this is where ed can provide an assist. most of my gardening i have gotten done in small raids while jeff was watching sylvia. jeff could not watch sylvia for me while she was in utero and the problem then was that i was too tired. i still need to take care of myself for sylvia, but even if i get a little overheated, i can rehydrate and everyone's happy. i am a bit concerned over the 'helping' stage. i'll need to give her a garden bed of her own. hmmm, front garden bed number 5. i'm not looking forward to the 'don't eat that' stage. i hope this will be made up for by the 'dig up anything that looks like this' stage. i remember hours and hours of digging up dewberries from my mom's garden, and those things have thorns!