Eliza, if I had been with you in the garden center you'd have come home with a much healthier mix of planting and fertilizing medium! That special compost is probably mushroom, and that has been shown to be very unhealthy for organic gardens, plus it is expensive. If you can simply buy a couple of bags of cow manure compost (pay a little more and get a brand, like Black Kow, or Moo Poo) you'll do yourself much more good. And take the gel back and bring home six of bags of shredded hardwood mulch. Not the colored stuff (that's full of chemicals also), just hardwood, or the baldcypress no-float is even much better, to keep the moisture in. The pine bark mulch floats away in rain and it doesn't break down like mulch should to become part of the soil in the next year or two. The organic approach is just plain healthier for you. Okay, off my soap box.

Dorothy, I used to do a lot of folk dancing in my undergraduate college days. I loved the Eastern European dances also. Fast and vigorous with some wonderful footwork. As for others, I never could quite get the Scandinavian Hambo, but I loved the schottisches and polkas and such.

I forgot to take my antihistamine at bedtime last night so today I'm feeling the pollen today, mostly sneezing. I've taken the zyrtec now but I'll have to supplement with sudafed or a benedryl. I have a little pharmacy of cold, sinus, and cough medications in a file drawer at work. :-(

The new player is one that is set up to stream the various services I pay for. Most of them have NetFlix, but not many of them stream the Amazon Prime features. If I set up my laptop next to the television and stream it I don't get a full screen, I see the computer screen duplicated. I've thought about trying Hulu or a couple of others, and it seems the planned obsolescence of the players is in the software, not the hardware. While researching the new one I learned a few things about the old Samsung player, so it isn't out of the house, it has more life yet.

Now related to nothing else in this thread, here is a great video about modifying toy cars for disabled kids. They've put in features that inspire kids to strengthen weak areas (by where they put the switches, etc.).

SRS