What plants will be alive after all this snow melts?

What channel and what time, please!

He is on HGTV - I think sunday nights. (I have him on DVR - so I don't know exactly when and there are reruns.) The good think is that he is getting the Canadian Government to prosecute the people who take money and do shoddy work - or no work at all.

I watch it online on HGTV

edited for correct channel

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No shortage with all the houses that were thrown up so fast during the bubble. A hint of a heartbeat qualified you for a mortgage.

Certainly expect nothing lost to snow.Last winter I had a new Hosta "Stitch in Time" and had put it in late in the season ,worried it wouldn't have established well enough.It was quite small and quite expensive ,was so surprized it came thru and thrive last summer.

Victor - even minimal heartbeats must have qualified for a mortgage.

Jack and I spent most of our working lives dealing with mortgages and the public might be shocked to learn that an underwriter can not refuse a mortgage after the FHA (Federal Housing Authority) approves it. Even if the people had bad credit, barely a down payment, a weak job, no history of saving for that "rainy day", there was no choice but to approve it.

On the other hand both FNMA (Federal National Mortgage Association) and FHLMC (Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation) could and did reject mortgages.

The problems seem to have arisen around '92 when underwriting ceased and computers took over evaluations of both credit history and appraisals. Long before that banks were forced to make mortgage in the areas where they advertised for bank accounts, CD's, etc. regardless of whether the people qualified for a mortgage or not.

I was shocked to learn recently that FNMA forced banks to accept unemployment checks as 'income'!! The more stuff that comes out, the harder it is to believe!

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Also qualifying were parents who lived with the adult children and received Social Security. It was amazing what they allowed.

Why didn't anyone tell me? Sheesh! The Holmes show scares me.....I wouldn't know if my wiring or plumbing was bad......

Would love to have Holmes prosecute the guy that did major work on my house.

What was wrong with the work?

I thought a friend of ours was nuts to include his overtime $ into his total to qualify.

So far have lost a hydrangea tree to falling icicles, but had spinal fusion in Oct so not all roses were put to bed, so....happy bout the first foot of snow. Not so happy bout the second or the third!

i am waking to scenes of deer digging into the snow and eating my hydrangea's - latest is an endless summer and they have started on the one across from it.

Had deer issues a two years ago, some company started a development and cowardly a swath of woods, deer left, economy tanked, no buildings went up, a win win 4 me!

not for the trees though

Hi dem....see that we're right in the same valley....my aunt & uncle were from Naugatuck, both gone now.......

Hi ROBINDOG, seriously not happy in the valley these days! June will be here before I see grass!

You are such an optimist, Dem!

Bill, you have any deer repellent spray you can use?

does pee count?

LOL, you guys are funny! As far as repellent, my mom swears by ivory soap.

We can get fox urine from an Ag co-op but have mainly used it to discourage chipmunks. A friend in Concord, MA uses a repellant on tape but it doesn't work as well when cold & has to be renewed.

Just got a recorded message from town Hall about trash pickup schedule being delayed for a day.

It might help, Bill
Irish spring soap

also, deer hate any type of fishy smell.

Soap does not smell once you get a few feet from it. You would need them all over the place. Some of the sprays work okay, but you have to keep applying them.

the hydrangea will grow back and next year i will wrap them like i usually do

yea, at least hydrangeas are fast growers, probably lost a lot of buds though. I'll probably lose a lot of buds to ice.

they flower on new growth too - so will still have some blooms

Depends on the variety. Many mopheads only bloom on old.

it is an endless summer

Oh - sorry.

Deer repellent . . .as soon as the freezing weather subsides I start scooping up my dogs' "leavings" and place them around my fruit trees to keep the deer from chewing up the new shoots and, later on, the apples. It works! My garden is fenced so I don't worry about that. Also, I place the poop around my daylilies before they start to show because they get destroyed by deer, rabbits, you name it.

One of my JMs is missing. Still some snow, so maybe it's bent over under the snow.

several of mine are missing too BURIED in snow

My one and only is still buried under the snow

My concern is that the tree was about 3 feet high. The snow is only about 1 foot high.......no top of tree to be seen. :(

Topless is not good for JM's.

Not good for me either.

Ditto!