Norma and everyone, with the gasp of energy I had left tonight, I couldn't wait to show you what I saw today on the Jade..Not fully open yet, but almost there..:-) Thankyou for all your suggestions, and Norma, for your instructions...You are a true asset to this whole community..Thankyou for sharing your knowledge and your patience..If you do not have one of these, I will send you a big cutting next spring! Wait, Jodik, did I see your name here? Awsome..I am so happy to see you here..Welcome from all! Goodnight all and have a merry night! Value all the good things in our lives...If anyone is interested in a moving story, especially for this time of year, please read this link.... Mike..:-) Here is a link that might be useful: something to ponder.

Well, I guess I'm extinct...I love tablecloths, esp. old vintage colorful ones, love chairs that move, and have rockers, gliders, ones on castors, etc., have an antique leather loveseat that can convert to a less-than full-sized bed, have a china cabinet that I'll never part with, a vast collection of mainly classic DVD movies, not ready to give up my landline for the emergency reasons stated, sleep in a full-size bed as I don't need bigger, and the bedroom feels larger with a smaller bed...love my vintage card table-another dinosaur? Although my adult daughter and I don't care for the overstuffed recliner look, we are both contemplating my mother's recliner that is 45 years old and very petite. If either of us take it, we would recover it in leather with nailhead trim....I don't have a coffee table only due to the small size of my living room, however, I got rid of regular nightstands years ago in favor of larger pieces of furniture - one a desk - that flank my bed, which I find much more functional. Extinct - maybe beaded screens (remember those!!? I had one separating two rooms... Someday extinct bookshelves? Although I'll never part with mine! I love my window cranes, too, but seldom see them anymore. I also love my cotton lace curtains, and wonder if they are considered on par with doilies! Penny

I shut the computer down every night. I also unplug it during bad storms. We had a house fire that was caused by the toaster oven. The oven was plugged it, but not turned on. I won't leave any small appliances plugged in now and if I could unplug my microwave oven more easily, I'd keep that unplugged, too. I don't trust things to flip breakers or blow fuses. It took me a long time to get over the intense smell of smoke. We nearly lost a cat in that fire and the only reason we didn't was a fluke in timing. I got home just as the kitchen was going up in flames and I was able to put it out before the fire dept arrived. I had to try to put it out because we didn't have a telephone at the time. (Rental house, for short period, trying to save on expenses, stupid!) After I got it out, I had to run to the high school to get someone to call the FD to double check it was out. Then I had to pack all our smelly belongings so we could move out that day, no way could we stay there. That was a horrible, scary day and all because of a small appliance. My parents have a nifty system, Pops put an outlet/surge protector strip on the counter, behind the small appliances, and they are all plugged into it and it is plugged in. They turn it on as needed, but it's always off when nothing is being used.

I don't use Chrome very much - generally only for the rare times I use Facebook - but I opened it just now to see if I could clear my history there. I'm using a desktop right now, and I typed Ctrl+H to open "history" to edit it, and then clicked on "Clear browsing data" and was able to delete my history there. I had to make sure that I selected the appropriate time range, as the default was only the last hour.