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Jeffrey R. Grenz, General Contractor
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Butterfly Tracking App
Comments (4)There are many, many people who love to watch butterflies as they flit through the air slowly and gracefully. If you never have, you certainly should! Butterflies provide beauty in an often ugly world. They give us insight into the world of nature and how wonderful and complex it is. But the butterfly is much more than that. Butterflies are some of the most beautiful and interesting creatures on Earth. A butterfly garden is an easy way to see more butterflies and to help them, since many natural butterfly habitats have been lost to human activities like building homes, roads and farms. It is easy to increase the number and variety of butterflies in your yard. Creating a butterfly garden should start with some serious research to learn which kinds of butterflies are native to your area. You can learn that from this book âÂÂAttract Butterflies To Your GardenâÂÂ. Here are some points you should focus: A. Make a list of all of the different kinds of butterflies you would like to attract, and then learn which flowers and plants they both feed on and lay eggs on. B. Plant the âÂÂButterfly Host Plantsâ to lay their eggs on. C. You can add some butterfly garden accessories like a Butterfly House, which has slots the ideal size for keeping birds out while giving butterflies protection from the wind and weather, and are beautiful garden decorations. You could offer an additional nectar source close by to supplement your flowers. D. Once you have designed and started your butterfly garden, you can be proud that you have made a habitat for butterflies in your own yard, which helps with the conservation of the many species of quickly disappearing butterflies today. You will certainly want to place your favorite outdoor furniture near so that you can enjoy all of your visitors day after day. Here is a link that might be useful: Attract Butterflies To Your Garden...See MoreSun tracking app
Comments (2)Dang! I was hoping someone would answer! What is the app that you have? We are looking at buying a new house and having a vege garden is one of our must haves. Many of the older neighborhoods are so shady! Nancy...See MoreSelf contracting app/software for home building
Comments (36)Why do you think it is taking longer? TLDR: See millworkman's comment - It really goes back to economies of scale, all things being equal, your house is less attractive to a sub-contractor, than someone who represents continued work. This is an absolute certainty and there are largely three ways to combat this. Hire someone who the sub will see as an opportunity for continued work to represent you (that is usually a G.C.), or pay more money so that the sub sees your job as more attractive, or find someone that has limited opportunities to work with G.C.'s (this can either be someone who does high quality work at a high price or low quality work for a mid price). Without one of those three things happening you need to anticipate delays. It is possible that your build will happen without any sub-contractor delays, however in most of the U.S. right now, that would be the exception and not the rule. Note: only a few years ago the situation was quite different so be wary of stories where everything went right a few years ago. Those delays can and do add cost, and you should anticipate their arrival and work to minimize their impact. ----- The most important thing about self contracting a project, is being honest with yourself about your abilities. That supposed savings is seductive, yet for most people it doesn't materialize, and not because it wasn't available, simply because those people were chasing savings over creating savings. The things that create savings for self-G.C.ing homes are actually the exact same things that would lead to some success as a contractor were you to enter that business. For example, a large part of G.C.ing is managing your time and schedule well, if you are excellent at managing time and scheduling, then you may create value, and if you were a G.C. that would be a viable pathway to value creation for clients. Or maybe you or your spouse are incredibly talented with construction, having done it for years, or maybe you are incredible at visualization and design so you can communicate and achieve your design efficiently. With all of these things, you are still going to encounter the economies of scale problem, but may still create some savings because of your skill set. However, most people want the savings without any efficiencies to create savings, and attempt to simply cut out a step in the value chain. That rarely works. G.C.'s create value, denying that value is a foolish move. Working to substitute your value for theirs might pay off, and it might not. But either way, they are earned savings and not simply avoided costs....See MoreGardeners: how to do track your garden? Anyone recommend an app?
Comments (21)I started with a spreadsheet. It turned into too much info to remember and my laptop is not easily accessible in the garden, so it was all but useless. :-) So now I keep notes on my phone. One note contains an inventory of plants within each garden section of my yard, listed according to when they bloom. Then a Garden Care note, which contains a seasonal maintenance checklist for relevant plants. The third note is a general To Dos - random upkeep, transplants, or dividing I listed last year that I wanted to accomplish this year, new plants I want to consider, etc., according to the season in which they should ideally happen. Finally, I have a whole folder of bookmarks in my browser sectioned off for plants I want to buy, those I have, and related care. If I type "nepeta" into my browser, all related bookmarks appear. Or I can hunt for what I need in the bookmarks manually. It took a little time to build - researching and bookmarking for each plant tag - but totally worth it! When I'm in the garden, there's pretty much nothing now that I don't have on my phone and I can make notes for the next week, the next season or next year when it's fresh on my mind, along with relevant pics (oh! I have a gardening section of photos by year too!). I may win the "too much time on my hands" contest now, lol!...See Moreulisdone
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