1985 Dom Perignon - Too Old?
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Comments (131)Jodik...For some reason, I find spiders on the stairway to the basement. Where it's dark. There's a closet at the bottom where Christmas and Halloween decorations are stored. The spiders love it down there. I'm afraid to remove ornaments for fear a spider will be in a box..lol On the other hand, in our front plant room, where it's bright, spiders make webs behind a large shelf, usually wall corners. I don't know if they're spider webs or or cobwebs..are they the same? Once in a while a baby spider is hidden in the corner walls. It's hard cleaning behind the shelf since there's very little space. The shelf is wide, about 2" from one side of the wall across to the other. Oh God, yes, this old house has many openings. Far too many. If I knew how to fix them I would. My brother lives in a secured Condo..last summer a bat somehow got inside. They believe it snuck in through their exhaust fan. Tropic..your friends are very kind-hearted. They'll be rewarded. We have a couple rescue shelters that take in injured wildlife..This organization nurses wounded animals then releases them in the forest/wooded areas after they're healed. How big was the crocodile? I don't know what feral Cane Toads are. Does Cane Toad look like most other toads? Warty, etc. Do toads bite? Is biting how toads attack turtles and get venom inside their system? The pen you constructed is inside your house? Wow..Cool. lol. Have a picture? LOL, turtle couldn't care less about your landscaping. Do Cane Toads live inside your house, too? If so, how do you keep them from entering the pen? Lol, wildlife allows you to live in 'their' home. lol. I'll have to Google, Butcherbirds. Never heard the type. Why are they called Butcherbirds? A name that includes butcher, well, these birds don't sound very friendly. lol. Millipedes might be harmless in the way of venom, but if a huge 'pede crawled on me I'd pass out. Oh, getting goose bumps thinking about it. lol. Although Carpet Python is colorful, beautiful in fact, I could do without..lol. Spying a CS at the zoo would be fine, but not living in the house. Tropic, what's with the snakes? If you don't mind me asking. Milking spiders..when a spider is going to be milked, espeially after agitating him/her, how does the milker near the spider w/o getting bit? Very dangerous career if you ask me..hope milkers have sufficient health care. Larry..Go to Nam..you'll find two-foot pedes. My dh was in VN..they came across a 2' 'pede. Don't know if it was a millipede or centipede, only that it was huge. Dh said, although the body was 2', its legs were about 4-inches. Where does one keep a 'pede that big? lol. Toni Yuck..the delivery spider truck driver delivers a quart of leggy creatures. lol....See MoreHoya soil requirements
Comments (5)That is funny Florajilly about the Dom Perignon. LOL Your are right though, I think we who have many hoyas are up to spending whatever it takes to keep them happy. I have tried different mixes over the years with different combinations of things. Most work unless you get one too heavy that doesn't dry out well quickly. Some of the ones made for tropicals are good, but must be mixed with more perilte or orchid bark, etc to make them drain better as they are too wet too long otherwise. The thing that erks me the most is that most all of the mixes that the stores carry now come with ADDED ingredients for fertilizers and wetting agents. It is hard to find a good basic mix to start with that isn't full of other stuff you DON"T WANT. Since I add my OWN special fertilizers, I don't want a mix that already has some others I don't want (like Miracle Grow added to it). That makes for way too much fertilizer in the pot after I get started with my regime. Also those "wetting agents" (polimers) they put in there now make that soil stay WAY too wet for hoyas. Those may be OK if your planting roses or hibiscus outside in the sun or something, but in the house in a hoya pot, they are a death sentence. Sooooo...you certainly must read the ingredients in the general mix that you plan to start with. I used to always use "Supersoil" (sold at most box stores like Home Depot or Lowes). It is a good basic mix that is loose and doesn't have much added to it. Then I would add some perlite and maybe orchid bark or pumis, etc for added drainage. Lately this spring I have been repotting with some special mixs sold at hyponics stores called Light Warrier and Ocean mix. I mix those two together then I still added some perlite and they are doing GREAT in this mix. It is terribly expensive however (compared to the Supersoil). But ...like you say...if they wanted some champagne...I think I would be pouring it on them. Ha. We do LOVE our hoyas, don't we? Marcy...See MoreHow to sell a bottle of Dom Perignon 1985
Comments (2)First of all you should research to see if it is worth anything. Visit the GW thread below where a 1985 dom is discussed. Then check out places like http://www.cellartracker.com/wine.asp?iWine=14409 I do not quite understand the term "sell it for charity". You mean something like put it in eBay and sell it, giving the money to some charity? Are you talking about a 1985 Dom Perignon Etched Bottle Champagne worth thousands of dollars, or just a 1985 Dom Perignon like that you can get at any restaurant for a few hundred bucks? Do you know what you have? Has it been stored properly? Do you know it's full history? Would it not be better to have an auction with bidders? Or build an event around it. Sell tickets to the auction with dinner and dancing. Have give-a-ways or drawings of other nice wines to entice people to buy the tickets. Have other wines auctioned off. Advertise the event. If you already have a charity in mind to give the money to, they will have a marketing team in place to organize such an event. If you are planning on doing this on your own, you need to have permission to use the charity's name in association with the sale. If that sounds like too much work, find and ongoing event and offer to donate it for bidding. The bottle better be good or you may end up in small claims court. Here is a link that might be useful: GW Dom Thread...See MoreProspective home may have unpermitted addition. How to make it right
Comments (18)I'm a firm believer in the if it was meant to be. Many years ago when the ex and I were looking to move to a better school district, we found a beautiful small home on 1/3 of an acre. Loved the house, but after the house had been on the market for about the same amount of time as the one you just lost, we too lost out. Two weeks later we lucked into a beautiful 1898 victorian house we had driven by many times but felt we could never afford because it was on over 2/3 acre and a much larger house. However the seller had already gotten approval to divide the lot and they wanted to move to FL. The house was almost 1000 square feet larger, in a slightly better location and when divided, it too wound up with 1/3 of an acre. And we got it for the same price as the house we lost out on....See More- 20 years ago
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