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After reading his posts here...I kinda think he's like a "Gardening Yoda" ...All knowing...All seeing...And never seen. A wonderfully wise and ancient guru!

Karen

You mean, THIS?

I LOVE the tattoo...does it do a jig when he flexes his muscle?



Karen

I should hope so!

Bill...Is that really YOU???

Cindy

Karen

...and I must add that you are much more handsome than I expected!

Cindy

LOL.... that one was taken on a good day!

You guys are all nuts....
I have not giggled like this for ages.

Thanks

Well I have been laughing like crazy reading all of this. It is so good to see pictures of everyone! You all look so much better than I ever imagined

Weezie, Is Webshots an online service that you just upload your pics to? If so I will take a look at it and see how easy it is to navigate. As for my site, it is part of Dan's site, so I dont have to pay, though he does. You can use the free web design places like angelfire or geocities and I can make pages for those pretty easily. Just let me know.

On another note, I added some pics to my site from yesterdays trip to the pumpkin patch, in the family section, including one of me with all the kids. It really is me, too

Triss

Cool new pics!

Nice punkins, too!

Triss,
I was wondering what you'd think we'd done to your Website!!
Glad you enjoyed it, we seldom get off subject here,

Web~Shots
It's free and a bunch of the folks here have them.
I seem to be the only illerate!!!

I love taking pictures, I hate catagorizing them.... but I know I have to!!! I am so bad at that....It just takes me a bit to understand it, then when I finally do get it, I got it!!!

Weezie

Very Nice Looking Family you have there,
I resemble Allysa.... I used to do that in ALL of the family photos', and it's funny too, my oldest has now taken over the tradition for me, and no one ever told him I used to do this...and we all remark on it *quietly to each other* that he does as well of a job as I used to

Great pictures Triss. It looks like you live in an older house like I do. Is it a family home or did you buy it? Have you been doing renovations, like I have? I have a really personal questions. What type of insurance do you have? I'm wondering because of your children. I work for the county where I live and our insurance has been changed to where we get $250.00 a year for well visits. For those of us who don't have chidlren it means that we either pay for or choose between a gynecological exam or a mammogram or a bone density test. 250.00 doesn't pay totally for the pap exam but will totally pay for the mammogram and I'm not sure about the bone density. For those of us over 50 whose doctors recommend a colonoscopy we have to add that to the list. For people with babies, it means that they either have to pay or not go to their routine visits. 250.00 is gone very quickly. I was doing immunizations last week and a woman and her 9 month old came in and she told me that she had received a letter from her insurance company saying that they no longer paid for ANY well visits. Thank goodness her baby will only need the 9 month, 1 year, and 18 month visit before they can go to yearly, and she can get her vaccinations for free at the Health Department. I don't know what's going to happen to us. The premiums get higher and the coverage gets less.

Weezie,

I took a look at Webshots and it isnt too bad. Do you already have your pics organized in some way? From you post, I am gathering not but we can work with that too. I just keep mine in a folder in the order that the digital camera numbers them so when I have to find something, I do have to search for it. The best I do on my own computer is by year and when I want to send or put pics on the web, then I find and resize them and label them. Then save them elsewhere. I found that doing it that way keeps me from messing up the original picture.

Triss

Sheri,

Right now we rent a farm house that is located on a pivot corner of a farmers field. When we moved from CA, we came to the town sight unseen, with only a few pics of the house and weren't in a position to buy anything anyhow and have been very blessed to have fallen in love with not only the house but the town we live in. One day we hope we can talk the owner of the house into selling to us cuz it is perfect for our family, or would be even more so with some renovations. The house appears to be built in sections and has a very unusual layout but it works for us.

As for insurance, the kids are on state insurance right now. I still don't take the kids to scheduled well-baby checks because they aren't on a regular shot schedule. Because of Zack being autistic, we have put shots off for all of the younger kids until they are about a year and a half to avoid any possibility of autism in them. So they only go if and when they are sick which for most of them is rarely. I did go through the well baby checks with the two older boys and in my opinion, unless you are getting shots or are a new parent, it isnt worth it. I am with you on being worried about the state of health insurance and how you are always paying more for less. It is very scary, especially with kiddos.

Triss

When I lost my job,I lost my insurance. I have tried to get my kids on state insurance,but they say our income is too high. They did put them on a share of cost plan...the insurance kicks in after $1500.00 has been spent out of our pocket...and thats per month! My son Alex has had a nagging head cold for 3 weeks now but,theres no way I can afford to take him to the Dr.

Karen

Karen,

Unfortunately, just after we moved, Dan lost his contract with his most major client and that is why we havent gotten our own insurance here. It has been hard for us to get back up on our feet but we are getting there slowly but surely. I have been looking into the costs of insurance and it is a lot higher now that it was before. We did have to pay for Mikes birth out of pocket and boy is that expensive. I can see why kids are so much sicker this day and age cuz parents just cannot afford to take them to the Dr.

Triss