Hi all, kind of new to this forum. I might have posted last year, but I don't recall. Anyway, we have app. 2/3 acre here behind deer fence, with all the rest (woods, fields, pond) not. As you've probably assumed, the fenced-in area is for my good stuff -- my daylily collection, hostas, and new-to-me veg garden. (Never have had one before.) At one end of the fenced area is a smallish barn -- with a nice little burrow letting out into my garden. One of the windows in my home office looks out onto the garden, and all this summer, I watched the resident woodchuck waddle out and start eating. He started with my broccoli before I knew he was there. I won't kill an animal, and I didn't have a Hav-a-Heart trap, so he (she? it?) and I immediately came to an understanding. He/she/it can eat all the grass, clover, and chickweed he/she/it wants. The daylilies, hostas, and veg are mine. And it's worked very well, probably because there is so much grass here. If he/she/it starts waddling too closely to the veg bed, I make a big to-do on the patio, jumping up and down & yelling. He/she/it immediately makes for the burrow. Yes I know, someone here's going to tell me it's just a matter of time before the thing destroys my garden, and I take to extreme measures. Nope, I'm with the Marsha who leaves unmowed grass and a natural buffet buffer for critters. If necessary, I'll buy a Hav-a-Heart trap, catch the thing, and release it in the state park down at the end of our lane. Anyway, maybe there's a lot of joking on this thread, but I am not reading through the whole thing to find out. :))) So my comments are actually pretty serious ones. Anyway again, I can't worry about one fat woodchuck -- not when I have mice behind the walls here and in the pantry and two cats who are sleeping on the job!

What bugged some was that there was a big spread on the front pages of some national newspapers over the men's hockey semi-final ... no, make that the *quarter*-final at the same time that the women's won gold. And the women's story was relegated to something like page 4 ... with small pictures. Add to that, that one of the women's sports, with which the one on the men's side they make a great fuss ... cross-country skiing? Sorry, I don't remember which, they refused to let the women's sport participate at all. There was talk of taking VANOC to the Human Rights Commission, but it was the international Olympic body that decided, so there was no jurisdiction. But many felt that their decision stunk. Also ... there's talk of cutting out women's hockey: not a wide enough field for good competition!! They claim. Yuck!! ole joyful

I love yard sales Azzalea. Sounds like your day was fun and now you get a freezer. Great stuff, eh?

I remember when Glenda bought the last pillow. I got one around the same time. Still happy with mine, but of course, I don't remember a name. All I do remember I got one that was marked for a side sleeper, since I do sleep about 95% of the time on my side. I fluff mine up every morning, several big hits from both sides, and several big hits on each end, all while the pillow is between my hands. Fluffing your pillow up in the morning when making your bed makes a big difference on how fluffy it stays in the long run. Moni