Mere, glad to read the good news. I know you have to be stressed about the whole situation, how could you not be? I doubt you are the 1st to need a cool cloth; anyone having to have a biopsy would be stressed. I would think that anyone with a family history; well all the more stress. To go in for a procedure to see if it registers the "big C" well that in itself would make anyone puke. Now that I can put off the actual surgery I probably will till after that. It depends on what all it involves and recuperation, really. It can't be much, so we'll see. Did you ever get to check out the cure magazine site? I wonder if you have other options. I remember reading about one breast cancer study where they were given a drug that worked. Might be worth the time to look into. The article would have been from the time dad was sick - July 2005 to January 2006. I seem to remember it as a fall issue - so Fall 2005. I might still have it but it's packed in a rubbermade with dad's stuff.

I spent an hour or two last night reading some treatises on Appalachian English as a dialect. It is spoken in this part of S.E. Ohio and they even had the syntax rules defined. As I was reading it, I kept nodding my head in agreement. Uh huh.....Uh huh. Totally interesting. I didn't even know I came into this world in Appalachia until I was in University for the second time and somebody mentioned my county as Appalachian. I guess I mentioned that as it just sounds like something our weather person would say and nobody would think a thing about it. LOL.

Hi Stacy, As far as your pump goes, it depends on what you want in your pond. If you want a good-sized waterfall, 800 gallons an hour isn't bad, in my opinion. I have ponds and a stream that currently total about 500 gallons, and I have a waterfall pump that is capable of recirculating the water at a rate of about 3,000 gph. I got a bigger one because I felt that I would like to expand my pond someday (which I just started doing about 3 days ago). Anyway, it has worked just fine with my smaller pond system -- I just plumbed the line so that it had a valve on it, and I can use the valve to control the amount of water that is recirculated (I have choked down to about half of its capacity -- the manufacturers said that using a valave to limit the pumping volume of the pump -- within reason -- will not harm it). Like I said in another post, make your pond as big as you your imagination will allow for, without breaking your budget -- most folks find that as soon as they are finished building their pond, they immediately wish they had made it bigger.

Oh golly, Karen. This sort of thing happens to me all the time. Lynn, you actually forgot about TWENTY gold and silver chargers! You may get the prize for that one. Come to think of it, I'm sure some of you gals on the forum will remember I "found" a large orange tablecloth with matching napkins that, to this day, I still can't remember ever buying. How does one forget about an ORANGE tablecloth, of all colors?? Well, I have to say that although my misplacing and rediscovering of table items continues to go on and on, this forum has helped me in a small way. Since I usually take pictures of some of my Fun Finds and tablescapes to post here, I've gotten in the habit of taking more pictures of my dishes and glasses. At first, I only had pics (and little explanations) of the china that one day would be handed down. But now, I take a picture of everything as soon as I bring it in the house. (If hubby is home, I leave it in the trunk until I can safely take a snap.) I even have most of them on my mobile phone along with pics of the manufacture's mark on the back, so I can match things when I spot something that might coordinate. Doing a kitchen remodel also helps, because you have to take everything out and, worst of all, you have to CLEAN everything when you go to put it all back. So, within a week or so, I actually HELD each item in my hand for a minute or two. Now, about remembering where I decided to store them . . .