What to do with this darn kitchen?
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Comments (2)Thank U ever soo much!!! Now I can read up on it.....It's just about to bloom and I just had to know what it is. I live in Alaska and bought it a couple of years ago and think it is a beautiful plant. I didn't know it would bloom until a few days ago when I saw a bloom forming. I'm really excited to see it open up. So nice to have a name for it ........See MoreDarned if I do, darned if I don't
Comments (5)It was about 8:30am, and the roses were still in the shade at that point. I'll do it in the evening from now on. The fertilizer wasn't a foliar feed, it was a liquid feed applied to the soil. Now that all the leaves are either suffering from blackspot or fungicide burn, what are my plants' prognosis? I'm assuming they'll lose all their damaged leaves, be naked, and then what? I'm starting to miss the days when I only had Knockouts and I ignored them the majority of the time, and they were fine. Deanna...See MoreDarned if I do and darned if I don't
Comments (85)Snookums - I read a bunch of responses then just jumped ahead to put in my .02 cents. I've learned a few things having been married once before my current husband. #1 - You may have a spouse that is never satisfied. #1 was like that and it's part of their demoralizing way of controlling the situation and getting you to jump through hoops. LESSON LEARNED - No one spouse can carry the burden of making the relationship work, making it happy etc. Refuse to be the burden carrier if this is the case. Couple of suggestions: You could say, or have the attitude that his level of satisfaction regarding decorating, home improvement is level A but since you like it at level C that you will bring it up there as you see fit. You're not asking him to agree to it, you're just telling him. What about the next time something needs doing, he hasn't done it after 2 askings that you just go ahead, hire a handyman and have it done? When he squawks tell him, hey you had your chance to do it, you obviously didn't deem it important so "I took care of it for you. Aren't you glad honey, I took that load off your plate." One of two things will happen, especially if you do this every time, he'll either begin to do it himself if he doesn't like spending the money or he'll be fine with it as you've handled it. If he's not fine, then he has to do it by deadline A or again, you'll take care of it. As many have said, when throwing his fits, walk out of the room or refuse to respond telling him when he wants to have calm, rational, nonacusatory conversation, he can find you, until then, you've got other things to do. With DH #2 of 13 yrs, he has a higher standard when it comes to some cleaning issues that bug him and don't bug me. He's a busy body and I just tell him, hey, I'm willing to bring it to this level, if you want it better than this or whatever, then you can take it from there. Yes, at times I do feel a twinge of guilt but that is my own fault for even feeling it. Luckily I have a very DIY DH, mostly because he'd rather do it than spend the $$ and he's very talented in many areas and can do it. So I'm grateful. Plus nobody could accuse him of being lazy. Does your DH have a high level of frustration when he can't figure things out, get them done etc.? Maybe this is his throwing smoke so he doesn't have to deal with that issue (thre real fire). Better to not do task, than feel frustration or inadequacy over not being able to do it. You follow? Again, you doing it or better yet handyman could be an answer here. My house is my haven from the outside world and I'll be D&^@ed if anyone is NOT going to let me make it that way. Keep doing what you're doing girl!!!! We're with you. :)...See MoreWhat weed is this darn thing???
Comments (3)Bindweed is a horror.That unhealthy alien-looking root is part of a larger root that sends up the shoots and leaves every so often. People swear by gathering up all the top growth and soaking it in Round-Up, and I have had some little success with a drop of straight RU on a cut shoot, but the only thing that gets it under control is digging up the whole area and pulling out the root - gently, because it will break and regrow from any little bit. Unfortunately, unless my neighbor does the same digging up of the root, which he won't, I will keep dealing with incursions, but at least I've got it narrowed down to one area, rather than the whole width of the back fence. If you haven't planted yet, maybe you can do the Big Dig this spring; if not, just keep the little creepy vines pulled up and start to exhaust the root that way. I wish you all the luck in the world in dealing with this....See Moreherbflavor
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