RANT !! I'm not one to stick my head in the sand and totally dismiss global warming, but I don't believe all the science has been accumulated and digested. Back in the 1960s, scientists were reporting in "THIS WEEK" magazine, the precursor of the Sunday "PARADE" magazine, that we were going into another ice age. There were several other articles during the same period predicting another ice age. This was back in the days before the EPA and air quality alerts. I sometimes believe the theory of global warning is a ploy by the ultra-environmentalist, tree hugging eco-terrorists to stampede us into stricter environmental protectionist laws. There was a mini-ice age from about 1400 through 1830. How do we know we aren't in a temporary warmng cycle which is just exacerbated by industral pollution. SUPPORT NUCLEAR POWER!

Hey Josh, exactly! You hit that right on the head. Thanks for the encouragement too. I was hoping there was enough roots left to repot and take hold. As you would suggest, I did not water the mix right away and I figure at least two weeks before a thorough watering but in the mean time I will find a way to make the soil moist around the trunk but not up to it for now if the soil dries out. I will try not and panick if leaves should react poorly at first, although hard not to do. I will post an update. Jodi!!!Thanks so much for stopping by and your kind words. You have been missed on these forums lately:-( Jademan: Thanks man. I have always admired your plants too. I saw your photo album. Wow. Laura,Laura! Thank you and you are so right, the gritty mix has saved a many plants in my years of being here! Corpsman: It's made of 1 part fir bark fines, in particular not composted, 1/2 and 1/2 part of Turface and Pumice, and one part perlite or crushed granite chips. Hey Joe...That moss is a special kind that grows well on top of good mixes. I can get all I want at the Bonsai shop. What I do is put a very thin layer of a mix with a bit of peat over the gritty mix so the moss will continue to grow. I think the top of some of them could use little Bonsia ornaments too or a nice stone. I love this moss although the Oxalis has to go. Chris: Thanks man. I really appreciate it. Hex, I am confindent that yours will do much better than what they came in. Good luck. I hope many are learning from this thread since I hate to hear of anyone loosing their plants to rot from mixes that never allow you to water properly. Mike:-0)

Mr. Vincent, THANK YOU----Your link is worth it's weight in gold! It's clear, big pictures, step-by-step and after we went through it a couple times we just Know we can do it! Now, about that Chloraloy---we've called several places and they don't carry it. Is there another name it goes by? I've been asking for Chloraloy Membrane Shower pan Liner. Should I be asking for it by another name? Also, Husby came home in the wee hours of this morning with a bag of SpeedSet (I had not heard of it here) and said because we have to get the tiles set and grouted at least around the toilet area so that we can set the toilet, it was the quickest setting and allows us to grout in 6 hours. Does this sound right to you? thetews, Thank you so much! It's funny, when Husby told me he could steal 23" from the bedroom to add to the bathroom I looked at him like he was nuts! I was thinking " 23 inches? Might as well have said 3 inches for all that little bitty 23" is gonna give me". Boy, little did I know then, when it comes to bathrooms, especially showers, 23" is like 10 feet -- with bathrooms, every inch counts! LOL As it was, for 30 years when we sat on the toilet our knees hit the wall in front of us so for all these years we've sat on the toilet at an angle. I can hardly wait to sit on a toilet straight-on! It's the little things that excite me. LOL I awoke this morning with every bone in my body aching. I ached where I didn't realize I had places! Taking down shower tiles, curb, vanity, toilet, leveling floor, dragging out bins of cement, lathe, old wet drywall ---granted I didn't do it all but the little I did do, boy, I see how pro's earn every penny they make! There are 6 adults using one bathroom right now and will be until our new Toto toilet is in place. Hopefully we don't open any Pandora's boxes along the way so that we can get this bathroom done in as short a time as possible. Wish me luck! And thank you so much for responding----means a lot!

aliceinwonderland, Yes, I know about drinking grape juice. My mother was Italian and when we didn't drink a glass of red wine, we drank grape juice before anything else with our meals. So I have had a great share of delicious grape juice throughout my life. In fact I would have never thought my mother and my father would ever die of disease, because my mother made wonderful, healthy meals, hardly ever going out to eat, and hating fast food. So I know their disease came from other things around them. Since I want to be healthy for my family I try and find bad things to avoid and additional good things to take, to help me with the war against disease. I mainly drink filtered water, green and oolong teas with cinnamon sticks, apple cider with cinnamon sticks, pomegranate and grape juice. But thank you so much for recommending grape juice, for everyone else it is a great juice to take as it is a wonderful antioxidant. Now that I have listed all the things I do drink, maybe we can have some comments on what I truly posted on. I only added a small PS about something good I have started to share, yet the rest of this thread was about the huge dangers of fabric softener. Really are people that bent out of shape with a small suggestion of something good to take. Yet not bent of out shape with the idea that our whole society is brainwashed to put fabric softener in their rinse water? Since I see no way of editing my already posted thread, if someone knows how to get this thread off please do. It actually makes me sick with the way people like to point a finger at what another is doing wrong. Since that has become the main issue here. You know, people need to support one another more, take a look at the "March of the Penguins" movie, do you know how all those penguins survived deaths cold, where no other life has learnt to survive? Well they each take turns blocking the dead cold wind from each others backs. The inner circle of penguins were never told by the outer circle, hey youre getting something were not, because they know, their time will come when they would be in the inner circle getting warmed, and those that were warm would be in the outer circle once again. See our world is just a bunch of fighting seagulls instead; just looking to make sure that the seagull beside them doesnt get the extra scrap of food. It is really really sad, how people can only find the negative to comment about. If I didnt know the dangers of fabric softener, and came here and read this, I would just be glad someone came and posted it. Not say, oh look they added a small PS about a health drink, so they are just thinking about their own self profit. My true intention was to help bring awareness of a bigger problem as my heart aches with the ignorance of peoples ingestion of poison, and the growing number of deaths among our loved ones. My mother, father-in-law and mother-in-law all passed on within 22 months of each other, all with sudden quick growing cancers, if it can happen to them, it can happen to any of us. It all has to do with the water we drink, the air we breathe, and the things our bodies ingest from the chemicals around us. Things like the huge ongoing use of fabric softener. I found this laundry site through a Google search. I have been posting for a few weeks now, and have never added a PS before. Yet like I have already posted I just couldnt handle watching the fabric softener going so quickly at work, without trying to say something to someone, and since I knew about this laundry forum I thought of added a thread of friendly warning. Yet I cant believe I have to keep writing a truce about my small PS of a health drink, as I just wanted to include about something good I knew about too. When I went on the thread about Charlies Soap, it was a plug of something good, how come no one is upset that they are making sales because of that. I just dont understand people. Anyway I am tired of trying to defend myself here. I wont be back. Amigo Karen Oh PS - asolo - thought adios was goodbye, so goodbye. The link is a recommendation from aliceinwonderland, here's to your health, it is way better then fabric softener!