Thanks, Karen. I got the EP for their cover of 'How Deep Is Your Love', but really like this song, too.

those Pumas are Romas...right?

Close. They are Lab II.

They are essentials when 3 o'clock comes around.

A little of both.

you have nice hands!

ps. i love the bird and the bee. i especially love the song "birthday"

Thanks. I haven't thought of my hands much, but I was really glad that I had trimmed my nails a day or two before this.

Thanks.

Thanks.

Very nice.

Thanks. I bet it was black spot (on your roses). I used my Canon S500. It's best setting is 640x480, 15fps. I used iMovie to letterbox it and adjust contrast/brightness. Then I used QT pro to mask off the black bars. Usually contrast/brightness does not help the footage, but it did this time. I keep thinking I need to upgrade my camera, but my iPod is in even more dire straits, so the camera has to wait. tmi?

hahaha. no, very interesting.

my roses the first year i had them got attacked by aphids but i made some sorta concoction that i sprayed on them and that solved it. last year tho they got all sickly in that the leaves went yellow or black in some spots and the foliage more than anything dropped out so they looked very naked. haha. does that sound like anything you might know of?

I haven't worked with rose diseases, but that does sound like black spot. I'll look in the book on Monday.

That sounds exactly like black spot. The book says:
"Control of Diplocarpon (the fungus is Diplocarpon rosae) is through sanitation (e.g., removing and burning infected leaves, cutting back the canes of diseased rose plants), spraying with benomyl, chlorothalonil, or mancozeb, or applying sulfur-copper dust. Applications should begins as soon as new leaves appear in the spring, or at the first appearance of black spot on the foliage, and then should be repeated at 7- to 10-day intervals or within 24 hours after each rain."

Good luck!

I will only use that type of pen. I buy them in bulk.

Thanks! I thought you had disappeared from vimeo, but it turns out you were no longer my contact! Who knows how that happened. Obviously, it's been remedied.

*pulling knife out of heart now*... j/k =)

They're the Target version of RITZ. Yes, they are quite good.