Thanks all for your compliments. I meant to go back out every few minutes to get some good pics of the dragonfly nymph, but you know how it is when you get old(er). You go in the house with good intentions to come back out but you see a lamp that needs to be dusted. While you're dusting the lamp you see the bottle of Resolve you left on the end table. You put the Resolve back under the sink and take the cleanser to clean the sink. When you put the cleanser back you find the plant food you've been looking for for weeks. You mix it up and water the plants and find the scissors you have been looking for in the sunroom. You put the scissors back in the drawer where you keep the extra batteries for the camera............the camera, the dragon fly nymph, you fly out the door. There is no nymph, no dragon fly, no exoskeleton. Darn, I missed it, oh well maybe next year. I could have just sat out on the swing and waited, but it was 90º+ outside. Here's one more pic I shot last night. Jenny

Sherry, The Mojave Desert is anything but bleak or vacant. It teams with life, so much that in fact there is a far greater diversity of life on it than where you live, in my favored alpine habitats. Same with almost every desert on earth, you just have to learn how to recognize their treasures, their flora and fauna to see it I guess. Las Vegas (the Meadows in Spanish) was named that in 1829 when it was discovered for a reason. The valley was an oasis with all of its artisian springs (that still supply some of the water here today). First permanent white man settlement wasn't until 1855 though, by Mormons. So even without modern methods for water city folks have lived here just fine for over 150 years. It is however still isolated, it just sprawled out to cover almost the entire 600 square mile valley, and the population grew from about 60K in 1960 whebn you were here to 2 million now (plus our 40+ million tourists per year). So it is much different than your or my first trips here from 1959 into the early 60's when casino's on The Strip like the Sands, Flamingo, Dunes and Tropicana were miles apart on the highway with nothing but dark desert between instead of those locations being in the middle of town now. Back then Fremont Street was the main casino district. Now casino's are door to door running many miles farther south on the strip, which back then was just the little highway heading across the desert to CA. Casino's are all over the valley now. They have been here continuously since 1901, but the hay day most probably think of is the Mob 50's. I pretty much lived anyplace I wanted to all of my adult life. Not for family or employment, just because we wanted to "experience" them. The ex wouldn't leave the US permantly like I wanted to, she had closer family ties than I did, so I respected that. Anyway, these last 10 years alone I could have lived anyplace I wanted to worldwide. I did think seriously about moving to Costa Rica 8-9 years ago, and probably would have if a long time friend there hadn't passed away. Also the Solomon Islands for a time, and for a while New Zealand was calling my name. I also came fairly close to buying a very nice large but remote cabin with hundreds of acres of natural forest and a river through it near Dixie, ID a few years ago. But being snowed in 7-8-9 months of the year (literally) changed my mind. My nearest neighbor in winter would have been 16 miles away by snowshoe over a pass, and over three times that far by snowmobile. Not a good idea with health issues starting to effect mobility. Living in the high country is in reality a hardship except during the short summers up there. You have to love extreme cold and very deep snow even in towns, and pretty much total isolation to live where I would want to up there. Anyway, I never got around to moving before my health suddenly went south to stay. I'm still here only because its easier to stay than trying to move now. No need to move for the leps anyway. I was lucky to be able to enjoy doing them seriously for over 40 years... saw and did more during that time than most will ever get to in their entire lives. I just can't share pictures with no lep activity at my place is all. ;)

With it in both names, any tickets or accidents can count against you, but again, insurance laws vary from state to state. Does he have it covered on his policy? Are you insured by the same company/agent? I sense that things aren't all that great if you expect problems on a possible pre-nup. When in doubt, CYA. I'd say get it into one name, whether that's yours or his, doesn't matter. You could ask for it as a birthday or Christmas present if it makes you feel more comfortable. Insuring two people could be more than insuring one. I'd expect it to be higher and with it in his name he has every right to drive it. You could call a different agent with the same company and talk to them but the pragmatic side of me says you are taking some unnecessary risks and if you want to continue, you should at least insure yourself. With the hesitation and fear of going for the juggler, does he have a bad driving record or something? Again, states vary, but here you could have an issue with your insurance if they find out it's in both names and only one insured. Here, I for instance will be covered by my insurance on anyone's car I drive and anyone is covered on mine. But they're also very fussy about disclosure. I bought a new(er) vehicle and parked it. I decided to put comprehensive on it after a couple months and they got all bent out of shape because I didn't tell them immediately. They figure if you don't tell them, you're hiding something. This kind of ticked me off since I wasn't driving it (it was garage and not used), but apparently there's something in the policy that I have to tell them if I buy a vehicle, whether or not I insure it. They also figure if you have a vehicle, you drive it and if there's other drivers in the house you have to let them know, whether or not they're allowed to drive the vehicle. Sub-25ers especially. It sounds like you have multiple vehicles. Depending on your ages, driving records, insurance and such, you could have enough discounts that the difference, if any wouldn't be much. The other option if you really don't want to talk to your agent is to read your policy and see what it says in there about it. Good luck.

Oh Charlene, That is such a Gorgeous picture of her and extremely WELL done. I LOVE it! "The bigger" the better, "lol" If you resize that SAME file, and leave it in the SAME place with the SAME name, just delete the one you have in PhotoBucket and REupload it, it will show here as a smaller pic but don't resize too small now. Put it probably 500 width pixels opposed to the 671x810 or 75%. Use the unsharp mask @ 25 strength. But---------- It is sooooo pretty AS IS and am sure all here will agree. I would leave it. ~~Urlee~~