While the schnoodle was taking me for a walk the other day, we passed some of those ribbon plants (which can be grown in a wet garden or "with their feet wet" in a water container). Thought of you and your interest in those plants. The marauding raccoons (children of last year's apple snail eaters) turned the now half-barrel sized root mass of our ribbon plants over while trying to get at the green frogs in the barrel liner. The inverted ribbon plants just grew runners up out of the root ball. And I think the frogs got away. :) There certainly were three (Mo, Curly and Larry) around all summer.

Glad you managed to get on GL. I do think that the buggy software has really given the site a potentially fatal hit and I know from off list e-mail that some long-time members have finally given up trying to get in. The numbers of visitors is down about 75% and posts have slowed to a trickle. I was pleasantly surprised that Guppylog had only sunk to 36 on Aqua Rank.

I recall Scott L mentioning, several months ago, that maybe he should replace the Scoop software. That can not be an easy or an inexpensive task. But if GL is to survive, it does need help of that sort.

For the short haul, please keep pounding away on the reload current page button. :)

Thank you for returning the shipping box and sending three others along. That is really appreciated.

Just ambled out to the "wonder carport" (I wonder what all is there) while in a T-shirt. Dumped the ice covered 2.5-gallon hospital tank with the hopelessly deformed male Aphyosemion ogoense 80-24 male, which, sigh, I finally decided had had enough. Picked up another male this last weekend to go with the two generations of females here. It's a stunning killie and the following photo really doesn't do it justice, but gives sort of an idea of what it looks like on "dull days." http://www.killifish.f9.co.uk/Killifish/Killifish%20Website/Ref_Library/Aphyosemion/A.ogoense.htm

Ah! This is more representative. http://www.killifish.f9.co.uk/Killifish/Killifish%20Website/Photos/A.ogoense_RPC207_BKA.jpg

No styrofoam boxes, not even any inside cardboard though. I assume somebody else was very puzzled to get several empty, though valuable boxes. :(

With the recent (long procrastinated) reloading of Windows XP on our confuser after a near terminal software corruption and the reformatting of the hard drive - with everything important finally backed up to an external hard drive, it was nice to be able to take Firefox back to Frapper, reload the new Plug-in and view all of the more recent members there. I'd hate to see Guppylog die and say so long to those ladies and gentlemen.