Whats up peeps! Oh how I missed you all! Chell happy happy to see you back... Good to see your new profession... I hope no poop hangers like my Yorkie poo and Maltese...hahhah I am cracking up..:) I need to shave them... big cracking up......hahahhah I wished I could have joined life sometimes gets in the way.... Big time! Smiling now I think hahahh Gotta look in a mirror.... Cracking up again... At least I am laughing again.... I miss all of you alot you all will never know how much! Peace and quiet is good for me though hahahha I talk too much.... Hahahhah Well wanted to send smiles out to you all my friends! Love you all... Ps always send a smile hahahah Barb

Thankful to hear someone call Bingo! Annie, I will give another person a chance to call Bingo until the end of the day in case they have not been able to get online at this point, but if I don't hear from anyone you are the winner. I had no idea we could be down to just 2 more words to be drawn at this point and so many people still needed those two words - or at least one of them! Wow, this was a long Bingo game. Kelli, I'm so happy to report your package showed up in today's mail! It makes you wonder what they do with Priority Mail though; doesn't it? There's no indication it went somewhere else or had a problem of any kind. It's a wonderful package. I smiled when I saw the Sno-Caps. I wanted to get those to put in your package because they seemed perfect for the swap theme and I went to 3 stores and couldn't find them. Anyway, I love Sno-Caps! Kelli also send a pretty note, a journal which is great for recording garden events, and a pair of red gloves. You know I may try putting on hand cream and wearing them in the evening. My hands get so dry in the winter. Kelli also sent 4 packs of seeds Nicotiana Woodland, Echinacea Pow Wow (white), Rose Mallow (white), and Winter Thyme. What great names and I will enjoy all of them. Thanks so much for everything. I will check later to see if this completes our January swap. With the new horse arriving this month, I feel like I have not been on top of things as much as I like so sorry about that but I'm so glad that you enjoyed the swap. I enjoyed this theme, too. We took my new horse, Piper, to the vet for shots, etc. today and she would not get back on the trailer. I guess she liked it there. (Ha! Ha!) Anyway, I think we were there over 2 hours trying to get her to load back on the trailer. My husband finally had to detach the truck and drive home to get some grain to lure her back on. (Whew, it would have been getting dark in about an hour and the vet's office was trying to close down. Piper has a mind of her own on some things and we are working to get her less "opinionated". As my friend explains a 5 year old horse is kind of like a teenage child. Someone should have sent her to her room or make her stand in a corner to get her to behave long before this! LOL Okay, I rambled long enough. Talk with everyone later - and if I am too worn out from my vet experience, I'll be back tomorrow morning. Jeanne

Thanks Kris for organizing the swap again. They are soooo much fun! Pam

I'm with bus_driver on this one, although I'm going to say something he didn't and he may not agree with. Living in rural Maine and working on a good number of 150+ year old houses up here, many with knob&tube wiring that all looks the same, three-prong outlets that aren't really grounded to anything (well, sometimes each other...), devices that come out of the wall, box-and-all, on a whim, etc., I would say that "all of the wires are the wrong color" is probably one of the least, most relatively-meaningless errors. If neutral is neutral all the way through, same with ground, then it's neither a fire hazard nor a shock hazard to the end user. Electricity itself doesn't care what color the wire insulation happens to be. As far as people who might work on it in the future... when someone opens up an outlet and finds a white wire on a hot screw, yet the outlet tests as wired correctly, the smart ones will know what's going on, while the stupid ones #1 shouldn't be in there, and #2 probably don't know, confidently, the correct color code anyway. I, personally, would fix it if a time came that I had to work on that circuit anyway. I wouldn't make a priority out of it. I suppose, with my OCD, sooner or later seeing that one black wire on the neutral bar would eventually irritate me enough that I'd have to do something.