Something that bothers me in particular to this situation of mowing into the neighbor's property, is how so many people have a lawn service now. Those lawn services (at least in my perspective) don't show any regard for others properties. The yards here where I live are relatively small, yet they all use huge ride on mowers. The lawn service guy is typically a lone male having his own small business, while another might have two other guys there so, again, they created a small business with their own work ethics. I don't know what governs them and speculate they just make up their own rules. The city ordinance allows them to begin at 8 a.m. and in other area's it might be 7:30 a.m.. Here, the services across the street and next door, both sides, all arrive first thing in the morning, roaring loudly, and many times there's 4 or 5 different services arround at once! The riding mowers and the powerful blowers produce noise that is so loud, it's frightening and drowns out phone call conversations. So if the services arrive on a work day when you have a conference call, it's never good. Eagerly, I await when these loud mowers will be against the rules and outlawed. I've been reading how California is headed that route... YAY! I get why they look for fast ways to mow, but realistically, these lawns are not big enough to justify riding mowers. The one service is out there now, it's just him, so he spends over an hour mowing and blowing with professional equipment! We (neighbor and I) have side fencing. The riding mower can't get into small spaces or some around landscaping, so he just mows 4 feet, even 5 feet into my yard so he doesn't have to do any of her yard by hand. He mows so far in that he's mowed over 3 of my sprinkler heads, which are far enough away from the property line to not mow, but he seems to care none. I've gently spoken with him. He blows her yard leaves up against my home side and side fence, creating a large mound. This also happens on the opposite side of my property by another lawn service. Their services cause my property to appear to be a total of at least 8 feet less wide, at times 10 feet. They mow so low they scalp the grass, and, because of the wood fencing, it's visible they've mowed plenty over the property lines. The sad part is the lawn services do it for their mowing conveniences, so it says they have no respect for my property as long as they can more easily do their jobs for the neighbors, yet the neighbors don't ever mention it to say how sorry they are, or that they're trying to remedy it. To add insult to injury, the one neighbor has been burning pinion wood in her patio chiminera that is placed so closely to my yard and blows downwind, that my home often reeks of the burning wood. The smoke fills my yard and the smell permeates into my home. She is too close in proximity to be doing that wood burning. My home will reek like it's on fire, which I used to think it was in the walls. We are not neighbors at odds, so there's nothing going on there. She burns so much pinion wood that I wear a cloth mask to sleep in because my throat has become scratchy, and now I cough a good bit, which I suspect is due to the wood burning. My sinuses seem to be highly irritated by the smoke. My bedroom is in close proximity to her patio. I'm not far from age 70, own my home and have lived here over 25 years. Her inconsiderate styles are becoming such a pain that infringe on my life, and I'm afraid the laws don't care about me in any of these situations.

Last time we had a frost like what's predicted tonight after I had sprouts, I dropped a plastic tarp (actually a couple of painter's plastic drop cloths from Home Depot 'cause they were cheap) over my whole wintersown area. I pulled it off the next morning before the sun got too high and all was well. Two years before that, we had a very late March snow and heavy rain. That year I went to the trouble of actually putting a couple of sawhorses around the edges and draped the drop cloths over them as protection for the whole area because I had a lot of containers with sprouts. When I only have a few containers with sprouts and a frost is predicted, I moved just those containers into the garage and back out again the next day. I don't know if any of this was really needed, but I figured better safe than sorry. Any one have a less intensive response that worked?

Uhh, I don't know if I would spray a deodorizer containing moisture into the computer. The odor will eventually go away. If anything, an indoor air cleaner might suck the odor out of the computer. I still think a day or two of fresh air and sunshine would help. Neal, I've seen computers with brown IDE cables that were once light grey. LOL I wear rubber gloves when I work on those "stinky" PCs.

After using DH (finally) as a opinion giver, he didn't think the curtains looked right being higher (but not completely covering) the window, so it looks like it will work best to keep them the height they are now and I can either alter these to have them puddle on the floor (cutting 1 1/2 feet or so off of them approximately) or get different drapes. There is so much light behind this window that I am going to have to get something solid to put behind these, even though they themselves are a heavy material and they are lined. without something behind them they are really washed out, because IRL, they are a gold tone background and the really nice contrasting fabric colors are lost! Here's what they look like (the valance is temporarily hung on a regular rod, which will be changed to a valance rod that comes out about 2 inches from the wall)