A dry creek bed is easy to build as long as there is a place for the water to go. We routed the downspouts from our front gutters and the overflow from our water feature to drain here. This also catches all of the run off from our meadow. At the bottom of the slope in my garden above the dry creek, we have a rain garden of plants that like full sun and wet feet in winter, yet won't die in our summer. We already had a ditch, so there was very little digging. We used one pallet of river rock that was around $275 last fall. We used permeable landscape fabric underneath to control the weeds. We don't use fabric in flower beds, BTW! It took 3 of us half a day to do this, but that was with our archaeologist son looking through the stone for arrowheads (which he found). My husband and I didn't mind the slow pace! This was created in September 2006, so the plant material is new. Sidebar: The wire edging is a temporary detterent to deer to keep them from trampling the new plants. It's working so far since everything is deer resistant

I really did not mean to say "not that anyone cares" sarcasticaly,honestly I didn't! LMAO...I know you didn't mean it sarcastically. GF, you are such a sweetie who worries too much. What I should have said was "Please excuse my taking up thread space with my goofy problems!!!" LOL! Hey, I think that is what the conversation side is for...everything that isn't a trade...be a goofy problems, or dumb jokes...everything from soup to nuts...whatever it might be...except of course religion, politics, and a few other things more suited for the Hot Topics Forum. I've heard about that editing at P-bucket, but haven't seen it or played with it yet. Ok...here is from just the HTML tag...17.62 KB...so though it is not a really small pic, it should load fairly quickly due to the size of the file. I see after they are resized down, that they can't be resized back up to full size...right? I'm gonna have to play with this a bit. I just deleted a resized pic, thinking I would still have the full sized one, and it got deleted also. Sheesh...can you tell I'm lost? Sue

Illustrator is a graphics design & layout program. What it generates are page files in its own format and with its own file format extension, ai. Word is a wordprocessing program that generates page files in its own format and with the file format extension of doc. The drawing you think you're saving is actually a page file with the drawing on it. What you're trying to do is open an Illustrator page in Word. If you want specifically the drawing as a graphic image, I think Illustrator can convert it for you, but you have to save it as a universal type of graphic format and not a page. You need it to be a jpg image, a bmp, tif, eps, png, and there are many others that are compatible with Word. Just go back to Insert Picture, click the down arrow at the "Files of Type" prompt, and you will see all of the graphic formats that are compatible with Word. If Illustrator cannot do it or if you don't know how, you can export or copy and paste the image into Photoshop, which is a image editing program that serves this very purpose. In Photoshop, just go to Save As and click the down arrow at the "Format" prompt. Select the format type you want to convert to. Either a bmp or jpg will suffice. Sorry if I jumped the gun in assuming you have Photoshop. Most people who have Illustrator also have Photoshop. If you have Photoshop Elements or any other graphics editor such as Paint Shop Pro, Photo Paint, PhotoImpact, etc., they will serve your purpose also. Incidentally, it is likely you have Microsoft Picture Editor just in case you never did install a graphics editing program. Hope this was helpful.

I did a temporary disable of AdBlock when I realized some pics weren't showing. I've kept it enabled since and had no more problems. Here's a thread about the issue on the Computer forum. Here is a link that might be useful: viewing pics in threads ... computer forum