Thank you all for your warm welcome. I would have answered sooner, but I decided to find out why the GW hates my ellipses. So I grabbed up my trusty axe to chop my way through the dense jungle of complex computerese to find out. (Do the Nerds really have to talk like they do on the web? I wonder if they're just showing off.) Anyway, it turns out that Linux does not shake hands with Microsoft when they process ellipses. I don't know what Linux did to annoy you Mr. Gates, but I wish that you two would makeup and get this straightened out. I have decided that there are ways to get around this - short of switching to Microsoft. Maybe if I just complete my sentences without using an ellipise, but I rather like the dangling, airiness of them. I could type out the word ellipis or perhaps typing period comma space, period comma space, period may trick the computer. But maybe it would be easier just to get used to �. If this were audio, I imagine its what the bleep used to cover up a naughty word would look like. Again, thank you

NeveDunnRanch, I live in Az too..but I live on the east side Miami/Globe area,..if your temperature drops to freezing at any point, your fish freeze too! We do get snow here for only about 2 weeks... but everywhere around us has snow longer!..still the temperatures stay below freezing...until spring.you would have to figure out how to heat your water tanks for the fish to survive, most mosquito fish do not live more than a year maybe year and a half in slightly warmer conditions only indoors do they last approximately 3 years, guppies last a very long time indoors but they do breed like rabbits, and most other mosquito fish,will breed every 45 days or so, I myself own livestock and have to keep other water loving predators out that want to eat eggs or fish, for livestock I have to hook up a warm water line to have for my livestock...but I ended up having to catch the fish and bring them in for the winter..which prolongs the survival rate on the fish and I don't have to buy new! There are no mosquitoes during winter..and I know it's easier to keep them in the water, but they won't last! THEY are NOT an indigenous species so by law in Arizona you cannot dump them in any lakes or rivers or anything other than what is acceptable to Arizona fish and game guidelines! there's only two places to get them and Arizona fish and game will guide you to where you need to go but most of the people that have them for their pawns, Arizona fish and game take certain information from you..before you can get them..Arizona puts them out in the water canals or flood zone areas of watering farmland and where livestock drink but if we are caught putting them in lakes and river beds stuff like, it's a BIG fine the fish populate so fast they will kill out our own natural indigenous species so Arizona fish and game take all the information down to pick them up if you bring a container you can bring home as many as you can carry in that container there's another person that has them she sells them and I believe she takes the information to and Arizona fishing game will direct you to her too if need be depending on where you're at on the map! You can contact me for more info by my e-mail margaretmr2014@gmail.com..I work for the local FD..and a lawfirm in Phoenix, so I keep up with most fish&game regulations....and try to help as much as I can. MOST IMPORTANTLY....MOST IMPORTANTLY...IF YOU LIVE IN A MOUNTAIN TERRAIN..You will have to stop on your way up back home BECAUSE every so many feet up/miles up..the elevation changes and the pressure becomes harder on the fish and their bladders will burst and you will have dead fish on your way home not many will survive so you have to stop every 10 minutes and weight about half an hour 45 minutes and then travel 10 more minutes and wait another 45 minutes so their bladders do not pop otherwise you wasted time and or money! and another thing the fish will eat the babies the parents will eat the babies if they are confined together in a tight spot so you want to try and separate the babies to keep them safe if you want to make sure you have enough and not buy anymore I have 1 male to three females and I have more than enough babies and I'm going to start selling them now because they do have about 60 babies each time! Good luck...have fun...

Tony, Your hypothesis is so far off the mark as regards Hollywood Junipers in California that it brought a smile to my face as I read it! It is fairly obvious that Juniperus chinensis 'Torulosa' is not soemthing that anyone would be familiar with back east, as they are not hardy there. The very large shrub does eventually get tree sized, and is known for the twisted form it assumes as it grows, and the deep emerald green color of the foliage. I happen to like using it,(but not as a foundation shrub in a narrow 2 foot planter), for its year round good looks, great deep green color and interesting form, not to mention the virtually no care required to grow it,(it is completely drought tolerant here once established). At no time was this ever a plant to be found in the woods locally(not native here in California), and there has always been a culture of local nurseries in all urban areas of the state of California. Digging wild plants up in the woods might have been a depression ear trend here in California, but certainly not in the post war years when almost the entire state was feeling flush, and southern California still had its golden paradise reputation. I think it was so commonly planted because when it was first introduced, it stood out as being different and more interesting color and texture wise than the typical Juniper variety. Architectural plants were also very big back in the late 1950's, look at all the Philodendron selloums which are also common from this period. I also think that most nurserymen selling this back in the 50's and 60's did not realize that it could become a 35 foot tall tree by 20 feet across. It was planted in the same way that the African Fern Pine(Podocarpus gracilior) still is in California, as a foundation shrub used as a shrub that in habitat becomes a towering forest tree. Junipers in particular were and still are very popular in southern California, and seemed to be deriguer for any 1950's/1960's Eichler home with hillside slopes to cover. Even if they seem rather boring now, they definitely are low water use and low maintenance plants; when given the space they need to grow. Unfortunately most all Junipers were,(and still are), usually planted way too closely together, little realizing the width and height they will grow to, and so require near constant trimming. No doubt this reflects the lack of patience to let things fill in over time, we want everything to look mature in the first two years... I must admit I am also guilty of this, but try not to do this with larger growing trees and shrubs, but smaller plants only,(easier to thin/rip out as they get too large.

just: I am pretty sure it will be flowers with purple in them :) Depends on what they have at the annual plant sale on Sunday. It benefits our local food bank and it is where I get most of my plants. Doing good all the way around. I am glad you like the cloths. Momma would be glad I am using them. htnspz: I wish I could but I really have no where for it to go. Frame is bent so I would have to have my welder friend straighten it. Then it would need to be sandblasted. I had one of those here last week to do the bricks...too bad I didn't have the bed then. It will still be beautiful. c Here is a link that might be useful: This bed was auctioned