Thank you all! Mtn, yes! Your suggestion was perfect for a quick getaway! I really really need to start researching possible places to get reasonably priced art mementoes while traveling. I do look for things while on trips but really don’t have a direction and often end up trying to find something in touristy areas, without luck. I should have at least bought a small framed butterfly here http://www.butterflypeople.com/ You cannot tell by the pictures how lovely these are in their translucent magic unless you see them in person. Although I still haven’t given meditation a real try I have to say that just walking into a full gallery of this art form with the soothing music in the background puts one into a zone. Here is a link that might be useful: Butterfly People This post was edited by jterrilynn on Sat, Sep 7, 13 at 14:24

Why do you have 29 pictures of your house on the mls? There is absolutely no reason for someone to come view your house unless the potential buyer thinks that the house would be ideal. Most mls listings have 6-8 pictures to entice the buyer to want to see more. You want to show your best pictures (living room, kitchen, master bedroom, bathroom, front and rear yard are most common) and make me want to come out and see your house in person. I want to be surprised and delighted when I get there to your house. I don't want to feel that I know all there is to know about your house before I get there. There will always be buyers (especially relocators) that want more pictures. As a seller, unless your neighborhood is full of corporate relocators, you will usually do yourself a disservice by having too many pictures (conversely, too few is not good either). Besides too many pictures and price as possible reasons for so few showings, how dead is your market? Are there any lookers/buyers in your price-point? What does your agent say? Any advertising ideas? Open Houses?

staph culturing often takes longer... i had a severe, life threatening staph infection that took more than 10 days to finally get typed exactly and all of those samples were done in hospital. i was furious to say the least as i used to teach medical microbiology to medical students at IU. next to my expertise in plants comes microbiology. after they finally ID'd my staph type i calmed down (internally as i did not want to make anyone mad lol) LOL as i knew culturing gram-postive rare types has to go thru multi stages of testing :-) do some research on what the possibilities of what you might have is and how it is cultured and tested. in my case i was soooo sick sooo fast dr's immediately started treating me w/ different antibiotics (while waiting for tests) that only added to my susceptible immune system. my system was soooo taxed from the staph that treating me w/ something for strep sent it into overload, taking immune strength away from fighting staph to working on what little strep may have been around. BTW basically everyone has almost all bad infectious bacteria in their systems, just not at levels high enough to be harmful or often even detected. because of that when you are treated w/ incorrect antibiotics (for an undiagnosed bacteria) your immune system puts up a fight, albet a small one often, but that creates a energy diversion adding to the severity of a real, undiagnosed, infection. i would also like to add that right now in this country there is a very big problem causing a panic at the CDC involving 4 patients who brought a particular variant of drug resistance into this country from India called NDM-1. medical personnel are supposed to be watching for patients either on or getting new scripts for antibiotics as these people are the only ones getting infected. do a search on NDM-1 and decide if you want to even get antibiotics for something if it's minor. this particular variant is our new superbug and if it doesn't kill you and they can save you w/ drugs used during the 50's & 60's that were banned, you will need new kidneys and a liver after treatment (the reason for banning). this is a common problem in India because believe it or not they abuse antibiotics even more than the US does because of their lack of potable water! ~ liz

Ok update on Downy Mildew outbreak! Plum Perfect has losts all its leaves and so has Julia Child... Julia Child was already covered in blackspot so DM finished her off... Miracle on the Hudson is between Julia Child and Plum Perfect... MOTH has lost a decent amount of leaves but still actually looks ok but getting bald spots now.. D. Ko's have some DM but not near as bad as other roses... Earthsong has a fair amount of DM but still looks ok on the most part... Little Fiji roses just now getting DM so they probably will be naked soon as they are small... Carefree Celebration.... Has DM to a mild degree right now... Raining, windy here today...Thunderstorms... Those DM spores are probably flying everywhere! MOTH...Notice all the fallen leaves from DM.... On a good note...lol