hehehe, that is too cute.. jenny b... well i now have another bass and one crappie in the pond.. he went out fishing and took the cast net. and low and behold i went to the pond this morning i found a little surprise.. i'm going to so kill him. but i think i have an answer to his adiction to game fish. i was going to build another pond for my commets and shubbukin ( i so can't spell that). but since my pond is testing good. i have decided that i'm going to build him a pond for his fish.. i will make me another pond next year. for now i have put them in a preformed pond that i installed for my anticipated fry next year. it needs a smaller pump for the fry but it should be ok for a week or so untill i finish his pond. hehehe, the things we do for our hubby's.. but as long as he is enjoying having ponds and fish too he wont stop me from building the ponds i want.. at least i hope not. i have become adicted to ponds very quickly. righ now i have enough wiring in for 4 ponds total on the side of the house. next year we are going to leavel off the back yard and put in alot of dirt to help with that. we have plans for a large patio with rocks.. so i'm going to save alot of $$ to put in a new fuse box so i can have an extra place for a breaker and then i can put in two more ponds back there. i am wanting one real big one and one medium sized one. right now i have the 55 gallon preformed one, a liner one that is aprox 1,000 gallons. ( my husband says it is only 300 gallons , but when i put in the size and depth on a site that has a formula for the gallons it comes out to 1,224. so i stay it is about 1000. i think i'm more right than him.) hehehe,,, and i'm putting in his pond, it will be 6x3x4.. i hope that will be big enough for his fish. but that is all the room i have on the side to make it.. well enough of my ramblings.. have a great day every one.. hugs, shalom, laura

Zebrinas, though quite tropical (so not great cold tolerance), but they ARE robust bananas. Maybe it was just mine but have not had such great luck with the 'Ruby Red' species (if you are familiar with that one).

so she expected you to store the shoes until & unless she called for them? How much was she paying you for storage? People are downright odd... my aunt gave me a sewing machine. she's 88 years old & she has a much newer model (this machine was one of the old heavy black metal Singers that sits in a cabinet). I couldn't get it to work right, but I figured I'd tinker with it when I had time. then my aunt called me & said, "sylvia, I want my sewing machine back." well... what're you gonna do? so I took it back. & she said that that wasn't her machine, & she wanted me to go get *her* machine. She refused to acknowledge that that was her sewing machine & that it didn't work right when she gave it to me! She told me she knew it wasn't hers because she had put a mark on hers (right, I always mark my heavy appliances & furniture, too), *& that this machine didn't work right*, & hers did. Now she's told her kids that I took her sewing machine & brought her this other one that doesn't work well. so everybody's mad at me. I should have told them the machine was broken & I'd put it in the trash. & my ex "gave" me a set of homemade stereo speakers & a big ugly waterbed that I couldn't stand (but he balanced the account by stealing several things). I traded the waterbed to the 15-year-old boy next door for yardwork. Then the ex showed up one afternoon & told me he'd come by "to pick up my speakers & the waterbed". & he was *offended* that I'd gotten rid of the waterbed! I let him take the speakers. What was the question? Take him a token sackful of baby clothes, whatever you can put your hands on fairly easily, & tell him these are the only ones you can find, if there were others, they must have been in a bunch you already gave to someone who needed them.

OK. Ok. I am off the ledge. thank you all. :) And you are so right trying2grow! I just need some patience. I do love the orientals, and of course my cats make lots of messes. :( If the house doesn't get done before the baby gets here it won't be the end of the world. I found this gorgeous one too, but it is out of my price range. I am sure if I keep looking I will eventually find a nice rug that will fit better with orange in it.