Well, I agree, Calvin. But maybe some kind person could put it in the FAQ? Howard, many, many good points. And it certainly matches my experiences. I started trying to grow tropicals indoors 5 or 6 years ago. Each year it was stall or worse all winter, and took til mid July for them to recover. I finally quit on them after building a light room in my basement that I thought would be plant heaven, with 400W HID, and turned out to be anything but. So on to orchids, mostly catts and oncids, a few phals. More success there, because they are smaller. No joke intended-- you can pick them up and look closely at them, so you find things like scale before they cover half of a 4-ft tall plant! Two years in s/h with great results every summer and terrible outcomes every winter. So I went on to Aussie Gold. That was better. The catts bloomed some, but not enough for the huge investment of time and energy, even physical stress, trying to get them the right shade/sun balance all summer. As it happened, 11/12 mature phals I had last fall bloomed that spring. So gradually over the spring, the Eureka moment arrived: Grow phals! In sum, I have to say that I finally quit trying to manipulate the environment and decided to let it win-- If I want blooms, and I do, I have to grow something that thinks my light room is heaven, and that's phals. The other alternative, as Howard says, is to keep a lot of half-alive desiccating plants around all winter -- too long, too long. Couldn't stand it. And then wait til June for them to get going. No way. I'm taking it easy on myself and them, and growing what's suited to what I can give them. I started with orchids because I wanted flowers all winter, and phals provide that. So I'm content, and truthfully, glad to give up the rat race of trying to provide for ungrateful plants.

back in the thread you posted about getting rid of adblock plus I explained that you MUST get the subscriptions for it to work and gave the links to the subscriptions that should be added to it. adblock plus is a wonderful tool and stops ads and other annoying stuff from the pc. Rick752's EasyList Subscriptions where it says add to ABP both should be added. the file it is mentioning is in your system restore files, they will fall out in time, in general I would not worry about it, it just lets you know a specific type of packager was used and that type can also be used by people who write viruses, does not mean you have an infection.

Unfortunately the last person to touch the window order was the last person who could have avoided this error and unfortunately it appears to be you. I made a mistake on a window order recently and it cost me $6,000 but the owner was protected. Paying for your errors is something you must accept if you take responsibility for material ordering. It may be time to ask how long it will take to get the new windows and move on to the next issue. The engineer might tell you that only a steel beam can span such an opening with a depth of 6" or that it is impossible. It depends on the load above and you haven't told us anything about the structure above. You need to be more proactive about this error. If you give us the section showing what structure is above the window (second floor or roof rafters) we can probably tell you how to raise the original beam with the permission of the engineer. By the way, the mulled windows are probably just screwed together with a thin cap on the outside so they can be separated and studs can be installed between them. A nailing fin might have to installed where they were separated. If they are Anderson windows that's more complicated but probably not impossible. Don't take simple answers as fact. Send us drawings of such conditions. It troubles me that your architect isn't taking the lead in solving this problem. A simple structural revision should not take weeks to approve.

Do I get the whiff of a sock puppet arriving on the scene? Surely there can't be two people failing to make the same point about a subject they dont understand, using an irrelevant photo to illustrate the same failure of logic?