naplesgardener, Glad you liked what I did....As for the posts, I used the kind you pour in the hole and add water, called Quickrete here....I propped up the posts by nailing a 2x4 about 8 ft long to the top edge of the post, just enough to catch it, then nailed the bottom of the 2x4 to a wooden stake I hammered in the ground just enough to be stable.....with quickrete you can get your posts pretty level and straight cause its got gravel in it to kinda hold it while you're getting it right.....next day you just hammer away the 2x4s and whah-lah you got yourself a post in the ground straight as an arrow....well straight enough anyways.....:) That's the first and only posts I've ever set in my life and I learned what its all about: 1 part finesse, 1 part manipulation and 1 part getting a buddy over that's done it before and makes sure you don't embarrass yourself before your wife sees it......:) Paul from Alabama

I can temporarily forget that we are eight inches behind in rainfall since December, but DH keeps reminding me of our well. Even though April was sort of approaching normal, the big question (and mostly unanswerable) is," Do I irrigate and make them very happy, or do I let them adjust to less water so that if our well starts coughing, they won't miss the pampering?" Our fenceline and species roses are unpampered as are our Canadians and Bucks and the European once bloomers. I am so tempted to just pamper the one and two year olds and let the rest carry on as they have for the past two years.

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lol....I'm right behind you Jodi!!