Hey Wolfie, I had forgotten how much fun we had in here. I'll be posting a lot now that I have Geo afloat again. Happy New Year

Oooh, I found where I put the original Holly so I could copy it to my hard drive again. Seems I did the unforgivable and overwrote my original file. Wonder where MikeG is. I miss him!

great username!! geocritter!!!

It only took me a few years to figure out.. I rather like it too!

and i think folks will know it's you!

Kinda hard to lose me on Spring, no matter what disguise I use, Huh!

that and the name "marciah" is right after your userid!

Yup, I should change that userid. It has been there for years and I don't even think about it. Of course, so was it on the title page for Geo until recently! In h1-sized letters!!! How long does it take to heal a broken leg? *sigh*

depends (isn't that the answer to everything?) i think it depends on the type of break it is. if you change that, won't it change your login name too (when you first sign on to the spring)?

Australia's first camel dairy to open An Australian man plans to set up business milking camels. Neil Waters will open the country's first camel dairy near Alice Springs. Neil, who runs Camels Australia, says the milk has a similar nutritional quality to goats' milk. He told the ABC website: "Hopefully we'll be milking half a dozen this year - and once we can sort that out we can find out how many camels it's going to take to get plenty of litres of milk. "It'll take a while before we can actually train them up to milking - they generally don't like you playing with their teats." Story filed: 10:37 Thursday 25th July 2002 orange.co.uk/today

If you ever lived in an apartment and thought that you had irritating neighbors. Can you imagine living in this building. Relief as the Cows Upstairs Move Out Fri Aug 30,10:26 AM ET ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A Turkish woman has begun selling the cows she kept in upstairs apartments in the city of Trabzon, to the relief of her neighbors. Local alderman Osman Terzi said health and safety officials had ordered the cows to be cleared out of the first and third floors of the building in the Black Sea port city. "I have learned that Fatma Kocaman has started selling her cows, which is a very pleasing development," the Anatolian news agency quoted him saying on Thursday. It said she had kept "a large number" of cows there. "It's hard to believe someone would keep cows in an apartment. For years me and the locals have wondered what to do...The area has suffered a lot. Noise, smell and manure everywhere make a very ugly scene," Terzi said.

Chemical Kits Can Save Pets? TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Israelis bracing for possible Iraqi chemical or biological attacks can take comfort in the knowledge that their pets will be safe. Supergum Ltd, a private manufacturer of nuclear, biological and chemical protective gear, has developed a kit for animals, which the company says is the first of its kind. "People have been calling us for months asking what solution we could offer for their pets and now we have one," Roni Srour, vice president of the Tel Aviv-based firm, told reporters on Thursday. Iraq fired 39 Scud missiles at Israel during the 1991 Gulf War, killing one person and causing considerable damage. With a possible U.S.-led attack on Baghdad looming, Israelis are preparing for more Iraqi missile strikes, this time possibly with chemical or biological warheads. Supergum's kits come in three sizes and cost between 890 and 1,700 shekels ($185-$350). They include plastic bubbles, which will seal animals inside cages, and air filters and blowers to supply purified air. Israelis prepa ing sealed rooms will have to use gas masks to filter out chemical agents but animals will not tolerate a mask for more than a few minutes. The kits contain four batteries that last six hours and can be changed, said Zeev Scheiner, the veterinarian who tested the equipment on dogs, cats and birds. "They do not have any effect on the animal's health but (for) animals who are claustrophobic or nervous, we can give them animal Valium," Scheiner said. Srour said the company was preparing to sell the kits to Israel's police and army for their dogs. http://my.netscape.com/corewidgets/news/story.psp?cat=50900&id=200301310842000213038