I'm not really encouraged my next week's weather predictions. It looks okay for the central & southern Rockies but too cool and rainy up here: Those are predicted rainfall amounts during the early part of the week. We have snow melt flooding of the rivers right now but, that isn't my gardening concern. The amount of cloud cover and cool temperatures may make hardening-off of plants from the greenhouse difficult. High temperatures on thru the week show that we will just break 60F for highs. The biggest problem for me is that the greenhouse is overflowing!! Overflow means - overflow. I need to get things outdoors or they are left in the shade under benches or in the garage. Having the older tomatoes in the unheated tunnel last night has me on pins & needles this morning. It was colder than predicted & windier than predicted: with 35F & gusts above 25mph . . . I'm still scared to open the door even with the sunrise! Om Mani Padme Hung. May all beings remain free from suffering and the causes of suffering . . . Steve

Yup..lots of roots..and I never fertalize until they go in the ground. Don't know why they are growing fast. I open the window to cool them off a bit and slow them down.. The bulbs are usually pretty cool and I have never had a leaf burn even if it touches them. But who knows? Today I had to move the lights up higher so they are just two inches above the leaves, and they all look happy ;->...Martha/zucchini

Luvs, it must be one of those "computer viruses"... I actually mentioned in another post that I was thinking about purging some dishes. Accckkkk. Prosp, I hope you find some neat stuff at the sales. How is your neck doing? I hope not a lot of pain for you. Mo, yes its a good system in most respects. He's such a laid-back kinda guy, and doesn't care what I do to decorate the house or yard. Or how many collections I have going, or the eBaying, etc. He seldom notices a thing, I definitely am married to Mr Oblivious! However, his obsession with golf means we don't do things together. I was obsessed with dog shows till the Fibro got so bad and I've had to mostly retire from showing. But we've always had VERY separate interests. We don't even like the same stuff on TV, so he watches his and I watch mine. The dogs hang out with me and the cats hang out with him. So guess it all works out. We've been together since 1967. Just sometimes, I wish we shared things and I wasn't always 'alone' doing my thing! None of my "visible" friends like the stuff I do either, except one who likes to go antiquing with me. This is my fault for being so involved in the dog show world for the last 35 yrs tho. Now I've changed a lot in interests and my friends haven't. I blame it all on this Forum and my Garden Junk one, LOL. But I love my INVISIBLE friends, and even if you aren't seen, I often take you shopping with me! Just hope the store employees and other shoppers don't hear me talking to you when I spot something you'd like. hugs, Karen

CEF- I keep waiting to see a picture of the living room, pretty please with cookie dough on top? ;) So glad you are able to sell the doors and make some money back. Also, yay for having a properly working car!! Pinkelephant- I am so intrigued by your old school house turned home! I'm curious, do you happen to have any pictures from when you first bought it? It sounds like it has already been through a lot and now you are renoing it again. Your little girl is gorgeous!!! Sorry I couldn't help more with layout, it must be b/c of the time of year it is, the board seems kinda dead. You might try posting another new thread asking for layout help. There are some amazing layout guru's on here, you just have to be lucky enough to catch them. Good job though on shoring up walls, getting window openings set at this time of year, I know I don't want to be outside working right now!! OB2B- I.e. refinishing wood floors, I don't envy you. The first place hubby and I bought was a 60 year old house, remodeled in the 80s and they installed wood paneling and carpet over the wood floors. When we bought it, the first thing we did was pull off the paneling and pull up the carpet. We ended up refinishing all of the original floors ourselves before we moved in. I can't imagine trying to refinish wood floors in a house while living there! The dust and fumes are so pervasive!! Good luck! Also, on a personal note? Only 10 lbs?!?! You are doing much better than I am with reno fatigue!! Terri- I really want to see the before/after pics now!!! From the pic with your son, those trees were massive!! It must have made a huge difference to remove them! Annkh- I'm not a skier but those views look amazing!! I'm glad to hear you had a wonderful time on your ski trip. Schick- I, too, have all our taxes done, just waiting for a few forms to come in before submission. Are you good with electrical or are you going to have to hire it out? Our first house had to have the main replaced to bring it up to code, we were able to do it ourselves. When we added my kitchen last year, we added a sub panel for the new addition and, once again (thankfully) we were able to do it ourselves. I have only, in the past few years, come to realize why renovations are so expensive for the average homeowner. I was raised with a dad that taught me plumbing, electrical, car work, etc. (Yes, all work was done with a permit and passed inspection) No wonder others reno budgets are so high!!! I would have never been able to get even a fraction of what I have if I had to pay others to do it. I hope you are able to replace the main without eating into your bathroom reno too much! As for me, we left Saturday afternoon for them to spray insulation. We came back Sunday night with a vomiting kid and I spent the next few days trying to tend to her AND get work done. She was well enough to go to school on Tuesday so when the baby was napping, I pulled (what used to be) the window in the master bedroom which will now be a doorway to my closet. I also went in my "closet" and pulled all the decking off of what used to be the outside of the house. Just need to finish running electrical in there, build a header and install a door, and get drywall up and I will be able to start planning the design of the closet and planning the reno on the master bath. The bricks were delivered yesterday and the brick layers are supposed to be here tomorrow to start bricking. My dad is the one calling the shots on the reno since it is his (and my moms) place and I think he is honestly just ready for it to be done. We hired out pouring the slab. We hired out the septic (necessary since you have to have the proper licensing, etc. for it to pass inspection.) Hired out some framers to do the HIPP roof and now hiring brick layers to come and do the brick work. Most of this (except the septic) we could do ourselves but he is ready to be done and I don't blame him one bit!!