I was looking for some place online to warn people about these things. They are nothing more than garden ornaments. At first, I couldn't get the water to come out at all, and my plants were drying up. Then, I messed with them a bit, repositioned them, made sure they weren't clogged...and now the water won't STOP coming out. Then, I thought maybe I had let my plants get too dry, so I watered them thoroughly, but no....having them in wet soil only makes the water come out FASTER. I had hoped to use them for watering over a long weekend, but they won't even take care of my plants for a day. I wasted a lot of money because I bought them for all my patio pots. Stupid, stupid, stupid.

I don't know. I'm not even sure what a celebrity is. LOL Seriously growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area was a different scene from middle a America. I was a weekend hippy during the 60's s and I had a "cousin" who was in the music biz. I ran with a bunch who did a lot of security so I was backstage a lot. We would also go to concerts and party with the a bands later in the houses the Haight. There wasn't a line drawn between celebrity and regular people during that time. (Janis, The Dead, Jefferson Airplane etc.) Then there are quite a few infamous that I've known. Just the other day I was thing king about how I used to swim with the guy who "invented" the blue box that Steve Wozniak (Apple) ended up selling underground. We used to call all over Europe just for kicks. Or t stream out of state t radio through the phone lines. This was before the term "hacker" became a household word. We also have tons of celebrity sports figures living here. Just a few weeks ago DD and DS ended up chatting with the 49ers coach while they were pumping gas around the corner from my house. I live amongst Sharks,SF Giants, 49ers and Raiders.

Thank you for you wonderfully kind thoughts. Good idea, Tina, to try and get back once more and by myself. I'll definitely think seriously about that. Although we had a wonderful 10 day visit with my parents and family, both the flights there and back were absolute nightmares. Outbound, baggage was so unusually incredibly slow that, despite getting there at the recommended time, we missed our flight. So instead of departing at 6:30AM and arriving in Detroit at (approx.) 3:20PM with a stopover in Denver, we had a 3 hour delay in Albuquerque, then a flight to Las Vegas. A 4-hour wait there before a flight to Atlanta. Another wait there and then a flight to Detroit. We arrived around 12:30AM and after picking up our rental car and baggage, arrived at my sister's home at 2:20AM. Ugh!!! On the flight back, we were so paranoid about baggage check-in, we arrived 3 hours early . . . only to be told that our flight had just been cancelled! DH had a full schedule of patients booked the next day and was able to get the last seat on a flight that got him home here around 12:30AM the next day. The airlines sent DD & I to a hotel for the night and we were booked on the 6:35AM flight out that next morning. The hotel shuttle picked us up and delivered us to the worst hotel I've ever been in in my entire life. It looked perfectly fine from the outside, although more like a souped up motel with a big, new entrance.Three guys lounging in the lobby looked like pimps. They were obviously not guests. The room was dark, dirty and dank. My daughter's bed looked like it had a large area of dried urine on the top sheet. The table and nightstands were greasy. And one entire wall of the room was a plate glass window that looked out onto the deserted hallway. There was a heavy, dark, dusty, rubber-backed curtain across the wall, but would not close all the way. That was the only window in the room. The door locks did not work properly and we could easily hear the tv in the next room. We were out of there quickly, with me in tears by then, calling a nearby hotel and begging them to come and rescue us. They did and had their shuttle there within 5 minutes (bless them!). As our new shuttle driver was loading up our baggage, 3 very emaciated, disheveled young persons (early twenties), 2 of which had the black front teeth of major drug users and were obviously on some kind of drugs then, were holding on to each other , weaving into the hotel as we sat in the van watching them! Our driver just shook his head and said that "they should shut this place down"! I am not going to mention the airlines or the "hotel", as I'm already in discussions with the airlines CEO about it. As for the "hotel", his people are looking into that as well. I had nightmares for 5 days straight about that place! Soooo, that's my long, and hopefully somewhat entertaining saga about our trip last month. I'm still thinking about flying back again later this Summer . . . but probably on tranquilizers! (Edited for typos and to add:) And when we finally arrived back home here, I found a couple live bedbugs in the outside pocket of my suitcase! That was an additional nightmare I had to deal with for days after.

Love the sweet doggie!