What's up with Hilltop? No one seems to go there anymore. Dead room? Inquiring minds want to know.

-- Jor_el (Jor_el@spinfinder.com), June 24, 2000

Answers

Gee, thanks, Jor_el, now I'm no one, huh??? ;-)

Summer is usually a busy time for folk - holidays have taken Lon, Gayla is probably packing, OG and others are gardening, etc.

As well, timing is important - the east coast people are often gone before I show up.

Keep trying, we'll see some friends there again before too long - in fact Sunday afternoon usually seems to be a good time to visit; see ya later?

-- Tricia the Canuck (jayles@telusplanet.net), June 25, 2000.

Because it is a secret?
Most days now we're too tired to type.

-- Ashton & Leska in Cascadia (allaha@earthlink.net), June 25, 2000.

Don't know Jor_el.

I usually check in about 4PM PDT M-F. Been sparse cept for Little Pig who doesn't talk.

-- Carlos (riffraff@cybertime.net), June 25, 2000.

Little Pig is still there, not talking? Still? Are we 100% sure that Little Pig is still alive and breathing, and not dead in front of still running computer someplace? I haven't seen a little pig post on EZ board since that time. This is a little pig mystery!

-- kritter (kritter@adelphia.net), June 25, 2000.

Well, I have been working on the farm. Tank will be installed Monday or Tuesday according to my man down there. No time to chat on the puter while I am there.

-- (sis@homenow.zzz), June 25, 2000.

It's FAR too hot to play on my garden! I only have tomatoes, peppers, lettuce, strawberries and malabar spinach to take care of in the edibles department--it's the ornamentals that gobble up time (and, at the moment, water from my indispensable rain barrels). I deadhead and fill up the bird feeders and baths in the early morning when I retrieve the newspapers, usually in a rather fetching caftan. I'm quite busy taking care of the cats, rearranging several rooms in the house, enriching the medical, dental and veterinary professions, and scouring estate sales and antique shops for those rooms I'm rearranging.

My next project is to take inventory in the store room and make sure I've replenished those items we consume quickly. The only class of food I've had to donate is beans, a commodity we've had to drastically cut back on because of Sweetie's gout. We've had to reconsider our long-time vegetarian diet and (reluctantly) add fish products. I very rarely buy anything unless it's on sale and The Hungarian and I have shopped so much at Big Lots, we're on a first-name basis with Joe, the manager. BTW, our BL has a wonderful Rubbermaid water bottle with built-in filter (good for 960 refills) for only $1.99. Great for removing the taste of chlorine from treated water!

I just haven't enough waking hours to do everything I'd like to do.

-- Old Git (anon@spamproblems.com), June 25, 2000.

A room runs on momentum, and no-one turns up if no-one else turns up. Plus their server seems to be down quite often. maybe if someone set a time, everyone could turn up at once?

-- number six (1@!.com), June 26, 2000.

Well, I'll be there tonight starting at 9pm and we'll see if we can't discuss some silly topic. Infact, I will research a silly topic and report on it to you. Hmm, will it be Bill or Hillary?

-- kritter (kritter@adelphia.net), June 27, 2000.