Do you make a mess when you clean?
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Comments (22)Reading all your messages has been like hearing the latest updates on my three sisters. That's a compliment and sincere thank you. Crohn's disease, Graves disease, fibromyalgia and arthritis (Rheumatoid/Osteo)have reared their ugly heads among my 3 sisters but left me inexplicably unscathed. The family is an autoimmune minefield...LOL. After the ONE night I went home to get some sleep I came back to my father's house to find 2 cars and no father. When your 82 year old father is MIA without explanation you naturally worry. Turns out he had a second serious bout of Atrial Fibrillation and went to the hospital without telling me. Ask me if I wasn't feeling guilty for leaving him and upset with him for not calling me. He didn't want to interfere with me taking my best friend to a colonoscopy appointment Monday AM. I didn't sleep again Monday or Tuesday nights but got a couple hours sleep earlier tonight when I landed back at my father's with Pop in tow from hospital/cardiology office. No Coumadin yet until results of 3 week montoring device show if he's having small episodes of A-Fib when he gets chest tightness on treadmill at gym. Coumadin and exercised induced symptoms are the worst for him. He's extrememly active physically (so he doesn't fall asleep!) although we're having memory issues. Well, I've whined again but it feels better to get it out. I went outside yesterday at first light to rake and do a little garden clean up. It was glorious and relaxing. If all stays well for next week or so I'll have cooked my 5th Thanksgiving dinner and actually gotten somewhat used to it. Part of family will be here and Dad can have his turkey dinner without dietary restrictions of blood thinner. He's all about his food but luckily for me not picky...LOL. All in all, I'm a pretty lucky chickadee tonight. :) Good wishes for all of your health challenges as well. I think I'm going to get some Lavender heat wraps to relax me when I'm exhausted but can't sleep....See MoreWhen do you do garden clean-up?
Comments (17)Twice = since I have both white and red oaks the leaves for one get cleaned up in fall and the other in spring. I do remove daylily and iris foliage as I think it contributes to spot fungus and I believe they both like their roots chilled but sun warmed winter soils and like to go without mulch in winter. All the veggie beds get cleaned and tilled in fall so the chill will kill the critters trying to overwinter. Most years they also get sown with green manure though (winter grains). I wait for the last of the Beauty Berry shrubs' berries to be picked clean, the Chaste Tree berries fallen, the thornless blackberries' ugly canes bothering me, the grapes that no longer are interesting, and the Butterfly Bushes just barely putting out new leaves (about DH's birthday Feb. 19) before I hack them down quite severely. I never do anything in Nov., Dec., and Jan. since there are too many other things to do inside where it is warm. In Feb. I get antsy and go out for hours in anticipation of spring, or should I say "cabin fever"? The fruit trees get pruned then and the asters do too. When I notice the new green mum rosettes their dried uglies get whacked. I always forget about the spirea's pruning in fall so they just get taller every year because I don't want to miss their spring show. I do a lot of compost turning in winter and forget it in spring. I pile on leaves and end of harvest stuff but greens never make it there until spring weeding. Probably worthless endeavor in the winter but I like to run my tractor more in winter. Nancy the nancedar...See MoreWhen do you do your pre-Spring clean-up?
Comments (8)I'm in Sunset zone 17, 25 miles east from SF, so we get a few more 'near-frost' days than the City but it's still very temperate (in the summer we're at the edge of the fog belt). This winter with the wild swings from warm moist rains to dry cold spells, the leaves have barely fallen off the liquidambers yet the magnolia trees are already in full bloom in most places -- normally they flower in mid-January. Last week I just cleaned up the yellowing leaves off the clumping daylilies, only to discover vigorous new growth already pushing up. The ranunculus and freesias have already started putting out lots of growth and they will bloom in another month unless we get a big January chill. The weekend after Thanksgiving was perfect gardening weather -- dry and in the low 60's. I got a head start then on pruning, weeding and planting some container plants I had been holding for the start of the rainy season. With a cottage style garden, I have so many different kinds of plants, cleanup is pretty much year-round. But I figure that's the price of having a garden that stays evergreen and flowers all year-round, too, so it evens out. The REALLY important thing is to remember that this is Sluggo time -- those snails are multiplying even as we type, lol!!!...See MoreWhen do you repair and when do you replace?
Comments (7)I agree with the rest, keep the machine, get it tuned, and get a new foot pedal--popping and you could have a short in the cord because the cord is that old, could be hazardous so I wouldn't run it until you get it fixed. That was probably what was wrong with my 1963 Lady Kenmore purchased new, and you just made me realize that may have been the problem after 30 years of pedal to the metal--it and the blonde formica cabinet went to the dumpster during a move. Also, if you are running the pedal on carpet, put it on a hard surface such as a cutting board (I have plenty of them, so it works for me). I fried a $65 Singer foot control because I had it on carpet (it would start up, run and speed would slowly die). I now always have a board under the foot controller...I have mostly carpet. You are lucky you have the instruction manual...some aren't that lucky. Sears still parts and the extra feet for your machine, if you don't have those, for around $29 excluding the ruffler...the original box had the ruffler included, or you can buy any after-market low bar foot that screws on or has an adapter. You can go into Searsparts.com and look your machine up to see what parts and feet are available. Your whole model number should be on the electrical plate on the back and in your manual....See Morebpath
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