Good afternoon, folks! It's sunny, hot (93 F.), and humid here. I've finished all my running around for the day and just finished a nice, healthy lunch. I'm down 2.5 pounds from last week, and that makes me feel terrific. I turned down to invites to lunch today and did a double workout instead! Nothing like a taste of success to make me do the right things. Raeanne, our Chamber is putting on a "Divas" event again this summer on a much grander scale than the first one last year. Last year's was called "Divas in Paradise"; this year's is "Divas on Safari". It's an evening of pampering and fun for women in the area. We are in the process of recruiting 'pamperers' who will offer some type of service to the women, from a hand "facial", to toenail polishing, 10-minute chair massages, iris reading, free screening by my chiropractor, and that's all so far. The pampers get a free table for offering services on the spot. Vendor tables sell for $100 and they get to bring whatever merchandise to sell from their business that will fit on, under and in front of an 8 foot table space. Both types of people are required to offer a minimum of $25 item for our Silent Auction. Applebee's (2 stores) will fix those cute little shots desserts, and the country club provides the main food. It's a fundraiser for our Chamber. They provide awesome scholarships for local students with the proceeds. Our community center fundraiser had crafts made by people attending the art classes there or made at home, donated goodies for the sweet shop, donated baskets for the Silent Auction, rented petting zoo, bounce house, and all kinds of games for kids, then lunch for everyone: hotdogs, nachos, baked potatoes and salad, BBQ-topped potatoes, and slices of donated cakes for sale. We made a lot of money, and it was a fun community event. So much was donated that the profit was good. I hope this helps. Let me know if you want even more details. BJ. hope you enjoy your time off-island. That's really neat about your DD's film screening. Marci & Jan, it's great reading your posts and hearing about your lives. Where do y'all think everyone is these days? Off having too much fun? Computer broken? Bored? Feeling guilty? Whatever the reason, COME BACK AND POST ANYWAY! You are missed. Wonderful Wednesday wishes for all! :-)

OK, lisa. I think since marge said it's a second garage at her temporary apartment, then it clutter out of control. Marge. How much do you really use the portable sewing machine you have now? If you pull it out for mending a couple of times a year, then I don't think the White machine table is a good idea. Better left in a closet. If you use it frequently, then you know using the machine table won't be a comfortable sewing spot. You were managing just fine before someone put that out. I would post it on freecycle and let someone who would really appreciate the machine give it a new home. White is a good brand and I love those older models. The mechanics in them just don't wear out. The last thing you want to do after you get the house remodeled is to fill it up with stuff you won't use. Do you really want it in your nice, new space? Gloria

Was at Rac Trac, today, and looked for them. Didn't see any.

Hi, Scott, not sure if I was around when the parking question came up before, I do not recall any. But then, I've not been here as long as you have either. I have a lot of bricks bordering flowerbeds now, and most of them I turn flat so that I can put the lawnmower wheel on them. No problem, because the blade is set for its highest position, we need the grass blades shading the roots here in the summer heat. Then I have in the past continued the flat bricks as a narrow 2-brick end-to-end our double row of flat bricks walkway to get to the garage , and that little walkway also wound up being a flower border too. We removed it when they poured al the cement, and I'm about to lay it back in a curved pattern to allow for a 3 tiered fountain to go in front of that end wall of the garage. To keep algae from growing on the garage wall, I will plant only leriope, and maybe position pots of geraniums amidst them as they fill in the space. I love leriope, never needs cutting. I will also have to get some cement pavers to create more pathways, because DH tracks in grass clippings and clumps of sawdust and doggy poop, and I must keep that from happening so frequently. If you play your cards right, those pathways cause no problem with the lawnmower. Of course, you can always mix up a bag of Quikcrete and pour it into forms and make your own sidewalk as well. But that is a lot of work. I go with the cement squares from Home Depot/Lowes laid end-to-end and high enough to keep my feet out of the puddles. LV7310, I have a friend with horses, and am familiar with that situation. Just having a structure with "bays" for the vehicles would be an improvement. They have some of those quonset hut looking things, tube buildings? forget what they are called. But you can drive straight through because big doors at both ends. and work on your vehicles inside under cover. Also, what I like is a traditional looking thing with the bays, but instead of a long building, make it have bays on both sides. Tin roof would be the most expensive part of it. The rest just posts holding it up, and a trim to make it pretty. A gabled huge carport. A white board fence would really make it look like a ranch.