Thanks Dana!
And I'd love to have you as a TA Cherry. You'd make me smile and brighten my school day.

Sounds fun S.G volunteering at a school!:)


I bought a budget friendly bare root Josephs coat climbing rose for $3.99. It is soaking in a bath right now.

I decided on a maple vine for an empty area where I've been wanting to plant a tree. The maple vines are truly beautiful. The vine I am thinking about grows small and narrow and is more hardy than the Japanese maple.This one in particular has red bark.

There is a tree farm near by. They sell grafts for $14
I am not really sure what a graft is compared to a 2 gallon. When the time comes I will ask.

A graft means they have grafted the business end of the plant onto the roots of a plant which (usually) has stronger and faste growing roots).

2-gallon is the size of the pot the plant comes in (and indicates the size of the rootball)



I did 110 roller-coaster inversions on my recent florida trip and Hebe just swam an awesome 100 breaststroke -dropped 11 seconds- and made the cut for Junior Olympics next weekend.

Thanks monster. I'm curious to see one.
and
woo hoo thumbs up for Hebe. :thumb:

I didn't want to create a thread in technology for this, but randomly complain about my experience with the Smartpen as shown in the video below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rF11--7iN40

I bought 2 and neither worked, they did not record at all, not in audio or on the page....After trying to spend several hours with customer service trying to update the software and unable to uninstall the accounts created on their internet platforms and 4 days of returning and exchanging the item....It would not record...I loved it so. I held on to much hope.....

What did work that was cool outside of the major functions that were supposed to work that did not?

I was able to draw keys to a piano on the smart paper and actually play the keys, with audio notes pouring out of the pen. Cool!

I was also able to use a small portion of the translator option as it was a demo, and write in English, I was able to hear the word in the corresponding language Cantonese etc...after writing the word. Awesome qualities to the Smartpen...

Smartpen- I hope you are functional some day! I read the online bulletin board for the product. Unfortunately I was not the only one experiencing issues not only with the product, but with support.

Live a life that will give you memoirs worth writing, but live long enough to write them.

:thumb:

genital jewelry.

even though I've lived with it for almost a decade now, I was just thinking --

what a strange concept, you know?

whether you have genital pride, or prefer not to think about "down there" -- adorn yourselves! It's fun. and functional. and stuff.

I'm gonna go ahead an pass on that Cloud, but I'm glad you're enjoying yours.

I just made so much soup... crazy amounts of soup. With about a million vegetables.

What the hell do I want for my birthday? It's in 2 weeks.

Something good, but not too expensive. Everyone wants to know, and I have no idea myself.

Any ideas?

A snow blower:D

Sorry glatt, all the good things I can think of are almost certainly in the realm of "too expensive."

Some kind of garage/woodworking gadget, maybe?

Yep. When I'm in doubt of what to get my dad or brothers, I get them something for their respective Man Caves!

Any kind of POWER tool! C'mon - this is an easy one.

Amazon gift cert