Old garden book authors sang the praises of Souvenir du Dr. Jamain so highly I've wanted to try this beautiful rose for years. Lucky girl! Neptune's Harvest's a winner here, too, great stuff, goes a long way. Chilly rain let up this morning & it's sunny beautiful now in the mid-70's. Expected 60's tomorrow before the first snow flies that night & next day. Roller coaster change of weather not unusual through to Spring. On my way back out to cherish this gift of a day.

[For Mr Fudd] From 18 hours ago: JeCrigler, thanks for putting up Amazon's Customer Service number. I've noted it for future use. A few weeks ago I had a problem processing an A-Z Guarantee---suddenly my order number was invalid, and they kept insisting I contact the seller. Well, that only lead to an e-mail from Amazon letting me know that the seller was no longer with Amazon, and could not accept e-mails. The claim was only for $10, yet I spent 15 minutes trying to find a Customer Service number. Finally I found a way to get them to call me, and another 15 minutes to get my claim okayed and processed. Guess it is good that I so rarely have problems with Amazon to need to call them. ---------------------- I spent time trying to use the contact links provided through the A-Z Guarantee, that I was directed to use by Amazon in their e-mails, that were supposed get me through the claim process. The A-to-Z pages also have links you are supposed to use if there were additional problems. After answering some questions about the order that had problems, it was supposed to take me to their Customer Service page. But it would not because it claimed the order number was invalid. So I had to use a different method to contact Amazon's Customer Service to get my problem resolved. In comparison, Amazon was less trouble.

We live on an acreage in a rural area. For the most part, I have had nothing short of excellent service getting my parcels here and on time and right on the doorstep. This is important to me as I can’t drive right now due to two hip replacements . However I’ve had a few exceptions one being a few years ago I ordered an iPad for my husband for Christmas and whoever delivered it just must’ve flown it out the window to the end of our snow covered driveway and it landed in the ditch in the snow . Luckily we got home before the snow started again and I was able to spot the package and had to slog through the already deep snow to retrieve it. Thankfully it wasn’t damaged . And as I said for the most time packages come right to the door which is great but the odd time if I haven’t made it to the door fast enough they will take the package and drop it at the post office for me to pick up This is a huge inconvenience for me because I have to get my husband to pick it up on his way home from work which also means he has to leave work early as the post office closes before he would normally get there .

Interesting. Looking at Google maps on my desktop, the cars on the surface roads are there but hard to see due to the 3D effect. The interstates are completely empty (impossible in Atlanta). The cars that show up best on surface streets are stuck at stoplights. An occasional car stopped on the shoulder shows up too. I looked at Google maps on my both iphone and ipad, and there I can see cars both on the road and on the interstate. The satellite view is also much more recent on the iphone (but there is no 3D Google Earth effect in that app). I see cars and trucks on the interstate in the Apple map app as well. It looks like they do something to get rid of movement.