Welcome, welcome welcome to the GJ forum Angelia, so happy to have you join us. This place has the most wonderful folks you'll ever meet and you'll enjoy participating in reading posts and doing your own. As you can tell, we love pics. I know exactly what you're talking about all those windchimes in the movie. Don't know how to make them but check the sites others have given you and you're sure to find something that can help you. Hope to see you in the forum more often, no more lurking now, you've officially become one of us junkers!!! Sal

because this is my soil .. pic below ... yellow mineral sand ... lol ... and trees and conifers love it ... by the time i have dug twice around .. WITH A SHARP SHOVEL ... you see all the soil that remains in ball form .. lol most nurseries that want to produce ball and burlap stock.. buy property .. with a clay based soil .... but my point was .. simply... a ball of soil would be nice.. but it isnt imperative ... with PROPER TIMING.. there is a lot of leeway .... and also.. note the size of the roots compared to the tree... if i recall... i started digging about 4 feet from the trunk ... and by the time i was done.. i probably had a 4 foot wide set or roots.. which i then took the time.. with the felco's [hand pruners] to trim each root end that was not properly cut with a sharpened shovel ... never forget.. that to dig a trench as wide as your shovel to make a ball.. you have to make a moat 12 inches wide or so.. so you start that much further out .... so that the interior dimension is proper ... you can always cut more off the roots.. you can not staple or tape them back on .... i believe that i had marked this tree the year prior.. and while it was still in the ground.. i trimmed it for shape the year prior ... i use the same tape in the weeks prior to hauling out the chainsaw ... once its running.. there is no time to ponder each tree i walk by on 5 acres.. i simply trot from one marked tree to the next.. doing what must be done ... and then it takes a week to clean up the mess. .. lol .. ken

yeah.. i meant to come back and mention that.. lol ... thought about that about an hour later ... hence the referral to a trapper .. who has permits for such ... see link ... its really all about how hard you want to work in dissuading them ... versus damage.. etc ... some times i get lucky.. and they go away.. if i go out there daily.. and irritate them simply by being around [filling the hoe.. putting down hardware clother.. etc ...] .. some like privacy .. lol ... as compared to other things.. that can do significant damage.. and need immediate results.. like when momma and 3 raccoons took up living in the eave of my pole barn ... i had no sense of humor about that ... and OMG.. the stink .... many options.. for you to choose from ... but you have to start.. by figuring out what it is ... ken Here is a link that might be useful: link

I think Gran Torino got bad reviews also, but I loved it. What was funny/strange, though, was the fact that after the movie was over, no one moved...everyone stayed seated while Clint Eastwood sang that song...and he's no singer. I know someone else who went at another time, and he is the one who brought up the fact that no one made a move to leave after the movie was over...usually people get up and try to be the first ones out the door :o)