Pam, right now I don't have lists of names. I can e-mail them to you when they get closer to deployment though. I'll thank you in advance for anything you send over. This list was provided to me by a co-worker who has been sending packages to troops in Irag/Afghanistan since the beginning....I'll warn you; the list is honest and frank! My intent not to offend but inform. Proceed at your own risk. Annie, please send a huge OOOH-RAH to Ashley's friend Nikki from another Marine (although I've been out longer than she's been alive!).....Semper Fi! I hope everyone returns home safely. Here is the list..... Baby wipes, toss in a tooth brush each package, gummy bears did not melt other candy did, Gatorade or other drink mix is a huge hit, salty nuts, sanitizer, hard candy like "Gobstoppers" stuff that does not melt  no chocolate. Ramen, cup-o-noodles, liptons, that stupid taste of home. BEEF JERKEY! Smaller boxes more often as they have to move at a moments notice and if they can not hump (that would be carry to civilians) it, it is trash. Magazines, mom may not want to here this but VictoriaÂs Secret catalogs got past the censor. Sports Illustrated swim suite issue, use your current newspaper as the stuffing in the box, they will read it as well. Brewers yeast  used to make pop skull. They never requested this but I hid it in stuff I sent. I would bet Andy said "wtf am I going to do with this?" and some salty 5 striper said "I know what to do with that!" Plastic jug, fruit juice, sugar, 48 hours in the shade and viola, instant hang over. I read enough first person Viet Nam and ww 2 books to know how much they prized brewers yeastÂ. As stupid as it sounds, kids paint brushes, used to clean your weapons and gear, I bought a big pack and tossed 2 or 3 into each box. Got that one from a Desert Storm vet.

I don't know anyone who supplies there real info to web based email accounts. Why would anyone do that?? What ever info you enter should be written down and saved somewhere though. If you should ever forget your password or your account gets hijacked they will ask you for you "information". After all they can't just send out passwords for accounts to just anybody who asks for it claiming to be the owner of said account. I learned this the hard way with my Yahoo account. They needed to know my birthday in order to retrieve my password for me and how the heck would I remember what I had put down when I signed up? Good-bye Yahoo email account. Some email services ask for your referrer email account too so take note of that also.

Trin, that was a lovely note. But it didn't contain your address. :-) Try again?

That sounds smart. Yes the "pinch or two" of epsom salt is the "magic dust" approach. If you really had a magnesium deficiency, you'd need a lot more. 2-4-2 fertilizer is fine. Now, dry-before-watering means that it will take a while for it to be dissolved and made available to the plants, though. You might also be careful about dry fertilizer and soaker hoses, though, because soaker hoses don't really wet the surface much. Maybe someone can chime in on the wisdom of that. A lot of people just use cheap and easily available fertilizers that you dissolve in water and pour on. But in the long run, you really just want to improve your soil, and putting mulch on top that you dig in at the end of the season is the way to do that. Ordinarily I'd skip the newspaper, but if you put that newspaper on top of your soaker hoses, that should be fine. As to super-optimal tomato growth, yes, there is a lot of conflicting info about exact rules. As to just getting a good crop, no, there really isn't, and there aren't any exact rules.