Most scientists seem to think that what they are now calling CCD is actually a 'disorder' (because they don't know what else to call it) that has long been observed in the bee keeping community, both here and abroad. For generations, though in much smaller numbers, bees have been doing this same thing. Long before cell phones, by the way! (lol) The term CCD is a new one, just to make sure that everyone is on the same page. As you can imagine, deceased bees are being evaluated like crazy all over the world! A lot of similarities have cropped up, but nothing (yet) points to any ONE causal agent. Mites are not the instigator of CCD, but can take away from the general well-being of the hive. Bees are also prone to a wide variety of other fungal and bacterial diseases. It could be an instance where the world's bees have just been bombarded by so much that their immune systems are compromised. Some of the articles I've read seem to focus on a fungal strain, Nosema ceranae, as a contributing factor.

If you remove the photos from your photobucket account, or if you move them from one album to another, the pictures will disappear from anywhere you've posted them up to that point.

Lee... I sent off my e-mail to Maureen before I saw that you'd be interested in the way I do Print Screen. I also used to save and paste into Irfanview until Wolf showed me a little German program he used. It saves you having to paste each time you save a screenshot and it is so easy to then save a series of screenshots one after the other. Here's the letter and explanation I sent to Maureen: I have been using a little German program called "Snapsaver" for an easy print screen function. The icon sits down in my tray at screen bottom and I call it up when I need it. With just two clicks, - one to call up the program and the next one to save the screen - it takes a screen copy and saves it to a predetermined folder where I keep all screenshots, so that eliminates having to cut and paste a screen each time you do a print screen. It will take as many shots as you like, just as long as you press the 'print screen' button, and then after a long pause it turns off until you click the icon to 'wake it up' again. Here is one download site at the link below .....I think all commands are in English but I'll go back and check as I see this page is in German. Usually after taking a screenshot I go to the saved snap in the snaps folder and use my resident default pictureviewer and cropper program (VuePrint) - and crop out any unnecessary edges from the screen capture and resize the page to around 800 x 600, which all together sharpens the image and clarifies any blurry text, then I save the cropped image into one of my photo files. VuePrint is an old program and costs very little I think I paid $40...from Hamrick Software and it is so transparent, yet wonderful as it sits there in the background without being noticed but as soon as I bring up a photo, it will crop and zoom in or out, resize, flip over or mirror image a photo. I think you can still download a test version of that program before paying anything. I just noticed that Hamrick's website is promoting his scanning program (VueScan) but at the top centre there is a link to VuePrint. This is such a neat little program! I'm happy to answer any further questions :-). SharonCb Here is a link that might be useful: Snapsaver Download Site

On Friday, I finally went to the doctor who diagnosed a “peri tonsillar abscess”, which means a swollen sac of infected pus in my throat, resulting in severe throat pain, jaw pain, ear pain, low fever etc. Sent me to the E.D. to get it drained. That resulted in 6 hours waiting in a room, and 1 hour of three doctors pushing an ultrasound probe down my throat, and then poking a fat needle through the back of my throat where the abscess was supposed to be. In the end, the exact right spot was never found, but they decided they’d poked enough holes that the abscess would figure out how to drain, helped along with an antibiotic course. I spent Saturday recuperating at home, then headed to the coast on Sunday to join the others. Dinner that night was linguine with homemade pesto; sort of a convenience meal. Last night I stopped by a marina and picked up a mess of crab and oysters. We also had some asparagus with mushrooms and Chinese sausage. Tonight I need to do something with 8 pounds of clams.