Yes vesfl, my Mary rose is nice and saturated deep pink. I believe this is because it only receives morning sun. I really like the nonstop blooming. The fragrance is actually pretty good, needmore. I just never cut any anymore, because they only last about a day or so cut. That's a real bummer, because cutting is a at least half the fun for me. I like to enjoy my blooms indoors, especially when it's too hot to be out much. My Mary Rose is VERY heavily virused, but still blooms really well. I am LOVING this cooler weather! I cannot remember it ever being like this in midAugust. I sure hope we don't get a furnace blast of heat after this, but it's likely. We are supposed to have a week of mild temps. Then September will probably bring our Santa Ana winds, heat, and fire. I dread that, but at least my water and electricity will get a break this week. Ingrid, I know what you mean. It really is always something, isn't it? Goodness, I think if everything was ever all perfect at once, I'd invite everyone I knew over for a look! I'd also make a utube video and post it here:) I don't have any raidiating heat, like you do. I know makes a big difference, plus the temp difference is substantial considering how few miles we are apart. I'm no fan of those LONG MRI's either. I've been putting it off, and it needed to be done. Yesterday I was worthless afterwards, as they had given me Valium in the IV. I've had lots of muscle spasms lately,(always worse in the summer heat) and they needed me to be still for two hours. When I came home, I was still dopey and dumb. Best not to garden like that. I'm thankful it was such a cool day, and not even the pots required water. I just watched some TV with Sebastian. Interestingly, I have found he will lay on the bed with me if I remove the comforter. Following the advice of someone here,(sorry name escapes me atm) removing the scent of Millie seems to help. He does however, continue to lose weight. I'm going to have to send him back in with my son soon. It's just so hard. In order to get the 75% discount,(which I need) he has to go to work with my son all day. Sebastian gets squeezed in for his tests or exams whenever they have time. He hates it there, and I feel terrible sending him all day long, adding to his stress. One day, he even came home without being seen at all, because they were so busy. I can't complain though, this would already have cost me thousands instead of hundreds, and I'm so grateful. The scary/confusing thing is that he has lost nearly 5lbs in 2 months. He is VERY sensitive to my health and emotions, plus Millie is bothering him. The head vet there says that amount of weight cannot be emotional. Yet, they are not finding anything. It's very troubling, and just adds to my stress, which in turn, probably adds to his. He really does stress out when I do. Sorry guys, I probably should have emailed that to Ingrid. I didn't intend to go into all that when I began. Cassandra, I'm not 100% about what I'm going to use. I know I need to do it fast, before my whole garden is affected. I don't spray or use chemicals either, but I'm going to in this barrel. I was just in no shape to have my dad stop somewhere yesterday so I could look over my options. I'll research and update it here. I know exactly what you mean about a bell going off on n your head. I have all sorts of bugs, and I complain about them, but most of the time I don't even identify them because I'm not going to do anything to them. When Jim posted pictures, I heard that same dingdong:) That's why it's never bloomed! When I looked, sure enough, the ends looked burnt and they crumbled off when I touched them. The midge can get into your whole garden and all your roses. You could have no blooms, and no new growth. Whatever we do, we need to do it fast. It's something like every 14 days the larvae hatch out of the soil and start eating and multiplying again. They can devastate an entire rose garden. Let me know what you do, too. I'm going to research and do something today. Lisa

We do have the state wide stay at home order so the private golf course we live on isn't open (yet?). There's a petition to allow golf courses to be open with a long list of precautions - more than a single person in a cart. However the golf course is allowing people to walk on the course which has a wonderful hard surface cart path throughout the entire 18 holes. It's been nice to be able to use it in this way - hopefully those who don't know enough to stay on the cart path and/or pick up their dog doo won't ruin it for everyone. We're just starting to have some beautiful sunny, near 60 degree days which have been delightful. I saw my first robin yesterday and a pair of wood ducks. I had a very positive shopping trip today. I'm still doing my own grocery shopping as too many things aren't available for delivery and it takes days. I was astonished at how nice the shopping experience was. I went to Costco, Target, Walgreens and Aldi. I took advantage of the 60+/compromised/disabled early shopping hour at Costco and that was a dream. I don't know if it will stay that way or if all the eligible people haven't figured it out yet. It wasn't crowded and they had everything I wanted which was just a few select items. I'm not eligible for early shopping at Target so got there about 9:00 - no crowds, very clean, very well stocked. They had everything I wanted except the things they never stock like stewed tomatoes. I picked up two cans of those at Aldi. Then I picked up a prescription at Walgreens - hardly anyone in the store. The only thing I cannot find any where is the particular type of dental floss I Iike. It's a J&J brand and there was another time when J&J had none for an extended period of time - I think during the economic collapse. I think I found a box of small sample size containers on Ebay. Might have to check there again. All in all a good day and frankly any day that we are well is a good day.

I am one who regularly goes through stuff and regularly schedules a charity pick up. ( used to be a lot more often when we were in our previous much larger home and had all the "kid' stuff as well). We downsized a few years ago so definitely did the big purge then. There's still a lot of stuff though in our new home and while it's really not crowded, there are plenty of things that I just haven't come to terms with. Ded, I am with you on the photos and sentimental items. I try to get on that project but all I am able to do is baby steps. ( in addition to our immediate family I have my parents' and in law's photos and stuff). I have never had a garage sale and have not used marketplace but I am very big on buy nothing and freecycle and nextdoor for free. I have done that with furniture and it saves us the trouble of hauling it down or up stairs and out. The people who have wanted the items have been totally lovely. Very rare that someone is not interested for free and the bonus part is that you know they will be using it-

Cork is fine. The compression rating on 6mm is very good. It will stay rigid (so long as you glue or float the flooring...NEVER nail through cork...ever!). It will add warmth to the floor. Quiet walk is great if you need to nail through. Just make sure you use the TOP END Quietwalk Plus = nail through. You can use ONE or the OTHER. But NOT BOTH.