would be covered. We're allowed to park on one side of the street during the day.) But if we could do it, it's a good idea! Consistent.