Slow decorating - something you do?
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Neanthe bell a palm - slow growing, or is there something wrong?
Comments (6)Hello, HelloPanda, :) Did you bake garden soil before potting with it? Bagged soils are 'supposed' to be sterilized, something yard soil isn't. Yard soil contains insects, disease, and who-knows-what-else, but nothing good. As far as potted plants go. Garden soil needs to be baked at 375 for 45 minutes..Soil stinks when baked.. Neanthe Bella's are slow-growing. I don't believe in over-potting, but when roots fill a pot the plant should be placed in a larger container. Are roots sticking out of drainage holes? How fast does soil dry? If soil dries a day after it's watered, most likely it's root=bound. If pot is large, 'more than 2" larger than rootball,' repotting isn't needed. Soil pH for NB should be about 6.0. Slightly acidic. You mentioned soil being alkaline. If the palm were mine, I'd remove it from its pot. Check roots. Discard old soil. If rootball is tight-fitting, palm would be repotted in 1-2 size larger container, with drainage holes, in fresh, semi, well-draining soil. Last, leaves would be showered and soil watered thoroughly..until water seeps out of drainage holes. Oh, before watering, I'd add slow-release, Palm fertilizer pellets and Superthrive. Then palm would be set in a brightly lit window. East is fine, or a few feet from west or south.. No, it's not good that new growth is dying. There are many reasons new growth dies. Could be because of soil or over-watering. Palms don't like wet feet, especially during winter months. Moisture in the air is one thing, 'humidity,' but not wet soil. Good luck, Toni...See MoreWhere do you store your large slow cooker?
Comments (36)Hey, thanks everyone! Those of you who posted pics of where you all keep your slow cookers, thank you for making the effort to do that! macybaby, your hobby closet photos are amazing! It made me a bit homesick for my parents' house--with the videotapes alongside the appliances. :-) I was always confused about the difference between the "Super Susan" (no pole) and the Lazy Susan (with pole). I mean, I didn't understand how the Super Susan could rotate without a pole! Based on this thread, I dug up one of the cabinet companies brochures I still have in the house and found a photo--and now I think I understand. Alas, I think what happened is I opted for the Lazy Susan type because of the door style. I liked the look of the inset type of door the Lazy Susan has (where the door goes in as it rotates), instead of the other door. (Form won out over function that time!) abfabamy, thanks so much for your voice of experience about keeping the heavy slow cookers in a pole-type Lazy Susan for 16 years without problems! That's a great track record, and makes me feel more confident about doing it myself. Tonight, I tried putting the big slow cooker into one of my Lazy Susans and it fits through the opening (whew, I had been wondering if it would). So I think that's the way I'm going to go. (And if it turns out that I'm not slow cooking as much as I thought, it can always go down into the basement.) Thanks again everyone! Lee...See MoreWhen you need something that offends your decorating sense
Comments (31)Well, there are lots of things that offend my exquisite decorating sensibilities, but most of them are in other people's houses, not mine, and they have to live there, I don't, so I guess it doesn't matter what I think. And, of course, vice versa. If people don't like the looks of my piano, they don't have to play it. In fact, they don't even have to look at it. To tell the truth, they can just stay home in their own lovely pianoless houses and enjoy looking at the big old honking blank spots on their walls. That's how much I value other people's opinions about my house & what I have in it. Nada. What, though, if something that I have offends me? Well, I could do as Jesus recommended we do when dealing with, say, body parts that offend us--pluck them out or cut them off--but then, this is one of those times where he's speaking metaphorically, not literally. Ya gotta be careful about that. He didn't really mean we should cut off our hands or yank out our eyeballs. How, then, would we read the Bible? Or even turn the pages? No, it's just an expression. But his point is clear: don't ALLOW the thing--hand, eye, piano, whatever--to offend you. Just deal with it. Same here. Sure, some pianos are more attractive than others, but a piano (for the fortunate) is just a fact of life, and therefore something to work with (or maybe around), not against. I, myself, don't have a piano, but I do have a CD player, and I can tell you this: it's not particularly handsome. That is, it isn't a sleek techno-marvel, it's not an expensive designer icon of Cutting Edge Modernism that I get points for even owning. It's a $79 no-brand cheapie that I picked up at Circuit City a week before they went down the tubes. But the thing works, and I'm not ashamed of it or the fact that I don't have something fancier, so it's not hidden away in a special cabinet to conceal its offensive cheapness, it's right out there in the open for everybody to see. In fact, several hundred thousand people have seen my cheapo CD player because it was in my O at Home shoot, and what I loved was that Roland Bello, the photographer, nixed the suggestion of another person to remove it--it & a messy stack of CDs--from the shot. "No, let's leave it right where it is. It's real." In a day when overzealous stylists typically remove any shameful vestige of normal, everyday reality--the dog's slimy chew toy, the slightly past-their-prime flowers in the vase, the trashy paperback novel on the bedside table, the copy of TV Guide on the coffee table--from the photos in Glossy Home magazine, or the 'After' shots on TV decorating shows, it's refreshing to see a talented professional embracing the simply, ordinary facts of life. Why are such things so shame-ridden? They shouldn't be. In fact, in one of the most famous photos of any 2Oth Century interior, Nancy Lancaster's famous yellow drawing room in London, you can practically smell the 2-day old water in the vase of flowers on the desk. But, then, such matter-of-factness is really no surprise coming from her. One of my favorite NL lines is "If every piece is perfect a room becomes a museum & lifeless." Short, easy answer to the problem of what to do about offensive eyesores? Stop looking at 'em. Slimy vase water, cheap CD players, big screen TVs, pianos--even 'ugly' pianos: they're all evidence of real life going on in a room, and therefore, they're good. Really good. So don't sweat it. Magnaverde Rule No. 4O: Sometimes, the easiest thing to change is our attitude....See Moreslow... slow food, slow life, slow bicycle... slow
Comments (30)Also older than ... and glad to be above rather than under the ... dirt. Anyone remember 78 mm. ... no, that was r.p.m. ... records? And the needle being on a circular disk that one lifted off of the record and put up, over and back to be held in place above the arm that swung back and forth over the record but didn't move up or down? Our "Party line" phone was a big brown wooden box on the wall with a metal thing like a tulip sticking out of the front into which you talked, and a line with a black tube on the end that hung on a yoke sticking out of the side of the phone, that lifted when you took the receiver off to listen, which connected the phone to the line, by making the contacts with the large batteries inside. If you wanted to call some other person on your line, after listening to see whether the line was busy, you turned a crank on the right side to make the double bells on the front of the phone ring, in a code of short and long rings, which rang in everyone else's phone on the line, and the ones whose code it was answered ... sometimes others did, as well (almost always remaining silent while doing so). If you wanted to call someone on another party line, you pushed a black button on the left side of the phone and turned the aforementioned crank on the right side, which silenced all of the bells on your line and sent a signal to the operator on the central switchboard and she connected you to the other line and pushed a button or turned a crank to ring the code of the person to whom you wanted to talk. ole joyfuelled ... who liked eating at the dining room table ... in the large kitchen...See MoreFsal
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