Hey, Greg! Once I get started, I get in a zen-like mode and hours can slip by in what seems like a few minutes. I started a couple weeks ago, small, manageable loads. Some of the bulbs are very easy and obvious to dig up, but there's so much stuff still dormant that only I know where it is. Nobody else could avoid stepping in certain places, or slicing through stuff yet invisible. A long explanation of why I don't really want help I guess. I think I'm about halfway done but I'm just not sure yet. I've moved gardens before, but never this quantity of plants, and never with this luxury of being able to replant small loads within hours of digging them up. It's actually been a lot easier and quicker than I'd envisioned when I first started to think about what would need to be done. What I'm really excited about is seeing Mom's yard in about 2 years when everything's fully recovered. This stuff was on all 4 sides of this house, in separate little beds (comparatively,) but will (almost) all be visible from one spot at her house. Thanks for reminding me! Will try to remember to take the 'before' pic of them for this years' outside foray at Mom's house. Otherwise, the pic of them this coming Sept/Oct won't be very visually informative! ...to go back toward the topic of trading... Sans are so similar to Cannas, in growth habit, so easy to multiply and share/trade. Anyone who has put Cannas in the ground should know what I'm talking about. When I lived in OH, it was necessary to dig up the rhizomes for winter, and it was always a shock - how many MORE of them there would be in the short few months they had the chance to grow. The Cannas I had there are the same ones here, moved a small patch of them and now have some at Mom's, in about 6 places here, and I've sent big boxes of them to at least a dozen people over the past year. A discussion about sharing/trading should definitely drum-up interest in doing so. Of course there are risks of pests whenever one takes plants outside, but I would encourage folks who have the space and interest to do so to put some Sans in the ground for summer. Not everyone would be willing to experiment with their plants, understandable, and please don't if you feel that way. But there's nothing magical* about the 'dirt' in my yard, or the care (none) plants were given the past couple summers in the ground. I probably shouldn't be saying this because once everyone gets some Sans, I won't have 'my main leverage' in trading, but it was so fun and the results were so amazing, I'm spilling the beans. To draw attention to the fact one is actively interested in trading, say so in your profile, then make sure your exchange page has current info. If your 'looking for' only has 1 thing and you don't say something like "open to suggestions," anybody who doesn't have that 1 thing may not bother contacting you. Oh, and keep forgetting to say, trades of multiple items are more fun and...

Type "yimg" (sans quotes) into Google and more than you will ever want to know is there. Hint: Your thoughts are on the right track. DA

Nice house! I love those windows! The colors aren't coming through correctly on my monitor. I'm just seeing brown with a cream trim. I can't see the stone around the garage. Can you get a better picture? What is the style of the paneling on your garage door? To me it's coming across as bottom heavy without more white trim on the lower level. I'd like to see you get some of that white on the garage door. If the panels mirror the shape of your windows, maybe you could highlight that some way.

We painted our walls/ceilings a flat warm-toned off-white. They're slightly textured (it was cheaper, and money was so tiggghhhhhht back then, we felt stabs of pain every time we touched our credit cards, LOL). We couldn't even afford Behr paint from HD, had to be their 'house brand'. The home has windows on all four sides, and the main floor has a beautiful vaulted ceiling with an open floor plan. I was really surprised how the paint color changed as the sun moves through the day. Just sitting in a chair reading for a couple hours, you could see amazing differences in shadowing and the color, depending on whether the sun was directly coming in or simply shining at a parallel angle. If I hadn't known for a fact that all the walls and ceilings were spray-painted from one big batch of paint bought at the same time, I would have sworn the workers used different shades of off-white. There is a definite difference in how the paint looks in indirect or north-facing light; you'd swear it was a light grey. And of course, getting this paint (now 26 yrs old and no longer produced) matched is HORRENDOUS. Even computer matching at Benjamin Moore hasn't produced an exact match. Very very close....but as the light changes, sometimes an edge will show, if I don't feather out my touch-ups enough!