Any lady over the age of 80 knows what a posey is, and is thrilled to receive one. Typically made up of a small bouquet of Violets and/or Pansies with just about anything else used as a filler, tie a ribbon around the stems and present it. You've just made your first Posey. They have the power to brighten anyone's day. You could even use Dandelions! Anything will do. Just keep it small. Use tiny jars, cream pitchers, bud vases, jelly glasses, liquor sample bottles, anything small to put them in. I keep them lined up on my kitchen windowsill all Spring and Summer and look fwd to making my first one of the year soon.

You bet! Only one night, though. Postponed til next weekend, 19th of March. Too windy this weekend. Posies won't pose.....Wind really howled across the mesas. Definitely going next weekend, though.....

Condensation/Humidity could easily be responsible for that much moisture. I would have someone who is qualified to diagnose these type of issues look at the home. What is the exterior of the come clad in? What type of flashing was used? Drip edge?

Chris, thanks for the link. Steven Pinker is an excellent man! Vee, I will wager that you have heard or read different than, but perhaps it didn't register. 'Course, there's no way I can prove it. :-) Here are a few examples from well-known writers, cited in the OED: She, too, had one day hoped for a different lot than to be wedded to a little gentleman who rapped his teeth. -- William Makepeace Thackeray, Pendennis Oliver Goldsmith used different than. 18th century ...and when Helen handed it to me, I said, "I thought these things were different than they used to be." -- James Thurber, letter, 31 July 1952 I'm no different than you. -- Frank Shorter, quoted in Springfield (Mass.) Daily News, 3 June 1986 Different than isn't always wrong -- even to pedants. 'Than' is sanctioned when a comparison is made with a full clause following; e.g., The town is different than it was in my youth. It can be argued that it is the more economical, less clumsy construction. To say the same thing with from: The town is different from how it was in my youth. Whichever sounds better to you is the way you should say it, but with the awareness that a person who says it the other way is not wrong, though that person may be willing to say that you are! Different than follows the same model as 'other than' and 'rather than.' The different from/to/than controversy began in the late nineteenth century (1897), according to the OED. All three forms had been used prior -- as far back as Shakespeare -- but the pedants got together to impose their exalted opinions on all the common speakers, and it's been hell ever since. ;-)