On Oct 19, 1:57*pm, Todd wrote:
On 10/18/2010 05:58 PM, Giles wrote:

To you for having a vision, starting a huge project
based on that vision, and not quitting when the result
was not what one expected. *It is to be admired.

Hm.....

I think you don't pay very close attention to what you read. *Or maybe
you're just not good at it.

Sadly, both my reading comprehension and my writing can both use
some work.

Both and both? Wow, that's a whole lotta buncha.

I was not served well by my public education, where
phonics were banned.

I was served well enough by the educational system I was subjected to
(without my consent.....or even so much as my unsolicited opinion), I
suppose. I was much better served by my public libarary.....where I
went of my own free will, and where I browsed, perused, dallied, and
studied as I saw fit. And this all occurred before "phonics" was the
wet dream of the father of some nascent marginally literate
millionaire.

The other explanation is that your are
being modest.

That's not another explanation for several reasons:
1. My supposed modesty doesn't explain anything at all that has been
discussed here.
2. Your lamentations concerning public education don't explain
anything.
3. I'm not modest.
4. Shall I go on?

Those trees did not get there on their own.

Actually, many of them did. But that's beside the point....or so we
may safely assume as the point has yet to make an appearance and, if
experience is any guide at all, anyone waiting will do so in vain.

Virtually ALL of the rest (well, AND those that got there on their
own, for that matter) got there long before I arrived on the scene
about two years ago. To put it more precisely, if one includes the
orgy of redbud planting I engaged in this past spring, I have been at
least partially responsible for the generation of as much as one
quarter of one percent of the trees on the property.

Maybe
a bit of both explanations.

Maybe you need to give it a rest and come back when you are equal to
the task of holding your own against the doughboy, the pig,
and.....the diminutive member.

giles
who, hope springing eternal, thinks this could yet get
interesting.....but isn't holding his breath.