assuming that the stuff was planted in the park, (and just following my first impression and gardener`s gut feeling) # 4 cold be feather reed grass, Calamagrostis x acutiflora Karl Foerster. It is a cold season grass, a sterile garden hybrid, in full sun non flopping and emerges far earlier than prairie species. That specimen looks somewhat starved though. Bye, Lin

Not yet. It all (with the exception of the white clover) just appeared in the past couple of weeks. Do you think a post-emergent would help at this point, or should I just cut my losses for this year and appreciate the fact that I have more than just dirt to cut?

SE - I will definitely enjoy the garage and now I can enjoy the basement too, since we will store all our crap in the garage. coldnose - our home is 2025 sqft + about another 800 in walk-out basement. My experience with the panelized package is both good and only OK. Good - lumber was awesome awesome quality. Got the package from farwesthomes, who own their own mill. I have some large beams and posts. Walls went up fast and were square. We had a gable wall (31' peek) with picture windows that went up in a day, my carpenters said it would have taken them over a week to stick build. Lots of left over lumber from packaging (and miscommunication about walkout basement). Price was with-in 10K of other lumber yard quotes (Meeks, 84, Moss Lumber). Able to make custom plans, change their stock plans, use stock plans. The only OK - Still have to stick build floors. not huge deal. Had two miss cuts in posts where beams were to slide in. We fixed it fairly simple, but it took a few hours of head scratching. Had to get engineering separately and then have farwest build plans. Some miss communication between engineer and farwest. It would have been nice if they had an in-house engineer. I was/am not happy with my engineer. Roof rafters suck. Took a month to stick frame the roof. Mislead on difficulty of the whole thing. We were told it would be about 6 weeks to get the whole thing shelled-in. Perhaps with a crew of 10, it took us over double that with a crew of 3-4. No room for play. The walls come square, if your foundation is a little off, you cannot "fudge" the walls. Lay-out (16" on center) gets screwed up do to how the panels fit together. Not a huge deal, but slows you down during siding. All in all, i am happy with it. If I ever do this again, I may or may not use it again. Definitely not pissed or stoked about the whole thing. I am about due for more pictures. We just had a framing pre-inspection today (we were not ready with elect or fire sprinklers). She could not find one thing wrong and was really impressed. We are wrapping up elect on friday and sprinklers go in over the weekend. We will get framing, plumbing, elect inspection on monday. Insulation next week and then sheetrock end of next week and weekend. 12 hour days are getting old. I start summer school on monday. that should be fun.

remodelfla - true quartite doesn't etch. It is metamorphosed sandstone. The problem seems to be that some of the stone being sold as quartzite either has something else mixed in that does etch or isn't quartzite at all. So far, I've only seen this issue posted on the mainly white quartzites. Some people have them and have etching while others with very similar looking stone don't. Quartzite is made primarily of quartz so it is very hard. It's harder than granite. Porosity varies in quartzite. Some is very low porosity and doesn't need sealing. Some is more porous and needs sealing - sometimes more than one application. It depends on how the metomorphic process went. Note that most of the stones sold as granite are not in the geological classification of granite. When you go to a stone yard, most group the slabs as either: marble: includes true marbles and other soft stones similar to marble, e.g. serpentine. Most of these etch with kitchen acids. granite: includes true granites and any stones about the same hardness as granite. Most of these don't etch, but some do so it's a good idea to test a sample from the slabs you want. Quartzite is sometimes grouped with the granite (ours was). It seems to be identified as quartzite at the stone yard a bit more now.