I’m Afraid of My Antique Bedspread! Can You Help?
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I'm afraid for my coonties
Comments (7)Perhaps you can visit the Butterfly Rainforest at UF and talk with someone there who might be able to give you some advice. The other person who you might be able to call are the owners of Greathouse Butterfly Farm, located in Earleton, FL which is northeast (I think) of Gainesvile. They raise butterflies - a great place to visit by the way. Since they deal with host plants and Coonties are a host plant for the Atala, they might be able to give you some info. Good luck. The phone number I have for Greathouse is 352-475-2088 but that is from a long time ago - the web site is www.greathousebutterflies.com...See MoreSuperFund Site now in my garden, I'm afraid
Comments (15)Lucille, Before you decide that I need to work on repairing my relationship, can I just tell you of another, similar in some sort of intent, that happened some time ago......... We remodeled our kitchen, including the countertops. I used 6" ceramic tiles on the countertops. They looked great. One of the countertops was between two tall cabinets, and across two base cabinets, in another part of the kitchen. Because the cabinets were a white/glaze (before our time, but we decided to keep them) and the floor was a white ceramic, and we used a lighter tile, then decided to use red on the soft items in the kitchen (towels, curtains, etc.), when it came time to get the new tilework grouted, for this small area I chose the 'cayenne red' grout. What a pop of color this would make, I thought. Well, as I completed my first row of tile (I've done this many times before, incidentally), I decided that it would not do. I work slowly, but the finished product is always perfect. I decided not to go on, that the color was not what I thought I wanted. I was standing, looking critically at it, making a final decision, when DH came into the kitchen. He wanted to know how I was doing, and I said that I was not happy with the way it looked. I was gently picking at the red grout, trying to ascertain how much of a mess it was going to make as I removed it. Well, Lucille, he then proceeded to take the ENTIRE bucket of grout and turn it upside-down onto the counter, grabbed the trowel and roared "Well, here's the way you're supposed to do it" as he began to quickly smear the grout from one side to another. I almost fainted, that he would come in there and as I was beginning to remove what I had already put between the tiles, he piled an entire bucket on to the surface. It took me a couple of hours to repair that damage. I later chose another bucket of the basic, neutral color we used on the other countertops, but not before several hours of cleaning, scraping and wiping up cayenne red grout, incredulous that he could have done this, the entire time. it has taken me more than that to try to repair the thoughtless damage he caused by piling ground-up road, chunks of tar and rocks, dust of unknown composition onto my previously pristine, organic garden. So, before you criticize my relationship, perhaps you should have thought that you did not know all the facts! :)...See Moreafraid to walk in my apt - I'm the noisy neighbor
Comments (13)I had the same problem. It was horrendous. We were harassed by a nut who lived below us for 4 years in our apartment building, and who called our walking "stomping". We are an older quiet couple, don't entertain at home, have the entire apartment covered with 2 layers of rugs and walk in our bare feet. Like the above, we go to bed late, but our main habits are reading, TV at low volume and getting bedtime snacks. But this was not good enough for the neurotic man below us who gradually escalated his complaints every time we tried to be even quieter, and we were already quiet - nobody in our entire lives had ever complained about us and we have lived in apartments all our lives. We never play loud music, and we as I said walk in socks on two layers of rugs, wall-to-wall rugs. In the end as we decided to consult a lawyer and fight back, he moved out! What a relief! And the strange thing is, this couple actually caused US problems beyond their harassment of us through emails, verbal complaints and trumping up complaints to the Board. Ever since he moved in, the bed we slept in had strange sensations running through it. It's hard to explain but the only apt analogy is Havana syndrome. There were odd sensory movements coming through our mattress, and interfered with our sleep on a daily basis. A couple of months before they moved, my husband finally got the nerve to question him about if he had any electronic equipment right under our bed that might be causing these strange sensations. He completely denied it and showed us their bedroom which had a work area (hidden) not quite directly under our bed. I know this person had a background in science and don't know what he was up to with his computer under our bed. I know this sounds absolutely nuts, but after they moved out these sensations abruptly stopped. I'll never know what caused these weird sensations in our bed, but they were extremely disconcerting. I never complained publicly because how do you explain this? One more thing, I was always wondering when we lived there if he was trying to intimidate us, as older people, out of our apartment, because we own one of the prized top floor apartments in the building....See MoreI need HELP! I'm afraid I've ruined my hardwood floor.
Comments (3)Oh yes it is stained. We've been in our house for 10 years. The floors are still (or were until I ruined them) beautiful oak, finished on site, stained and polyed with a non gloss finish. Sorry but I hate the shiney floor look. We have lots of pet, furniture and people marks all over but they hardly show. However this giant ugly orange stain from the plant basket...YUK!...See MoreRelated Professionals
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