whaas, Late to the party, but your pics look great. LOVE your paperbark, and I did not know about the Itea either. Will take that one to my female half, to see if it is something she wants. I'm pretty much the trees, she's pretty much shrubs and beds. Our color has been screwed up here as well this year. Near record lows followed by record highs, and back again did not help this years show. Here there is actually got two peaks in color. The second of which is ongoing, and largely composted of Oaks, and a few others. Side question for you please. On FK, you said you can call them and get them to ship you small plants. Do you know if that applies to most everything? Thanks in advance. Lastly, check out the link below. A rarity that I ran across by accident last week that I did not know existed. Arktrees Here is a link that might be useful: Shocking Gold

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I will need a math expert to sort out my hydro electric bill. From Dec. 9, 2015 BC Hydro is being almost totally used to supply heat to a rather old house, plus all the other perks we all get using clean hydro power. Little wood is being used, saving it for power outages. This winter has been mild. The first 33 days on hydro was total $370. Next 33 days was total $572. The former home gas heat was from a 1994 (96 plus) high efficiency natural gas furnace. So an expert would need to summarize how much hydro power was needed to blow natural gas heat from a Direct Vent Forced Air Furnace, and what hydro power was consumed to supply the rest of my standard electrical needs. You have to be math- kW h -smart to know hydro consumption, or you need to be smart to understand the Smart Meters. Remember, too, this HEF was directly polluting my private lagoon with created acidic water with a pH lower than 5. The Mallard ducks had stopped nesting in the lagoon. When HEFs at 98 efficiency rate were planned to be the wave of the future how are they adding to acidic water problems when no municipality requires them to have a neutralizer on them before discharging anywhere? Year 2016: If I never return to unclean HEF natural gas heat which are being "allowed to dump acidic water anywhere", and go to Solar panel heat, sunny most days, will I be saving? Will there be a Brownie-Badge for saving the environment, too? And will I get a rebate for any unused hydro if the solar system is not battery operated but is better tied into a Hydro grid? Solar Power is where the future should be. Any grant money should be applied for us all to install Solar panels tied into the hydro grids. Imagine every home in the USA and Canada installing Solar panels, under incentive Grants and giving credit back to the homes for unused power. That is Smart living.

well that's why I provided the picture of where I got the info of a 50% failure rate in first year and 95% with in 5 years. But you have to click on it to see it. Here I post it again: "CLICK TO ENLARGE SO YOU CAN READ IT" (I'm not making it up-- the statistic is a moving number it gives you the date) The *DATE* from the picture above was as of Jan 7, 2020. I chose that because? (context is always important. I provide it in spades as I normally do.) Pandemic influence and the ERC (employee retention credit) of up to 26k per employee paid by the government. So due to that the number HVAC business failure rate magically drops from your more recent statistic. (I don't qualify for the ERC because I have no employees) The ERC is set to expire so what will that do to the failure rate statistic? The recession word most finanial places toss around like a bowl of KH word salad is another likely cause? The new freon ban coming? If you're not skilled in R22 or R410a probably won't be skilled in R32 or R454b either. Throw in mild flammability for the new refrigerants and WOW? eh skill who needs it we want cheap prices! Nothing new folks. Let's not "think" about any of that. The subject of HVAC company failure is about as numbing as finding a tech that can accurately diagnose a system with a complex problem. The failure rate statistic is a continual moving statistic...and it's not clear how the statistic is generated... like if a contractor retires and shutters for that reason alone and not money problems? The statistic doesn't include that. Why do 95% of HVAC companies fail within 5 years? It can't be because people no longer need to heat or cool their homes. The industry experts must be know the reason. They also don't separate from those that also do plumbing... the statistic can be flawed a number of ways... the whole point in the post is most companies that do this sort of thing don't charge enough to remain afloat. The discussion is about money as always. The common mantra dispersed here is to keep getting quotes until you find one you like... which most of the time is a disappointment. Because when it's only about money the decision is flawed... it's either the company charges too much or not enough... not charging enough gets the work -- dip in economy --- bills come due and natural selection takes over. Remember I get these AC service calls on a regular basis I am not * JUST* a home owner "Mike_Home" or a builder who builds and then builds some more. (Hey my unit is broke and it's only a few years old... oh why are you calling me I have no record of ever coming to your home? my company went out of business... I talk to people in person...) This job HVAC in particular isn't a glamorous job... some do really well when they approach a sell, sell, sell mantra and only sell new equipment. That doesn't take long for people to recognize / or a dip in the economy and fall in equip. sales has been known to cause failures. If the complaint is not knowing how to fix something, rip it out replace it with new. If the economy dips or people want to repair rather than replace... but then we get back to the knowledge equation of knowing how to diagnose + repair + know what should be done vs should not. (Or failure comes again fairly quick in the kind of heat we have right now in most of the US.) Again CONTEXT? yeah it's important so what you read here you see someone with actual experience of? -------name your poison--------- I get calls all the time from people who say they either can't find their contractor or they've gone out of business. (I'm sure the statistic varies from one location to another as well.) Average price points of what to expect to pay for certain things from a website is often in error by a large amount. Some people may have home warranty and those that provide it may be more legitimate than what my experience dictates. Experience again? Yeah it's either that or taking misinformation to a new level. But from that HW statistic they don't include what people pay for the home warranty to begin with, let alone the differences in coverages and so on. So for this sort of repair from a home warranty perspective might be in the realm of just a service fee and maybe small additional fees due to non coverage of certain aspects due to the home warranty policy the person chose. This isn't to suggest to ANYONE to go out and buy a home warranty... just a point that the cost statistics shown on line are flawed to a large extent. (Inflation Joe would be another reason) So I guess my last couple of posts are really just for the sake of future readers. Holes in your own story that you should even contemplate doing this yourself (DIY)... let me remind you what you said previously.... When he left, it was 70 in the house and he had set it to 67. I let it run for an hour, and then saw that it was 72 in the house! I turned it off and called him to come back DIY means: do it yourself -- it's a lonely place most of the time. There isn't anyone to call back. Call Mike_Home ask for his number? Mabye it needs to settle? yeah sure. DIY is lonely place... If I was going to make a movie about it I might title it: 3 Minutes / 10 seconds to disappointment.