Re- too wet: Make sure you have enough holes in the bottom, even the sides. What I do, if it rains for several days, I just throw a plastic tarp over them. I don't like them to sit in water too much. and too dry- I noticed mine were drying out much quicker this year than usual. Then I realized it has been so windy this month, so I have had to water more frequently. ellen

My jam recovered!!!! It had a miracle cure! I don't know what the heck happened. It's been sitting in my (broken) fridge for a couple days while I dealt with other stuff. I pulled it out today, to throw it in the trash. Just as one last chance, and because I was so sad to lose this jam, I asked a brave friend to take a tiny taste. I was afraid to. He said it was fine, and took a big spoonful -- which I would have stopped him from doing if I had seen him! That was ok too, though. So I tasted one grape worth. Hard to tell with my throat still sore from the other day, but seemed alright. Got another friend to taste it. We all agree it is delicious and non-fatal. So I don't know what the heck happened! The jam had cooked more, in its own heat, after I had my mishap with it and before it was cool enough to go in the fridge. Maybe that fixed it? Or, one of my friends suggested, maybe there was some sort of bug in the bite that messed me up? I would think I would have seen, felt, or tasted a bug, but I guess you never know. Anyway, I am VERY happy to have my grape jam after all. And rather surprised it did not ferment in the 50 degree fridge.

I'm pretty sure it's GW, not google. It's another in the long list of glitches that GW/iVillage is apparently aware of and supposedly is working on. But there has been zero improvement since this started two weeks or so back. It does render the site pretty useless from an archive standpoint... all that valuable information lost. There seems to be no rhyme or reason to it. All I can figure is that the current 67 pages are available, but everything else is gone unless they get it fixed. I had bookmarked a number of pages for reference and can't access half or more of them. At least we all still have each other to answer questions, but it means starting over again every time a question is asked.

Perhaps they are running something such as "WordPress" with a plugin called "Google Doc Embedder" to embed documents? I don't know that to fact, but if true, there's nothing you can do. Except wait, or inform the site and hope they can/will do something about it. I'm just guessing though, based mostly on this WordPress support thread.