Most of the time I am an organic gardner but not over iris borers. When I spot them I dig up the clump and cut out all rotted areas and trim the leaves to healthy parts and fungicide them. It postpones bloom for a year with some irises but not others. I do not dig up all the clumps not showing a problem however for most seem healthy and usually I do not get the borers back again for many years. What is bothering me this year is slugs and snails all over the iris. Never had that problem before and that might be from rain, rain, rain so I stomp, stomp, stomp the offenders.

The two options you presented would result in the same end product. An architect would create his/her own CAD drawings regardless of what you give him/her. Starting with an existing set of CAD drawings might or might not save time but in the end the architect has to create something he/she can put their name on. Personally, I find it a waste of time unless the project is a renovation and someone has measured and drawn the building accurately. Very little information would survive the transition for reasons too numerous to mention. It is virtually impossible for a set of drawings from a plan mill to be appropriate for all locations, site conditions, and codes not to mention regional detailing preferences. The Internet might have shrunk the US metaphorically but the regional construction conventions have not followed suit. IMHO when you hire an architect it is foolish to not take advantage of their talents but I may be prejudiced after 40 years.

I just finished watching last nights Survivor...and Glenda...you didn't give it away, did you....I thought you shed tears for Taj because she got voted off.... I really wanted them to vote off Coach...but I think voting for Deb was a smart move... I think even if Coach came in number two that the jury would not vote for him..so he'd be a good one to take. But I don't even want him to win second place money....lol I really had to laugh when Taj said to her husband that she smelled...and he said..."yeah you do"... They seem like a very loving couple. patti

I'm a big fan of percolated coffee. That's coffee, in my book, not this foo-foo flavored things that people pass off as coffee these days. Never had a decent cup of coffee from a Keurig yet. If someone offers me "coffee" from a Keurig, I decline. Besides being poor taste to start with, Keurig is nothing but a glorified fad of a drip coffeemaker. And what's the #1 problem with drip coffeemakers? The owners. Few clean them. I haven't met anyone yet who cleans their Keurig either. Percolators? Great. Sitting at the cabin on a chilly morning listening to the bloop, bloop, the hypnotic smell, looking at the lake and wildlife. Percolated coffee doesn't need the pollutants to make it drinkable. My favorite was a Proctor Silex glass electric percolator my mother had. I really believe the glass ones make better tasting coffee. It just made so much better coffee that even when it quit warming the brew (tho it still perked fine) I'd make the coffee and put it in a vacuum bottle to keep it hot. Got used to doing that so I'd do that afterward and the benefit of doing that was I'd never head out and leave the coffeemaker on. Well, usually wouldn't. Yes, everyone has different tastes but I can honestly say that I can't name anyone I know who didn't prefer the perked coffee to drip. That doesn't mean they don't still use the current fad but that's a personal issue with them. As I was thinking about people not cleaning the coffeemakers it occurred to me that part of the benefit of a percolator is that it's easier to clean. A clean pot makes better coffee, no matter the method. There's a number of elements to good coffee: First is a clean pot. Next is good water, Then good coffee and properly measured. Temperature and time weigh in. There's actually a lot more to it than putting a piece of plastic into the pet rock and pushing a button. Which, come to think of it, probably is another reason I don't like Keurig. I don't like food cooked in plastic containers and making the "coffee" from a plastic pod is asking for trouble.