> Blog post by the Houston ChronicleÂs ombudsman: "When > Redding, a longtime scout for Playboy, discovered (Anna > Nicole) Smith, the model could barly right a sentence ..." > ... and to think I had an article published in that paper. ;o) Your Al mix is smart idea to all. I am to say this. Is not to hurt feeling or bring eye tear. For organic piece of soils, I use this coconut husk not pine barks to my plants (the Citrus, the Fig, Adenium, Plumeria, Bursera, Agave, the Tea Oils Tree, Lauris nobilis, the many exotic vine, and is still many more). I try both coconut and pine from orchid shop (expensive!). Plant grow same in both, happy in balance in sun life and winter night to dormants. Coconut better to buy for me, big cube pressed. Is last longer not break down fast! Is important! Why because bad drainage happen when pine bark brake down to small dirts. I change coconut huks 2 year sometime 3 (sometime 1 if to repot but is still good for use to other plant). I wash in epsom salt water, is what they say and I am not to argue. Is said important doing this somewhere I forgot. Maybe Chronicle? Is possible but is not Playboy I am sure! ;o)

OK Bill, first of all I live in the North Bay (Marin) gets a bit warmer here than Sausalito, Tiburon or SF, so I dont have that much fog. If it does happen to roll this far north, it usually clears by 8 or 9:00 am at this time of year, it is rare that we get it though. The warm season up here isnt as long as yours. It starts to get chilly at night here in October. It seems to me the plant started going dormant late Sept, early Oct. Secondly, I did write down the numbers correctly but there may be something else on this label that would probably make sense to you so I will type exactly what it says. SPECIALTY FERTILIZER GUARANTEED ANALYSIS TOTAL NITROGEN (N).................. 0.15% 0.15% Nitrate nitrogen AVAILABLE PHOSPHORIC ACID (P2 O3)... 0.85% SOLUBLE POTASH (K2 O)............... 0.55% SOURCE POTASSIUM NITRATE PHOSPHORIC ACID It says to use it all year around everytime I water, aids in blossoming. One bottle cap in each quart of water for normal watering or misting. Use half-strength for orchids. This stuff is called Eleanor's VF-11 and the company is out of Santa Cruz.If you can figure that out, good for you! My husband is an accountant and he couldn't figure out the percentage either, he did say that I had read it right though. Any other info you have for me would be great, maybe I will just go out and buy the fertilizer you recommended earlier. I think it might be a little too late to feed my plant at this point, what do you think? Thanks for all the help Bill. Leslie

Michael darling, I say with all affection....Give your head a shake! "May" is good....it's not "won't be" surely she could not say "are" ...not her place. It's Easter weekend, they interviewed you on Good Friday. You are right they they are not focused on this interview until tomorrow. I just know this will work out.

Thanks, Green. I have been looking at an installation manual from the Tile Roofing Institute , so you make me feel like that was a good place to start. I did not think to look at manufacturer's websites, so I will take a look there, too. Thanks for bringing up the weight concern and the alternatives. Embarrassingly, while I considered the load on my rafters, I did not consider the rest of the structure. I have been assuming that I would be okay for the following empirical reason. Right now, I have a cedar shake roof and two layers of asphalt shingles. (Not my doing, it was like that when I bought the house!) Given the ages, I was estimating these to be about 300 lbs/square for the cedar, and say a total of 450 lbs/sq for the two asphalt layers, for a grand total of about 750. Medium weight clay tiles come in at about 800 lbs/sq. (Of course, there will be other stuff to go along with the tiles, too, so it is an open question.) My house is a 1929 brick veneer. I gather it has balloon framing on the gable walls and not so on the other walls. Who would be the go-to guy (or gal) to answer this question? A structural engineer?