Nice, they look happy. My group has a very different look today. They don't care for snow and just sit in the doorway looking disgusted at the white stuff on the ground. They don't sound like they are saying nice things about it either. I think by tomorrow they will able to go scratch up some dirt like your girls.

Hmmm... is that taco meat? I use villagephotos. Free, easy, cut & paste code for a few pictures. It worked so well I bought into the buck a week level which give me more space and bandwidth then I'll every use. Nothing wrong with the free and they serve to ebay if you need to sell stuff. Steps are: Take picture. Move picture from camera to your computer. Edit with your photo software (some probably came with the camera). Cut the photo to the smallest usable size. Save picture to a folder on your computer's desktop. Folders can be made by right clicking on an empty spot and selecting the New Folder option from the menu that appears. Open your villagephoto account. Pick a photo album and there will be an Upload option. The Browse button will let you look around your computer for a picture... which is in the folder you made right on the desktop. Once in an album the text for url, html, or thumbnail will be under each picture you upload. Left click once to highlight the text. Then right click for cut, copy, and paste options. Copy html for full size and thumbnail for small pictures that can be clicked on. Paste the text into your gardenweb post where you want the picture to appear. When you preview your message it should be all there. In the old days combination keystrokes were used to copy, cut, and paste. They still work. Ctrl X will cut highlighted text. Ctrl C will copy. Ctrl V will paste. Here is a link that might be useful: Link to villagephotos

glad to hear about your update Trap7. so you're growing your plants outdoors in a sunny location huh? great! that's the way they should be!(except the nepenthes) are you going to post new pics? i surely hope so. the way you describe their progress, makes some of us want to see the plants' new growth. new pics of them perhaps? i started a smaller terrarium(just because i had spare plants) i planted them in a 1 gallon fish bowl i just had it sitting on top of my "drawing table" there for a while, and i had spare plants in my sunny windowsill.. and though.. hmm.. maybe i should give it another try.. then.. i planted a venus' flytrap(despite of the failing attempt on growing one in a bigger terrrarium) i planted one in the fish bowl along with a drosera adelae.. drosera capensis, 2 pinguicula sethos, and 1 pinguicula moranensis. i will see what will happen within days, i am giving them artificial lighting 16 hours per day. the 14 watt lightbulb is 4 inches above plants. so they get real bright light. i will post the pic of the terrarium in 2 weeks of improvement. Trap7, yous hould take pics of your plant's improvement. your description of progress was really intriguing. :P i'm 20, there's no shame for guys to love plants. if you knew me in real person you would be like "dude, you're freaking odd" talk to you later , take care.

Hmmmm, what am I doing attempting to do right now. Well, don't think I'm nuts but... I'm digging out about two feet of soil from a planter which is cut into a slope. This will be replaced with Sunshine mix No.4 and some compost. Over the years this has been my tomato bed (5 plants) this is the hottest spot in my yard so the tomatoes have the best chance here. Last year the tomatoes didn't grow that well so this year they went into a new raised bed out in the open. We had the most fantastic summer for tomatoes, they grew gangbusters but most years we need to plant them in the warmest spot in the garden (the tomato bed). Each year I have moved the soil back to front in the bed amended it with compost and steer manure but there comes a time when it needs overhauling. This bed has a fiberglas roof high enough that on the backside I hang netting for beans. When you don't have room to grow everything you want you have to get inventive. The old soil is being tossed on a bed where I pulled out the couch grass, it is also being amended with manure, wood ashes and compost, then tilled. I've planted my garlic in the front and I'll plant veggies in the rest of it next spring, hopefully the couch grass is history. The tomatoes will go back in their usual spot next year so when it stops raining I'll be out there moving more soil. It's pouring right now YEA!!! we needed this so badly the soil is parched even with all the watering I've done. I think we've had the driest summer on record or close to it. Annette