There is now a drive to make March 31 a day to remember Terri Schiavo and other disabled individuals, Terri's Day of Remembrance. A resolution supporting it can be seen at Resolution in Support of Designating March 31st as Terri�s Day�s of Remembrance & Celebration of the Culture of Life. For more information, please read Terri's Day.

Individuals wishing to honor Terri's memory are urged to do the following:

• Obtain a Living Will � View The Will to Live Project at http://www.terrisfight.org
• Encourage your state legislature and governor officially to establish March 31st as �Terri�s Day�.
• Encourage Hollywood and the media to embrace Culture of Life stories and movie themes.
• Support families to spend time pursuing �Culture of Life� events that honor some aspect of the culture of life.
• Support establishment of state network of professional volunteers to assist Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation in each state.
• Support the Schindler Schiavo Foundation to establish a health care facility for brain injured patients.

There's more good news on the abortion front, too. South Dakota now has a law banning abortion except in the case of saving the mother's life. This law is bound to be brought before the Supreme Court and challenge Roe v. Wade. Tennessee also has made strides forward in the effort to make it clear that the Tennessee state constitution does not support any so-called right to have an abortion.

The effort comes too late for the 47 million babies murdered by abortion in the United States, but it is an encouraging sign that the people of America are willing to stand up for the rights of the unborn. It has now deteriorated in the Netherlands to the point that they are setting up guidelines to kill "seriously suffering" newborn babies now. Let us not forget that what started there eventually spread over here. Remember Terri Schiavo and the millions of murdered unborn children!

There is sunshine in the garden after a ferocious storm yesterday. We had tornado warning after tornado warning in the area as bands of storms spawned swirling winds for most of the day. The weathermen were wearily warning that the late afternoon sun after a particularly nasty band was not good news since the atmospheric heating could fire up even more storms. It is cool and sunny this morning though, a touch a spring which technically doesn't start for a few more weeks yet. It's hard to believe we could have tornadoes in the winter, yet we definitely did.

The daffodils are continuing to bloom in their usual sequence. Some of the flowers show frost damage to their outer petals, but they are still a pretty splash of color in the garden. The tulip magnolias are opening lavender and purple flowers and the bridal wreath bush is clothed in tiny white blooms. The flowering quince is spangled with cherry red blooms. The poor roses are holding up frost-tattered foliage, but they all survived the heavy freeze.

The fall-planted snow peas are dappled with frost damage and look like they might as well be pulled to make room for something else. The early planting of spinach does have a few plants up but not very much. It should be time to start planting the cold hardy crops in the garden. I'm getting over a nasty cold, so I'm not doing much out there yet and avoiding getting a chill.

I got another sweater finished and another one started. I finished another lace towel and am on the last pattern in the old set. I may yet catch up with the new pattern set going up in the Knit and Chat forum in Delphi forums.