[secret garden]

I'm not touching it. The plan is to remove a spindle(to get the proper angle) and just start over. And use lots of wood putty to cover the damage. It looks pretty nasty, doesn't it?

[xsmommy]

can't see ZIPS which you insist on sending me : )

[xsmommy]

there was some high drama here a half hour ago. xs2pup managed to sneak in with a dang TURTLE CARCASS which xsboy had left on the front steps. i had no idea he had it, i thought it was a LEAF, til i smelled something foul, looked behind me and started screaming. he ran into the family room with it, TO THE COUCH, when i told the xsgirls what it was, they started screaming at the top of their lungs also. of course, it was up to me to get it away from him, dismembered as it was, and dispose of it...xsboy never came up from downstairs. his mother and sisters could have been murdered and he wouldn't even notice. when he came up to eat dinner later he did say, what were yunz screaming about?

[xsmommy]

looks like yunz got a statue of nekkid people in town.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Check your email - I think I've figured out a way to fix all three probelms: the gouged out hole, the loose bannister, and the stuck screw.

(Don't tell xs, but she'd not try to flush used turtles, she wouldn't have to plunge toilets as often....)