they are nice--did you see the one (6)fans---it's beautiful--They state that it has one setback--it hangs up! I love it, but if it hangs up in Georgia--It will never open here in the NORTHWEST!!!LOL I do love looking. I did bid on one but I won't go to high--I want to grow a few out for a while--to see how GASKIN DLs really do here. cole

Well, I just ordered 9 more varieties, so I'll have some of these for trade before long. I'm looking for a few peppers you can eat straight from the plant, a few that are extremely hot, and a few that would be good for making a hot sauce or salsa. Basically, I'm trying to get as many good varieties that I can. Since I'm a closet/balcony grower, I'd prefer only medium or small sized plants that would do well in containers. No 5 foot monster pepper plants please :) So far I have: Jalapeno Tam Jalapeno #1 Peruvian Purple Chile Long Red Cayenne and the ones on order are: Item:1 - Qty:1, (7010) PEPPERONCINI (Italian) PEPPER, Price:1.50 Item:2 - Qty:1, (7012) THAI HOT PEPPER, Price:1.50 Item:3 - Qty:1, (O7049) BEAVER DAM PEPPER - CERTIFIED ORGANIC, Price:2.50 Item:4 - Qty:1, (7025) CANDLELIGHT PEPPER, Price:1.50 Item:5 - Qty:1, (7042) CARIBBEAN RED PEPPER (Habanero Red), Price:1.50 Item:6 - Qty:1, (7038) CHILTEPIN PEPPER, Price:1.50 Item:7 - Qty:1, (76) EL CHACO PEPPER, Price:1.50 Item:8 - Qty:1, (7027) GEORGIA FLAME PEPPER, Price:1.50 Item:9 - Qty:1, (7039) ROUMANIAN HOT PEPPER, Price:1.50 from heirloomseeds.com Just post back here with trades offers or hit me up on e-mail.

Been there, done that...lint is such a HUGE annoyance to my life. We're in a 2nd floor condo where the dryer vent ducting goes to the roof through the attic over 20 feet and several elbows. My husband bought the condo years before we met, and the ducting was clogged after several years. At the time, he decided to disconnect the vent from the duct. The resulting moisture did some damage to the cabinetry (swelling of the particle board, even under layers of oil-based paint). Soon after we married, he decided we needed to fix the problem correctly. He went up into the attic and disassembled the ducting, brought it outside, and blew it out with his air compressor. I pushed some cleaning tool through it as well. We can't be doing this regularly! I mean preferably, never again! So, I had him put a filter -- a gallon paint strainer -- over the dryer vent where it connects to the machine. This clogs every month or so, we pull the machine out, disconnect the vent, clean the strainer, and put it back. This is still an annoying chore, but not the nightmare of dealing with the whole duct run. My husband had a cool idea, that what we need to do is sew a new, longer strainer that tapers to a skinny point, so that even when it clogs at the point, there can still be air flowing past the clogged strainer, and we should be able to go longer between cleanings. We got a new dryer last summer, and pulled the ducting out of the attic to clean it -- but it was already clean as a whistle. So, our secondary filter system has kept the duct run clean for 9 years. I found you can buy secondary lint traps with a door that opens to clean them out, but we don't have room to install the box in our laundry room, and I don't think it would work any better or be easier to clean than our homemade filter. When I redo the floor, I plan to put magic slider thingies under the dryer feet to make it easier to move in and out, plus I won't want to gouge my new floor. I have researched other solutions. People claim that solid metal vent will maintain better airflow than pleated, but I think it will still clog because we need 2 90-degree elbows to get it connected to the duct in the wall. And if it clogs, how do we pull out the machine with a non-stretching vent? If we could move the duct in the wall to match the dryer vent outlet, that would eliminate 2 elbows and would probably help... I also found you can install a secondary fan in the ducting near the exit, increasing the airspeed in long ducts so the lint won't clog. They cost $150-200, but if I never had to clean out the duct run or pull out the dryer to clean my makeshift secondary lint trap ever again, it would be well worth it. I also think that our ducting is leaky somewhere, because rooms on the other side of the wall (our master bath) get crusted with lint all the time. Finding and sealing those leaks would probably improve airspeed some, plus save me tons of work cleaning the lint all the time. I think the additional fan is the way to go. In 2 other areas where we replaced an ineffective low-cfm cheap fan with a high-cfm good one, like the hood over our cooktop, it made an amazing difference, night and day. Here is a link that might be useful: example of dryer duct fan

I love your skylights---all of them! When we bought our house a long time ago, we said we would put in a couple of skylights. Well, we did, but it took us a few years before we actually had it done. What a difference they make! We wished we had done it sooner. That's a very healthy hibiscus and you're right, the pot is too small. You'll be doing the right thing to repot. The plant will love it. And yes, you absolutely need a sunroom and greenhouse---a definite must-have! Are one of those a possibility in the near future? Well, you just have to do something with all that room, don't you? LOL When I get frustrated with the size of my garden, I often think of my father-in-law's house. My husband would have bought it in a heartbeat. But our kids did not want to move there, and we didn't think we could do or arrange to have done all the work it needed. We couldn't have handled building a new home. I can't even make decisions when renovating one room in our home!