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Comments (13)Congrats Cedarglen! One of my gardening friends here has been terribly sick through her third pregnancy. She's not done much to the garden (and my back is out for the 2nd week in a row) - but I suspect she will cry out to the neighborhood gardeners in a week or two, asking for a few hours of weeding, and mulching the leaves her hubby will rake up. We have a wonderful group of gardeners, and when their house was going to be renovated everyone went with shovels, trucks and pots and dug up the entire garden, potted it up and took it to a guys house for overwintering. Then they brought it back and planted it for her and it has been so beautiful! Do you have any super kind gardener friends you can call on? We do all kinds of this stuff for each other: volunteer for each others garden projects at the school garden or the community or farmers market gardens, clean up and plant our business district, haul mulch or manure etc. It will be tough when you are full of baby, but my (above) girlfriend did some amazing things with her 2nd pregnancy. We were getting the house constantly flooded with water during a heavy rainy season and she come and helped me DIG TRENCHES to carry water away! I couldn't believe it, she was so fantastic....See MoreOriginal Listing Photos Before I Bought My House vs. Now
Comments (39)Kevin- Speaking of rugs....have you heard the latest TV commercials for The Dump? Yesterday (4/10) while preparing dinner the commercial announced that "The Dump is going out of the Oriental rug business." Prices will be up to 85% off this weekend only. I checked their web site, clicked on the Langhorne store and the same AD ran. I don't know if this is akin to the all the Oriental rug stores that are forever going out of business but I thought I'd pass it along in case you were still looking for rugs....See MoreDiscovered 3 rose bushes in front of my house!
Comments (7)They are survivors. First clean out all the dead wood on each bush, stepping back after each bush to see what you have to work with. If you have canes that have already bloomed, go ahead and prune that cane back about 3/4 of the way down to where it started from. Any canes that are spindly, thin and just clogging up the bush, cut them out completely. Any canes that are producing nothing but foliage (no buds or blooms), cut them back about 1/2 way. By now each bush should be opened up a little. They might look a little off balance but you DON'T want to do any hard pruning just before summer temps start to show up. Now it's time for a little work. Water each bush and the surrounding area real good. Clean out all the weeds and grass from under them. At least 24" from the base of each plant. Now that the soil has been loosened up a little, water each bush again. Buy a bag of Black Cow and put a big shovel full on each bush and water in again. During the summer just keep the bush's well watered and continue to shape each bush. When Sept. comes around throw another shovel full of Black Cow on each bush. When you get a chance, contact the San Antonio Rose Society and find out when to do the harder pruning. I think they are the closest Rose Society to you....See MoreBought my first house! 1955 Craftsman Home. Help!
Comments (21)"Could the Appraiser and Survey be incorrect?" Oh yes ... especially if there were lot splits, and other things going on. I can think of one instance from Phoenix where the house had been built before permits were required, built on a lot split from a larger property and slid past tax assessors until the original owner/builder died. The legal records started in the 1980s for a house built in the 1930s. And the handwriting on the old records is not always legible. Many areas like that began to be built up in the mid to late 20s as custom and spec homes. Then there is a gap for the depression and WWII and building starts up again....See Moreblfenton
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