Witnessed Squirrel Falling from Tree....Broke My Heart
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Comments (3)Hi I have squirrels from hell lol I ended up putting woven chicken wire raised about 3 inches above the roof. I used the 3 inch mesh as I thought it would make footing unstable therefore discourage them . Worked with Cats but the squirrlels find it a challenge lol The roof only has vinyl lattice so there is nothing to tear but they seem to hoard sphagnum moss. Every new pot will be emptied lol Put 1/4 inch hardware cloth on exterior sides so they went through the attic vents then through the eave vents ,got in anyway . Like Don I thought no trees no squirrels since the hurricanes removed the trees they cross via the high line wires. BTW They found large vicious dog a real challenge one diverted his attention the other scampered over the yard then one on roof diverted attention will other crossed yard. Dog climbs wall of GH and goes through roof. Had very little squirrel damage though. I'm now thinking of land mines or low yield nuclear weapons . If interested I'll relate why you should never leave sliding doors even slightly open. Squirrels in the GH is one thing but in the house much more destructive lol gary...See MoreA darn squirrel stole my Mango!!!
Comments (9)Hi Mike. First off I have to say congrats on buying your mango tree! What variety did you go with? If you bought it from Logees, I know...Cogshall right? With your tree being only a foot tall, I have to say even though it was heart breaking, it was probably best for your tree. I have had egg sized fruit drop from my 3 ft tree. Sadly I feel like I am back pedaling this year with all my citrus and tropical fruits. The damn mites have been worse than ever and citrus that I have had for 3-4 years are almost completely defoliated! I am really upset and am all ready planning on moving everything to a much larger growing area with 100% better ventilation. I just am praying that everything will recover. As of now the only mango I have is my 'Carrie'. I have to say that I truly regret not returning it when I got it.The tree was in poor shape when I got it 3 years ago, and it still is struggling. My biggest absolute worst loss was my 5ft Maha Chinook. I pugged it in the fall(and yes I knew better but I was trying to make sure it would fit in my growing space) and it died on me :( The previous year it bloomed but the fruits aborted and I am positive that if that tree made it, it would have fruited nicley the following summer. And I too would like to see a picture of your mango tree!...See MoreAt a wits end with my stepdaughter
Comments (14)--"My husband, her SD, feels that she should do without. If she cant make enough for those things she does without. He feels she should learn to budget her money well enough to bascially support herself and not ask us for money"-- I tend to totally agree with your husband in the general sense. No one should be enabling their children to live beyond their means and/or taking advantage of the 'Mommy/Daddy will bail me out' thing. I've spent years, as I'll assume most other parents do, raising my children and preparing them to be able to be responsible productive adults when the day came. But with that said, I could 'go' either way on this particular thread. Is the daughter blowing money and a budgeting adjustment on her part would make a big difference? Does she think she can just spent and spend and no problem as when she runs out someone will just hand her more? If so and tossing in her disrespect and attitude of excusing her ill behavior 'It is not MY fault' blah blah, nope, she'd not get a penny out of me. On the other hand, the young adult works for peanuts at Walmart, she goes to school fulltime and she perhaps does not have the ability to get a second job to supplement her income. Would depend on her varying schedule ability at her current job and classes available at different times. If she really is very thrifty with her money, assuring she does things like lunch bag toting and no joy riding, no fancy unnecessary 'junk' (fancy phones, latest fashions, entertainment with the buddies inwhich the money should be going into the gas tank to go to work/school blah blah)and she still can not make ends meet, I'd likely give her gas money for school/work, fix her flat tire and all those mundane boring but necessary expenses...but only when it was absolutely necessary. If I thought she would have to quit school/job because she could not fill her gas tank to get there, yeah, I'd help out. The goal behind the going to school/working I'll assume currently is to better her options for improving her abilities to earn a higher living and really become self sufficient very shortly. I'd give her a bit of credit for that and realize it is short term and soon she'll be out on her own and fully supporting herself. If I didn't think that, no, I'm back to not helping her occassionaly. I might even occasionally give her a 'treat' of a bit of spending money to have an evening out with a friend (movie pizza type thing) because I would not want her to totally burn out at her age and decide she wanted to do something stupid like quit work and/or school. It would depend on how well she were doing, her attitude towards the household ect. In other words, if I could see she really was trying very hard to both budget and behave I'd likely treat her to a small shopping trip at my expense and/or stick a bit of cash in her purse for a 'fun' night. But it would not be routine and it would cease immediatedly if she 'expected' it as her due and/or was being a pain in the *ss. Again, I think your daughter's money situation she be something you and husband sit down and discuss. No, she can't have money if she is blowing it and not budgeting her income in a careful manner. But is it 'wrong' to help her out a bit when really necessary? That's something only you and husband will have to discuss and come to a mutual agreement on. If she really is mismanaging money and has an entitlement 'bail me out, Mom' line of thinking and you're falling for it , my personal opinion is SD is right. Knock off supplementing her or you'll still have a little girl living with you in five years....See MoreFollow my heart or follow my designer?
Comments (99)Undertones are tricky and the lighter, more reflective the color the trickier undertones become. What is "No undertone" in one home on one surface may be pink or green or blue in another. We have multiple things at play. The color itself has certain physical properties. Luminance, Chroma and Hue. The surface it is painted on may be smooth or rough and that will change how the light reflects off the surface. The paint has different gloss levels which changes how much light is reflected off the paint. Then you add in the quality and color of the light that is either coming through the windows or produced by artificial lighting in your home. The last part of the equation is the colors that surround the color you are looking at. Our brains receive about 11 million bits of information per second, but we only process about 50 bits of information per second. Our brain groups data so that it is easier to ingest. (Cool fact - when we hear a sentence our brain fires electromagnetic energy from different areas for nouns vs adjectives vs verbs etc. Even if you don't know the parts of speech your brain organizes types of words in different spaces.) When we see white we automatically compare it to every other color in the space and the brain decides how to process the information as a whole, not each individual color. We can make some assumptions based on comparison of whites to pure neutral white and say this will most likely have a blue undertone because it is bluer or grayer than pure neutral white, but if you place the white next to a brilliant pastel blue it may look more green or more purple than the blue. We also associate gray with blue. Remember how we see less color when we are depressed? What do we say? "I feel blue today". We're not seeing more blue, we are seeing more gray, but our brain groups gray and blue together. The best way I have found to test if my colors will work together or fight with each other is to look at the combinations outside around 2:00 in the afternoon on a sunny day. If they look good together they will still look good together when the color/quality of the light changes. They may not look the same, but the colors will all be impacted the same way by the light and will still work or not work together. Natural daylight reveals subtle color differences that you may miss with artificial or filtered light....See Moreksfarmer
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