Swwwweet bones, JimHardy! My favorite explanation for the cloaking device is that fairies shrouded this place to keep it safe and happy for, as you say, believers. At your place, you will convert disbelief season by season as people watch your garden survive and thrive. It's good for everybody to stretch disbelievers' concepts of what is possible, making them drop their old confined ways of thinking and open up to a bigger vista of reality. Maybe eventually, with enough stretching, they'll consider the possibility of fairies and their significance to our planet. Here is a link that might be useful: Fairies

What a great idea making these trees out of wire. They look pretty neat. Doesn't seem hard if one had the right gauge of wire. Hope some of you try them and share. I've seen old bed springs used and they are neat too. Punk

UPDATE: Energizer just announced that the Qi will have a sleeve for the iPhone 4 at CES this year! Here is a link that might be useful: CES Info

I have Norton waterstones, 1000 and 4000 grit, and use them on my Henckel's and carbon steel knives. There are numerous YouTube videos out there on technique, but I learned most of what I know about knife sharpening from the Cheftalk website, which harbors fanatics on the subject. I've never used oilstones...they seem unnecessarily messy...nor have I tried a strop. The Chef's Choice sharpens well but removes a lot metal, so I use that on my ''throw-away'' knives. We have a lakeside summer home with lots of guests, and knives are frequently abused or lost. I can't bother with expensive knives and time-consuming sharpening there. I just use a steel for ''touch-ups'', which tells me I really need to get busy and actually sharpen the knives. This all works for me, but I don't own any Japanese knives that require different sharpening angles. I know Chef's Choice now makes a sharpener with adjustable angles that some people like. I've been rethinking the practice of washing knives by hand. I've always been told, and believed, that it's evil to put knives in the DW basket because they bang around and that dulls the edges. However, I now think maybe they're safer in the slots in the plastic top cutlery rack than they are in my soapy hands over a granite sink. And DW detergents are much less noxious now than previously. So, assuming the handles are impervious to DW's, is it safe to put knives in the DW now? I don't know but would be interested to hear others' opinions.