Mississippi is starting to have freezes. The pond is clearly going to
sleep.

It appears the newsgroup is doing the same. We have adopted a simple policy
about posts: If a post has more than one ng receiving it, we block the
sender. It becomes very easy to interact with our fellow ponders this way.

Our son had a house in New Orleans...about 1/2 mile from the levy break on
tv...downhill from it. It sat for 3 weeks in 8 1/2 feet of water. It will
be bulldozed soon. Not fun.

Merry winter to y'all!

Jim