Great tips thanks! I'm puter challenged too. I'm wondering, can you add thumbnails like that to emails? Does it depend what email your using? (I use thunderbird) Also, can we save a complete thread here? Seems like the clippings thing just saves one message? And the searches lose pictures when they are old? Love all the pictures(esp the kitty!) Jill

momtothree, In the bidding process they showed you what form of Palatka trees they were offering you. At the time if they told you the trees they showed you were single trunk trees then compare what they showed you to what they actually planted for you. If you see that what they planted appears entirely different than what they showed in the photos or what they wrote up in their bid, than clearly you do have a solid basis for not accepting the planting that they did. If you already paid them for the job they did, than in most states that establishes that you agreed with the job they did for you. If they clearly led you to believe that they were offering to plant single trunk Palalka Holly trees, then you should certainly communicate with them your lack of satisfaction you have with what they planted. If the landscaper accepts your objections, and agrees to replace those 5 trees in question, then, Great. If not, please post more details for us about the size and shape of those 5 trees. Whatever you can include about the details of each of the trees in question will be very helpful. Once you do that a few others might reply back with instructions concerning if the trees in question can be saved. If so they might even be able to tell you how to prune away any modified main leaders that those trees have and give instructions on how to train them to grow as single main leader trees.

There are some directions in the New England forum in the FAQ, but in short form: Upload photos to a photo hosting site and set options for sharing. Select the photo you want, set the size (I usually use medium-large) and then copy the embedding code AKA HTML (not the link AKA IMG code) directly into the body of your message. Repeat as many times as desired. Or alternatively, just put in several responses to the same post, changing the title each time so that the software that runs GW doesn't think that you're mistakenly posting the same thing twice. Here is a link that might be useful: How to include multiple photos in one post

Useful comments coming in. Thanks. 1. The unit will be used for mom, but also may double as a rental, or place for my wife and I to retire as well, and maybe an AirBNB , etc... Yes, ADA makes sense. 2. ADU: Not sure if it was clear, but we are also trying to add on two bedrooms to the main house. In this case, does an ADU still make sense,? 3. I think HOA prevents a completely separate unit as well: "No more than one dwelling shall be built upon each such lot. " but I wonder if a breezeway solves this, however, the goal is to NOT have mom/tenants be able to have access to the main house. Wife does not get along with MIL.