It's looking almost definite that I will be going down next Saturday the 11th. I am hoping to be at excalibur by around 10:00 if I am able to get myself out of bed early enough. I'd like to meet up with most people there but could work out other options. Just send me an email. So far I have sleep down for the chempedak Swrancher down for the Lisa atemoya squam down for the Phillipine mango Also adding good sized (4ft or so) Grumichama cherry that is in need of some TLC to the available list.

Sounds like your exercise is good, so you may need to concentrate on your nutrition. This website may be helpful: http://www.pueblo.gsa.gov/cic_text/food/food-pyramid/main.htm I found the best weight loss is to eat only fruits and grains for breakfast/lunch (eat nothing else!) If I stayed hungry, I simply ate another banana, apple, etc until I didn't feel like eating ANYTHING else. Then I ate whatever I wanted for dinner. It took about a week+ to get used to it, but then my body felt MORE satisfied then when I was pigging out on fast food for breakfast/lunch. This in turn helped me exercise, for some reason it jacked up my energy bigtime (almost like a caffeine rush without the fall) and also reduced what I ate for dinner (which was usually pretty fatty). If you stay with this plan, you will need to buy more clothes because the fatty areas of your body will disappear very quickly! Make sure you eat proteins and take vitamin/mineral suppliments if you don't eat alot of vegi's and drink lots of water - no soda (even diet). Stay away from weight loss pills!! Go naturally!! 5 million years of evolution can't be wrong... :)

lukiirish - It truly is disturbing. I think the reason prosecutions fail (read: don't happen at all) in these scams is because the people are beyond the reach of U.S. jurisdiction. Technology is such that these people can set up (or more likely clone) U.S. telephone numbers, email addresses, etc., so people believe they are speaking to someone in the United States, but they are actually speaking to someone 5000 miles away, where the costs and logistics of bringing them to the US for prosecution are prohibitive. The crooks know there is zero risk of prosecution, which is why they are so bold. I wanted to state more clearly what I alluded to in an earlier post: It is IMPERATIVE that you learn how to conduct legitimate transactions over the internet before you buy or fall victim to a scam. In my experience, eBay and credit card companies are generous with their protection policies, but you have to conduct the transaction within the company's terms of service, in order to receive the protections. For eBay, that means setting up your account, enrolling your method of payment with PayPal, conducting the transaction ENTIRELY within eBay's borders, and knowing the timeline and process for filing a claim should something go wrong. You cannot conduct any portion of the transaction outside of eBay's domain (PayPal is a part of eBay). If you follow these rules you WILL be protected if the worst should happen. Finally, do some research on who you're buying from before you contact them or place a bid. You want to look for a seller who has a lengthy history on eBay and a perfect customer satisfaction score. I personally will not bid on anything unless the seller has been on eBay for 2+ years and has a 100% feedback rating. Keep an eye out, too, for sellers who have only been on eBay for a short time but have dozens of excellent feedback in that short period of time. That is a tell-tell sign that the feedback is manufactured to set up the confidence game. I know this is of little use to the OP, but I hope it helps someone else avoid being taken advantage of in the future.

Call them 'sappy' if you want to, but I love them! ! ! I love that they don't have all the foul language and sex most of today's movies seem to deem necessary. They are actually family oriented. Even many of today's so called family comedies are questionable as to suitability for kids, in my mind, anyhow. And Christmas in July? Why not? When the outdoor temps have 3 digits it's refreshing to sit back and watch cold, snowy movies. Just like I usually have some sort of snow and ice picture as my computer wallpaper. I love Christmas, too! The music, the movies, the decorations, and most of all, the true meaning behind it. That should not be reserved for a few days of the year, but practiced year around, IMHO. So some of you miss certain programs that you like, that's understandable. But surely there are other programs you could like, if you wanted to. As someone above said, it's 3 months. That means there are 9 months you get to watch your favorites, 3 times the amount of time you don't get to watch them. There are a few shows that I really look forward to seeing, that are not on in the summer, and I miss them, sure. But I find other stuff to watch, and eagerly anticipate their return in the fall. Makes them all the better! ! ! :^) Rusty