We shall be having snow-days starting Friday night and lasting into the middle of next week. The timing couldn't have been better or worse; Saturday Joann has a shift at the feed-store, that's hard enough, and on Tuesday she and Ron are going to San /Francisco, for his bi-annual cardiologist visit - that is, if the roads are clear enough. If they are, I shall be mushing over to her house, down my hill and up her hill, to feed Ralph and the dogs and the cats. Lunch, Dinner and breakfast for Ralph, Dinner and Breakfast for the dogs and cats - it's no trouble to take care of them, but the "mushing" is no fun. Of course, if the weather is as severe as the weather guessers say it shall be, they can't go anyway. The landscape will be pretty, that's for sure.

Ok,EG, I'm still laughing about you having all the supplies for building your invisible trellises! I may be serving up invisible broccoli to my husband one night for dinner...and HE'LL LIKE IT!! On a serious note, I'm still not finding any worms. However, we do have (what we call here) June bugs. It's a bit early but we've had a really warm early spring, minus some days here/there. My husband thinks these bugs may be nipping at the plants. If he's right (it WILL be the first time), would a cover of sorts work/be helpful? The damage so far is really isolated to my broccoli and pepper plants. My lettuce/swiss chard and spinach are just now making their entrance into the world as well. Should I be concerned for them as well? SO MUCH TO LEARN! Any of you ever camp out with your garden...I'm thinking about it...catch those suckers in action.

Most of our tile is ceramic, so it's just the grout we'd be applying it to. We have the same light gray grout in our backsplash and it was sealed with the 511. The grout is very cleanable and it shows no staining or spotting from the many splatters that it's caught, not even behind the range. The bathroom grout already shows EVERY tiny speck of anything that has ever come in contact with it, and it takes a toothbrush and lots of elbow grease to get it to fade, and much has left a permanent shadow. I need our grout to have the same cleanability as the kitchen grout that was sealed with the 511 does. However, as always, you're spot on with the concern that the two sealers may be incompatible. I'm guessing that the best thing to do is to do a spot test in a corner to see how it's going to turn out.

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