ok, enough of this doom and gloom coming from the next FULL MOON!!! heres your chance to post what you need 'done' around the house and unable to do yourself. we have top talent here and someone will come to your rescue if you let us know your need! lets see, mawsy needs wallpaper pulled off and Susan B has offered if someone will help cut her butterfly bushes back? wheres all our expert gardners?? me too i have the sweetest pair of little wrens set up housekeeping in my FAVORITE daisy pot right next to the front door. the blooms are awesome and i have no clue how to water like it needs and not disturb her nest with 5 little eggss...OOHHHHH ! so sweet! i peek all the time when shes out. they are darling. i will give up the plant if i have too. i need help.! ideas please??
add your needs and someone will show up to help with their expertise---?? and pizzas and lots of wine/spirits we could all use this week!divvi
ps it may only be in cyber land we can offer help but believe me you will see that the offers that someone is there to offer (something we dont see much in AD world) it will life your spirits!
divvi-I had a hanging basket right out my front door. Teenagers constantly in and out. On day while I was watering the plant up pops mama dove who gives me the evil eye. I had been watering mama and her babies for at least a week with no harm done to the birds. I say water away. A WalMart near my house posted a note in one of their large shrubs. The bush had been purchased but would remain in the store until the bird eggs had hatched and the babies had flown the coop. Made everybody happy
divvi, I'm blessed to have wrens build in a hanging basket every year, but this year they built in the wreath on the front door. Too sweet. I always watered around them in the hanging basket, for fear of the nest being too exposed if I let the plants die. If you water slowly and gently, it should be fine. Pay back? Get your son to take a digital photo of those 'huas and e-mail it. (-: Or not. Either way is okay. ((((hugs))))
Vickie, I love working outdoors. I'm a lawnmowing fool, but pulling weeds is okay. Pay back? Hamburgers, hot dogs, pizza. Gourmet is great, but not necessary.
Susan B, I wish my butterfly bushes grew big enough to need pruning. So far they haven't, but I could give yours a haircut.
Mawzy, It's been many a year since I've taken down wallpaper, but I'm willing to give it a try, and I've been wanting to meet you and see Noche. (-:
Susan L., How big are those trees? My chain saw is only a 14" one and I haven't tried it since the chain came off and I put it back on, but hopefully it still works. I can manage little jobs.
Anyone here love to do housecleaning? Don't I remember bluedaze washing floors in the middle of the night? (-:
I'm lucky enough to have an international student packing and carrying boxes of books to go to a book sale today. He is from Hungary and his name is Attila. He came here to be on the swim team. He's even working with my husband in his office, and boxes of books are coming out so hopefully they are making progress in decluttering.
I need someone to grade papers for me. I'll share the dinner I have in the over--a casserole with a bottom layer of chopped cabbage, then a can of white beans, then ground lamb cooked with onions, turkish spices, white raisins, and some pieces of preserved lemon. I saved some whole cabbage leaves and used them as a top layer to keep in the steam. If I ate potatoes I would have made the top layer mashed potatoes.
That sounds great! I love preserved lemons. Did you make them yourself, pam? You can come send along A. the Hun when he finishes demolishing your husband's office!!
The primary thing I need here is decluttering. However, you have to deal with my husband to do that, and he doesn't give up anything willingly! Something else I might need is someone to cut down a tree. There's a pin oak right outside our sunroom that DH doesn't like, and he says he's going to cut it down. He even bought a small tree to replace it. I think I derailed it for right now, because I told him it will cut the shade for the sunroom a lot. I talked him into putting the new tree somewhere else. The issue will come up again, though. I have visions of a tree falling into the sunroom and having to replace a lot of windows!
I may be odd, but I sort of like to do housecleaning once the clutter is gone. I will dust and vacuum, do dishes, iron - whatever. Or how about some homemade chicken and noodles, chocolate chip cookies, pie, bread - all things I don't eat much of because of diabetes. I don't cook much any more, but I like to when there's someone to eat it who appreciates it.
bluedaze, I could send my DH to do that. Remember, he used the battery operated brush I kept in the bathroom cabinet to clean his dentures. NOT a toothbrush - but he said it really worked well.
well along with those homemade pizzas and spirits to lift our spirits.. haha. is that why we call it that???
uh, i made my famous Divvi's Imperial Flan...homeade cherry cobbler (double recipe, piping hot with bluebelle homeade vanilla) (jimmy you out there? willing to cut a few cyber trees?-hahha) (he loves cobbler:) and a homeade double fudge chocolate tunnel cake with coconut filling and buttercreme icing drizzled over it.. now, can someone please explain where i gained so many lbs???? hehee... i can do some pretty fancy sweets if anyones got sweet tooths... so here i've lined them up for the buffet..cant you smell them??? lets see, fresh vanilla from the flan with carmel sauce & drizzled choc down the sides:)???
who's making those pizzas?? i like mine with extra cheese and black olives and extra pepperoni! divvi
One peanut butter pie coming up. I had a friend who made the best ever. Her kids were monsters but I still invited them to dinner just so I could get the pie. The little #$%@@&'s would put ketchup on everything-and I am a very good cook!
bluedaze, that sounds like the young lady who sat near me in the restaurant the other day. She had a mini pizza with the works. Then she sprinkled everything possible on it. And THEN, she dipped each bite in ketchup. I couldn't keep my eyes off of her!
I'll make white russians if somebody does my venetian blinds.
Things I never thought of cleaning before I put my house on the Market: Blinds...definitely, The top of the fan blades on ceiling fans, The inside of the garage door, the vent openings for the air systems (Like the bathroom fans, etc.), The sills between seldom used doors of the house. (You know, the space in between the door and the screen...) The always forgotten filter in the stove hood fan Under large pieces of heavy furniture, (oh embarrassment ). Any one else have a list? :-)
Bluedaze--do you know about the paint that's made to put on grout? My DH did our kitchen, sunroom and 2 baths years ago, and the results were wonderful. It comes in different colors, is sold in places like Home Depot, and not difficult to do--just tedious. But you will never have to scrub grout again!
Susan B, how do you move that heavy piece of furniture to clean under it??? I have a huge triple dresser in one bedroom, been there 15 years - never moved. and a large, large, china cabinet in the dining room - 15 years also - never moved. Hate to see what's under there!
I need somone with a green thumb. Lots of my shrubs took a real beating last winter. And I think I can kill plants better than anybody I know. Any help planting a vegetable garden?
Don't forget the gooey dirt that is underneath the refrigerator and washer and dryer. Hurricane Ike blew the compressor on the Refrigerator. It's a built in fridge...with trim strips that keeps it in its place. I couldn't believe how dirty the floor was when they pulled that refrigerator out from the wall. I screamed...the repairmen just laughed!
divvi, I'll gladly clean those venetian blinds (a job I truly detest) in exchange for the recipe for that double fudge chocolate tunnel cake with coconut filling and buttercreme icing. It sounds divine.
Susan B, we're supposed to clean the inside of the garage door????? For cryin' out loud!
Folly, Only if you, as I did, allowed our pet spiders to decorate same. Boy does double fudge chocolate tunnel cake w/coconut billing, etc, sound amazing!!!!
bluedaze--I'll be happy to send him over. When he asks where I am, just tell him I'm at my exercise class and will be back at 2:00. The aide finally wrote it down for him.
if birds have set up housekeeping in your flower pots, get a pop bottle, climb up on a stool and just water around the bird nest. Mother bird will probably sit up on the garage roof and rag at you for getting so close, but you won't hurt the babies and she will get over it. We had some sparrows move into our pots several times and that's how we did it.
Last year she moved into my clothes pin bag and had a nest with 3 eggs in it. I want you to know I bought some new clothes pins in order to not disturb her. She was a very busy bird for some time--especially after they hatched. Seemed like she was wearing herself out going back and forth. We just loved those little guys and hated to see them grow up.
Wonder where she'll pick to live this year. don't have to worry about Noche. He has 3 medals on his colar and makes more noise than a freight train when he runs across the yard.
I just need someone to kick back with an drink a few beers an watch the wildlife,not too big a request is it? Oh I forgot the most important part no LO's allowed!