I couldn't really see the issue in one photograph, but the other is clearly one of the many lichen (pronounced: LY-kin) species. Lichens pose no problem whatsoever for your plants and do not need to be 'combated'. ;-) That kind of lichen can be found growing on bricks and rocks....it's not a pathogen to plants. Very common.

What great options. Digitizing a lifetime of music, voice recordings, movies, etc sure is time consuming. But it's wonderful there are so many options out there. Raven- I had forgotten all about Heartland catalogue. It's been probably 20 years since I ordered from them. Those are some great gadgets. The one with lp too is a bit pricey - esp. since I have a cd recorder connected to my turntable. It's a lot less convenient than having it by the computer - but it works well. The one for just tapes looks good. Grandms'- I don't need the turntable portion, but your post made me think that with the right cables (do you happen to know what they are?) I should be able to hook up my old compact stereo/cassette player to my computer. My question about that has always been that I don't think i have an input into my sound card. Does that mean I have an integrated sound card (without its own input port). But there must be cables that could transfer from a stereo to a usb port. Heck - are there cables that go to a firewire port - or perhaps that's overkill for music files. What's Pyro? Did that come with turntable - or just a program you have? I assume Roxio cd creator could do that - burn a cd? how did you find Cakewalk easier than Audacity? I think I've heard good things about both. And Urlee and Jean love Audacity and find it easy. So I'd appreciate any other thoughts in deciding which software to use? Thanks. Lynn.

My son found a Dell BIOS upgrade CD for this laptop Found as in lying about the house all the time or found from a friend? I ask because if this is a CD that came with the computer it might be fair to say the BIOS is not the latest available. He possibly flashed the same BIOS but cured any instructions that may have been corrupt. Did you or your son notice any beeps other than the normal POST beep during any startup attempt? Flashing the BIOS is not a task for the faint of heart, a slight hiccup and the motherboard is scrap material. I added that sentence in case others feel they might like to try this. Flashing the BIOS needs to be done only when there is a real reason to do so. In this case there was a good reason, congrats to your son This is where I would use one of Mikie's favourite tools - the event viewer. Take a long serious look back through there for clues. Many are written in gibberish but clicking on the links can bring some useful answers

Well that's nice... wouldn't let me add the full list, here's the rest... WATERMELONS:Carolina Cross Orange Tendersweet Sugar Baby Unknown Yellow I also have the following veggies and herbs in small quantities:Basil - LemonCauliflower - Early SnowballChinese Bok ChoiGreen Onions - Evergreen BunchingHERBS: CATNIPCHIVES:CommonCILANTRO:Coriandrum ativum SantoDILL:Diana LEMON BEE BALMOREGANO:Origanum vulgare hirtumPARSLEY:Italian Flat LeafCurly LeafSAGE:Broad Leaf SPEARMINTSUMMER SAVORY:(A) Satureja hortensisTHYME:Common FRUIT: Black RaspberryCape Gooseberry Dragon Fuit Cactus FLOWERS & ORNAMENTALS: Cactus “Queen of the night” - Selenicereus Grandiflorus Calendula – Yellow Cassia - Candlestick Cassia – Popcron Shrub Cleome – Mixed Colors Confederate RoseCoreopsis – Plains Cosmos – Bipinnatus Dragon's Head Echinacea _ Purple Coneflower Formosa Lily Gaillardia – Yellow Geum – Mrs. Bradshaw Gypsophila panculata - White Baby's Breath Hungarian Broom Corn Love-in-a-Puff Vine - Cardiospermum halicacabum Lunaria White – Moneyplant, Honesty Marigold – Crackerjack Marigold – Petite Mix Monarda – Bee Balm Purple Morning Glory – Clark's Heavenly Blue Morning Glory – Grandpa Ott None-So-Pretty - Silene Armeria Palo Verde Tree Pink Trumpet Tree Ratabida columnifer - Mexican Hat Royal Empress Tree Sedum – Autumn Joy Shasta Daisy – Alaska Sunflower – Italian WhiteSunflower - Lemon Queen Sweet William – Dianthus Barbatus Yellow Trumpet Bush - Tecoma Stans Texas Bluebonnet Texas Red Yucca - Hesperaloe Parviflora Umbrella Grass Verbena - Bonariensis Zinnias: Tons, saved as various same-variety groups but unknown names. Give me an idea of the size you're looking for and I probably have a group that grows to that approximate height.MORE coming later.....Always looking for unique tomato varieties.Unusual veggies, herbs, sweet or bitter greens; especially Italian and other European varieties.I'd really love to get my hands on some Winged Peas (aka 'Asparagus Pea'), Rat's Tail Radishes and Kohlrabi Gigante or other large, long keeping veggies.Have just starting adding flowers to the garden; so, anything there, both perennials and annuals greatly appreciated.Almost anything I don't already have really.Although you can all keep your Okra and Lima Beans to yourselves, thank you very much...lol