Jean is in an older neighborhood above the football stadium. I'm worried about Ione who is out on the flat land near Lebanon. Florence Alabama had a huge slug of water come down stream (Shoal Creek) from Tennessee and the marina our boat WAS in broke loose and got stuck under the US 27 bridges over Shoal Creek Lary drove down to help at where the marina used to be early this am after we had a call that it had torn loose. There was no problem going to Chattanooga and then west because the storm sped up (My roses got 3.06" of rain in 36 hours in two slugs.) The link below takes you to a link...four piers broke loose, not two. That newspaper somewhere also has a slide show up of the piers (several of which are still stuck under the bridges). Here is a link that might be useful: A video from way to the south of Nashville

leahcate, no not a blog, but I had hoped that the many "area" garden shots included in the yearly pages would perhaps give you some ideas. mollycats and kpaquette, thank you! It has been a labor of love but the results are well worth it. phyl345, sorry no, not retired. Wish I could be but no such luck. Work full time. We garden in zone 4/5 southern Wisconsin. You should be able to grow most everything that I do. I usually plant zone 4 plants, but do stretch to zone 5 occasionally. We have about 100 roses and perhaps 80-90 named daylilies as well as many other perennials. I do spend time on the Cottage Garden forum as well as the Rose forum. Lots of great forums and posters here!

The website was too slow... I moved it to a faster computer. If your website has a lot of graphics, it makes a big difference! I also changed the name... but it's really the same. Here is a link that might be useful: Stellula's Graphic Smorgasbord

you really need to post the whole first floor layout and elevations to see window placement, overhangs etc. Also which direction is north and what climate are you in? Most folks here will not comment on isolated parts of a house because a house has to work as a whole and all parts need to be in relation to one another. While the layout looks fine as is if you only have windows on the ends it will make for a very dark home