I love snakes too - drives my husband nuts ;-)) Just a note on the water moccasins/cottonmouths - they can be *very* aggressive, to the point of actually chasing you. I was watering my plants about dusk a few months ago, and caught sight out of the corner of my eye of one approaching me. I started backing up toward the house, even turned the hose on the "jet stream" and spraying it, it just kept coming, head raised and mouth open. Backed me right up to the door. A few weeks after that, my husband found it on our porch again - one of us could have easily stepped on it coming out the door. We decided it had to go, but it sure put up a fight. At 4 feet long, striking at everything, we had to be very careful and creative. I live on a river, lots of big frogs etc. and I think it had discovered an easy food source around my porch pond! I felt bad killing it, but it was kind of "him or us." So if you have a body of water nearby, you do have to be *very* aware of your surroundings.

I have a collection of Award of Excellence Roses. I have been collecting them since 1982. Let me first list those I cannot find anywhere which have succumbed to old age (I need cuttings for these.) White Angel Lavender Lace Gloriglo Zinger Holy Toledo NightHawk Centerpiece Suzy Regine Lemon Gems Applause Playgold Ruby Jingle Bells That seems like a long list of needs but 20 years of Lttle League and Bobby Sox can really get in the way of tending roses. Here are what I have available for trade cuttings sent using the burrito method: Baby Eclipse Red Cascade Jeanne Lejoie Life Lines Center Gold Old Glory Heavenly Days Dee Bennett Tipper Jim Dandy Jean Kenneally Rainbow's End Sequoia Gold Ring of Fire Black Jade Winsome Little Jackie Hot Shot Julie Ann Party Girl Cornsilk Cupcake Valerie Jeanne Snow Bride Hombre Pacesetter Peaches n Cream Red Flush Puppy Love Pink Petticoat Rise n Shine Humdinger Avandel Hula Girl Starglo Toy Clown Sherri Ann Beauty Secret Mary Marshall Judy Fischer Over the Rainbow Hot Tamale Email me if you want to talk more. RC

Tara, I have a used Amerlite Pentair Pool Light. It was installed 2 mths ago and I upgraded to a more expensive Intellibrite light. It was hardly used and has Approx 80 ft of cord. Here is the description. The world standard of reliability for pool lighting Amerlite®, the world standard of reliability for underwater lights, features a stainless steel shell, 8-3/8 in. prismatic tempered glass lens, and stainless steel face ring with uni-tension clamp. Amerlites are UL listed to install in full-sized Pentair Pool Products, American, PacFab and Purex niches. Features World standard of reliability Stainless steel face ring with uni-tension clamp Superior light diffusion Prismatic tempered lens Gold diffused low water cutoff Medium blue lenses available Plastic snap-on face rings available for s/s lights model # 78928500, 120volts, 300w, 80ft, 15lbs shipping I also have a pack of lenses made by Pentair, Part # 78900100 New in the box never used Red, Amber and Green, used Blue for about 2 weeks. Amerlite Mood Setter Kwik-Change Color lenses - Light blue - Red - Amber - Green I bought the light for $275.00 and the lenses for $50.00. I will let both go for $150.00 OBO. plus shipping You can contact me at vat-19@juno.com I hope this is okay to post.....

No, $415 has not sold. But there was another house at just about that price that sold recently, and it was similar in condition and upgrade status to $415, but had air conditioning. (Which is why I think both $415 and $380 are overpriced) But I think the main thing with $380 is the negativity of the feedback overall. She knew the owners of the sold house and knows somehow that the feedback on $415 have not been as consistently negative. In other words it seems that, although they got/get a certain amount of "not interested" in the final analysis, they at least are getting some positive feedback on pricing and how it shows. I know the bottom line is getting the house sold and getting people to check the box that says "yes, interested" (and following though). But it was very helpful to me as a seller (who got a year +'s worth of "not interested" ) --to get feedback that said shows:"excellent" and priced: "just right" consistently enough to know that there were other factors involved. I think she is having trouble dealing with how bad a lot of house hunters apparently think this property is. She said to me that "they can *see what it looks like in the pictures and they can *read the listing, if they think it is so terrible why are they wasting their time?" I think this is a good question, and I think that what they are doing is looking at every house like this in the neighborhood and comparing them all. They may not be paying that much attention to those listing pictures. For example, my listing clearly stated that it was 2BR and 1 Bath and that there was an elevator in the building but you had to look for it. It also explicitly explained the condo fees. There was a LOT of feedback that it would be perfect but they wanted a powder room or another room like a den, that there was No Elevator, and that the condo fees were too high. --So why were they looking? Why were they missing the elevator (we put signs up eventually), and why were they missing the condo fees? I think because they were looking at Everything that met a general criteria rather than specific properties.