Recent content by flowerbug

when you join a HOA that is what you get and are signing up for, if you don't want to be in one don't join it - very simple. it is actually a freedom to make that choice or not. HOAs are not that... we could not have the home we'd like being in a HOA so we're not a part of that here where we...

such a facinating creature :)

i do not use the Oxford comma as i see it does not reflect how i would say it, no pause, no room for that and it is a waste of such a huge effort...

is that area really dry or facing west? if so try to set up some small piles of detritus and keep them slightly moist and shaded somehow.

... i've been wondering how you were doing there, glad to hear from you and hoping the setbacks will be resolved.

they need to be maintained... probably just them wanting to keep it simple.

true. we built a treefort, it was pretty nice, someone complained and we had to take it down, we had a big clunky chain and a rope. we tried to pull it down with the chain which was tied to the rope that was tied to the tree house. as we were pulling the rope broke and that big chain came...

i was so excited about taking the trash and recycling out this morning that i woke up almost four hours early. i didn't get back to sleep but i did have a nice breakfast (a bowl of chili with shredded cheese and some mustard on top). after i got everything out there (walking through the few...

yes, make me two with everything!

so true... :)

you swiped @digitS' pic!

as long as she will sit when people ask her to sit that is a big help.

i've done enough driving in all sorts of stuff that i don't want to do any more of it.

obpedant in an e-mail address itself i don't add any spaces after the period. in plain text i add two spaces after the period. in actual plain text e-mails i add a blank line and two spaces at the beginning of each paragraph. in posts for forums like this one that format the text i don't add...

i got sidetracked and forgot to answer your questions and ... see if you can find a nearby woodland with good dark tree litter and detritus underneath it and harvest a small amount of that and see if that helps when you put it around one of the affected plants. often times there are predatory...