Ashok, Your post is old and I hope you are well after all this time. It was beautifully written, by the way. I remember eating medlars till my mouth was raw. When I visited my grandmother (maternal) in late summer, we would walk to the vineyard, no cars of course. We would climb uphill and on the slope would be medlars trees. I might have been 7, 8, 9 years old. I recall trees looking shrubby. Low growing and it was easy for me to pick fruit. Which I did, stuffed my face! My grandmother died years ago, I am 74 and I haven't had medlars since I came to North America 54 years ago. Another fruit which I can find here but it is not very often is quince. Greeks call it Cydonia. Quince can be kept for a long time and I recall people putting it in armoire to scent the clothes. Or just kept them on dining table. As for the Incas, they lived in harsh climate and surviving was uppermost for them. However, they did give us tomatoes and potatoes. Foods that feed humanity all over the world. No small thing.

I did some Googling and found the following suggestion at TechSupport Forum. Scroll down the page to see all entries and feedback. Hope this helps. Brother Laser Printers - Error Message "Toner Life End" Brother Laser Printers Error Message "Toner Life End" MFC-7440N MFC-8460N. Brother suggest taking the unit to a service center. Message doesn't go even after replacing BOTH Toner & Drum. Try this Open door press Clear/Back key press *00 press OK Do not choose anything for drum replacement. When drum replacement menu comes up, press the * and then 00, then press OK. This might well work for other Brother Laser Printers too Here is a link that might be useful: TechSupport Forum

All drain covers sold today must be VGB-2008 compliant. They will be stamped somewhere about VGB-2008 or VGB-2007 A112.19.8 which is the ANSI-ASME code. They are very difficult to block or get tangled hair and jewelry entrapments with. If a direct fit isn't possible, adapters are available. Why do you want to hide the equipment? Can't a hedge row hide it? It's not going to make a lot of noise. If you decide to bring the pump only above the water line of the pool, make sure it's stable enough to withstand high winds. A simple stack of cinder blocks in not sturdy enough. It would be a real bummer if it blew over because of 50 mph gust in a thunderstorm. The plumbing won't hold the weight. The snap would likely happen below the waterline by feet abd a siphon would start. Remember to have 8" before any fittings such as Ts, valves, and 90s in front of and on top of the pump. Watch where you put the power and control cables too. Scott

lplantagenet -- Yes, this year some roses were looking rather rougher than usual, hence my decision to intervene somewhat. Again, part of that was that I didn't get to do post-flush pruning last year, and things were growing everywhere. Now that I've cut back quite a few roses, they can sort of "reset" and grow anew. Before I hit them with the spray yesterday, new growth was already getting dusty, and I didn't want that carrying through any further. jerijen -- I hear you about toxic side-effects from some other fungicides, and that's why I won't use them. Normally, I don't mind some roses going naked after the first flush, because what I've come to observe is that their first set of leaves don't seem "built" to handle Summer conditions here -- they seem more "built" to handle the cooler temperatures of leaf-out time in April. But this year, bad foliage was coinciding with the first flush, at which point I felt it was too late to do anything, since anything sprayed would get all over the blooms. I felt the need to do something, since powdery mildew had run rather rampant. It wasn't about "perfection" so much as it was about keeping things in check -- a little bit here and there I can tolerate, but not great swaths of it. So far today, I don't see burned foliage, but I do see a sharp reduction in the white dusting. I'm guessing that at the moment, it's simply smothered rather than actually killed. We'll see how things look after the sporadic rain forecast for the next few days. :-) ~Christopher