Thanks for your replies. It is interesting to find that I am not the only one with a scarcity of ants. I was remembering that I heard once that if you have argentine ants, you won't have termites. I think I read it on the Gardenweb site, but I'm not sure. I would much prefer the ants. Also, a few years ago, we had some squirrels rather abruptly leave our huge Stone Pine in front of our house. A week later, the tree fell over. We figured that the Stone Pine's roots had begun to grow in a circular type of swirl instead of growing down, because there was an unexpected patch of hard-pan near the surface. If the squirrels deserted because the roots were no longer holding on the tree, what type of disaster might the ants be predicting? At least I know (can hope) now that it is not a phenomena confined to our property. Lina

I went into the storage on my iPhone6 and have about 4.3 GB free. The things I have on are: Mail, Contacts, Calendars, Reminders, Passbook, Backup, Keychain, and Find My iPhone; I have a Flashlight app, but it is not listed, nor are any other apps. I am guessing with your phone that it may simply be saving some settings for your Flashlight app and is not taking up any significant space; and, in any case, if it's backing up the whole app, it isn't taking up much space: my Flashlight app is separate from the one that is built in to the iPhone 6 and it only takes up 26 MB. If you "turnoff and delete," I doubt it will delete the app from the phone, it will just delete the backup. I can't guarantee that, but that's my guess. You could simply do the "turnoff and delete," and re-install the app if it disappeared. Or you could call Apple to see what the deal is. By the way, how much of your 5 GB is now available?

Sharon, You're ahead of me, but I expect to get my onions, at least, planted no later than tomorrow. So many chores to do out there in the garden and so little time. We need to mow the pastures down short today. We always leave them standing for as long as possible so the wild creatures can eat the seeds and such, but once fire danger reaches a certain point, it is time to mow stuff down short, short, short and I think we are at that point now. The upside to mowing is that we'll collect the grass clippings and I'll be able to put them down as the first layer of mulch in the pathways to replace last year's mulch which I've been scooping up into the beds as it now has decomposed and is lovely compost. Paula, I hope you can make it happen, but understand if you cannot. Sometimes there is only so much that a person can squeeze in. All of us need each other now more than ever before, particularly if posts keep getting cut off, removed, etc. We can't let them destroy our helpful family/army of Oklahoma gardeners, so I hope they can fix the issues that are driving people crazy.

iphones have interfaced with gmail and Google apps for a good while, despite the natural tension between the two. I have a couple of family members who use Iphones, gmail, and PCs. I don't think the sync between PCs and google works as well as before, like for calendars. Your friend may need to adapt her work flow to be her smartphone and the Google site in a browser instead of her pc. I think there are IOS apps for gmail, calendar, contacts, that do the trick. Do some Googling and also check out the very active Apple forums, I think you'll find an easy solution. Or, if your friend has Apple support, call them or visit an Apple store.