Hi Kathy!!! Ive been gone a while and didn't see you on texas gardening, so I just wanted to let you know I love your new place and want lots of pictures! Its been a rough couple years here and I have a new grandbaby..born 04/01/08 April fools baby..LOL...Maddison Shea..weighed 6lbs 13ozs..so tiny to me! Let me know how your new place is and how you are doing! Thats my spoiled rotten grandson too!..He is so precious....She was 6 days old here and simply amazed with my mom (mnl) Dena

Now Mud, when she used the word balance, she doesn't mean mentally - she wasn't here long enough to know just how kooky I am. If I was mentally balanced, I would put the time and energy into something to support my plant habit. My hubby enjoyed talking with Lainey about plant genetics - both of them throwing around big words like mycrosomethingorther DNA and chlorplasms and some other words that just flit through my brain. When my eyes glass over, nothing sticks in that old memory cell. Lainey after ya'll left, we did head to the nursery to get the new hydrangea he had heard about to replace the one we were frying in too much sun. Guess what, another Japanese maple, Orange Dream, followed me home. Lainey loves JM's as much as I do, plus she's a fern nut too, plus, plus, plus. Guess it boils down to Lainey and sis Margaret are also plantaholics. More visitors to arrive in a few minutes - I've cooled off now so time to go and give a tour. Hope I'm as successful steering them away from the weeds too. Brooke

john4291 You weren't alone as a dBase user, that was the first widely popular relational database for PCs. It was used by a lot of people in a lot of places. Once Microsoft got its database act together, not with the first but with later versions of Access, dBase got pushed aside. There was no reason to pay for dBase when Access was equivalent and included for in the standard MS Office. Also, Access and Excel files play together well so that's a big plus. These days SQL seems to be very popular and there are many free community-maintained versions. SQLite is one of several.

Annie, as always you seem to be the cornerstone of visits and arrangements. Peppi...awwwww. Well we'll be at Residence Inn Chicago Downtown/River North on North Dearborn so if your plans change, give us a call. I will also send all of you our cell #s (same as before) and be in touch with you Annie possibly this weekend. Sherry and Nancy if you can make it that would be terrific. But Sherry...baby that new job while you can. I am so glad it came thru when it did. btw, at the BlogHer conference I just attended, I met a life coach who lives in Michigan. She really is dynamic and I liked her a lot. I hope to meet up with her again - potentially at an Inaguration. Karen...maybe Dick will get the New Orleans Habitat bug again in 09, and maybe lazy me will go with him this time! Here is a link that might be useful: MidLife's a Trip