to each of you moms!

-- Gayla (privacy@please.com), May 13, 2001

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How about sharing one of your most humorous motherhood stories?

-- Gayla (privacy@please.com), May 13, 2001.

Happy Mothers to you too Gayla. Marie got treated to dinner and we went to a local flower/gardening place. She then proceeded to get 'just a few things'.

About an hour and $74 later, she seemed content. BTW, Those two lips I bought her a few years ago come up every year, and every year they still don't have no lips - no mouth, no face, nothin. But she likes 'em just fine anyway.

-- (sonofdust@mothers.day), May 13, 2001.

She spent $74 in an hour? Not bad, but I can WAY outspend her! :-) Wouldn't it be nice if we could make as much in an hour as we can spend?

I'm truly sorry to hear about the two-lips. I thought for sure they had matured by now and had a face. Glad Marie likes them anyway. With all the rain we've had this spring, my garden is growing like crazy. Got tomatoes? :-)

Did you ever resolve your woodpecker problem? What did you do?

-- Gayla (privacy@please.com), May 15, 2001.

Hi Gayla. About two or three weeks ago we awoke to that awful rat-a-tat-tat sound. Woody came back. And the little fella has a mate. Both of them (so far)have contented themselves with drilling holes in the local tress, and not our house. Thank God! We have seen them both side-by-side in an oak by our property, but not any closer. Don't know for sure where the nest is. Believe it or not, it was actually due to that bird and the beaver tracks that I started my first story here at the FRL just over a year ago. Who would have thunk it!

-- (sonofdust@woodys.back), May 15, 2001.

In that case, I'm thankful for the bird and beaver tracks. :-)

-- Gayla (privacy@please.com), May 15, 2001.

Rob, while listening to a phone-in gardening show a week or so ago; I heard that if woodpeckers are pecking at wood, it's because they sense insects in the wood (some kind of moth, is what they said). But maybe that's only our woodpeckers that are that smart ;-)

-- Tricia the Canuck (jayles@telusplanet.net), May 19, 2001.