Your Questions About Gardening

GardenersCardiff answers:

A jigsaw puzzle the family can put together of a beautiful scenery of a place in America.

Anything with American flags on it.

Statue of Liberty souvenirs.

Pictures of you in different places in America (even if its around town) put in frames.

Figurines of the Bald Eagle or Military commemorative.

A small bag of Miracle Grow, a small hand shovel for gardening, and the state flower for wherever. I don’t know if America has a national flower?? So I would just do state. For Texas its the Bluebonnet.

Donations made in their name. You can get a small certificate or something for the donation and send it to them letting them know they helped feed children, or helped some woodland area.

A photo arrangement of different things you see that makes you think of them. If you have a mother who loves to cook, taking a picture of a restaurant that sells some NZ favorites would remind you of her. A friend that loves to make jokes could be represented by a picture of a local gag and joke magic store.

Shot glasses with something American on it. A famous quote or funny picture.

Land of the Free, Home of the Brave commemorative.

A Republican and Democratic Elephant and Donkey.

Shells from the beach.

Preserved butterflies in a frame.

GardenersCardiff answers:

I think we eat more fast food, processed and micrwaved. When my children were little I made breakfast before I went to work, packed lunch and I cooked every night. A square meal. Meat starch, veggie and bread. Now they are grow and gone and a sandwhich or salad or burger do. I used to have a garden and had lots of fresh veggies and a freezer for frozen fresh fruits and veggies but all thats gone now and it seems at a time when I should pay better attention to health issues I don’t take the time because the kids are gone and it’s just me. So I say it’s not as healthy or balanced.

GardenersCardiff answers:

=== at the rate of 1/4 to 2inch gaping cracks in your walls — I want to suggest that you use some wood strips to apply to those crack/gaps and close the walls == there is no caulk that will fix this problem === if the “”strips”” will work for you by nailing them to those gaps that meet at your wall studs then you will just have to find the floor to wall top height and the strips that will fit and you can piece those strips in the 1/4 gaps and use full strips on the 2inch gaps … Caulk will fill the small gaps but it will cost more for that than just doing the wooden strips and done also if you have gaps between the wall boards that are not secure to the wall studs then you need to get some help and apply those gap closure strips with screws and a strip on both sides of the wall === out in the open you need to use enamel paint to help protect any wooden parts from the rain and weather ,,……….