Heh, me not being a real Floridian, my comments are always going to be second-tier...but that said, my favorite home/garden on my walking route when down in Fort Myers has a wonderful yard with shell paths. They look perfect to me! I'd be doing that if.....blah blah. As to the sereptitious harvesting of forest products in Florida, I can tell you with certainty that a great deal of land clearing-not logging-but the wholesale conversion of land from forest into shopping mall, walmart, condo complex, first involves the stripping off and piling up of all trees, followed by chipping straight into vans (semi trailers) for bagging and selling. Up here in the north, nearly every gas station/C-store features pallets full of bagged cypress mulch all growing season long. Sad business, I wish I could even approach believing that all this material is simply lumber mill byproducts. It clearly is not. Then too, while species like the slash pine (Pinus elliota) do indeed grow extremely fast down in Florida, almost all of this material is also coming from land clearing-not logging operations. It is said that the pine flatwoods-once far and away the most common native plant community in Florida-is being cleared and converted into development at so alarming a rate that this will soon become the rarest forest type. That's a sad deal, as these are forests of rare beauty, not to mention their being homes for a wide array of wildlife. Now the Florimulch is-to the best of my ability to ascertain-a truly ecologically friendly material, being produced from Malaleuca. BTW, that species is nearly extirpated in its Australian homeland!

Looks like he worst of the year is coming to me this week in Ocala. Calling for between 21 and 23 degrees for the next three nights. I hope it's not as bad for you guys further south. I just got three new mangoes so hopefully they make it ok. I also decided this week that I am going to plant most of my mangoes in the ground this spring. They will have to be tightly spaced but I am going to plant probably 6 of them where they will be covered by the greenhouse in the winter. I am tired of seeing half of the growth/fruit that I should be getting.

Brutuses, Usually I'll go out and look for 'Bouillotte lamp' or 'candlestick lamp'. This one was truly an accident, as it had that description of 'Elegant Solid Brass Base dual bulb Table Lamp w/ Shade'. I may have been looking for something else that day (I forget!) and saw that the seller had a nice item, and then clicked on View Sellers Other Items. I do that often when I find one nice item that a seller has. And, I ask questions! If the shipping seems too high, which it often is now due to eBay's calculator that they have sellers 's use, I'll question it. Most often the seller writes back lamenting that shipping calculator, and gives me a much lower correct fee. In cases like that, perhaps others have seen a high shipping fee and decided not to bid, and I luck out because I questioned it. I do a quick check of my Craigslist at least once a day, and the same with eBay. Some of my best finds are due to the seller using a description like this one, which didn't have key words in it. It was too vague to show up in a specific search - 'brass' and 'lamp' were the only words I might have hit on with some of my searches.

Best thing to do is email me. I'd be happy to send you a quote for doing your project. Sometimes it's worth it for us to travel, other times it's hard for us to keep our costs down. But either way I'll send you a quote so you can compare where youâÂÂre at and where we fall. I've gone up your way 2 times now. Seems we do travel quite a bit. It's kind of sad when I'm doing a quote and I think that 3 hours away isn't that bad. . .lol Thank you for your interest in us. . .it means a lot.