testing one, two, three! we've been back home for a while now putzing around in the yard making it look beautiful. I will try to add photos of this later. Our research is in a holding patten as we discovered kinda late in the game that someone has already done a DVD on the ficus,although that wasn't our original plan. We are still considering a reference book on the subject and use all the data we have collected. Who knows!? Soon-ish I will leave for Ireland to attend the Ballymaloe cooking school for 3 months! Our plans are to culminate our skills of guiding, photography, cooking, boating and drinking lots of wine to formulate a reasonable business plan. The SB house is on the market and we are in contract on a little farm house on Lopez Island. There we will start our new life and careers! Cross the fingers!! Till then TTFN....