Silvia, yeah, I hope the cold-loving plants perfom well too. I saw ictures of your peaches last spring and they looked yummy. Hester, I bought a 4' plant in Tallahassee on one of my escapades up there. I haven't seen it around the central part of the state but maybe someone can chime in and tell you where to get it. Otherwise you can get it online. I've got an orange-blooming and a red one but haven't coaxed them into blooming for the season yet...;)

Yes, I've been having that problem for the last few days too. It's the background not working right. And when I say background I mean the color at the top of the page, where the adds are located. Sometimes all of the threads are jammed into the right half of the screen. I just hit F5 a bunch of times and it fixes itself. Very annoying!!

I'm pretty sure the windows virus scan DIRE warning is a SCAM!! I had something pop up a few days ago that looked like my computer was FESTERING with awful stuff. Have a reliable virus protection, totally ignored the "warning", ran a scan just the same... and totally clean! Think when people see "windows" they assume it's legit... don't think so!?!

I've been a member of a big switch of a group that was much more tightly tied together than this one. About half the group didn't make the switch. Only a few stayed on both. Both groups thrived, but the cultures changed vastly. One thing that I think is good about this system is that we don't actually have an archive of really good threads. People generate new conversations when they come in and ask the same old question. That way they're brought into the fold, and made welcome. And new opinions are added. Example: cast iron vs. stainless steel sink. I've personally answered this at least a dozen times, each a little differently, targetted to the specific way the question was asked. If we just had sticky topics, or different topics with subthreads for sinks, we wouldn't have that kind of immediate welcome to the big ol' group. Instead, if a thread is good enough, someone will have it saved or something and provide a link, but people will still answer the question. I think it's also good that our social questions are mixed in with the Rixi tile questions and floorplan reviews. More modern software wouldn't do that. BUT...I wonder if the page losses happen when people make coding errors using HTML in their messages. I did that once where it affected how the preview page posted. I wonder if it's possible for something to get through and screw up the works?