Glenda, you do have a great memory! Kim Haas (wow that was years ago) The girl who supposedly had 4? young kids and she died (can't remember why) just before Christmas time and her husband wrote in hinting for some money to buy gifts for the kids. I remember the story slightly. Funny how no one could find the obituary notice or the story surrounding her death that should have been front page news at the time.

Annpan - you asked whether I had ever seen the Mapp and Lucia TV series - no, but I have heard good things about it... Does the series stay quite close to the story? I happened to find a title the other day which I am having an extremely hard time to put down. It was published in 1955 by author Brian Moore and has the appalling title of The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne. It's the story (fiction) of a (maybe) middle-aged (definitely) unmarried woman during the 50's in Belfast. She becomes enmeshed with one of her fellow boarders at the house where she lives, and, at the same time, is fighting really hard to keep part of her life secret. Really excellent read. She's not a particularly likeable character, but she stays with you. Reminds me a bit of Stone Angel's protagonist in some ways. And it has little to do with bodice-ripping type passion. BTW, just found out that there is a sub-category of bodice-ripping romance books focused on the Amish crowd -- called "bonnet-ripping".... :-)

I started another reply and decided it wasn't worth posting and used the back arrow and I got the message. It has to do with your work being saved, but the garden web didn't need have it or need it. This seems to be something new, I am not doing updates so it is not caused by that. The lady who does my floors said her and her husband just started seeing that message about the same time I did and they don't us this site. They use FF and it may be something they did. I am going to look around in about:config and see if I see anything about leave page. They started putting snippets on their start page and I stopped those in about:config

tye said: Hello, I have been mulching every leaf that falls, back into the lawn. Mulching every leaf? Boy, that must take a lot of time. I'd wait until they all fall off the tree and then mulch them all at once. :o) I have a huge hickory tree and after I first had the sod laid down, I kept raking up all the nuts. I think that is probably appropriate for brand new sod. Since then I let the nuts stay where they fall figuring they'd just turn into organic matter. If I see an occasional pile of them I'll pick them up. What happened in the ensuing couple of years is that the squirrel brigade came by and ate most of them, leaving only broken shells. In the spring I only find occasional evidence of last fall's shells.