Here I am. Thank-you Nancy for giving me a pointer in this direction. I'm fine and I'm not. Off work at the moment with health issues. Hopefully nothing but I'm having problems. Doc found my thyroid out of whack a few months back and that was a major stride forward. Mostly healthy enough to make it to work and have a drink after work. Work is half the problem. Mostly stress issues that I suspect are not helping my personal health. Telling myself that I'm strong enough to beat the stress. Expected blow-back from my getting control of the chemicals situation. I think I have control... or more so then in the past. Some new issues but all I've had to do is e-mail and things get taken care of. That is all I ask as a safety person is that things get looked at and a rational decision made. Some recent personal attacks that I have weathered fairly well so far. Ahh... work place drama! Some serious consideration to going off on disability. Almost enough to live on... almost. Kitties are all fine. Favorite moved to the garage and has pet door access to the great outdoors. She turned into a world-class mouser... pity the small rodents in her sights. Leelee moved in and her former owner was a young girl. Leelee has this whole surrogate baby syndrome going on so she sleeps with her head on my pillow and lays on her back in the crook of my arm. Impossible not to love her. Yoko is getting old and spends more time sleeping in warm spots then I care for. Annie and Jessy remain litter mate close and are seldom apart from each other. Three watermelons on the vine in my garden this week! : ) lyra

Lorrain, Krislrob and Sierra. Thanks guys for thinking about me. I posted on Lorrain's other thread tonight that we're ok. We're on the south mountain of the inland fires. So long as the winds continue to go west and die down we'll be ok. So long as there are no more idiots out there or the winds don't head east then we'll be just fine. Lorrain, PLEASE let us know how you're doing.... Krislrob, I have friends I believe are in your area that were really worried yesterday. Today things are looking better for them. I hope you're fine too. Another couple who had their 2nd baby on Saturday live out by you (know that I'm really praying hard here for you!) Anyway, these friends are around the Lawerence Welk resort. They got to go home last night. Still, I'm a bit worried because their newborn isn't eating and it's only a week old. I heard that the smoke is ten fold worse for new borns. AND... my friend said his home smells horrible of smoke. God, I HATE Santa Ana's...... and weirdo's!!!!

We tried watching Librarians; Cindy couldn't get into it. So we stopped watching after just a few episodes. We watch quite a few shows. We DVR them and watch them on our schedule. Scorpion, Gold Rush, Moonshiners, Edge of Alaska, Alaskan Bush People, The Last Alaskans, Railroad Alaska, Naked and Afraid, The Middle, Mysteries of Laura, Law and Order SVU, Royal Pains, Big Bang Theory, Grey's Anatomy, Last Man Standing, Bones, Local news every night, ZNation, iZombie, Castle, Good Wife, The Last Ship, The Muppets, etc. I'm sure there are more but I can't think of them right now. We watch a lot of TV. And this list doesn't include the shows Cindy watches on her own. We get movies from RedBox, and Netflix, and have Hulu plus. There is certainly not a shortage of stuff to watch. While I'm napping, Cindy will do some housework, then watch a show episode, then go do more housework, and repeat. Sometimes I think all we do is watch TV.

No, I didn't ask RU, would you please let me know if RU has it? :-) I have been looking.....didn't find Cressida, Sent an email to Burling, found some other roses on Burling's list: Marchesa Boccella, Elie Beauvilain, Emmanuella De Mouchy, Comte de Chambord. Hope she has them, waiting for her email. :-) I will also email Linda too, may be she has Cressida.