I always look at eyes when someone talks to me, they sometimes negate what the mouth is saying. Sheila, there are a couple of mature actresses with heavy lids, and actually they wear it pretty well. I once went to a GP who looked up my nose for some reason, and got really excited. He said "wow, that's the most deviated septum I've ever seen!" I've had my nose broken at least twice, once from falling from an apple tree, where I was hanging upside down from a limb by my knees. If you look at my profile, my nose turns up when view from one side, and doesn't when viewed from the other. He told me straight away that he could call a surgeon and have it fixed, and as long as he was at it, could get creative and give me any nose I wanted. It was tempting, but I still have my same nose, deviated septum and all. I have seen people fresh from a nose job and they can have it, cute little bob or not.

I should know better than to ask for your help just before I knew my schedule was about to explode. I'm sorry. Sort of. But sort of not sorry because ...wow! grapefruit, I bet you never knew how lucky you were to not have a big, ugly well pipe as a yard "feature". Apparently, that's where the electrical part of the well pump is housed. The pump itself is under there somewhere. lukki, We're twinsies! My septic is directly off of our back deck. It has a lovely bed of weedy white rocks over the access. I mean, why be subtle? robo, Ooh! I like both of those! Thanks for proving that a pergola can look good on a ranch. And yes, we have our share of windmills and lighthouses here too. The guy down the street has a giant toadstool covering his well. lori, Now that you mention it, I don't see any reason why that pipe needs to be so tall. We had the top off of it to chlorinate the well when we first moved. There is nothing near the top of the pipe other than some wires. I'll look into that. Thanks! bpath, You got me. It's the watering. I just don't think about it until things are starting to show the stress of being too dry. My neighbor tells me that it is not that big of a problem out here because the water table is so high. She's probably right. Our grass in town used to turn brown in the summer without watering. It was green spring through fall out here on the lake last year. That won't help me is I put in those cute windowboxes though ;/ And then we get to Magdalena ... Holy Cow! That looks amazing! In fact, after I showed it to my husband, I think we've decided to just do the repairs that must be done and save our money until we can do this. It's perfect. You even managed to hide our well. THANK YOU!

I'm told requires top or wall mount or the shade will sag. I find that hard to believe. Those headrails are made of really strong metal. Mine are 58" wide and the brackets are installed 50" apart from each other. No sagging in the middle. But I wonder if it's a different problem, like if they are side mounted and that heavy, that the headrail would tilt forward? IDK. Did you get more than one opinion? I'm not doubting what the sales person told you, but I just wonder. Another option would be roller shades. Those can definitely be mounted at the edges, even when really long. IDK what the max length is, but your 47" falls well within it. If you want full privacy but allow light in, "light filtering" white shades should do. For the curtains, normally you'd need to support a rod that long in the middle, so that's a conundrum. How DIY do you want to get? Back when I had an extremely tiny budget (my "ramen noodle" college days), I used metal conduit from home depot for curtain rods, with a 1.25" diameter. They're cheap and strong. You can get them to cut it for you. Spray paint it black or soft gold. Buy separate brackets in a matching color, or spray paint those too. If you think you will ever close the drapes, you need to get ones that are relatively light weight. But in your case it sounds like they're just decorative only? So as long as you always keep them open, the long rod with heavy drapes won't sag. (This sounds like such a hack, but long curtain rods can get really expensive so it's a great workaround.) Here are some good instructions, including how to do the finials. If you don't want to do conduit, I have another idea -- it will cost more but not involve spray painting. Let me know!

I use custon solar shades for arched windows of they are installed inside mount with tiny little pegs . I need to see your windows to hazard aguess as to what you are doing.I get many solasr shades from Steves blinds and have used a guy to cut and build a custom light weight frame those shades are really permanent and then I handgdrapes from just below the arch all across the wall but I need to see your issue. Post the pic here in a comment DO NOT start another post .