Julianna, that is terrible! I can feel your pain... I agree with the previous poster: they will survive, but you will probably loose most of this year blooms. Leave as much foliage as possible. In fact, professional growers remove blooms to make bulbs stronger. Last year deer ate tops of my newly purchased and very expensive Lilies right about the time of blooming. I was so upset. A month later, my DH pulled my 'Landini' Lilies out of container and THREW THEM AWAY! He never helps me with gardening, but that time he decided to "weed"... I managed to collect some scales and bulblets. Some of them are growing for me right now. In a couple of years I will see my 'Landini' blooming again... I try to not leave contractors unsupervised.

Ah, in my haste I neglected to see the other post about this same issue. Yes, I did spray my yard with weed killer. And I did scatter grub killer all over my yard. OTOH, when Ma and Pa BB brought back food, it was always a little green caterpillar looking worm which I don't think came from the grass. Looked more like it would've come from a tree. But I'm certainly no expert. Anyway, as soon as I'm done typing this, I'm off to clean out the box and hope for a new start. I tried to post a picture, but couldn't get it resized. And you've all probably seen dead birds before anyway, so I'll spare you the grief.

Thanks everyone for being as dismayed as I was. The thing that makes no sense still is how quick they left. I mean they didn't even wash out their cement mixer or their wheelbarrow. The PB said he'd be back on Monday with a trailer to pick up the other bags of diamond brite that I guess are out on the side of my yard hardening. Or maybe he's taking the mixer. I don't know. He told me he'd call his insurance man on Monday and the insurance would come out to look at it. He was happy we were taking pictures. I was trying to cheer myself up and asked him if they would at least put the light in the niche and get the wiring through the ground and that made him mad and he left. It's just surprising how the PB complains that it's costing him $30.00 in gas every time he comes to my house but yet they don't try to do everything possible when they're here. And they had tried to get the wire through the niche hole before they started the diamond brite by using a stick and nobody could see the stick outside of the pool so suddenly I'm thinking the conduit they attached to the niche before they shot the pool has sunk or something. So I didn't think it was an unreasonable request. When the PB arrived this morning the first thing he said to my husband was "I'm surprised you don't have the light hooked up" to which my husband replied "it's not my job". In answer to some of the questions: Bella-Orlando: Our pool is 12x24 and about 4.5 feet deep so yes, it's a small pool, but according to our PB today, that was $900.00 worth of materials ruined. I have no idea what his plan is, I've asked my husband get the PB to put in writing what they intend to do. I found out that I couldn't have filled the pool up anyway, since the light niche has an opening that leads somewhere out the pool, but might not be above waterline level. We're in Spring Hill, FL on the west coast. The PB sent my husband to get the plastic because gas is so expensive and because while he said he would pay for it, it was put on our debit card. I can assure you the PB is upset that he didn't get his final draw today, not because I was impacted. poolguynj: Thanks for the advice but I know that they're going to go over it. They're not going to remove it. They used stegmeyer (sp?) coping forms to make my pool coping. Something wasn't right with the mix. The pool builder tells me it's the best he can do. "You wanted the retro look, it looks retro". He didn't even know what the word retro meant until we met, and retro doesn't mean that it looks decayed and falling apart in two weeks. Here's a pic of my new coping along with what my pool looks like as they zoomed out of here. tresw: I didn't give them the plaster check. The funny thing is that when he popped over yesterday to drop off the mixer, he told my husband that because we're "strange" that he wanted us to pay him in cash. Fortunately my husband had to get on a phone call for work right after that statement was made :-0, I asked for clarification as to what made us strange. Seems that we are the only people that he has ever done any work for that actually point out problems like holes in the waterline tile grout, or coping that has cured for a week that dissolves when the garden hose water hits it. So he wanted cash because he was worried we might stop payment on the check.

Sorry you're having weather ... and bird loss problems, Moonie. Many of the local birds have flocked and headed south. If you lived around here, you might mention coyotes to your neighbour, if he loves his cat, as a friend who had me keep two of his beloved dogs, at different times, for a short time when he was away ... was troubled, as was I, when both disappeared, we figure lost to a coyote/fox. It's raining some today, here north of Lake Erie ... and they're expecting it to change to snow, later in the day. Sunset has been moving south daily for quite a long time, and is to continue to do so for about another month, before it starts its northern trek again. Today, en route to the wellness centre (to visit the library here, so that I could "talk" to you), walking in light rain with no umbrella, I asked a lady who was walking a few steps ahead of me, also with no umbrella, whether it'd be O.K. if I shared her umbrella ... ... and we both had a bit of a laugh over that. ole joyful