LOL..... Brandy,you are hilarious! :) I guess we are just a bunch of garden exhibitionists.....lol

Yes I think its a 6 ft fence. It can grow really tall. I had a couple NN plants that I kept more trimmed and in full sun and they got bushier so that is probably better lol. More branches = more flowers :) I use all kinds of stuff for fertilizer. I put milorganite and compost from our chickens and rabbits in the hole when I plant them out. Then I usually fertilize every few weeks with Miracle Grow, epsom salts, manure/compost tea or whatever I have handy at the time. Whenever I clean out my patio ponds I run a hose out to the brugs and hook it to a pump inside the pond and let it run out on the brugs that are close by. Fish poo is yummy to brugs lol. I don't think brugs are all that picky about what kind of fertilizer as long as they get lots of it. I do use a bloom booster in the fall when I know they are really gonna be blooming en masse and I get good results from that. You could put some holes in the sides of your pots as well as the bottoms and sink your pots 1/2 to 3/4 of the way into the ground. That way they can benefit from getting their roots in the soil but you can dig them up (whole pot) easier in the fall. I use the black nursery pots for this since they are cheap and easy to put side holes into. I have some brugs that I keep that way. I also do all my plumeria that way because they will freeze here in the winter and have to be moved into the greenhouse. Sinking the pots also helps keep top heavy plants from falling over in the storms or wind. ~SJN

Oops forgot about those details. I doubt you would randomly encounter one any more. These are Paul Evans Studio, and he is one of the Bucks County School of furniture maker/artists like George Nakashima, Philip Lloyd Powell--and other "studio" furniture makers like Wharton Esherick and Wendell Castle. At auction these pieces are generally called "studio furniture" but this particular work of Evans gets lumped in with Brutalism, not because if its brutal appearance or ugliness (which it has, in it's way) but because of brutalism in architecture (from "beton brut" = exposed raw concrete). This in turn is also raw with exposure of structure.

Ginny, what a beautiful chocoholic and purse opener you have! :) Such precious little faces!! Probably hard to stay mad at them long when they misbehave. We are not one hundred percent what Sam is, guessing BC, Heeler, maybe australian shepherd mix. I talked the hubby into getting a DNA test for Sam as a Christmas present. LOL, it may be in January though after the ER bill. Our Sammy boy is home and doing much better..thanks everyone for the concern ;). I felt like such a bad puppy mom leaving my heat wrap out..it's been a long time since we had a young one in the house, it's takes some readjustment. fl gypsy - Tasha is a brittany spaniel and sharpei. She has a lot of sharpei in her. Sweet little lumpy legs, gramma socks and when she's not a bit porky( we were comfort feeding her a bit when we lost Sadie), we can make a "puppy suitecase" with the extra skin on her back, but not so many wrinkles that we have to deal with cleaning them out. I can't WAIT to check out BDC's, thanks for sharing! I could add alot of stories to that from when we had our beagle, Socki, she was a smart lil mess. Her very last night on the earth, she was busted rifling through my purse on the dining room table, looking for cookies. Miss my lil trouble maker. pamghattten- yes, still re-learning about dog proofing, but really Sam is a good boy overall. He is a clepto though, steals random things and puts them in his kennel. He took my hubby's phone last week. Hubby wanted quirks, he got them ;) How is your new addition doing? Love to hear an update! I have noticed that a few of you that have the BC type mixes talk about having barkers....funny because we were starting to think that Sam would never bark. He just found his voice in the last week or so. It's cute, he follows Tasha's lead on barking when I get home and when someone is at the door. LOL Ginny, I make then pups go outside to play, because I KNOW how it could go. They still haven't had a full on play session, Sam is still learning parameters..he tends to go overboard when he is overstimulated, but I know it will happen soon enough. HAha, he's decided that it's a race every time they go out to see who can get to the bunny hole first. I just know one of these days he's going to land in the pool trying to get there faster. He's is lighting fast too!