"...So, I started this thread on April 26 and now everything is done..." What the...? What do you mean, YOU'RE DONE?? I am NEVER done. Ever. No matter how hard I try. In fall there are always spring chores I haven't gotten to and in spring there are always last fall's chores that weren't done. I'm with jayco, Kevin. You are very welcome to come to my garden to do some work and ease your boredom, lol! Weedy, great post! I'm younger than you but have the exact same sentiments. You nailed it right on the head, that sense of looking out and seeing what needs to be done. Sometimes we do just have to look past the weeds to the blooms and enjoy them! Dee

Hey Pattie Ann and Cynthia!! Good thing I get the notices when someone posts! One of our son inlaws has moved the majority of my hosta barrels (still planted--can you believe that!!) and many, many of the others in pots and bags to our new place--in a HUGE truck from where he works with an electric lift--thankfully! I already love the effect at the new place though I've done little more than plant 7 trees (in addition to the many 'maples' surrounding the place' and now I've purchased 7 Althea Lucy Rose of Sharon bushes and 3 Nikko Blue Hydrangea bushes (big ones). The bushes are yet to be planted, though!! We're still waiting to find a concrete guy to help us get started on transforming the 2 car garage into our bedroom and then build another garage on the end of the original! The prices we are getting are HORRENDOUS!! Praying for someone to be discovered who will do it for a more reasonable amount! We've built my 'grocery store' in the basement for food storage and several large shelving units to hold the many crates of things I'm bringing over! Meanwhile, there are still lots of hosta to be dug and divided to leave some here and take the larger portions with us! Hubby keeps telling me to take it all--and if I did there is still so much going on that the yard is very woodsy and you can hardly tell anything is taken. I will post pix someday, I'm sure! I just wish I had taken some 'before' pix of the new place sans the hosta barrels and pots!!! We come home late everyday and we collapse very soon after we get home. I get on the computer long enough to check the mail and do a little researching and maybe a short 'game' to relax and then off to bed! Thanks for asking Cynthia and thinking of me! Pataan--definitely remember that evening we were together at that place and Steve and I speak of it often! Talk about a potentially much worse situation after backing into that guys' bike----!!! Whew!!! I was anticipating a HUGE BIKER DUDE coming out and slamming Steve up against the van! LOL Not funny--really if it had turned out that way but I can laugh now that it didn't!!! hahahaha Oh, and Phil and his wife, Diane, stopped over in Dayton Tuesday evening (coming from N.C. to Michigan.) and we met them for dinner! we really enjoyed being with them again. They left the following day to be at Ken's by noon! I do hope they made it in time to spend enough time rummaging through his gazillion hosta and still get to Diane's sister's in time for dinner!! Hope to see pix when Phil gets back!! janice

I just heard that they put satin down yesterday. I'll look at it before they do more. They didn't do anything wrong since I did originally say I didn't want any shine to the floors, but that was before I talked to the builder's wife. Maybe we could have the next coat be semi-gloss for some durability before finishing with another coat of satin. I need to ask and make sure how many coats they were going to do; I guess we could always go ahead and pay for an extra coat if we need to. It seems the standard is 3 coats? (from reading gardenweb) It's not convenient to get to the house everyday, but I will get out to see the floors before they do anymore to them. Thanks.

Trying to think like the likely spammer: //start speculating The new poster started with a tease. They gave no link in the first post, knowing it would probably be flagged as spam. They were hoping someone would ask for a link but no one did. A post or two later, since no one asked for a link, they gave an email, thinking that might lead to a request for a link and be somewhat less likely to get flagged. At some point, even if not asked for, they would have come back and inserted the link. At that point they'd have nothing to lose. //end speculating I searched for the email address. The results lead me to what looked to be a Chinese listing of masks that may or may not have been okay. But what I most noticed was that they sure weren't anywhere near fifty cents each. Even buying a quantity they were closer to nine dollars each. To me, it appeared they were hoping to snag desperate buyers in order to profit from the pandemic by selling masks at an outrageous price.