I think he is cute. I hope you gave Mr. hopping flycatcher a good home outside of the pits, but maybe in the yard? You won't regret it. I had a pair living in the leaf litter under my alba roses. Between them and the birds, I had very few flies, and I lived in dairy country.

I am beginning to learn that there is quite a large difference between talking about a garden, penning casual notes about plants, and writing down precise observations. I spent most of my morning crawling through a garden to get a good look at emerging ferns, lichens, and mosses, and I seem to be encountering an uncommon number of road blocks to clear verbal expression. While I find it easy to distinguish between lichens on the one hand, and liverworts and mosses on the other, I have troubles telling one species from another (except for the most obvious ones). It also seems there should be a better way to describe the delicate green whorls sent up by mosses -- besides the mundane "stems and leaves." And how about their textures, their dryness or moistness of surfaces, films or dustings, and the flowing shapes of their dimpled mounds? Even now, at the height of winter, when few flowers bloom, I am grasping for words to properly describe them. Unfortunately, English has too few words to describe flowers (I'm trying to stay away from horticultural or scientific jargon that means little or nothing to the average reader), and there are only so many times I can use the terms blossom, bloom, blow, floret, flower, inflorescence, at al. without becoming annoyed by constant repetition. But the good news is that even in January, the dreariest month of the year, I can find a lot in my garden to write about. Oh, well. 'Nuff of that. Back to the garden.

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Oh, funnycide (death by being funny?), how I wish so hard that that was the case here. I'm so glad for you, though. You're tile guy deserves a cupcake for all of that, at least. I sent a calm email early this morning. Among the highlights, I wrote: - a brief description of that morning to jog his memory - my firm decision that these tiles cannot stay on that porch - a request for a "mini-break" so all players can return to a better equilibrium going forward - that if he needed to get those tiles off ASAP (per Bill), that he should come after 12noon (so I could be there, but I didn't say that...for all he knew, the drywall guy needed to be there during that time, which has happened a little bit in the last ten days) but re-iterated the needing-a-break thing for the next little bit. He didn't acknowledge the email. He came anyway. He came this morning instead of afternoon. He didn't remove any tiles. He left me a note to not do so either (which I wouldn't anyway, and wrote him in this morning's email that I would not without his say-so and instructions how to not damage the tiles or underlayment). I know he read the email from this morning, given the contents of his note. And the fact that he didn't stay to work. I don't think the way to handle a problem that stems from not listening to the customer (face-to-face)is to blatantly ignore what the customer requests (in an email). It's kind of freakin' disrespectful at this point. So the tiles are still there, still curing harder and harder, and now it is the weekend. Now what? A contractor that I know who does extremely high-end remodels told me that his entire job now is following the various subs around making sure they actually do what they are supposed to. He told me that the phrase he uses most often as GC is "rip it out" followed by "do it again, and this time, according to spec." He says this is basically his whole day. Two million dollar reno he headed last year had three separate tile crews; only one actually finished the job, and even they had to rip out the whole foyer because they did 1/4" grout line instead of the 1/16" specified like a gazillion times, including five minutes before they started setting it. This GC (not mine, can't afford him, but he's fun for stories) also says he posts details specific to that area everywhere through a build, clearly, many copies, taped to walls so subs have easy reference, etc. Nothing - NOTHING - stops the "mistakes." Regarding tile, he has actually layed out the tile in the order to be set, layed out the room, snapped the lines himself, yada, yada, yada...and they still disregard it sometimes. This is a guy who does beautiful, solid, conscientious work. And even he ended up on his knees, grouting 1200 feet of tile at 11pm because that crew just never showed to grout the final bit. (He did it himself to get the floor done in time for the next part of the schedule to start on time). For those of you who wonder, he never heard from them again (a respected crew in our town) even though they only got half the money. Think about that: they let go of HALF the money because they wouldn't show up to grout. It's disheartening.