How is everyone dealing with the dry spell?
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Comments (28)I was in California when my order arrived. My husband unpacked them (sort of), doused them with water, then bunged them in the dark laundry room. I arrived a week later and took a couple three more days to pot them up. All are nicely bouncing back--all have thrown out lots of leaves, and I even got a few blooms, too. I can't keep them in pots too many weeks here, because they will need time to root in the ground before our inevitable winter sets in. I got quite teary. I just discovered old roses three years ago. Now our huge asset out West is closed. Sometimes in the intervening days, I torture myself by getting out Gregg's sumptuous catalog, and mewling over all I will never have. Erica...See MoreHow is everyones gardens after Fay?
Comments (15)My garden is fine. I SFG in raised beds and the only thing I (might) have lost is marigolds. They are pretty well sprawled out right now. My Cavendish Banana which I planted in July did very well in the storm, as did my gardenia and butterfly bushes. I have lost all three of my surviving tomato plants, but they were about done anyway. They will go into compost tomorrow, along with all of my squashes: cucumber, pumpkin and watermelon. All three are stripped of leaves, although I think they lost the fight because of the squash bugs I've been fighting all summer. My roses are great. I have no clue what kind they are, but they were over 8 feet tall before hubby had to cut them to lower the awnings over the front windows. However, they seem to have liked the haircut..and it kept the wind from uprooting them. We didn't have any flooding on our lot, thank goodness. We did have about 3 feet of water in our roads for 3 days, but someone finally found the part to open the locks, so we're dry now. I posted pics of the flooding earlier, but never thought I'd be so darn glad to see blacktop! In other good news, we were lucky all around. We only lost power for about 6 hours total, and not all in one chunk of time. Our phones and cable/internet stayed active throughout the mess. And, everyone here was able to work even during the aftermath. We've been blessed, while other people in our county suffered complete flooding of their homes. I'm thankful that my garden gets to be my biggest worry right now. :)...See MoreHow do you deal with damp, dirt-floor basements?
Comments (24)Alisande, we have a damp basement, too, and, like you said it's a pain to empty it. We have to empty it about twice a day in the wet season. As you might imagine, we're really tired of doing this! We wish we had a floor drain to have it empty into, but we don't since it's an old house. What we're going to try to do--and maybe you can do this, too--is figure out how to get the dehumidifier drain into the laundry sink. In our case, we need to rig some sort of hose for it and figure out a way to raise the dehumidifier to the proper height. But maybe you don't have a sink in your basement... :( Even so, a dehumidifier is worth having. We got ours at Lowes for about $120 and it has been money very well spent. Our basement smells clean and nice, and the items we store down there don't get damp like they did before we were running the dehumidifier. Of course, a dehumidifier can't solve all moisture problems. It definitely sounds like your gutters/etc were causing the problems. You might want to take a look at some books on basement moisture problems. Right now, I have two books out of the library on this subject that are really helping us figure out how to make some simple fixes without calling in the professionals. Home Water and Moisture Problems: Prevention and Solutions by Gary Branson (this one is so good that I'm planning on buying it for friends and family for Christmas!) 5 Steps to a Dry Basement or Crawl Space by Ronald K. Gay I sure hope some of this info is useful. I know how annoying it is to have a wet basement. Good luck!...See MoreWhat's The Deal With Dry Wall
Comments (32)wellspring, Read graywings' response above again. Drywall is the board that's nailed to the wall, as opposed to plaster or something else. The texture is how it is finished - smooth, orange peel, knock down, etc. As you can tell, people have different strong opinions. Most people who come to your home will not walk away remembering your wall texture, even if they happen to notice it while there. I grew up in Ohio in a 1950s house with real plaster. The little bumps were pretty sharp and could hurt if you rubbed against it - could probably rip a diaper. I just redid a bathroom in my current 1980s house (original duck in bonnet wallpaper directly on bare drywall). I was going for a smooth finish and spent much time to that end. However because of roller stipple while painting, it looks like a light orange peel. I'm actually pleased with the result. Fortunately I didn't have my heart too set on that smooth finish....See Morecyn427 (z. 7, N. VA)
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