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Comments (10)BigDogue -- Thank you so much for the tip about the black poly pipe. I have some of it lying around, so I can try this now. I'll describe the problem a little more clearly below and will really appreciate any other input or suggestions you have. bmoser -- I looked up wire-lock systems, and they seem perfect for securing plastic sheeting to a wood or metal pipe base, but this is a temporary structure that I only need for this winter. This property is being sold and the new owners are allowing me the space for this greenhouse until I established at a permanent location for my rapidly growing (but still in start-up) rare plants business. The sale of the property, including the good greenhouses I've been using, was unexpected, so I am scrambling to save my plants. For now, I have driven 6' rebar a foot or more into the ground, spaced 4' apart, and slid sun-resistant pvc conduit over the rebar to make the arches. There is one central purlin. There isn't time (with the first freezes setting in) to build wooden ends, so those are also stretched plastic. I have bought 6 mil. plastic sheeting in 10'x 25' rolls. The arches are exactly 25', so there is no extra for burying. I'm thinking I'll staple the bottom to scrap lumber with batting strips. HERE'S MY REAL PROBLEM: (1) I need to secure sheeting to the ends (which, in this location will have to take a good bit of wind). I will try the black poly pipe clips BD suggested, and I'm open to other ideas. (2) Then I need to secure the first sheet to the end arch. Again, the black poly pipe might work. (3) I need to connect the successive plastic sheets together over the arches every 10 feet. I donÂt see how the poly pipe clips would work here. Right now, all I can come up with is pulling the overlaping sheets together on the inside, folding it over and stapling it in a fold of denser plastic (milk carton) as batting. (4) IÂm not sure how IÂll manage an entrance on the other end  maybe just overlapping flaps. (5) For heat, I have a 2 tall, forced-air, electric heater and a portable, electric, oil-filled radiator. I can put a box fan behind the radiator to circulate the heated air. IÂm concerned that plain radiant heat would go straight up and dissipate through the cold plastic. Any input on these ideas? IÂm putting down black ground cloth, which might help keep the ground warm. Is it better to put plants directly on the ground, so theyÂd get ground warmth, or to put them on pallets and benches to benefit from warmer air circulating above the ground? IÂll be grateful for any helpful ideas....See MoreHelp, I'm desperate
Comments (8)Hello, all, thanks for the reply! Special thanks to over_n_under. Well, I did a list about what I want and what I've got in the marriage and gave it to my husband, then asked him to tell me what he wanted for life or in the marriage. He told me that he hoped that love could make us live peacefully together. I might have overstated his untidiness and indifference to me. I was mad at the moment. Well, he isn't that bad. He actually picks me up from the station every day, calls me to tell me to take care of myself. He also massages for me when I come back after work. What troubles me is his occational extremist acts. I was very depressed when he lost his temper again against a stranger, who raced the car on the road last week. He followed the person's car so closely that he scratches his car. Lucky they didn't have a fight. And then we had a dispute relating to his family, about his sister's old trick of generosity.He told me that he couldn't care less about my problem with his family. He didn't want to deal with them. And he didn't want to support me either. I was heartbroken so I told him that I wanted seperation and it upset him a lot. He told every one in his family that he hated them, then he left home at midnight and slept in the car outside his father's place. I emailed him and said that I only decided to leave because I couldn't put up with all the stuff any more. He replied and said that I was his only hope of life, he really loved me and he would have nothing if I left him. (I trust him on this although he doesn't have the ability to support me in terms of mediating for me and his family.) I stayed. He talked to me today and said that his biggest problem was the depression that he's suffering. He said that the depression comes and goes all the time, sometimes,he only saw the dark side of the world. And he told me that he's depressed because of his parents. Honestly, there is nothing I can do to his family. I talked to his mother once about my husband's problem. But she couldn't care less. She feels that it is all my fault that he has a bad relationship with the family. Well, his family is not good at communication, they would either fight or escape. Any suggestion about how to help my husband out of the depression. (Something other than seeing the consultants, he doesn't trust professionals. He talks to his friends sometimes, but he never speaks of his problems.) One good thing about our relationship is that we start to communicate again. Call me stupid, actually I am still in love with this man....See MoreHelp - I'm really desperate
Comments (18)Ditto with the others on calling the folks that haven't bothered to rsvp. However, in terms of dinner and the question as to whether or not you should make something different for finicky kids, while I agree with the general sentiment that kids need to learn to eat what is put in front of them, you also don't want your holiday table to become a battlefield, if they are ill mannered as well as picky. After all, it is not your responsibility to teach these children how to behave. Who wants to listen to children whining or parents admonishing whining children at a holiday table? I had a friend who handled it well, as she had a big family, with many children who were raised in different ways. So, she set a place at the table for the children, and set up a side table with hot dogs in a crock pot and all the fixin's in a sort of "hot dog bar" on one side of the room. The children could then either choose to eat "grown up food" or go build themselves a dog, quietly, without complaining or sulking about the dinner offerings. If you make roast beef for the adults, allowing for enough in case the children decide they want it as well and it turns out that they eat hot dogs and you have leftovers, well, goodness knows that leftover roast beef has a hundred uses at least. If you have left over hot dogs...well, they're pretty cheap, so if you don't have a dog who would appreciate them, or wild critters such as raccoons or crows about, you won't be wasting much if you just toss them....See MoreOK - I think I'm finally getting burned out
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