It's possible that it's connected to the house next door. We inherited gerry rigged electrical when we moved in and there was one light in the back of the house, with switch, that we couldn't figure out nor shut the power from. Turns out that it piggy backed/was spliced into off the power running to the garage. it's taken 10 yrs, but we're finally rid of the previous carp.

Sorry for the cross post. I meant to post in Antique Roses to begin with, lol. I've lived and gardened here in the same place since 1979, and I lived just 20 miles northeast of here before that. My average first frost date is OCTOBER 15. I've never known first frost to be as late as November the 19th. We finally got frost last night with a low of 29F here. Admittedly, some areas have had light frosts before now, but we've had nothing, nada, zilch, here. Until this morning, I had impatiens still blooming their heads off. Impatiens die if you even MENTION frost where they can hear it, lol. I have roses (not one, not two, but MANY) in full flush. My Le Vesuve looks like it's May. I have over 100 buds on Old Blush. There must be hundreds of buds showing color on my two Crepuscules. I can't believe the big, fat, voluptuous blooms on my Mrs B.R Cant. Kim Rupert's Lauren is fearlessly in full bloom. Well, I'm going to lose all those buds and blooms tonight when it reaches 24F :P We've also been in the worst Autumn drought I can ever remember. According to the Nat Weather Service, this has been the driest Oct/Nov on record, as well as the hottest. We're surrounded by wildfires. We've had red, orange, and purple air quality alerts (purple? I didn't know until recently there was a purple alert! You don't want to have one, trust me!) I'm sure the heat, drought and late frost are all connected, whether through La Nina or global warming. But my poor roses don't care about the cause, they're just confused, poor things. May next year's weather be more kindly-affectioned toward our gardens. Amen. John

I had the opposite problem a few days ago. My posts didn't show up and the thread didn't move up. Tried several times, but on two different threads, my posts didn't show. After an hour or so, I reposted on one of them, then both posts showed on the thread. I deleted the newest one, which actually deleted both, so I gave up.

I was hoping they had all the gremlins rounded up and moved out but apparently they missed a few! It has been very strange lately. Yesterday I was trying to reply but there was no submit button for me to push. I did not realize it till I had written the whole reply of course. I copied it and eventually the submit button reappeared.