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Comments (24)Lovely collection, Mike! Your photos are inspiring! Josh is correct... I'd like to concur... house interiors tend to be very dry, especially during fall and winter. Take into consideration your heating and cooling sources, your climate, the season, and the location of your windows and how much sun enters. My own indoor environment tends to be very dry all year... the air conditioning sucks the moisture right out of the air, and our heating unit does the same. The main area for my plants is an east facing window with lots of bright, morning sun. I've tried hard to grow various orchid varieties, but the air is just too dry. Without spending money on a humidifier, which I can't afford, I'm relegated to growing what my environment will support. Orchids are not out of the question... I just have to stick with the types that don't mind a little dry air. Phals and Dens do well. Other types that require more humidity do not. Cacti, succulents, and other plants that can tolerate drier air are what I stick with. Spider mites love dry environments with dry air, so they're always something to keep your eyes open for. Usually, by the time you notice them, you have a fair infestation going on. When I'm watering, I take the opportunity to look for the fine webbing associated with these pests. Even though my environment is rather dry, I'd never go back to the days of compacted, peaty soils. The gritty mixes are so much healthier for the roots of my plants, and healthy roots promote happy plants. I like having total control over the moisture amount and the fertilizing. It does take a bit of getting used to at first... but once you find a watering and feeding schedule... and I use that word loosely... it all comes together beautifully....See MoreSomething Happened on the Way to the Christmas Party
Comments (10)Hi Rob, Perhaps it was a labor contract or something that required them to service the planes with the snacks. I'll bet that none of the passengers wanted anything to eat at that time. That reminds me of another airline story. About a million years ago, we were a couple of working girls getting along on small salaries. My friend saw an ad for a cheap travel trip to Hawaii, seven days and six nights for a very low sum. We signed up, stayed at a lovely hotel, and had a great time. It was time to leave, and off we went to the airport. The airline had gone out of business with no notice at all! It wasn't TWA, but a fly-by-night (no wonder that term is used) organization. An airport employee contacted other airlines to get us to Los Angeles. United agreed to accommodate us, but there was only one space available. My friend insisted that I take it as my brother was to meet us in LA. She would come on the earliest flight available. I found the hotel where I had agreed to meet my brother, but soon got a phone message from him that a family emergency had come up and he wouldn't be able to meet me until the next afternoon. I sat out by the swimming pool, reading, not at all displeased to have time to spend in such a nice way. A young man came over and asked me if he could share the table with me as it had the only umbrella and the sun was so hot. We had an interesting conversation and he asked me to join him for dinner and dancing at the hotel that evening. The next morning he saw me in the lobby of the hotel. I guess that I must have looked distressed and he asked what the trouble was. I told him that I hadn't heard from my friend and was worried about her. She should have arrived by now. He asked me to come up to his room, and since he didn't seem to be an art connoisseur with etchings in his suitcase, I went with him. He got on the phone, called United Airlines and asked to speak to the president. I was shocked to hear him get right through. My new friend told him about a woman stranded in Hawaii and asked that passage be found for her on the next flight. It worked, she did arrive very soon after. My date from the night before had an executive sounding voice. He was a star of the Ice Capades and had just ended a tour in town; no wonder he was such a great dancer. I am sure not, but he was nice about it. But to compound matters, we still had to get back to our city and our tickets had been issued by the same slock-job outfit that had deserted us in Hawaii. Again the airport folks got us a ride on an available plane. This time it turned out that the air pressure wasn't working. We flew so low that we could see details of the Grand Canyon below us. I don't know why they didn't pull into an intermediate airport, but on we went. The problem was that some people were getting sick. The flight attendant was passing out sandwiches and asking those sane people what kind they wanted. It was very weird and we were so glad to get off that plane. Steve - I didn't give the name of the airline because they have since merged and I didn't want to put a black mark on their reputation. I had flown with them some years earlier to Europe and had a pleasant, uneventful trip at that time....See MoreCan I change my hair from auburn back to blonde?
Comments (16)I've had my hair every color except black. I was a natural blonde as a child,which got darker as I grew up, to a light mousy brown. I started dying my hair around age 16 using "Nice and Easy" from a box. Also did the lemon-juice-and- sit-in- the- sun bit. I have even had Platinum blond to please my husband. That was a nightmare-had to get a professional to lighten my hair, she used very strong peroxide. The roots needed constant touching up every 4 to 6 weeks, and it burned every time I got a touch-up. So I let my "natural" color hair grow in, took about 6 months. I'm now light brown with some gray. Anyhow, if you are making a drastic change, you really can't do it yourself. You need to go to a pro who will remove the old color and apply the new. Or go with highlights, which if applied properly don't need a lot of maintenance, only needs to be done every 6 months or so.Good luck and let us know what you do!...See MoreWanting to Change a “Blah” Exterior to Something that Suits My Taste
Comments (10)Both the walkway and the beds are really too narrow to look appealing, and in redoing the walkway, I would move it a bit farther from the building so that the bed by the garage on the left is deeper front to back. The walkway would look far more attractive and be more functional if it were a width that went to the outside of the entry and an upgraded material would add appeal. Currently guests need to walk in a single file line to the house. I don’t think I would try to rescue your current walkway. Garden beds should be a minimum of 5’-6’ front to back to look in proportion to the house. The current arrangement of the downspouts spilling onto and across the front walkways is less than ideal, but you really need someone on site to suggest alternatives since we have no way to see elevation changes to see where else they might be able to be routed to. I am a fan of having architecture suit the place, but since we don’t know where you are, it is difficult to judge whether French Country would look appropriate. Here in rural New England it looks silly, so a neighbor who built a large French Country house has been unable to sell it, and first time visitors to the area tend to comment on how out of place it looks. Your roof pitches seem a bit shallow to be really convincingly FC, however, so I most likely would not go in that direction....See More
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