Jin, you'd be surprised how soon all the different roses will fall into place in your mind. You went from one rose to 100 in a very short period of time, and you haven't had the opportunity yet to have it all sink in. Having a good rose book which talks about the different classes of the old roses and the cultivars that are in each class is really helpful, especially if there are accompanying pictures.

This was my experience after my ph strips arrived. They correlated very closely with known values obtained from university tests. I used narrow band strips, Ph 4-7. I was careful to use distilled water to make a slurry of my soil sample. I also allowed about 20 minutes for the chemistry to settle down before testing. I’m not sure if that was enough time or more than I needed. Got mine off eBay for like $6.

So glad you can get this done NOW! It's been a struggle for you, we know. Will this be a test for antibodies or the swab?

Twelve days in! I’m nasally (not unusual) and tired, husband feels pretty good. DH is getting restless but I have to say he is doing well in that regard for him. This closed in closeness hasn’t been that bad overall, just a few minor annoyances over the remote lol. We were going to get retested on Monday (day 14) but decided to wait until Wednesday as we don’t want to keep going back and forth waiting for a negative. So far, all vitals are still in normal range. Our only symptoms have been bad fatigue and an off an on lung-y feeling with cough. Tessalon helped with the cough and I only felt the need for the non/steroid inhaler Albuterol twice. However , slight cough is still there but not bad. Some days we felt almost normal but for the fatigue and cough. At the very start of this I felt like I had tiny water balloons bouncing off each other in my head but that only lasted a day or so. Slight fuzzy head sort of went with the fatigue on other days. Neither of us had a temp and we never lost our sense of taste. Our convalescence...Husband went on occasional bike rides and walked everyday. I swam every other day and did a few squats. Together we did a short arms and abs workout session every other day. We did not go past 8lbs and less lbs for me usually. We didn’t push ourselves but tried to keep moving as our vitals were normal. Diet...our diet was not good. We ate lots of comfort foods which included a much much higher carb and sugar content than usual. I did throw in a few vegetable meat stews with my frozen homemade stocks. Really glad I took the time to make some good vitamin rich stocks and freeze for just this scenario. I feel so incredibly lucky that we have (so far) a light version of the virus. It will not stop my paranoia though. Could I be this fortunate if there is a next time? Nobody knows. Looking forward to getting our “shields” to team with our masks to wear once we are negative and need to go out. Then, I will make a bunch more vitamin rich homemade stocks for the freezer. If anything it could help someone near if they get the virus . The end.