Don, thanks! that site does have some wacky stuff. But I like your things even better. I keep hoping I can entice the DH to try his hand at webbing, but he just looks at me like I am crazy. OK, OK, so, I'll admit that we really don't have suitable trees, but he could at least pretend to think about it, couldn't he!!!! Meldy, And I am VERY glad for the allrecipes.com. It was one I lost. The other one looks good too. And the games site has kept me busy for the last couple of hours.

Mary, I clicked on Apps and then Store and found it in there. It goes through Amazon to download, I am pretty sure it was free since those were the only ones I downloaded my first week with it. I don't remember if it is labeled "MacNamara's Band", but there was a picture of a crossword puzzle on the link. They are fairly easy puzzles, but some do have a theme. Perfect for a break at work.

We get a daily newspaper and it has both a cross word and a sodoku puzzle. [I do both in pencil by necessity.] Once in a while, I'll try the cross word puzzle, but most of the time, i don't get more that half way through. Our puzzle editor is too obtuse with his definitions. The sodoku puzzles are fun. In our paper, the difficulty lever begins with the easiest on Monday and then progressing to the most difficult on Saturday. I can solve the Monday thru Wednesday puzzles in reasonabe time, and then the snags begin to appear on Thursday. I can solve the Thur - Sat puzzles, but have to resort to drastic measures becasue these require guesses after the obvious numbers have been filled in. I usually don't bother with the Friday and Saturday puzzle because those are too time comsuming. I make use of the copier built inot my printer to solve the harder puzzles. After all the obvious numbers have been filled in, I lightly pencil in all possibilities in the remaining squares and then make several copies. I begin experimenting on a copy starting by circling a guess and marking out all eliminations this guess makes. If i can proceed through the entire puzzle ending with a solution, then I have guessed correctly. Most of the time, this does not happen and I must return to a nother copy and make a different guess. Continue making guesses on fresh copies until you find the solution. Hint: Start the first guess in a square that contains only 2 possibilities. If that one does not work out, then return to that square and try the other possibility. Often, this is the quickest way to find a solution. However, I have encountered puzzles where both guesses have ended in blind alleys which forces one to try a different square.

Gee, thanks, Annie. Just what I needed, more puzzles! :^) I like to think that playing these games is helping to keep my brain active and working. But then when I think of how many I enjoy playing almost every day, I wonder if I'm really keeping it healthy or overloading it and wearing it out. Sigh. Rusty