Jon, I'm sorry to read your account of this spring and your health, and thank you for trusting us with the news. I sent you a PM with contact information if it would be helpful. The programming is not something I know how to write, but as I read through at the bottom it says "connection lost." Does that mean it didn't work on your first try, or is it simply noting that the device was turned off after it ran?

Dorothy, there seems to be something going around, though this week my daughter who was ill apparently was laid low by food poisoning.

Today was a major push in the garden, with the scattering of an organic fertilizer and the application of an organic pesticide (Spinosad) in the tomatoes (they are pollinated by wind, not insects, so the only bugs I hope to kill are the leaffooted bugs - a type of stink bug - that pierce the fruit and make the tomatoes look weird and the plants less healthy.) The heat has hastened their damage. Tomorrow I'll mix up some Surround WP (it's kaolin clay that, when sprayed on, looks like you've whitewashed the plants.) It is to repel the grasshoppers I'm seeing a lot of and also hopefully slow down the LF bugs.

I'm going to try Thread, but since I have only 178 followers and follow only 370 people, it isn't going to be the whole world like on Twitter. But I'll take a look. If you know me on Facebook you should be able to find my Instagram account and that address will be the same on Thread. I just can't find a way right now to view Thread on the computer and I refuse to use it on my phone. I'll try the tablet and dumb down all of the notifications those things try to send.