YES!!!! Esofva,Plenty of Prickly Pears left. Some of these are HUGE. I will look at your list and then email you. Hi Mary, and thanks for the help! I will be looking forward to those seeds! As of right now, the following plants are spoken for: Yellow Ice Plants,Mother-in-laws tongues,Spider Babies,Opuntia cactus',Variegated Sweet potatoe vines, and Yellow Walking Iris babies. I still have Yellow Canna w/red speckles, a few Prickly Pear Cactus pads, and Callisia Fragrans babies. Let me know if interested. Thanks Jackie

Does all of this seem confusing? Opinions everywhere, pieces of facts here and there. Even suggestions of possible fraud in some cases have now surfaced in regards to some of the crashes. From a technicians viewpoint, I have to draw the line at personal experience with these cars and this problem. I have not observed a throttle sticking on one, so therefore I have not had the chance to actually search for the cause on my own. All I can do is rely on the information that basically everyone is getting to hear both from on the news and snippets from techs around the country. Remember all of these are also going to dealers to be fixed under warranty, the aftermarket (independent technicians) are not involved at all with this. One Toyota tech even did a video of how the repair is done and you can find it on YouTube which essentially amounts to removing the pedal assembly. The tech then measures a gap between two portions of the pedal assembly, and then he/she installs a shim to take up that space and that causes more spring return pressure in the pedal assembly. The push for years has always been to have techs that would robotic-ally simply identify a failed (failing) part, remove it and replace it. Remember its all about price, no matter how expensive one may think auto repair labor fee's are, I've said it many times it's under priced by a significant margin. Six months ago, the repair would again have been to replace the part if they found one sticking, and this may well have happened many times. I have never seen information to support or deny how often that may have occurred if it did much at all. The diagnosis and replacement of the pedal assembly likely paid a technician about 1/2 an hour's time for the job. I could very well imagine someone else at another time looking at that pedal assembly, and if they could not prove that it was faulty, they would back flag the dealership for the repair, who would in turn take back the pay that the technician got for doing the repair back off of him/her. Many people would take the position that the tech ultimately not being paid for that repair isn't their problem, and in a direct fashion that would be true on that day. But eventually these actions erode the technician talent pool, and is the fundamental cause of many of the anecdotal stories of poor service you have ever heard of, read or told. Lastly, there have been many times that I have seen people condemn American car manufacturers about quality, and they point to recalls as their proof. It really was just a numbers game before one of the imports suffered a big issue, Toyota's quality hasn't changed because engineering underestimated what appears to be the spring tension required on one specific part. GM and Ford especially were never as bad as consumer reports wanted to make them look. JMHO. Now the Prius brakes issue where there can be a delay under certain circumstances due to a rough road? I can picture what is occurring, the rough road bounces a wheel up and and immediately locks with almost no braking pressure. That would look like a need to begin an anti-lock function to the computer. This isn't something that a dealer technician could fix on his/her own. The fix would have to come in the form of software for the HV, and ABS computers. They could in some cases require a redesign of, or potentially add a yaw sensor if the car didn't come with one. They could even incorporate suspension height sensors to help detect road surface conditions. The wheel speed sensors alone do allow for detection of rough road conditions. There is a resonance to the lock-up that is occurring the system will recognize as not matching the anti-lock systems function, and be scored as road surface, which results in less ABS activation. In Toyota's case that time period must be significantly long which is allowing the drivers to observe it.

Colleen, call it the Latin in me (though I have none, I did take two years of it, once upon a time) but your Tacitus bellus is a thing of beauty! Bernard, no, the Crassulaceae don't do that.

Q. What's been your experience with the Clean Machine cycle? Do you think a heavy duty or sanitize cycle would do the same or similar? A. I run the Clean Machine cycle monthly, either with the Miele d/w conditioner or Dishwasher Magic. We still cook and eat almost all our meals at home so I run our machine almost daily and occasionally I've had to run it twice on heavy meal prep days! Q. I Have you used the Grates and Filters cycle yet? If so, did it work well? A. I've never had the need to run a Grates/Filters cycle, so I've never used that particular cycle. Regarding Autodos and other consumables, I've kept a record each time I've replaced the Autodos and/or used additional products (i.e., Miele d/w conditioner, scaler, Dishwasher Magic, rinse-aid, salt, etc.). I typically need to replace my Autodos every 21 -24 days but we're heavy d/w users. I've never tried to refill my Autodos. I think regular d/w tablets might work just as well, but I love the ability to run my d/w without thinking about how much soap and other additives are needed for the optimum wash. My life is complicated enough so it's nice to just set it and forget it!! ;-) p.s. - The pic I posted show exactly how the dish went into our d/w and how the dish came out after placing it in the bottom rack and running the Quick Wash + Intense cycle which takes just over an hour to complete.