Oh, way in the back. That is a pile of wood chips that I didn't need when mulching around my CPs. This coming year those chips will be added to the paths in my vegetable garden and around the CPs. Every 3-4 years I have a load (4-5 yards) of wood chips delivered so I can renew my garden paths, etc... Last TONS longer than 'real' mulch. Kris P.S. kinda bogus that I have to wait so long to post an answer when the conversation is flowing right alongÂ. Hey, time for another emoticon. :-(

Oh my, Allison I am sorry! I wondered how your DD2 became engaged and married so fast :-( I should have known you would at least have posted a dress issue or something on the conversations board with all that wedding talk! Very sorry for that misunderstanding. But initially the posts that crossed over to houzz were not dated, so I had no idea the thread was four years old. Now I see they are dated, although in the faintest possible ink color. (Houzz must have mostly 20 and 30 something users with better eyesight.) At any rate, the groom may not have been a keeper but the flowers were lovely!

Actually I use a wipe off calendar and it works well for me. Appts, etc are kept in my electronic gadget PDA? and before I was given this thing I had a paper calendar book that I carried in my purse. The wipe on/off calendar is so the family knows what's going on on any given day. My calendar board actually has 7 lines and I simply roll the months. As one week finishs I wipe and put the next week from the bottom in it's place - does that make sense? I had those plastic rubber things - like the decorations for windows, with the calendar month names that I would stick at the beginning of the month. If my DH or DDs/DS has something going on they add it to the board and then I add it to my PDA. That way I know what's going on with everyone. But it's an added visual each morning on what's going on for the day. I've been doing this since forever. I use a small one now but when the kids were little it was quite large - so the kids had space to write. A paper calendar never had enough room. But we also listed chores etc on the calendar. Oh and everything was color coded, each one of us was a different color.

I remember being crabby with them when they did a makeover for a mom who had family members involved with 3 schools--dad was a principal one place; kids were students in different grades. Lots of activities, etc. Their calendar solution was a write-on, wipe-off calendar. Because it was a PRODUCT, and it *looked* cool. But you can only track one month at a time. I thought, Where is she supposed to write down that she's got a dentists' appointment in 6 weeks? Or where is she going to write all the school plays, team practices, big games, school-board meetings, for 4 busy people, months in advance? She'll have to track them on a paper calendar, and then re-write them once a month. So, it was done by a *stylist*, who looked at what is available int he market and looks cool, but didn't really seem to consult anybody who knew anything about how to organize your life. I work at a magazine, and that often is how it is, unfortunately. Not always, but it happens often enough, especially w/ photo-driven and product-driven magazines. Which Real Simple is.