Hi Alex, Thanks for the warm welcome. Yeah, I think I deserve to post occasionally seeing it was so much work to join! By the way, in the days it took me to answer, I perused the photobucket web site and was totally engrossed! This would be like very nice vacation for me. (OK, maybe a FUN vacation attached to another one.) I also read posts from the fireman guy who grows the rows of veggies. (Open Fields) He seems to be a very nice guy with his head in the right place. (If you're reading... good job!). One thing that struck me was the number of half-gallons of hard liquor present. My god, here we go. I wish I new which vars. were among the 40. I guess I'll have to go to find out. I play guitar (I saw someone there who does). I like to cook (I saw many who do), it just seems FUN. When I saw fresh chiles cut up for sampling, I thought it was a picture of heaven. Tonight, I purchased a pint of Hagen Dazs Mango sorbet. I will puree some peach habs tomorrow. I want to incorporate them into the ice cream somehow. Never tried it. I don't want to melt the sorbet and refreeze it, so if anyone knows how to blend chiles into sorbet or ice cream let me know. Maybe the best way is to make some ice cream from scratch. Again, thanks Alex for the post. Adios, John S. San Jose, CA John H. Sphar LAN Dyamics San Jose, CA 408.343.1276