Oh, what nice pictures! Even I, who is (am?) so technically unknowledgable, may be able to do it! Lilo, is this what you were doing with the deer trio--the picture I said I couldn't see? If I managed to do this, here is a pic of Maggie in our back yard--our inside cat who desperately wants to be an outside cat!

I LOVE dagnabit. So full of feeling. Namely exasperation, a feeling so common in parenthood. Thanks for the leaving a couple spaces tip melanie. Good one. I often wonder why it isn't letting me post. And sometimes it even gives me a chance to re-evaluate what I wrote and judge it irrelevant so I spare you all and delete it anyway.

Sorry, I don't think there's any way to delete it except to ask the site administrators, but that's more trouble than it's worth. If you try to respond on a thread where you posted shortly before, it will reject your message. All you have to do is use the back arrow and change the subject heading in your message to something like "Reply" or "Requested Recipe" or whatever and then it'll accept it. OK, if you're canning your mixed veggies, I'm assuming you packed the clean, hot jars with the veggies, brought the brine mixture to a boil and poured it over the contents of the jars, leaving 1/2" headspace. Mixed veggies like this, which can be quite dense, should be processed 20 minutes for pints (as per instructions from "Joy of Pickling"). Did the instructions say 5 minutes because that's really short for this kind of product. If you canned the veggies within the last 24 hours, I'd recommend either refrigerating or open the jars, empty contents, clean jars, new lids, re-pack, bring brine back to a boil and re-process the longer time. The veggies may soften, but you don't have safety worries. Obviously, refrigerating is simpler, if you have the room. Someone else may have a different suggestion, but that's my take on it.

Looking Real Good Steve Mon!! Ya see the thing about composite material is it changes, no matter what brand a person buys its not going to be the same the next day or the next year, there is no telling about the stuff its made by a machine so even if the Co dosent change the make up or get slapped with a class action or has a recall or just stops making it all together,,,,, Machines make mistakes for a lot of reasons it could be they dident get updated, could be a low paid worker tossed a few beer bottles in the mix,could be the raw material wasent up to quality things like that. Some people want composite for some reason, others dont mind the stuff going green every year or little rot holes coming up, or having to frame with sister joists on a break, or having it sag on 16'' centers. Watching the color fade,puting up with the little differances in the texture. Other People are enraged over things like this, I have goten a lot of mail from these Folks, they bought into the hype belived what the Co said and have no place to go either live with it,try for a class action,tear it out and go with something else. And then there are the Srercrcr kind of folks, new wave, modern, this is the material of the Present and its not getting all that much good press. Mabey should Our Business stay on the roll its been on for the last 10 years the composite machine including everything thats invloved in that will probley get a product out there that people can count on,after they have pushed out every mix they can think of and advertized it anyway they want, and just put on hold the enraged customers,, remember them??? I do a fair amount of composite decks, I dont want to do it but the hype is impossible to put away so I use the best I can get and go with it. One high $ material is Plastic Lumber, The Robert over at mrdeck.com has a track record with the stuff and some very nice work, now if a person wanted to go with a sure thing in man made material it is possible with this material, other wize its going to be a roll of the bones for the next few years. J