thanks! susan, yup it's an oldie we grew up with...the blades are metal, can't tell you how many times my parents told us not to stick our fingers inside the cage while it was runnin' ...altho we did stick our faces pretty close and said ahhhh into it :oD

It was fun, funny, interesting...I had a blast! Not surprisingly, I think, everyone was great...not a stinker in the bunch. :>)!!! I mean, 12 strangers...you never know for sure. ;>O. Oh, and purses were properly placed and phones were out of sight. Ha! The oddest/ funniest moment came when I dragged Lars into the living room for his professional opinion of some drapes, aka “ball gowns”. Luv r golden actually climbed the latter , playing the part of Scarlet O'Hara ( in reverse) to help us envision them.! He shared a few of his designs, and, wow is he talented! Just such a lovely group. We missed Jill . Best wishes to you for your mother’s quick recovery. A few pics... not what you’d like to see most, I know.

I have all the same iphone problems as listed. On my macbook, which I use most often for this site, if I try to copy text (like to quote someone) and paste it into a new reply, I get an error message. That is in firefox, but if I go to chrome it will work. In firefox, if i type a comment, I cannot get any paragraphs using the return key; if I try to edit or sometimes if I try to add photos, the whole comment will disappear. VERY frustrating. I cannot bold or underline text in firefox, so have to remember to switch to chrome (which I really dislike using). The wonkiness of predictive text on my iphone is the worst, because if you are used to using it, it's so automatic that I don't notice I'm using it. Then when I proofread my text before posting, it's all mumbo jumbo.

Color me crazy, but I love renovating really old houses. If I were still physically able, I'd buy another place where I could take a crowbar to crumbling lath and plaster. There's something quite nice about knowing exactly what's inside your walls when your done. That's expecially true when you've corrected a major structural problem.