Puglover1
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panalilies Lily, tell me about it. They're midgets, in flower. WTH? I don't know why they are so short. I don't know if/when they might stretch. I started them in the A-G which is the same as starting in cubes which I have seen others do. I'm just trying to expose the buds to light and hope their weight will help pull the stems outward from the main. They're stacking buds but just too close to the main stem. I haven't counted them, except for Chewy. Trying to make something good come out of Chewy, much more new growth in a day but will it stretch much, since it's budding? The lights are in range. Right now I'm tucking leaves under the hooks' tops. Still considering starting an auto outside but even though today isn't as warm it was hot out back just sweeping dry tree leaves off my deck. The pugs were hiding in the yard in shade, waiting to go back inside. The south-facing full sun is a cooker today. I have a metal pergola with four posts screwed into my deck, the sliding shade got ripped apart last August, I can't even put my 9' umbrella over the table because the pergola's top metal bars are in the way. Long story, I have two insurance checks sitting here, I've saved up the $1K deductible, the carpenter is on vacation, he needs to come back and price the labor on the pergola. My basement floor got cracked wall-to-wall, spiderwebbed, humped up in the middle, after the IL hurricane here last August 11th. This Mother's Day I swept water from 4-5 am while it poured rain (cat came upstairs with wet paws or I wouldn't have known) but I made little headway bc of the new middle floor hump. Waiting for insurance on that - an engineer? Concrete guy that came to look is a concrete lifter, this isn't his jam. Been here 37 years, the floor changed overnight but everyone trying to say it's just age. Age doesn't stop water from flowing toward a floor drain by design. After the storm a bunch of rusty gunk came up out of somewhere, I swept it toward the main floor drain but that wasn't draining. Used 8 XL puppy pads to soak up enough water to try to even see the drain. I've had Roto-Rooter here two times since the storm. Only had someone here one time in the first 36 years because of tree roots. I lost my beautiful front yard in a 2010 derecho, no roots to blame. Now that's it's been soo dry lately my loosened-by-the-storm deck boards are popping up but when someone is here to look it's not dry, doesn't happen. I'm finding new loose spots where siding pieces meet, and loose fascia in places that I can reach, see. I know this sounds horrible but I wish the house would've just imploded, collapsed. Like, if I had a fire I'd rather have a complete loss than deal with a bunch of misc stuff while living elsewhere in between. The 2010 derecho, it'll be 11 years a week from today, took four insurance adjustors to get my roof replaced and the metal hurricane plates over the eaves hammered down flat again. Just over 11 months when the repairs were completed and new rain gutters installed. I had trees on my house and deck, could only exit via the back door of the garage, yard looked like a war zone. Every house on my block had several trees on them. Some trees down the street were turned 180 degrees, here they uprooted and took down a lot with them. My kitchen felt like standing in an arboretum. First house to get power back but many things got ruined because of a power surge, my best laptop ever, my fridge (95 degrees with tropical humidity), range, DirecTV boxes. The replaced patio door got ruined by this next storm. There are no trees left that could land on my house but here I am again. Wind damage but not from trees. I used everything I had here to keep the pugs from escaping the damaged fence, new patio blocks that were bought for a different project, landscape timbers, spare fence posts, garden fencing with zip ties. I just wanna run away from home. I need my basement floor to drain if we get torrential rains, 50-year floods, but I can't imagine how they fix it - empty out the whole basement??