On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 07:22:24 CST, Hal wrote:

For two days now I've been missing most of you. I saw one post from
me yesterday and today one from posted through Supernews by John.(JB).
Did all of you guys go somewhere else and just didn't tell me so I
couldn't find you? Or could it be my ISP that is not sharing? That's
not nice!

My pond has been shrinking. We've had no rain here in this part of
northern Florida, and my pond, which is an unlined or natural pond, is
now more like a huge mud puddle with a little water in it. I run the
garden hose in it a bit or it would be a huge mud puddle with no water
in it. Even though I have no fish (that I know of) various critters
have staked their "generational lives" on the premise that it won't
become just a damp depression in the ground. I feel some sense of
duty to those critters, I'm almost a god to them...
--
Galen Hekhuis
I may have mispoken