Your Honor, please strike this from the record!!

Oh, if life were only like that!!

You make a mistake and ask that it be neither recorded nor remembered.

It DOESN'T happen that way, though, does it? Once out there it is out and heard or read.

Even as I watch movies where the presiding judge looks sternly at the jurors in the box and admonishes them: "That testimony has been striken from the record. You may neither ponder on it or allow it to influence your decision in this case" I chuckle to myself...fat chance, judge. The cat is out of the bag.

So I must apologize for the errors in my posting of early this morning:

1) Barbara will be on the Episopal Response to AIDS team (ERA)in the AIDSWALKNY on MAY 18. Check her posting THE GOOD OF THE GROUP of April 9,2008 for more info. (sorry, BCC)


2) The forsythia is not a vine. It is a bush. Its branches proliferate. For an adult forsythia, the base should be kept narrowed by trimming no more than 1/3 from the ground after it blooms each year (from a reader who is also a Master Gardener).

3) The pansy color is burnt occre not that green veggie some people enjoy.

So, there you have it. The corrected version of what went before. Let's hope that sets the record straight!