Josette, you need to e-mail them. My request was very late in coming once, so I e-mailed. Turned out it had gotten misplaced in the shuffle. They mailed it to me right away.

Karen, I'm so sorry for your son! My mother also has problems with one of her eyes and know how your son, you and your family can feel! So I'll pray for him... expecting that someone upon us does something for him. Sometimes, my Dad listens to my prayers :) Regarding your pictures... well, the very first time I bought a mini house, I was on holiday in Canterbury and bought a house box. Each time I went on holiday in England, I bought a new house box. I saw boxes such as the bunny boxes you have and didn't have the opportunity to buy some of them but plan to do when I'll go back in England (with the jet foil not the airplane). Your boxes are splendid, really! Also both your lavender and green dishes are so nice! Your spring wreath is also gorgeous... unfortunately that is the kind of item I can't have in my home: Minute, the dog would make it a mashed wreath in 1 minute (oh yes, it's a jumper dog... half dog and half kangaroo) :-( Well, thanks to you and all of my new friends of this forum, I just converted a friend of mine to holiday decorations, hihihi. So, we'll go shopping for the Spring and Mother's Day within two weeks!!!! By the way, your large rabbit should be gorgeous in her dining room too, lol.

Haven't bought men's underwear in a while ... ... son bought some of the lower variety for my Christmas, a few years ago, let me take only one brief home, stored others as traders - I'd get another when I redeemed one of the wide-bellied ones. Outwaited him ... got the others the next Christmas. Unwrapped the last one, neatly bundled with scotch tape, a couple of months ago. Probably should have mentioned that before Christmas ... maybe I did: my forgetter's grown much more active, in recent times. Elastic girdles working well on the more mature briefs ... though they are getting somewhat worn. ole joyfuelled

Interesting how the shopping styles change. Lots of malls around here are having trouble and some have closed but the Mall of America is going strong. It all started in Edina, MN when Southdale Shopping Center opened the first enclosed regional shopping center in the nation. There were certain advantages to the mall concept such as having a number of places to choose your shoes or the like. There'd be various specialty shops, etc. Instead of having someone from housewares come make a key for you, you could talk to a locksmith. When much younger and more willing and able to walk more it was fine, but today I'm not built for malling. There were some smaller malls that did quite well too for a number of years. But then people's shopping habits started to change. The convenience era began. Fast food and fast shopping. One stop and get your turnip seeds, house paint and aspirin in one cart. Walmart, Kmart, Target and more began popping up and Powers, JC Penney, Sears-Roebuck (remember Roebuck?) Montgomery Ward and more began to suffer. Economic ups and downs and malls suffered. People started to prefer specialty stores. Then the traditional mall anchors such as Wards and Sears began to hurt more. Many didn't survive. Add to the problem stores like Kohl's and others I can't recall offhand, have chosen to pull out of the malls and go with freestanding buildings. Some of the malls brought on their own problems. They tried to go cheap. Didn't maintain the building and people didn't like grungy looking places. Leaking roofs didn't help and parking lots that resembled minefields would shoo away people too. Rent is expensive for small tenants and the economic bust of the last near-decade has had its impact too. Many of the malls around here are being bought and replaced with townhouses. One local one, Apache Plaza was developed into a mini village with streets of small shops, plus a Walmart and Cub foods.