Pete, I think that water is water, food, means food regardless of the language. If you love roses, you will have no problem admiring them. The people growing them will, like most rose growers, be glad to share. As to our own country, people to tend to isolate themselves, which is silly. My AA sponsor told me to stop watching the news as it was making me nuts (at least more nuts than I am.) I was still able to catch the big stuff like 9/11. If you are a member of a local ARS club, what is a better way of trying to get new members. Our gerontic members are slowly dying off. Bummer! Not everyone is Jack the Ripper. Last night I was riding my motorpickle home and it was wind gust city. I have a large faring on my BMW. I was stopped at a red light with the weight on my left foot. The wind blew the motorpickle over to the right. I had a knot in the end of my shoelace of my John Deere boot. The wind whipped it into the float snap of the carburetor. I went to put my right foot down and I broke the carb trying to get free and rolled over anyways. I was unable to stop the flow of gasoline out of the carburetor, so I turned off the gas at the petcock. The engine had died as I had it in first with the clutch in. I was swarmed with well wishers. The bike was "up" in no time. Fred, a stranger just driving by with his son, was towing one of those low trailers and told me he would pull off at the next drive, we loaded the bike and he took me home. He would not take any money, but I cut him some roses I still had blooming for his wife. Yes, those "Just Joey" ones I had been babying covering at night. Thank God I grow roses! Foghorn

No, the foliage is too dark. What I'm seeing is foliage and flower exactly the same color (or so it seems from the car). And it's truly a lime green, or yellow-green. It's like a giant dill plant, if dill was invasive and grew wild. I wish I could get a good look at the foliage, that would help a lot with identification.

Patricia, you say your boyfriend gave you the car? I'm assuming that was before you broke up. Is that correct? You don't think he could have done something like switch the wires on the cruise control where it is always on, do you? Don't mean to scare you but so many people are nutz today anything is possible. Anyway. what you are talking about here is an emergency situation that has to be check out by a mechanic. What I can tell you to do is to see if the cruise control is inadvertently on, as was the case of my mother's car. If that isn't the case you must bring your car in to the shop. And don't be pessimistic. It could be something simple and an easy fix. But you won't know unless you go. Besides, no mechanic is going to start any work unless you approve it. If you can't afford it maybe consider selling the car to someone who can fix it and buying something else. But whatever you do, the last thing you should be doing is driving a car you can't control with you and your children in it. BTW- do you have an honest mechanic you can take it to?

Alisande, you're giving them praise for talking you out of using their service that you had already paid to use? They were real happy with you too, believe me. You could have gotten the same info about the nearby service station from a map on a gps device or a smart phone. (When I called the State Farm dispatcher as described above, they said "Do we have permission for one time use of the locator system for your phone, so that we know where you are?" I said yes, and they came back and said "OK, we see your position". I didn't have to tell them.) Sushipup, so a truck that stocks and sells replacement batteries drives up, "checks your battery", and tells you what you need is a new battery? I'm not sure I would have fallen for that. Maybe they were on the level, but hmm... I would have limited the service to a jump start and then gone to a garage to have it checked.