[Miss Behave]

American Mother, thank you for your correction of me, and I hope that (you,) Certified Horticulturist sees this--and that you both forgive my mistake.

Not as an excuse, but just to say that my speaking out of turn stems from my knowledge/distinction on/of flotsam/jetsam being taken from how my dad explained it to me as a girl. And I'm sure that it was me, not my dad, who misunderstood.

And I have to tell you an LOL. When we kids were little, my dad made a really neat, HUGE floating raft for us, for diving and for our motoring-around pleasure (he built a mount for a three and a half horse motor on the "back.") I'll tell you more about it, including the very funny name my dad dubbed it, via FReepmail. I guess this story really isn't yet an LOL. Sorry, I'll finish by mail. :-)

[AnAmericanMother]

Why should you know, if you're not an admiralty type person? ;-)

Things my dad told me . . . in an effort to discourage me from a misguided cost-saving measure with a friend, that we would each pierce one ear and save half the price of a pair of earrings, he told me that only Gypsies and loose women pierced their ears.

He didn't really mean it, but I STILL can't bring myself to get my ears pierced . . .