Did I finally find "The One"? Am I actually getting out of ABB?
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finally I am getting rid of mealies.....
Comments (13)You read my mind yes Ladybugs do eat mealies, I forgot to tell the group. Always put them out at night time, and if you have only a few, isolate them say in the house or room and realease the Lady's at night, store them in the refrig. until you are ready to use them. They will die if they don't have anything to eat so leave and escape open for them to leave and find food. You local nursery may have other natural controls, I never kill a spider in my greenhouse they eat mealies. Pesticides are the last resort. I saw my first Humming bird today, so it must be Spring where I live. My Gasteria are coming into flower and the orange tree as well, I also bring the infected plants into the house and spray them with real soap nothing added. Or I use a 20% alcohol spray, that does it instantly, or only a few I use a Qtip and dip it in anything like mouth wash and just put it on the few mealies that I have. Whisky will work if you have nothing else and don't want to leave the house. I then take the hose and wash them off with a sharp spray of water. These are some ideas you may want to try. I've used Mr. Clean, Amway liquid soap 1+ tbs per gal of water. Windex spray, then spray with water within 5 min. I'm sure all of you can come up with plenty more, and I've tried all of them. Norma...See MoreRound 2: Backsplash color opinions. (Help get me out of ABB!)
Comments (59)Oh, gang, sorry for not responding earlier. I wanted to have something concrete to offer, at least more sample boards, before posting again, and I don't. Thank you so much for your help and continued interest. I am grateful for the support. My current game plan is to use a pattern very close to what EAM posted on 11/25 @22:55. Just a single, slim pencil liner bisecting tiles set on the diagonal: I plan to make one sample board that has the pattern like she showed, and another with the field tiles clipped a little bit so that the grout lines above the liner are collinear with the grout lines below the liner. (EAM, this is what I was trying to describe by "grout lines lining up above and below the liner" in my last post a while back.) The next question/quest is to find the right tile and the right liner. Still leaning towards a warm, neutral ceramic field tile, hopefully with color variegation, and a liner that is cut from either Rain Forest Green tile or Rojo Alicante tile. Of course, a coordinating ceramic liner is also a possibility. Walls would probably be repainted to a pale yellow. The other possibility I circle back to is a pale yellow tile, much like Circuspeanut's: In that case, the walls would have to be repainted to something complementary. DebraK and corgimum, thanks for the pencil liner vote of confidence. They helped convince me. And, of course, EAM. OB2B: I do like the color and the pattern on that BS of hoboken, but, sadly, I think it looks too busy in my application. Thanks for mocking it up! In fact, your mockup of my wide, triangular liner helped me see that the thinner liner would be better. raee: thanks for the thoughts. I agree that less is more, and I like some of your color ideas. One of the self-imposed deadlines I had was to be done by this evening. I am hosting a dinner party, and wanted to have the BS done before that. However, I had a number of other things to do to get ready; when it became clear that I was not going to make my BS deadline, I triaged and concentrated on other aspects. The good news is that I finished constructing 4 custom picture frames to display the art I chose for the kitchen! I made two of the frames from wood left over from the original door casing, which got torn out in the demolition....See MoreI finally am getting started in garden.....
Comments (9)I'm glad you were able to get out there and get started. Didn't it feel so good???? There's nothing wrong with being late. It is better than not ever getting the planting done at all, and most years, a late planting of most things still will produce a nice harvest. The horrific heat/drought of 2011 was not a year when late planting paid off, but most years are not like 2011. The older and stiffer I get, the more I find that I have to pace myself and not overdo things too much in one day, but I just work along at it as steadily as possible and try to stay on task and on track. We're not spring chickens any more, but that doesn't mean we have to give up gardening---we just garden at a different pace now. Some years, the weather makes it impossible for even the most schedule-driven gardener to get everything done "on time", so I've learned to settle for just getting things done eventually. Eventually also is better than never. I hope to spend more time in the garden today despite all the mud and standing water. With all the rain this week, it has been hard to do anything more than just harvesting....See MoreDoes this 1/3 offset tile pattern work for my backsplash?
Comments (36)Omg Sherri! That's gorgeous tile! I love the way the light hits the slight waviness in the handmade tiles and sparkles. What brand and color tile is that? You MUST do a reveal because I know people here will go crazy for your backsplash and your entire kitchen. Oh and is that soapstone too? I love the slab drawers with that glass front cab that has the glass on the side to. You have an excellent tile setter because you cannot see any slope in the ceiling at all. And look at the little cuts he did for that outlet? Are you kidding me...he's a perfectionist. (Actually, I should edit that your tiler could just as well be a woman. I'm gonna try this myself!) You are very fortunate. Have you seen the crazy hacked tile threads lately? I hope I don't end up one.... Okay, I think I just hijacked my own thread. LOL! But, seriously please, please do a reveal. It doesn't need professional photos. Yours above are great....See Morerebunky
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