dulci I'm so happy for you, yes the Lord will lead you though. I'm not on the site very much anymore because I just don't have the time. But was looking around today and saw your wonderful porch. (before) and then read your story. God can always find someone worse off them myself and your story has just inspired and renew me. (I guess I was setting here at work feeling sorry for myself) I too have a wonderful Daughter and three grandchildren but her choice of men has not been the best so I moved them into my home. Seems all I pay for is Attoney fee for her and now one for the grandchildren. Ex is really bad man, But I know that God will find and end to this 2 year battle where we all can be happy in the end. Sorry. Just wanted to say God Bless you and please keep the pictures coming. I so enjoy watching your progress. I agree with Seamommy on the PURPLE DOOR AWARD God bless Betty from Indiana

All, thanks, I like that root waterer/feeder for my trees and roses except the huge one where roots extend all over the back yard. Anyhoo, my trees are partly responsible for sucking water and nutrients from my beds plus hot sun so they dry out fast, so that could be a real help to me. I don't see how you can deliver nutrients with it, better look at that again, yes I do, don't want to have to spend more on theirs, will skip their fertilizer. Another useful gadget to budget for lol. Let's see, need a spreader, grub control, other lawn control (big bags), it does add up so I try to spread out out the costs. Yes, we've had a terrific rain last Mon, it's all dried up now except and even where mulched. Been supposed to rain last 3 nights, I decided phooey, I'm watering, so just got in from that, have a lot to water, did the front last night, I have to water when it's cooler. No rain yet heh. I have used the milk jugs, but they won't be practical at all on that slope, that's why I was happy to see those spikes, if not there can sure use them beaucoup places. I may have to give those particular hostas a boost now and then when they get going, specially in the dog days of Aug & Sep, also the ones I planted last year I do water now and then (easy), seem to appreciate it, but haven't had time to water once the ones behind the garage, have to haul all the water back there, they are still ok, it's a mess there and soil not so good. Another chore demanding covering just a few plants and roundup. Plus right now I'm saving my jugs for winter sowing and takes me awhile to go through a gal of milk. But when I get more than I need or pick the neighbors' trash which I'm not above doing, I could use those in another bed and cut off the tops more so I can fill faster with the hose, I'm constantly filling too many containers & sprinkling cans. I need a longer hose but am making do for now, and would love to get a good hose reel. There is one xtra 50-footer in the basement but lugging hoses is even hard on me at times when I'm tired, fed up the the one in front but so thankful I finally had the faucet fixed there. 5 gal buckets, yes, that would really ooze a lot of water, but I AM sick of looking at the ugly things especially since my yard is starting to shape up and on the corner so visible from the streets and sidewalks. I have a serious drainage problem where I need every 5 gal bucket which I trash picked now until I can afford/get to getting that fixed right. Plus I need a nice composter where I don't have to turn it by hand, never ends. A lot of that awful grass has gone to seed, I've got a lot of it pulled, but don't want it in my compost that I'm doing a crude way for now. But I sure appreciate the ideas, wonder if there's another fertilizer I could get somewhere locally for that hose attachment. Saw some tree spikes at HD but held off on those because it looks to me like it would take awhile to leach down deep...

I've been told it is sold under these names and can often be found in garden centers: Concern Weed Prevention Plus Corn Gluten Meal Corn Weed Blocker DynaWeed Earth Friendly GreenSense Organic WEEDZSTOP ProPac Safe Earth Natural Safe 'N Simple Blue Seal Feeds Safeway Lawn Ranger SUPER ORGANIC "G" Winton Graf Suppressa Totally Organic Product Supply Tiger By The Tail Greener Pastures WeedFREE Weed-Stopper Plus Walt's Organic Fertilizer Co. W.O.W! (for without weed) W.O.W! Plus Granulated W.O.W!

Well, the behavior of the rock makes sense. Knowing what we know now, thanks to Sweetcheetah, is that the rock is extremely well-bonded, pure quartz. This rock went through a lot of metamorphism to the point where the quartz grains grew into each other. The degree to which this happens with quartzites depends on how much metamorphism it undergoes. Some quartzites aren't much different from the sandstone they started out as. But others get much more heat and pressure and approach melting, but don't melt. Instead they recrystallize where the grains all grow into each other. It looks like in this rock the crystals are fairly large, which probably makes it more challenging to work with. So yeah, cutting this rock would be a lot like cutting glass. Extremely difficult and prone to breaking. As I described above, quartz (and glass) tends to break unevenly so it's hard to make a clean cut in that case. Too bad, Antarctica is a stunner. But the Snowflakes is cool too! Soilbean's example is fantastic (and those pendants - swoon!).