Where to start? 1997 Yardman snowblower 9 horsepower Tecumseh engine. 2008 Toro Single stage snowblower 2-cycle R-tek. 2007 Sears Craftsman Lawn Tractor 18 horse B&S engine. 6 speed manual. 42 inch deck. Soon to be 1986 John Deere Lawn Tractor. 12.5 horsepower Kawasaki engine. Hydrostatic transmission. 38 inch deck. 1988 Lawn Boy walk behind 4.5 horse 2-cycle engine. The first personal pace model number 8480. 1996 White walk behind mower 3.75 B&S engine. 18 inch cut. A late 1950s Jacobson walk behind. 2.5 horsepoweer 2-cycle engine. Runs like brand new. 2004 Echo GT 2000 gas trimmer. 2000 Echo gas blower. 2008 Troy Bilt walk behind edger. 2 Weed Eater electric blowers.

Now 77 years old and now diabetic 2 (but I can eat fruit and I do have a lot of fruit). Waiting 2 more weeks before I start indoor grow light seeds, winter sowing seeds, salad seeds in heated mini greenhouse. Replaced mini greenhouse by myself and covered edges with many rolls of UV film. Sprayed chairs and ornaments with UV spray. Sprayed rusting items like dog pen for blueberries and metal ornaments with WD40. Chairs must have 2-3 bricks on them to keep them from blowing down in the wind. Laid black plastic film to replace so called landscape fabric that loves weeds. Poly film and clover are great aides to prevent weeds. I have a giant leaf blower and shredder that is now hard to lift - so I got a light weight leaf blower and blew away most of the oak leaves and nuts near the back of the house and the wind moved more for me. In spring my ex son in law will trim the too tall again so-called dwarf apricot and plum trees for me with my new electric chain pole saw. The peaches, nectarines, and mini apples are short enough. I have watering lines for sprayers and emitters and use timers. I laid out a hose line with switches from the center sprinkler so I could hand water if needed (2 times so far after water lines drained for winter) and to spray the fruit trees - now both are super easy jobs. It now takes less than 5 minutes to spray the 14 fruit trees using a hand sprayer (wonderful invention) - hah!. I also have a mister in case I overheat in the summer. I will have to prune the brambles and remove dead food crops from tubs later - but that is easy with a hand pruner. I have large trash cans with drainage slits placed at every end of the back yard for yard and garden debris until they either compost or go into the trash. Planting food crops in tubs is so easy and so is picking them. Back yard getting really gorgeous all year long. Have colored chairs, colored tubs, colored and white solar lights (getting more this week), colored and green foliage (dwarf conifers, some evergreen sedums, strawberries/blueberries/brambles turning color - earlier EAC was vivid red). I have solar and non-solar ornaments with more coming this week. I even recently added fake flowers for some tubs - crazy but it looks good this winter. Front yard dwarf japanese maples and azaleas turning color. The 2 giant oaks dropped their nuts and leaves again but not as bad as in previous years. The city just added a sidewalk so that is less area to take care off. In spring I will have lots of bulbs and flowering bushes and trees. In summer I will have food crops and flowers. In fall I will have food crops, flowers, and fall foliage. In winter dwarf conifers, sedums, and food crops in the GH. Life is good and gardening is now super easy. I find it hard to believe what I used to do when i was in my 20s - like try to garden in clay in the country and carry water from a creek a long distance away.

Stainless flatware - not a food item, but since it goes in the kitchen....And today I finally accepted that I'm down to 4 forks of the set I bought 30 years ago. It used to be that you'd buy 1 or more sets for twelve, not spend a lot of money, & have enough flatware for most anything that came along in the kitchen or dining room. If you spent a few dollars more, you got top quality, heavy pieces that would last a lifetime, barring death by the disposal or disappearance. Then about 20 years ago, somebody started pushing the sale of place settings & almost instantly, sets disappeared. The price went from about $100 for service for 8 to about the same and up for 1 place setting. Now it's on bridal registeries like it's a precious metal to be handed down to future generations. Get real - it's STAINLESS STEEL made for everyday use, no gold, silver, or gems involved, mass produced & having no artistic value. Considering the price of antiques in the current market, it's cheaper to buy sterling!

Two years ago, I had a similar problem with my pool which was built in 1974 in GA. It is a 32,000 gal. inground with wooden walls underneath the vinyl liner. I called FOUR pool companies before I found one who could fix the holes I had without replacing the entire liner. The one I called specialized in construction repair of pools. What they did is, they cut a large metal sheet and secured it over the wall UNDER the liner where the wall had holes in it. The liner was coming out a great deal. Once they put the metal over the wood, they pulled the liner back up and secured it back into the coping. They charged around $350 to do this, which took about 2-3 hours. The other three pool companies all said that either they could not help me at all, as they had never seen a pool like mine, or that I would need to completely replace the liner, which would need to be custom made at a cost of several thousand dollars. The liner has patched leaks, and cracks in the very old coping, so I am planning on replacing it next year. The construction pool company I used told me that when I have them put in the new liner, they will put metal over any other holes in the wood at a cost of about $300. Replacing the liner itself will be around $2800. It really helped that they were able to make the repairs they did, rather than replace the liner, two years ago when I first moved into the house and had a lot of other expenses. They are a local pool co. in GA unfortunatly so not nationwide. You might want to call around and try to find a company that specializes in construction repair of pools, and/or ask them if they could put a metal sheet over the wood, and secure it somehow to the wall. Good luck in finding someone who will think "outside the box" and not just try to put a cast on a problem which only needs a band-aid, so to speak.