Okay, Smith Red Valencia is frequently available - I would try calling around your local larger garden centers. Usually Walter Andersen Nursery in Poway or San Diego has it or can get it, same with Armstrong Nurseries - they can usually find one for you. Not sure if Clausen's has them, you can try calling them to see. Lee x Nova is carried by Walter Andersen in Poway, that's where I got mine. Valentine is propagated by Durling Nursery in La Paz/Fallbrook. That is a HOOF, let me tell you, but they do deliver, and frankly, it's worth the delivery charge as they are way, way the heck west of Fallbrook literally out in the middle of nowhere (almost up against the east side of Camp Pendelton). You can also ask them if they ship their Valentine's to a nursery close to you, and possibly set up a special order with your local nursery through Durling's. CCPP allows you to order budwood. You would have to know how to cleft of bud graft, you would have to purchase rootstock, and you'd have to have the ability to keep your grafted trees in a moist environment. Citrus grafting is a little trickier than, say, stone fruit grafting. And, there is a wait of several years before you would see a tree large enough to support fruit. Patty S.

Dear Mommabird, Sounds like you had a rough night. Hope you can de-stress and get some restorative sleep tonight. Seems like you have been trying your whole life to prove that you're not "lazy." You don't need to prove it to anyone else! Believe in yourself, lady. Don't let those voices echo in your head. It'll make ya crazy. I am going to confess to you that I did a little mental exercise one day. Maybe I repeated it a couple more times. I imagined my ex-husband, who I had not seen in over a decade, who had been psychologically but not physically cruel. I remembered all the pressure I felt from him. Then I imagined myself telling him that he could not live inside my head any longer. I went into great detail to explain exactly why he was no longer welcome in my head, and I tried very hard to imagine him somewhat reluctantly but peacefully leaving. Ya know what? It seemed to do the trick. So I did the same with my own mother, who is still alive and well. Then my mother-in-law, who I actually see more often than my own mother. I used to feel their influence even when they weren't around. Even when I had not spoken with them for several days. After that exercise, the feeling of being pressured by others is significantly diminished. I'm no psychologist, but I don't think it matters whether you are "lazy" or not. What matters is how happy you are about your living situation. And it sounds like you're not happy with the way things are. I'm going to guess that the disorder in your life is not due to laziness, but due to lack of communication and cooperation and coordination with the rest of your family. You need to get them to do all the tiny actions that keep the house neat and organized and clean. I'm not saying that YOU have to change THEM. It's not easy to do it that way. But maybe if you tell them how you feel, and ask for a bit of help, just MAYBE they will want to help you out, by making small changes in their everyday habits. Perhaps changing things around to make it easier to put away stuff might be all it takes. I can't say. I don't know everything you know. This is just my two cents, and I hope it helps you find a solution. May you find peace.

I have a motor on one set of blinds that's not easiily accessible (I'd have to climb over a chair to get to the cord) and we really like it. The blinds were "Prestige" from islandblinds.com and while the motor cost as much as the blind itself since the blind wasn't terribly expensive it was no big deal. It was no harder to install than any of the other blinds since the motor was self-contained in the header bar: screw brackets into window frame, pop blind into brackets, attach valance. Big whoop. The hardest part was getting the darn valance snapped on, to be honest! The motor is battery-operated and the company said maybe once a year or so at the most often we'll need to take the blind down to pop in new batteries but after 10 months they're showing no sign of running down with being operated at least twice a day. (I think it takes AAs?) Obviously mitchdesj got something FAR more expensive and complex than we did to require hardwiring and an installer there for 4 hours!

love2weed I retired this year and my dream for 40 working years was afternoon naps. I do one big project (inside kit cab) (all closets) etc, twice a week. Only one big project say on Tuesday, one on whenever. House cleaning is one whole day. The rest is heaven. Reading, napping, Gweb, napping. I made a list (looooooooong list)of everything I want to get done this year. I mark it off as I do it......then its nap time ! Lol. If you do that......you are still getting to enjoy your time off. Try it next summer. One biggie, rest or go out to lunch. Another biggie, nap time or just stare into space! I love giving advice like a momma ! Lol