Life is great. With the aid of Roundup and mulch, I think the weeds in the flower bed are vanquished. I put layers of newspapers down and soaked them and then mulched after I sprayed all the weeds. I only lost a few flowers from the errant spray of weedkiller.

That is not what I wanted to discuss,however. 911 is coming to the country and we will soon have it. It has necessitated house numbers. Since everything was changing, we decided to give up our P. O. Box and change to rural delivery. This is hard for me to believe. Instead of merely putting my mail out for the rural carrier, they send it to Shawnee and then return it to me. This in a one man Post Office in a tiny little town. They know us "but them are the rules",. It is not cost effective, it is not efficient and not timely delivery. We have had to fill out three different cards. One for letters, one for parcels and one to confirm our change of address.

Could this be why postage has become so expensive?