i dont know any of the info as the postal depot number or anything like that, but it is A POSTAL DEPOT INSIDE A "REDNERS WAREHOUSE MARKET" FOOD STORE ON LEHIGH ST IN ALLENTOWN PA I WAS NOT HAPPY ABOUT IT EITHER, THE WOMEN AT THE POSTAL DEPOT TOLD ME THAT THE BUBBLE ENVELOPE NEEDED AN ADDITIONAL 52 CENTS OF WHICH I PAID BUT WAS NOT HAPPY!! ABOUT, SHE SAID THAT IF I DIDNT PAY THE EXTRA IT WOULD GET DESTROYED IN THE MACHINE AND NEEDED HAND STAMPING, Joe, is that where you are picking up your mail and having to pay the postage due, or is that where you are mailing them out and they are telling you it it must be hand stamped thus an additional 52 cents? LARGE ENVELOPES RATE (BE UNDER 3/4 " THICK) Up to 1 oz=$ .88 Up to 2 OZ=$1.05 Up to 3 OZ=$1.22 PARCEL RATES Up to 1 OZ=$1.22 Up to 2 OZ=$1.39 Up to 3 OZ=$1.56 I sure don't know howe she is drawing that 52 cent amount out of the air. The difference between a 1 OZ large envelope and a parcel is 34 cents. Well I just spoke with (and now know that is not inside Redners) but anyway Mailboxes Etc, 3440 Lehigh Street Allentown, PA 18103-7388 (610) 966-4255 And asked what it would cost to mail a 1 OZ bubble envelope that was basically flat (containing pics for example) and was told it was Parcel $1.22. I then told the woman that was incorrect, as it should be charged a Large Envelope rate, since it was less than 3/4". I asked if she had a First Class Mail Shape Based Pricing Template, and she said she did, and then agreed that it was indeed to go as a Large Envelope Rate. Sheesh...it now is not only the USPS employees that are getting it wrong, but also those places that are doing mailing on behalf of the USPS like Mailboxes Etc, and so many other Postal Stores. Joe, let me know if you are mailing them from the POSTAL DEPOT INSIDE A "REDNERS WAREHOUSE MARKET". I'll then attempt to contact them and address things. Do you have your mail delivered to your house? Are a lot of the bubblies then marked Postage Due? Do you then pay your carrier before getting possession of the bubblies? LMK, and I will try to help. Sue Here is a link that might be useful: all results for USPS Allentown PA

Solanaceae: thank you, my trellis is 7' high. Last year my plants went 9' then over the neighbor's fence and down into his yard. Yes, I have removed any foliage touching the ground on all plants thus far. Plant 'ropes' are a neat idea, thank you! Gardener: it was your post that prompted me to think hard about what I was doing, especially since Carolyn's response. Dave #1: My gosh?!?!? you remember from last year? I'm impressed!!! Actually, they grow against a 7' trellis that is 3' away from the neighbor's fence. I made the mater bed twice as large this year, but also planted twice as much (they were so small when I put them in!). No real huge problems yet (touch wood) other than some early season critter damage, a droopy yet producing banana legs and some weird bronzyness on some leaves that I sprayed.... but plants are a bloomin' and looking good.... a little too good actually. This is basically what I've been doing.... had plenty of early branches that suffered sunburn and early old leaves that just yellowed w/ age. Those are gone. Everything touching the ground has been going too. But these babies are beginning to sprawl big time. Good, thank you, its the large lower suckers that I let go last year and gave me tons of trouble. Even though some are tempting to leave as they look as they might flower, I want to remove them. I have plenty of space to go up, and plenty of room for plants to grow out (forward) just not left to right, know what I mean? Thank you for the note to take it slow and go in phases... after my experience last year (removing practically half the plant due to disease and still having it overtake the yard) I'm tending to leap to the shears pretty quick. thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and thank you for the link, I'd actually just stumbled across that myself about 3 weeks ago when blossoms started happening. Dave #2: thank you too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ok, so I kinda messed up re the det. vs indet and the reading you just posted for me helped me immensely.... Last year, I bought all my plants from the local home stores. I trusted what I was told on the little labels. Last year I had a gazillion romas, and they appeared to grow indet. (up like a vine, not bushy at all) This year, the hubby wanted 'plenty of romas, plant plenty of romas' ... soooo, having ws'd everything, I sowed a bunch o romas and planted them. All my det.'s went into a new bed this year, as I just wanted to let them sprawl and see what happened, and all of my heirloom indet.'s went into last year's bed.... thinking they'd grow skywards like last year ... except for romas, I planted them thinking they were indet.'s. Your link, and item #2 on that page just cleared a lot up for me. Romas are det.'s huh? Now this is making sense. Idiot me, I didn't read the seed packet. I'm sure it must say det. on there. Really I am way over crowded, but the romas are completely and utterly out of control, growing fat and bushy and low to the ground, like green octopus all over the place... not at all what the generic 'romas' I had last year do. I expected a relatively repeat performance to what I got last year, and this year its completely different. Well, one roma is threatening my Paul Robeson, and another one is creeping onto a Black Krim, and I just can't have that kind of nonsense, so some Roma's got to go.... Thank you so much for the tip on slowly removing just some troublesome branches on the det's. Really, thank you for everything.... you have the patience to answer the same questions over and over, year after year... : ) Everyone here is tremendous and I really appreciate it.

Way to go Rachel! I don't always post but ALWAYS read & enjoy your posts. I haven't had any takers at my Oriole feeder but have seen both the Baltimore & Orchard this season. Yesterday I saw my FOS Indigo bunting-they are such beauties! Another first was the sighting of the Blue-grey gnatcatcher nest. I was so excited but when I returned the very next day to show someone I couldn't find it-the leaves had come out just enough & plus it was very high up. Very few warblers for me yet this season but I'm still hopeful. Keep up the lovely photos & stories. I look forward to each & every one. Susan

I'm sorry that it didn't work out between the two -- but you certainly tried your best, and gave Jayden a shot at a better life. My two still get into scraps daily -- 10 months after Chloe moved in with us. Nothing as severe as what you've described, but they do pounce and roll and scream and kick. Clumps of loose fur floating in the air, but I've never seen any blood on either of them. I break them up with a shout or a tossed pillow, and occassionally - if they seem bent on a pattern of destruction - one or both have to go to their room for a time out. I've recently re-evaluated my feelings about the "fighting" when I watched them lolling at my feet on a relaxed Saturday afternoon recently. They had been peacefully lounging for about an hour or so when Chloe rolled over, gently took Frank's tail in her paws -- and bit it. And the chase was on! Sounds like your two were a lot more serious about it. Glad you're back to a calmer household -- and it sounds like Jasper knows how good he's got it! Do you think you'll try a second cat again? Perhaps a younger cat, or a female?