A floppy. What's a floppy? I never bothered with floppy disks, as they have always been too unstable. Went from Zips to CD's. With CD's just costing pennies, there is no point in using anything else. Since my mom is basically starting out fresh, I was just going to find a computer with USB and ethernet ports. Do you know that the wire they now use to wire your house and phone jacks is the same cable as ethernet cat5 wire? That just tells me go with ethernet as much as possible. You can buy serial/parallel to USB or ethernet adapters. Hey Ki, if your printer is relatively new it should have both serial and ethernet or USB ports. Mine does anyway and it's at least 2 years old. Dottie, have you tried updating your drivers? It's insane you've had to replace everything. Laura

Ravel, it's good that you are continuing with your efforts to create a wildflower butterfly garden. The one thing you should not expect is for wildflowers to have the same performances as their ornamental relatives. That is because the plants we normally use in gardens have been improved over the years and therefore appear more spectacular. So expect this of most of your flowers. Next I do need to ask as to where you are located. Your location determines what sort of wildflowers will thive there. For example in Ontario do check the website, wildflower farm and Acorus for information on wildflowers. Note that there's not much nformation as to their zones - which is the reason why it's important to identify your province and look up the plants natural in your area. As to divisions - yes you can divide plants now for as long as the ground are still workable. I'd prefer to divide once the plant has gone or is close to dormant. As to seed collection. I would suggest harvesting the ripened flowerhead and putting them facing down in brown paper bags. Seeds out to drop down. Milkweed have large seedpods. Once this splits tufted seeds will float away. I grow eupatorium for semi-shade conditions, meadowsweet, thalictum and filipendula. I also grow sweet williams (invasive) and epimedium, virginia bluebells (also invasive), columbine trilliums are shade loving plants Jack in the Pulpit Marsh Marigolds Violas (careful - can be terribly invasive) woodland anemone wild blue flax yellow lady's slipper wild geranium tall buttercup lupines forget me nots There are tons of information out there on wildflowers and all you need to do is to do more online research. Try locating more information using the term woodland plant for shade loving wildflowers.

What I would like to know is-is there a way I can clear out the old one so that whatever is in there can't be found by anyone else? We really need to ask who is "anyone" and what kind of information they could possibly recover. Are we talking about classified materials that might be used by enemy government? If so, you need to physically destroy the drive. Otherwise, something like Boot and Nuke works just fine. Understand that it destroys ALL the data on the drive including the operating system. If you have the original disc, then you can reinstall Windows or just give it to the new user.

I will also add photo of the original kitchen. This is my remodeled kitchen. My first guest called after viewing original cottage photos and told me that she could not imagine purchasing the cottage because of its condition and was absolutely amazed at the transformation. Opted to not go with a cabinet opposite the laundry room door but purchased a buffet and daughter made a chalkboard hanging station which we hung above. I chose millennium cream granite, IPT 16 gauge zero radius sink, Premier Charleston bridge faucet, white cabinets and appliances instead of stainless. We are extremely pleased with our selections as it is a small cottage. Serves us well. We also removed the window from the original kitchen and added a pantry privacy wall beside the counter depth refrigerator. Thanks for all your input. Now for the original question regarding my IPT zero radius sink purchase. I am very satisfied. It is deeper than a traditional sink and also has a lot more surface area than a traditional sink. I ordered a 60/40 split; however, if I were to order today, I would order the 70/30 because the 70 side would be almost as large as a traditional single sink. IPT shipped directly to my fabricator. Because the fabricator was so impressed with the quality of the sink, he is now purchasing sinks from them. I am in an open room and the insulation pads work extremely well. I would highly recommend these sinks. Plumber stated when installing that it was an extremely well built sink. I also ordered the Premier Charleston bridge faucet which I really like. I ordered it through Red Sales and Marketing in Greenville, SC. Plumbers in our area consider this brand to be an extremely high end faucet. Do not carry these at your big box stores. Phone number for Red Sales is 864-270-4703. Great company to work with and unbelievably quick turn around time. Less than 1 week for sink and faucet.