LOL! Carol, don't worry about Stella. In this house (according to her) it's all about Stella! Those two cats are still rolling around in the catnip, and enjoying a bite of it too, from time to time. I've got a couple of stoners here! I tried to hide the package from them, but they found it while I was at work and "spread the love" all over the office while I was at work. I swept it back up, but they'll probably be into it again today. Who needs cable when I've got Bump and Stella for entertainment? ((chuckle)) And the birthday goes on! This is sooo cool! Yesterday I received 2 great cards in the mail, one from Sue/suecirish and one from Andrea/appaloosa909. They both had some great seeds in them. THANK YOU LADIES!!! After this month, I kind of pity the seed companies. I don't think I'll be making a seed order for next year. I'm getting plenty of seeds from my friends here on the GW! Lol!..... Well, maybe I could make a small order, right? What's a gardener to do? Have A Great Day Everyone! -Dan

Didn't do a lot of shopping, Lars, we're more into looking at historical and cultural stuff. One of the things we saw was a 2,300 year old bronze drum called the "Moon of Pejang" which is the largest ever cast in the world. When you consider the effort it would have required given the technology of the day it rates with the Pyramids IMO. We also saw a relief carved into the living rock about 25metres long, which was created in the 13th century. What an effort that would have required as well. On the eating side we had a lot of babi guling (roast suckling pig), nasi goreng (fried rice), nasi campur (like fried rice with assorted toppings) and sates of chicken, pork, beef and goat. For our anniversary dinner the cook at the villa we were staying at pushed the boat out with some delicious crisp spring rolls with a homemade dipping sauce, followed by a whole fish with a Balinese salsa which involved among other ingredients chillies and lemongrass, a seafood curry with prawns, squid and fish, some really outstanding chicken sates with homemade peanut dipping sauce, and some meltingly tender pork spare ribs, also with homemade sauce. Some of our other meals were eaten at street stalls which would make the FDA's hair curl, but the food was all piping hot and the stalls clean, and we didn't suffer any consequences beyond what you might after a night of really hot chillies ;-) One place we got bowls of noodles in chicken and vege soup for $1, and ten little chicken sates cooked over a charcoal grill while we watched for 50c. I think you'd love Bali, Lars, the fabrics would make your eyes light up for sure :-)

Thanks so much for the good wishes. While I wasn't born on Friday the 13th it does fall that way every few years. I am 59 today. I went on the Social Security website to decide when to retire. If I get a divorce(I've been separated for 5 years) I will be able to retire at 62 because I can draw off my first husband and he has made four times the money I have. We were married 24 years when he left. Hope I live long enough to retire!!!! If I don't I believe I will be in a very heavenly place anyway. Love Yall.

A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip. I hope each of you has a very Happy Birthday. Shirley