If you don'tususally read the perennials forum, I'd love to hear your answer to my question "How Did This Happen?" It'll give you something else to obsess about besides Christmas. Marie

The only major thing I lost is a Peace rose. I don't coddle it the way they say to with covering, it had survived the previous winter but not the last one. I figure if plants can't survive the winter on their own, then they are not the plant for me! I really only got that since Menards had them almost free with rebate, and figured a Peace rose was appropriate for my Peace Garden. I am getting really sick of the cannas and dahlias that my in-laws gave me in the past few years. I told them to stop giving me things I have to plant and unplant, I hate that. I am very frugal, but I get my gladiolas free from Menards (with rebate) and mostly pretend they are annuals. Life is too short to have to dig things up and replant them every year. I have 5 acres, so already plenty more to do than I can possibly handle. Julie, do you want some potted cannas and dahlias? I just stuck the last darn ones in pots a few days ago, I am refusing to put them into the earth anymore. Easier to carry the pots into the basement in the fall and back out in the spring. Marcia

How did the county know the property was split, wouldn't they require a copy of the plat showing the now two pieces of property? The county doesn't look at the plat. It uses the legal description in the deed. Without a deed or a court order, the property doesn't transfer. Surveys aren't always done, and when done, aren't always recorded. Locals rules may vary on this, of course. Someone wrote a legal description of the property to be split off. If it wasn't taken from a survey, the description may be faulty. You can have a faulty legal description corrected, but it is an extra step, and someone may contest it. BTW, if there is no current survey, the title insurance you receive will not cover boundary disputes.

Thank you everyone! I agree that some of the questions are weird. Some of them weren't her doing - the professor suggested they use prevalidated question sets where possible, so the science related questions came from an official survey question set used by other researchers. I thought those questions in particular were weird and had a hard time answering them. The mask question - I agree it could be worded better, I think she probably meant when you were going to be around people not if you were just in your car or out in your own yard or whatever. But she can't change the wording now without invalidating all the responses so people will just have to answer how they see fit. I guess if she were an official survey writer, they would pilot the survey on a test group first to get feedback like that, but because it's a class, I guess this is part of the learning experience. Anyhow, thanks again for taking the time to help her -- as of last night she had over 300 responses which is awesome!