Steph, if you take pictures of your yard and post them here you will be overwhelmed with suggestions. By the way, welcome to the forum and welcome to the Orlando area. I live in Orlando and if you would like to meet I would be willing to discuss plants, etc. The best suggestion I can give you right now is to take a deep breath and slow down. Gardening is a life project and it is fun to do it yourself. You get to give life to your yard and watch with pride or sometimes horror as your little seedlings grow and become brillant living art in your yard. You need to get an overall idea of what you would like to see in your yard. What is your dream and not someone else's dream. There are many beutiful yards in the Orlando area you can view and obtain idesa. Another great suggestion is to plan on attending Ricky's aka fawnride's swap-a-que in October. You will get to see first hand what can be created on a small lot and it will take your breath away. You also will get to meet a lot of the people from this website and enjoy great bar-be-que and the cost is only the gas to travel down the state. You also will come home with tons of plants and you do not have to bring anything other than yourself and maybe a lawn chair to sit in. We also welcome side dishes to go with Ricky's fnger lcking BBQ but not so many desserts. You have received wonderful suggestions about touring Leu Gardens and I would also suggest taking a tour of Bok Tower a little bit south off of YS 27. There are lots of nursiers within a droving distance of an hour or so and well worth the trips. I know all of this sunds overwhelming but a garden is like a child - you conceive your plan and then you wait for what seems like a long time to finally get to see your baby and to continue watching it as it grows and changes and sometimes gets a mind of it's own. It is your baby to love and punish and mold to your idea of what is right and beautiful. It will become a part of you and represent what you love in life. Take that deep breath, get a cold beverage and sit and stare at your yard. Take some pictures and maybe when you get a plan in your head we could plan a work day/ swap/ welcome you to the GW party and assist you with the basics of your dream. The main thing is not to stress over your garden and to accept the fact that sometimes things do not workout where we want them to so we move, offer to give away to someone who wants what doesn't woek and enjoy the process. Once again welcome, Linda

A high efficiency (90%+) does not need a chimney flue. The are vented through PVC piping out the side of the house. You may need a flue for the gas hot water heater. But I think you could also vent out the side of house if it has a power vent. Why is the chase so larger? The diameter of the flue is 8-10 inches. You could make the chase smaller a build a utility closet in front of it.

I LOVE the Quacker Box!! Perfect name and great story. The house we live in now could be named, "The Money Pit." We have never named our houses. But it is tradition around here for the really expensive houses to be named. And usually the name is on a plaque near the mailbox or entrance. One of my favorites is one home, huge and stately and on a hill, has long had the name, "View of Glory." A few years ago, someone bought the adjacent land, built a humongous ostentatious house, and named it "Glory." We drive out-of-town guests by those, and it always gets a huge laugh.

I have the Christmas Box and Timepiece. Both are beautiful movies. They are a little on the sad side for me, but I usually watch them every year. If you haven't watched Timepiece, be sure to do so. The two movies go together.