Ken and others, Nice winter day here in the mountains of SW Virginia, 63 degrees outside with nice gentle rain. My outbound work flight was cancelled due to bad weather in Atlanta, so came home and dragged all the tropicals outside for a gentle day soak. Only about 50 plants nowadays, I am slacking off a bit.Used to bring 150-200 plants in for the winter. Nice to see brugmansias still blooming and variegated albutilons with blooms, hibiscus buds opening etc. Still have some geraniums and rex begonias in pots blooming as well. Potted up last three pots of hosta roots I had laying around in bags for a couple of months, since digging and cleaning out any rot from them when I rebuild the beds. Put them in pots and winter over in the basement. Crystal Fountain, Gigantea, Sieb. Elegans, Invincible and Galaxy. Made a deal with a nearby horse farm for both well rotted manure and fresh. About 2 miles away, will need a bunch of plastic bins which they will fill and set aside for my pickup and return. Plan to spread about 4-6 inches of well rotted horse manure on a couple of 10 year old beds, work the soil and then replant next Spring. Soil prep is the key to great hosta beds when you don't have Illinois soil or Delaware mushroom soil. Bruce

I am laughing out loud at these stories and videos. It's been quite a few years since I've had a pet, but I've had a few over the years. The dogs just did doggie things like steal the roast beef off the counter. Scruffy the mutt we found would sleep on the bed when we weren't home, which he wasn't supposed to do. I'd walk in the back door and hear a thunk from him jumping off the bed. When I went upstairs he'd pretend to be sleeping on the floor, in spite of the bedspread being messed up. Worst of all were the ferrets. They could and did eat everything. It would go in one end and come out the other in the shape of intestines. I have hot air heat in my house and they used the ducts as their own personal trail system. It was so funny to be sitting in the den and a ferret would be scrabbling behind the duct cover. My son had taken the cover off the duct in his room and they used that to get in and out.

Carol, go to the Corel Site.... Corel Home Click on the word 'Community' on the blue bar across the top of the page. Click on 'Tutorials' left side menu. Click on Paint Shop Pro Scroll down, you will find PSPX....PSP 9....PSP8 tutorials Joy

Not sure if this is what you're dealing with, but after getting a FL washer, all the hems of our sheets, pillowcases, and kitchen towels got those accordion pleats at the hems. I mean ALL of them. I now hang the kitchen towels on folding drying rack to dry, in order to circumvent the pleating. We never ever had this phenomenon with our TL water hog washer. I tried ironing and then got tired of doing that. And, of course, the fabric finally frayed and developed holes along the folds. Someone here on the forum once said it has to do with the fabric being off-grain. I'm not knowledgeable enough to say yes or no to that. Very little fabric is woven on grain, anymore. True quality control went the way of everything else, years ago. All I know is that it started when we got our FL washer. Ugh...