Bre, Yay for the little green tomatoes! They'll be big and red before you know it. Faerybutterflye, You're welcome. I just wanted all of us to try to shake off the gloom and doom of the past week and find one little beautiful thing to focus on to start our day.....not that we are not constantly thinking of the folks in Moore and Shawnee as well as other areas recently affected by severe weather, but just that we all know the sun comes up and the sun goes down and life goes on. Thank you for the birthday wishes. Helen, That is such wonderful news indeed. I have had Joplin on my mind so much this week, with it being the anniversary of the Joplin tornado and with there being similarities between the EF-5s that hit both Joplin and Moore. I hope that people in Moore can look at Joplin as a reminder that after the heartache occurs and the cleanup is over, then the rebuilding begins. I am a master at ignoring tall grass and weeds. I kind of ignore my flowers too while getting the veggies in, and this week I have been trying to make up for it by catching up on weeding and deadheading. Your garden sounds so beautiful this morning. I am loving the normal May weather. Here where I live, our forecast highs and forecast lows are exactly what they ought to be in May, which is great. Before all the storms hit, we were having 2 or 3 days a week in the mid-90s, and it is just too early for that. Of course, those temperatures made some cool-season veggies start bolting, and there is nothing I can do about that, but now that it is cooler, at least the weather is more pleasant as I remove them and then plant hot-season melons and southern peas in the newly available space in the veggie garden. With the way the cold weather held on so long, I keep wondering how it can be almost Memorial Day already when we just had our last frost 3 weeks ago. Maybe we'll get lucky and have a cool week or 2 or 3 before the June heat sets in. Dawn

I like the Leibniz T-shirt - I have always enjoyed his writings. However, in his bio, the site makes a mistake regarding Calculus. Newton claimed to have "invented" calculus, and Leibniz claimed to have "discovered" calculus and considered Newton's claim of invention ridiculous, since, as Leibniz said, you can only discover mathematical relationships - you can not invent them, since they already exist whether discovered or not. To me, Leibniz was the better thinker and we use his notation today instead of Newton's. They both discovered calculus at about the same time, and Newton made sure that Leibniz would not be allowed to travel in England after that. However, Leibniz' argument for the necessity for the existence of a supreme being is circular and therefore meaningless. The only philosopher I like better is Kierkegaard. I am planning on making a lime pie tomorrow for Kevin's birthday, which is March 16. Lars

I certainly understand your feelings. It is tough when friends move away. But at least she will be back for part of the year. But Massachusetts isn't the other side of the world. Certainly you could take a quick trip for a weekend or so, right? That would help make up the time in between. That's what my friends and I do.

There is a pizza place here in town called Pi-Hole Pizza....I want to go there for a late lunch. Happy Pi Day, too.