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Comments (10)My favorite and preferred way to get your soil revivified is to apply LOTS of either composted manure (horse, goat, etc) or straight rabbit manure, composted or not. I achieved a startling change in my front yard from pavement-feeling clayey stuff to an incredibly springy, almost turfy feel by distributing the waste from my 100+ rabbits and then adding redworms. The resulting texture brought in the rest of the native worms, who took care of integrating the top with the old soil, and now I have a yard I could grow pretty much anything in if the dog would quit trampling it. :) My roses and other established plants get frequent doses of fresh rabbit manure and worm castings (rabbit manure won't burn but you do want it away from the stem about an inch for air), and my Queen Elizabeth generally gets pruned down from its habitual 8-10 FEET of height about four times a year. :) BUNNY POWER RULES! :)...See MoreKnow a Mom Who Deserves a Makeover?
Comments (3)No, it's not spam. As you know, GardenWeb is part of the NBC family and as it says, this message was approved to be posted. Just because it contains a gmail address shouldn't be cause for alarm. No worries. Best, Tamara Amey GardenWeb Community Manager...See MoreHow to judge the level of craftsmanship you house deserves?
Comments (14)I was pleased to see this thread as this is a dilema we found ourselves in when we purchased our old farmhouse in 2004. The house was built in 1909 by an English Immigrant whose occupation on the ship's passenger list is shown as "gardner". He arrived in the US in 1903 and didn't bring his wife and two children over until he had built the first part of this house (1909). He built the huge barn before he built any portion of the house and as the years passed, he added on to this house. His daughter and her husband inherited the house and continued to farm the 40 acres until the husband passed in 1969; the house then belonged to his widow (the daughter of the builder) whose ill health caused her to sell the forty acres cutting out only 1/2 an acre of land surrounding the house. Her only son (in his 60's at that time) inherited it in 1987 but died two years later and the house, which he had mortgaged to begin to repair it, was taken by the mortgage holder............who just happened to be a first cousin! That first cousin spent 11 years living in and repairing the house - adding the central heat and air, updating the wiring, and replacing the view of the stars in the upstairs with a new tin roof and putting in the first "real" kitchen the house had known, turned the original add on bathroom into the laundry room (all the bathroom fixtures still remain minus the tub/shower and toilet) and adding on a room to the side for a new updated bathroom. So how does all this relate to this thread? Because our PO's didn't do a restoration of this old farmhouse, they did a repair and update. It retains a lot of its primitive beauty nad its original footprint but much of its age is undetectable due to the very 90's kitchen and bathrooms that were installed during those 11 years. Termites had destroyed most of the flooring (only the dining room retains it original heart pine flooring and that floor was put in in the 40's) and the trim of the house and the walls were redone with modern sheetrock and mud, only the doors remained in good condition although most are missing their knobs. We faced a decision when we purchased it in 2004 - to continue to repair the house or to strip it out and restore it? If we chose to "restore" it, what were we actually restoring since nothing remained of the trim or downstairs floors and there had been no kitchen? We quickly realized that we would be replicating a "period" and not our home's history because this was in fact, a simple farmhouse from its humble beginnings in 1909 through the repairing process in the 90's. We spent some time touring other old farmhouses of the area and of the same era to determine what to do with this old house. Based upon those other farmhouses, some still remaining in the families of the cr. 1800 farmers, we made our decision. In the end, we chose to replace plywood and carpeting with pine floors where ever it was needed downstairs and to restore the pine flooring upstairs. The original trim throughout the house had been replaced in the 90's with inexpensive but size accurate trim and had been painted; we chose to repaint it rather than strip it....the rooms are smallish and stained wood trim would have "closed" them in further (the trim was as I said inexpensive and not beautiful enough to warrant a clear finish imo). We have painted the walls with "historic colors" and used techniques to age their appearance and further updated the wiring and insulating materials etc and are slowly bringing in period furnishings. We have worked on one project or room per year with the living room and upstairs rooms completed. This years project is the original bathroom turned laundry room that extends off the mud room. Our bathrooms will eventually be redone with reproduction claw foot tubs and pedestal sinks but the kitchen remains a big issue for us...we still live in the 90's kitchen with its 90's style natural oak cabinetry ....it looks like any galley kitchen you'd see in a 90's built home......what to do with it? I love the second photograph in your message - that is similar to what I'd love to do in our old farmhouse - white beadboard cabinetry, an antique stove, a hidden refriderator etc. Other old farmhouses in our area had those features in their kitchens and we believe that had circumstances allowed our original owners to put in a real kitchen, they would have used those features as well. If I had $30,000 dollars to re-do this kitchen, I would knock out the back wall and extend it into a large square configuration with a farmhouse table in the center of it all - however, again, all the other farmhouses around here of the same size and era seem to have had the galley kitchen appearance just as ours does........it appears these busy farmers all added a narrow room the width of the rear of the house and called it "the kitchen" sometime in the 1930's. It would be lovely if we all had the wonderful Victorian or Arts and Crafts homes but a simple farmhouse is where I call home and I'm pleased as punch to be so blessed!...See MoreWould we elect a 5'2", 100-lb. president today?
Comments (23)I won't go into who's better looking. Don't really care! And I agree that the voting public is very visually-oriented and visually-conscious, but I have to disagree with the voting public being well-informed. When I see the people relying on email, Twits, Facebook and texting to form their voting decisions, I shudder. Maybe we should go back to having only electors. I always encourage people to vote, but I should specify that they should be informed when they vote and from at least a variety of sources and hopefully some credible ones, not just one "news" channel, emails or something they heard or read in a book somewhere. It comes up most every election about the number of times the taller candidate is elected. Looks mean a lot. They concentrate hard on the looks especially for the debates. Special height podiums for the individual candidate, and if I see another "power tie" I'm going to blow chunks! I think it's sad to see them parade out their families and use them as a campaign tool. Gallagher had a great line about that. To be honest, I think a 5' tall woman could have trouble being elected. Voters look for taller women too. Height is a big thing in this country. For men and women alike. The "regal stature" applies to both men and women politically. Among the campaigns I've worked, I ran the campaign of a 5' tall woman. It was far easier to garner support when people didn't see (or know) how short she was. Qualifications and competence were on paper, but people still judged. And this was at the local level. That really surprised me. I knew being female would be a challenge, especially for the office sought but I didn't realize height was such a big factor. Looks are subjective of course but there's certain expectations that many people have. And people are hypocritical no doubt. And it's not just in politics. Fat and old are rare in broadcasting in major markets and major networks. Check out salespeople. Looks are a big factor in hiring decisions whether admitted or not....See MoreMtnRdRedux
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