I was up too late....:-( of course you confirmed, Paula. Peren.all, are you saying you had to go to Last Name to add zone? I entered it on same line under First Name. When I first logged in (confirmed) (seems like ages ago now) my username "josephines67" appeared without the zone etc because that information, Houzz staff explained later as members were having problems navigating, did not transfer over...so I tried the First Name box and typed in exactly what my name was before without having to change it. Then I browsed around a bit within my profile, etc. to see what touching a field produced. I guess I was lucky as it was an easy transition. We could not change our username at GW (I tried months ago) so I didn't think we could here either...I admit I didn't even try. You'll get help locating your other info soon...hang in there!

@joe - that was a fun thread to read, thanks for sharing. JC in that thread chose to start this healing process in mid-July but I didn't find the reason of his timing. Given the condition of the grass (mostly like the first pic in thread), and where I am (east coast, Toronto), with weather right now being around 40F at night and 70F during the day, with showers throughout the week, which month should I be starting the same process JC took? @mishmosh - ok cool this makes me at ease, I have the core aeration and fertilizers scheduled within the next 4 weeks @shivece - just signed up to a lawn service, surprisingly not nearly as expensive as I thought given other type of contractors cost thousands even for small jobs in GTA. The challenge now is coordinating my own efforts with the lawn service because I found out that even the best lawn services in our area does things in batch, not tailored towards specific houses. They schedule things based on optimal business operations. @charpell - makes sense, what's interesting is that no one in the neighborhood seem to water their lawn where I live, I never saw a sprinkler or manual watering, just cutting and fertilizers. Last year was the first time we were in the house so I thought it was just me not knowing what people normally do around here to keep the lawn healthy but this year I observed enough to see I was the oddball for sure

I cleaned my cache etc this morning and now my pages are Houzz. I had the dickens of a time trying to find the categories. I wanted to see what Hot Topics was doing, and when I clicked on Gardening, it doesn't give all the categories, as we know HT is listed below Hot Peppers. It took me right into Gardening discussions which I don't want. So now I manually change the houzz url to Gardenweb discussions OR click on my personal topics on the left. They are still Gardenweb. And, when it's Houzz, all of my discussion categories (KT, Cooking, etc) are all shown. I don't like that. I like browsing around Cooking or KT, I don't want all the discussions showing on the same page.

jayapple21 9 hours ago I posted the following earlier today and several folks suggested that I post it here. ******** This Houzz/gardenweb thing has been so frustrating for me. I usually follow Houzz on a desktop computer (iMac) but sometimes I use my iPad. Over time I have bookmarked a number of Houzz 'dilemmas' to follow but the ones at the top of my daily list are lia's, rred's and zaz's. All three of these are pretty long-standing dilemmas with thousands of comments over the years. Recently there seems to be a correlation between the sites with 1000s of comments and the amount of time it takes for the site to open. Dilemmas that have perhaps 50-60 comments open immediately for me but with the three that I mentioned earlier it can take a long time and often I have to try and try again to get them to open. Sometimes there is a long pause before a site opens. This is on my desktop and it only began about 2-3 weeks ago when instead of 'houzz.com' showing up as the home site it began to read 'gardenweb.com'. I understand the two sites are linked, and apparently 'gardenweb' is much older and has been around for much longer, but my difficulty in getting dilemmas to open only began when the 'gardenweb' address began showing up. It is the most frustrating thing and I have a hunch the webmaster folks at Houzz.com are NOT aware of this change that has occurred. I know diddly-squat about computers but since 'gardenweb' is an old site, and the problem I have involves getting threads with huge amounts of comments to open, I wonder if the old 'gardenweb' site just can't handle the storage volume that's been generated over the years even though it's now linked with 'houzz.com'.