I just wanted to say thanks everyone!! Very informative articles and so much knew stuff you learn each day comming here...I never understood this about bark and wood.. All I can say is thanks! I FINALLY found some! Fir bark... I remebered buying orchards from someone I met in my area over 5 years ago that was growing beautiful and citrus back then, and I remembered him saying someday he was going to sellevery good supply he could think of for orchards and tropicals, to help people be sucessful at these plants. It was a dream of his. I saved his number from then. I called him, and come to find out, he is a big supplier of YES!! "fir bark"...We were both happy to hear from each other besides. He has fine and or small and medium grade...He says it's real real good stuff. He specializes in this bark..NICE ha. Now I am excited. I get a FREE delivery of three bags within the next couple of days... I will take a pic, and you can see if it as nice as he says when I get to using it.... If it is, then I would be willing to tell you where I got it privately, since it can be VERY difficult to obtain this hard to find good stuff..:-) A secret he shared. I asked him how his plants were doing. He said better than ever before, since he waters his plants once a month with, ready? Seltzer water, sodium free.... He explained the benefits in detail, hard to remember...Hummm.. As anyone ever heard of this, watering container plants with seltzer water?

Kim, I accept/appreciate the sentiment conveyed in your above post. I continue to feel, though, that if one must use Holy Writ to justify a position OR to instruct others, then it's important (especially given the tenor of our times) to be very sure that whatever divine dictum invoked is quoted with accuracy. With all due respect, I think you've read into the verse you cited something that simply isn't there. That directive & its accompanying promise appear multiple times in both Testaments. In every instance (and in all of the several translations I'm aware of) the adjective modifying "long life" is either "thy" or "your", NEVER "their". So, everybody, we can lighten up and be of good cheer -- God is not going to off mom & dad before their time simply 'cause (like me) you were an insufferable young hellian. On the other hand, as a result of those juvenile trangressions, we maturing delinquents may rapidly (and deservedly?) be approaching our own personal, sadly premature end of days. :-) Since, unfortunately, we're in the mode, I might as well remind the peeved here of the sacred injunction regarding the casting of stones (that would be John 8:7). To any who maintain that they were never in the grips of an irrational snit with a parent (and vocal about it) allow me to say this: Get real. I don't believe a word of it.

I just recently did a bathroom remodel in an " old " 1914 Florida cracker that quickly went from cosmetics to a complete replumb ( pex ) and a complete structural rebuild of my house. Upon opening the wall and pulling out the shower I found that the flippers that sold us the house had no idea what the hell they were doing and had not only left a serious leak in the wall where they had jury rigged a splice between the original iron pipe and the copper they added to connect the shower they put in but they had cut a ton of structural studs as well. Ripping that out then ripping up the sub floor led to me finding they had cut out sections of floor joist as well and just nailed 2x4's ( not even pt ) across the damaged or cut out joists. As long as I had all the subfloor ripped out I crawled under the house into a nightmare of issues, piss poor floor joist support, damaged floor joists, damaged subfloor, crap ton of old corroded brittle rusted iron pipe. So I pulled out the credit card and went to work. replumbed the entire house with pex. Repaired all the floor joists PROPERLY to code, added metal strapping to all my structure ( above code ), added 10 new floor joist jacks with footers. Was horrified when I was laying on my back in the dirt and looked up and realized half my house had original paper wrapped wiring where the paper had long ago crumbled away... enter crash course on electrical, complete rewire with proper gauge wiring for each breaker. Crawling out from under my house I found my " old settling " was completely gone. Having repaired all the floor joist, jacked everything up level, and placed new support jacks, had miraculously transitioned through the entire house up to and even removing the " old " sag in the middle of my roof that I have had for the entire 15 years we have lived here. Of course now to be safe I need to get a crew to come out and put a new roof on.. the joys of home ownership.

Guilty! I have called my Dogs from Work and left messages on the recorder for them. LOL! I had a Cat that kept waking me up all night long for one reason are another. I got very little sleep. I'm sure she was sleeping while I was a work very tired. I called her on the phone every 30 minutes or so. "Here Kitty, Kitty", Just to wake her up.