I read all kinds of material on the internet these days, but there is a certain "warm fuzzy" satisfaction of sitting down with a good book. Wandering through a bookstore is an invigorating, yet calming experience. Does anyone else feel that?

If you are just dying to buy something on eBay, have an interest in Hollywood and would like to help a favorite project of Tom Hanks and many other celebrities, check this out. http://www.ebay.com/shakespeare Rita Wilson and Tom Hanks are sponsoring an online charity auction on eBay Giving Works...

I hear that some of you fom Friday's group are coming this Sunday. I sure hope all the others who have not been able to make Friday will be at the Chamber this Sunday at 6:30. I will be bringing some tomato plants, eggplants and some house plants to share...

I forgot how we left it last time. Are we meeting tonight? I know we are starting a new one this Sunday after my eBay class. but I can not remember what we decided for tonight. The Sunday one will be 6:30 at the Chamber of Commerce here in Shelbyville. I will be bringing tomato and eggplant starts for that meeting. Probably a few houseplants as well, but I have not chosen the ones to go...

Please be sure you watch past the first few scenes until you get to a girls college game. If you are not moved by this, please check your pulse. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jocw-oD2pgo&eurl

In case you have been wanting to go to an eBay Live event, this one in Chicago will not be repeated until 2010 in Orlando, FL. It is the closest it has come to us, so maybe it is time. http://pages.ebay.com/eBayLive/

This coming Sunday, May 11th, will be the beginning of a second garden club for those who can not make the Friday evening group. Our first group meets at 6:30, so we might as well keep the time the same, BUT the place is different. Since I have a class going at the Chamber of Commerce, I will keep the room a little longer and invite the "Sunday Garden Club" to meet there...

This afternoon is the last performance of Central High School's musical production ALL SHOOK UP. They have done a fantastic job and deserve a packed finale. In addition to great musical performances, you have some entertaining fun and humor. It will be difficult to come away from the performance without experiencing numerous laughs, and toe-tapping enthusiasm...

I had it all planned this morning. We picked up a load of wood from a friend of ours and I was going to empty the trailer and cut the wood into firewood pieces. Yup, that was what I was going to do, but when I got down to the kitchen, my mother-in-law mentioned that the pond had no water in it. Now I thought she meant it had not filled up from the rain, but no, it had very little water in it!...