Weedwhacker said: ...
LOL, Rita -- my computer has a camera... you just don't turn it on. Uh... I think... you can't see me, right??

I never enabled the camera on my new laptop at work.

Then I happened to notice a little postage-stamp-sized window in some commercial software we use for teleconferences ... there I was, on-camera whether I wanted it or not - say "Cheese"!

Now I have a Post-It Note over that Snoop-Shot lens.

RickCorey said:

I never enabled the camera on my new laptop at work.

Then I happened to notice a little postage-stamp-sized window min some commercial software we use for teleconferences ... there I was, on-camera whether I want it or not - say "Cheese"!

Now I have a Post-It Note over that Snoop-Shot lens.

See!! See!! I told you I was right to be paranoid about spying.

I expect to hear in a few years that the NSA has been capturing infra-red images right THROUGH things people taped over their Snoop-Cams.

RickCorey said:I expect to hear in a few years that the NSA has been capturing infra-red images right THROUGH things people taped over their Snoop-Cams.

Well, At least I am not very interesting to anyone wanting to eavesdrop.

Unless the NSA has identified your yard as a probable beachhead for The Planet Of The Killer Tomatoes upcoming invasion of Earth.

I so heartily agree, hate the idea of the computer camera, and have almost never SKyped etc. I guess that would change if I had grandkids.
Greene, fantastic suggestions.

RickCorey said:Unless the NSA has identified your yard as a probable beachhead for The Planet Of The Killer Tomatoes upcoming invasion of Earth.

Invasion of the walking unfriendly tomato plants!!

Your yard may well have shown up on reconnaissance satellites already.

Russians:
"Vut haf zey DISGUISED as an improbably-dense tomato patch?!? Missile silos?"

Chinese:
"Maybe we can steal some high-density gardening tips from this top-secret round-eyes' agricultural research center!"

NSA:
"We've planted secret microphones but we STILL can't catch those tomato plants plotting to overthrow Monsanto!"

RickCorey said:Your yard may well have shown up on reconnaissance satellites already.

Russians:
"Vut haf zey DISGUISED as an improbably-dense tomato patch?!? Missile silos?"

Chinese:
"Maybe we can steal some high-density gardening tips from this top-secret round-eyes' agricultural research center!"

NSA:
"We've planted secret microphones but we STILL can't catch those tomato plants plotting to overthrow Monsanto!"

I had better be careful!!

There's a movie, "The Presidents Analyst". Three different spy agencies are chasing him for various reasons. Starring James Coburn, the same guy that played Flint in "Our Man Flint". But secret agents and assassins were nowhere near as dangerous as "TPC"!

Seriously: if someone saw your yard "Before and After" from space, would they believe that all that foliage was just "a home garden"?

RickCorey said:There's a movie, "The Presidents Analyst". Three different spy agencies are chasing him for various reasons. Starring James Coburn, the same guy that played Flint in "Our Man Flint". But secret agents and assassins were nowhere near as dangerous as "TPC"!

Seriously: if someone saw your yard "Before and After" from space, would they believe that all that foliage was just "a home garden"?

Humm, they would if they knew me.

Yes, and they WOULD send representatives to learn how you keep adding more plants to a yard that seemed full years ago.

RickCorey said:Yes, and they WOULD send representatives to learn how you keep adding more plants to a yard that seemed full years ago.

I magically add space!!

I KNEW it! That was the only possible explanation!

Do you use plate tectonics, or magic?

"Captain, we're approaching a space-time anomaly!"
"Again?"

RickCorey said:I KNEW it! That was the only possible explanation!

Do you use plate tectonics, or magic?

"Captain, we're approaching a space-time anomaly!"
"Again?"

I use alchemy.

In reality my yard is very multi level. While that poses challenges it also allows for raised and terraced garden beds. That way allows for much more to be grown than ever could if the yard was flat. And I really have almost no lawn.

Nice! Multi-level, like a triple-canopy forest! I knew you were breaking new ground (figuratively, not literally.)

So the spy-sats have to use foliage-penetrating Lidar on your yard, like they used recently to re-map Chichen Itza! (spelling?).

RickCorey said:Nice! Multi-level, like a triple-canopy forest! I knew you were breaking new ground (figuratively, not literally.)

So the spy-sats have to use foliage-penetrating Lidar on your yard, like they used recently to re-map Chichen Itza! (spelling?).

Not quite but it is pretty crammed full of plants here. However, it all seems to work, everything thrives.