Thank you Paul for starting the winter alphabet. I've been inspired, jealous, and added to my 'list'. I appreciate all the pictures that have been posted. I have to say I'm appaled at the amount of weeds in my garden. I will try to do better this summer. I seem to have wild companula, buttercup and/or gout weed everywhere. I think it's time for round-up. Steve, Your Zounds is starting out very well. I know Ken hates it but it's been a good one for me. Mine is in it's 5th year grown in lots of sun. Paul, your picture above of Yesterday's memories is encouraging. I got one last year which produced 3 leaves. Key Lime pie, the opposite sport from Squash Cassarole, is one of my very favorite and fast growing plants. Frank your Yellow River also puts mine to shame. It nearly the same size and mine is 5 years old. Gesila, your Zodiac is beautiful. I love the light green. I had pictured something like Moonlight or Patriots Fire. Karen, Yellow Boa is very bright. Does it go green like Feather boa? Phil, I remember when Zippity Do Dah looked like that. Your picture reminds me of Wheee. Have you ordered that one yet? This is the odd sport of Orange Marmalade found at a local nursery. It looks like it has been zapped by lightening.

Yes, if all else has failed I would remove the program and start over. Most HP printers seem to require you to start your program install with the printer not even connected to the computer. At a given point you will be notified to connect and the computer tries to recognise the printer and the process moves on to completion. Silly time now but you seem to be running out of options to try. Have you got a Works version created before the year 2000? If so did you install this patch? If not and you do not have it you can download it from here. It is the third option from the bottom. Seems foolish but we never know with these gadgets of ours. I had an unsettling day with my HP yesterday while printing labels. The humidity was causing pages to stick together to get my rankled to begin with. Then the printer would not start the print job. Hmm, checked everything. Eventually I discovered my labels were wider than the allowable settings so a notice popped up advising me. But in an instant the "I am printing" notice popped up covering the first notice and the printer could not start till I acknowledged the error that I was unaware of LOL.

I remember in the old elementary school, the boys bathroom was down in the basement and was sort of scary and once shortly after getting a new watch as a present, I took it off there to wash my hands and left it on the edge of the sink. When I went back to find it, it was gone. :-( Another time on the marble stairs leading up to the main hall of the elementary, two friends were having a contest to see who could jump down to most stairs. Starting at 3 steps from the bottom and jumping to the bottom, and then 4 steps, and then 5 steps, then 6. I was just about to ask to join the contest, because it didn't look that hard and I thought I could win. But with the next jump one of the boys slipped and landed on the steps with his arm beneath him, and got up screaming and crying and holding his arm which looked like it had two extra elbows. I also remember walking to visit a friend for the first time who only lived about a block further then the school (which was six blocks from my house) and being nervous about being able to find my way home. Although I'm now really questioning whether that would have been the old elementary school, which was first grade, or some time later. Anyway when I was looking for a picture of the school online, I saw campaign signs saying that that friend was running for head of city council (at whatever time the google street view truck was there)

For some reason, the "Edit" feature is not working for me, or I would have fixed the mistake in the last post. The model for that last painting was Kitty Fisher, not Lady Mary Leslie. (There is a huge difference in these!! Lady Mary Leslie would have been scandalized to have been confused with the courtesan Kitty Fisher.)