Sounds like a really cool title for a children's book. I'd say you have VOLES, my dear. When you water or it rains, they will tunnel through the soft earth, munching on your plant's roots. Moles and gophers and shrews (and snakes of all kinds), use their nifty tunnels to get around your yard subteranean - like a handy-dandy animal subways. Crickets use them, earthworms, and slugs, too, and lots of other critters. Some good for your garden and some that don't seem to be so good. I've lost tuberose salvias and my favorite tea roses; tulips and petunias, even cactus roots. If its edible, they will eat it! I've tried various things, like tarpaper collars around my roses and concrete or rock barriers, even strips of sheet metal buried around them. The tarpaper worked pretty good until it disentigrated, but eventually, mice burrowed through it and then it rotted to dirt. Flooding does no good, as those tunnels are hundreds of feet long. Those holes will never fill completely up. I've tried it. :) If you have a serious vole (or other rodent) problem, like I do, your yard may be completely undermined with tunnels that links with your neighbor's, and their neighbor's, and so on...hence you may find a flower in your yard (or weed) that you didn't plant or never saw before. Birds can bring carry them in or deposit them in your garden, via their poop, that's true, but so can rodents. Rodents carry seeds back and forth through those tunnels to and from your place. Keeping things in balance with Nature is what works best for me. If we can stop fighting all the elements of nature and work with it, we will get better results and enjoy gardening even more. I sink bottomless buckets in the ground for barriers for my big lilies, around berry bushes and roses, and even some of my garden plants, like my tomatoes, and that works really great. For shallow rooted plants that send out roots horizontally, these don't work so well. Planting daffodils, irises, liriope (Monkey grass), garlic, zinnias and stinky marigolds around the borders of my flower beds and/or around blueberry bushes, roses and strawberry beds, even apple trees, is about the only things I've done that works relatively well for an indefinite period of time, without killing the beneficial micro-organisms in the soil and harming animals like shrews and earthworms and preditory insects and snakes. Garlic really does a great job warding off rodents from my roses and they both mutually benefit from one another. Daffodils, irises, and liriope are poisonous so rodents just don't dig 'em. I think we gardeners and farmers will always have our challenges, but isn't that what makes our successes so awesome! ~ SweetAnnie4u

Mouse freezes? Bring in out of the cold. Just kidding! Freezes can have several causes, one being a virus that is usurping all of the mouse port's time. Sometmes a bad load of a service update for a virus checker or firewall can overload or mess up the scanning of the I/O ports. There other causes are: 1. Mouse is failing 2. Connector cable and connectors failing. 3. Mother board mouse port is failing. Try this if you have another known good mouse, swap to a differnt mouse. If that cures the problem, get a new mouse. If your mouse came with an adapter connector (on the computer end), try a differnt port, e.g., if you are connected to the PS2 port, remove the adapter and try the USB port, or if you are using the USB port, put the adapter on and try the PS2 port. If changing the port solves the problem, one of two thing are implicated: There was connector problem or the motherboard port is failing.

First are you comfortable that your computer is not infected? Windows 7 has self repair features. Click Start click Control panel click Find and Fix problems, this is under the System and Security header In the new window click Configure a Device click Next in the new window and the computer will run a series of tests, hopefully finding your issue. Also you might check the Device manager click Start click Control panel click System and Security click Device manager under the System header. Here you are looking for yellow question marks or exclamation marks, especially the keyboard.

I don't see it; maybe because my OS is older. I can't even update Safari anymore. Possibly. I'm using 10.9.5, though, so not exactly up to date here. You do know that you can just press command+up arrow to go to the top of the page? I rarely bother with the arrow on the page, since my Ghostery list of trackers found covers it up.