Miss Barbara, My word Gurl, I needed a fresh page just for you . . . temptre . . . enabl . . . Dear Friend. ♥ All jokes aside, The orchids and I faired well over the winter, and I will let them know you are thinking of them. You already know that your influence is scattered throughout my collection, and here you go again enabling me more !!! However, I’m not sure if you remember, last year when you baited me with White Elephant. It was right before I left to visit Hallson’s. As a result of your post, I ended up picking out one right then and there !!! It was haggard looking last year, what with a move across 5 states and then too much rain and shade. Here he is, in 2013. And again this year, looking much better. Pic taken today. Ooooo all that white sends my heart a flutter. :P But about this Lionheart business, I will reserve my comments to the actual post, so check back later. :) And Bless your heart for sharing your wind chimes. I ended up spending a half hour perusing that website, listening to all the different models. Your Earth Song is gorgeous !!! But I had to laugh when my ear settled on the $ 660.00, 8ft tall, Himalayan Echo . . . figures, I couldn’t swoon for one of the smaller more reasonably priced models. I would die to have one that big, though. Hang it somewhere high in a tree in the back yard and just let it resonate. I’m sure you could almost feel the vibrations if the wind picked up enough and really got it going. But I won’t be hearing it’s song for a long time at that price . . . good to set long term goals for yourself, right ? I was inspired by your link and ended up finding out more information on the one I just bought. I updated the original post if you want to go back check it out. This is actually my second one. The first, was a gift from my Mother almost 6 years ago after I graduated college. I had it hanging on my porch when I lived in Indiana, PA, but never made it out of the box once I moved to Philly. That is all changing this year as I have plans (or rather a grown adult with a big drill) to attach a huge hook to the roof of the front porch overhang. It is a 42 inch Arias. It does not have a theme or name like my Windsinger and definitely sounds more like cathedral bells. But still just as pleasing. Plus, I think of Mumma Bear when I hear it. ♥ Here is a link to a vendor that sells them, but it also includes an audio clip if you want to hear what it sounds like, as well. Arias 42 Inch Wind Chime Thank you for thinking of me, and I hope to be able to post again soon with more updates. Give hugs to the husband, birds, and little furry ones for me. ♥ Yours, Ludi

Susan - Good questions. Here are my responses: 1) parasitization can occur at any instar or stage. Typically, if a caterpillar (as opposed to a tiny wasp) comes out of the egg alive, it has survived that stage. There are a whole host of wasps, viruses, and predators that can do their business on any given day... It is one of the joys with raising anything. 2)There isn't an affordable book that identifies every known adult moth in the USA, much less one that identifies every stage and instar. That is a huge expensive undertaking, with probably not any return for publishers. Also, most of the information isn't even known. My advice is to keep asking questions and being curious. Ultimately, I have had to not try and answer all of my questions, it is too overwhelming! My favorite moth book is Covell's Peterson Guide. I know it is available from Viginia Museum of Natural History.

It's not in the Control Panel under Add/Remove. I have already tried a System Restore, to no avail but I only went back to the first of this year. We have had this "red box" for about a year and it disappeared for months. It reappeared AFTER I did the system restore. Witz, my son is a computer person and he ran Spybot last night and deleted some registry files. He is the one that said it was Pandora PC. I don't know how he knew. The little red box is next to the date/time (in the right corner.) DA, no one uses this computer except my husband and I and we are both old and retired, so no need to spy on each other, LOL. The reason I said it "piggybacked" in on something we may have downloaded is because of what I read on the internet, that being..."downloading freeware or shareware can be bundled with spyware, adware or programs like PC Pandora. Sometimes it's attached to the free software to "pay" developers for the cost of creating software and more often spyware is secretly and maliciously attached to free software to harm your computer and steal your personal & financial information." Maybe we have downloaded some freeware that might be our problem? I hope we can get rid of this too, as it's really slowing our computer down. I did find some instructions (see link below), I'll wait until my son has a chance to come back to our house, for fear I might do something to damage our computer. Dee Here is a link that might be useful: How to Detect & Remove PC Pandora

I have enjoyed the disucssions here. I am on the quest to find what I will be able to do in my new RV. The main issue will of course be first getting a wifi signal from something. I do have an ATT air card which has a 5GB cap, I have my cell phone but have the minimum data plan on it currently and they do not offer an unlimited. I have a zyxel portable router that can make a hotspot from a wifi signal. 11n-compatible Wi-Fi router supports DSL/Cable and 3G connectivity, and a unique failover capability; should your wired connection be interrupted for any reason, the MWR222 will automatically switch to a 3G/4G wireless signal via the users Mobile Broadband Adapter modem. So now I have the ability to have enough wifi in the RV to use any of the devices I want to use. but I need to search out other cheap(ha!) sources to obtain an internet signal on the road. I know some places we will stay do provide free wifi and using my own portable router will make that wifi secure, but for those places out in the boondocks that don't provide wifi, I will need some kind of access. My ATT air card at 5GB cap sure won't allow much streaming of anything. Any thoughts? I have been looking at Roku and other boxes and with the usb port I definitely could download plenty of my own content to have available to view for the times I am not able to gain decent access to anything. The RV does have a roof top antenna and it is wired for cable for when we are at a site with cable. I do have direct tv at home and I know they do offer an on the road version to be able to use you current direct tv account with RV direct tv equipment, no idea of additional costs. the zyxel I have MWR222