I can relate to some of the comments above. Although all the plants do not have to be planted in my yard before I will buy more. If the price is right, it will come home with me. I have been known to be an enabler. You have been gardening too long...or have the addiction real bad when... You are sitting with friends for a barbeque and all you can think of is wanting to be home instead because of the work that needs to be done in your own yard whether it is the weeding of a certain flowerbed or planting of a perennial that you just bought. Or, you go to visit someone and in your mind you are planning your friend's landscaping for her and thinking of how nice it would look for a certain perennial you have at home to be also planted in your friend's yard. You go for a drive through town and you are looking at how others have taken care of their yards. You can't fully understand why some people just couldn't be bothered to even take care of the flowerbeds that are in the front of their house. When your DH takes over on planting and taking care of the vegetable garden because he realizes that the perennial beds are where you want to spend your time and because they are so large you need to spend your time in them. People come up to you or phone you and start asking your advice on perennials or plants that they are having a problem with. You would rather spend your summer vacation in your yard with your blooming flowers than sitting at a lakeside somewhere. You call up a friend and want to tell them all about the new perennial that is blooming for the first time. Brenda

No hay bales - we lived in MPLS. And since you asked :-) Our house wasn't all that primitive really. It was well insulated. It had double glazed windows. It was built in 1920! My father built it. He built several hundred. He said he had built 3 with the double glazing. When I asked why only 3 he said people just were not ready for something like that. There were several other things which I don't remember that he passed on for the same reason. He was way ahead of his time. He was a graduate engineer and understood things not just some joker that nailed houses together. I know he had trouble getting his carpenters to build things differently than they'd done it since time began. They would bauk at the simplest innovation. The windows on the first floor were single hung and the bottom part of the window sash continued down into the wall and supported a screen. So when you raised/opened the window the screen came up. That way no storm windows or external screens were needed. The upstairs had French Door windows and I don't know if they were double glazed. I spect so but I did move away in 1959. The bedroom windows might have been double hung. I recall the double glazed windows came on the market right after WW2 because salesmen were always at the door. I was 10 then. My oldest sister, 18 years older, told me Pop had patented that concept and nobody could make em till his patent ran out I guess about mid WW2. I have searched the USPTO and cannot find his patent for that but he did have 6 patents on other things. If you Google "who invented DH windows" it will show they were invented in the early '30s by Libby Ownen Ford but searching the USPTO for "Double-Hung" back to 1790 I found the earliest was 1922 by an individual - not LOF. Perhaps another search term would find more. So my sister must have been wrong and for that matter so is Google. Perhaps Pop tried but couldn't - dunno. Mom died in 1989 and I flew back from Ca and was locked out. Ha! I pried up one of the bedroom windows that I knew the screen was split (had been since before I was born) and crawled in. The neighbors called the cops. :-) They switched from coal to oil before I was born in '35 then to gas when I was about 10. Pop's machine shop had a furnace with a big floor register maybe 4-5 feet square. We'd get our coats on then stand on that for a few minutes let the heat soak up in before going out. My sister's (17 years older) house (near the Canadian border) had a bathtub. I took a bath in it in 1959 then moved to California. Next time I took a tub bath was 1997 when I came back to visit. How incredibly rustic. Well that's enough reminicing from an old man so I'll pinch it off here.

Outlets are feed one after another from the permanent wiring. The receptacles themselves are sometimes used to make the connection between the incoming power wires and the outgoing power wires to feed the next receptacle. A loose connection on these wires could cause the outlet itself to get warm.

This rock makes a statement in the garden. the light makes you feel all warm inside.