Patch and Kayla are back?!!! Dang it! I wish I had never ventured over to this section. Now I'm gonna get addicted to Days of Our Lives again!! ;-) I started watching when I was seven. I'll be 34 in two days. My mother and sister (seventeen years older than I) had babies within 4 months of one another. My sister was divorcing at the time, so she lived with us. We had three televisions. One upstairs. Color. One in the den. Color. One in the basement. Black and white. All I wanted to do was watch my cartoons, but my mother and sister hogged the two color sets. Well, what kid do you know who will watch cartoons on a black and white set? So I started off with Guiding Light. Pretty soon I was watching Search for Tomorrow, Young and the Restles and As the World Turns too. When school started back up, I was just on The Guiding Light. As the years went by, I discovered All my Children, Days of Our Lives, One Life to Live, Another World, Santa Barbara, The Bold and the Beautiful and, I'm embarrassed to say, Passions (lasted two months). Today I'm down to just The Young and the Restless (the writing is starting to suffer big time) and The Bold and the Beautiful. I read the updates daily and watch both shows on the occasional off day.

I agree these women are very lucky to have you as a neighbor. As for the problem of family, the kids love to turn a blind eye because otherwise it would mean they'd have to get involved and be responsible. It might put a dent in their lifestyle and require work and comittment. I'm living this scenario which is a surprising repeat of the situation my parents were in when I was growing up. My grandfather lived with us most of the year, spending part of the winter in the south. His care and shelter fell to my parents. My uncle and aunts were hands off never as much as inviting him to dinner much less spending the night or driving him to daily cancer treatments - my mom (with 4 kids to care for) did that. My SIL and BIL are totally clueless to what happens on a daily basis when living with an octagenarian. Even a healthy person can drive you nuts! We've had to call 9-1-1 several times for medical emergencies and they've as much as said we overreacted. What a crock since one of the incidents involved a gangrenous gall bladder! I'm always defending my actions and trying to point out the difficulties of living with a strong willed, contentious person. They don't want to hear it and they certainly don't want her at their house for more than two days. (She's been here for 14 years). I feel very, very alone in dealing with this woman, constantly defending my actions and attempting to garner some understanding of the toll it takes on me. Linda C and others here at the GP have seen her in action. An incident in my kitchen during one of the get-togethers summed it up pretty well. The jig is up in a couple years when we retire and move out of state. This ought to be pretty funny as everyone assumes she can pay big bucks to live in a fancy assisted living place. HA - the jokes on them. Thanks for listening and allowing me to go on and on.

Your garden is just gorgeous. Beautiful beautiful colors, which I adore. What a WELCOME entry up to your door. Lovely. I don't know if I could stand it is the images were any better. Wow! Ya, what is that amazingly blue phlox? Wonderful contrast with the warmer colors. ~Annie

oh yes I have known of Delicious for years, use it on occasion to look for stuff, I do not put mine on it however. I use xmarks which does create a webpage for me with all of my bookmarks on it so that I can access my bookmarks from any pc anywhere by logging on to my xmarks page, plus it makes it very easy to set up a new pc with all my bookmarks by simply putting the xmarks add on in the browser and it takes care of everything else. It is also now available for IE too. The page xmarks sets up however is totally private and you log into it with a user name and password. I too much prefer to keep all of my bookmarks private. I don't understand what you mean, I use firefox and all of my bookmarks are set up in folders. I created the folders then any time I want to save a bookmark I select the folder to save it to. My xmarks is saved the exact same way of course since it just clones it. I do not have any "loose" bookmarks everything is in a labeled folder specific to that selection. Some of the various folders would be: forums, mail, music, purchases, security, linux, windows, games, recipes, etc. In those I save any bookmarked page that is relevant to that category. I also use the tags and keywords in firefox when I bookmark a site so that if I need to do a search for it in my bookmarks I just go to organize bookmarks and then do a search for that tag or keyword to bring up related sites. My Ie faves are also set up in folders but I rarely use it.