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Time for a replaster and also need my overflow/skimmer boxes replaced, along with some minor tile work

Recommendations for someone to do the work in baton rouge?

I can't find it now, but I recall someone here recommending someone who replaced their skimmer boxes and was pleased with the work and the price

We've replastered once before, and it didn't last long. There are quite a few available products, and I'd rather spend half again as much for something that will look good longer. Any advice on the best way to go?

We've had progressively worse water loss, and had the plumbing pressure checked with no leaks. Except the cracked skimmer boxes and where they are sealed at the pool edge.

But the guy who did the pressure testing told my wife that the grout for the line of tile at the top of the pool needs to be sealed periodically. I've been here 20 years and never done that, so a lot of my leakage may be there as well.

Anyone familiar with the right product for that? The water level comes about halfway up the tile, so it would need to be something suitable for submerged grout

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$1.10 each for 25 seedlings, lots of other available as well. Many sold out

Or magnolia

I agree about the fork, that is a future serious problem waiting to happen. It looks like you already have a bark inclusion and eventually it is going to split.

I would pick 1 branch of the fork and do whatever grafting you're going to do to it, bark graft or grafting onto its branches, leaving the other branch of the fork alone to leaf out and keep sap flowing.

Once your grafts take and have leafed out nicely, remove the other fork

ETA: codominant leaders is an issue when the tree has different "main" branches that compete against 1 another and can get leggy and give you an unpleasant form that can lack strength. that is a different issue than you have with that narrow crotch with a bark inclusion.

I personally prefer a fruit tree with 3-6 branches from knee to head height spreading outward without a central leader, the so called "open center" form. It is wider and can be a pain to mow around, but is much easier to harvest and I think a prettier tree

Common banded water snake

while that all sounds nice, and better than many have described here in similar situation, the main complaint is lack of scholarship money for top tier students

I have never had any foliage issues with my blueberries, in Baton Rouge.

One of my few truly carefree plants

Just competition from the birds for the Berries

The book was pretty simplistic but frankly told a much better story than the movie

I have said this here before, but the movie should have told the book story, with each interview/chapter given to a different director, each given license to create independent, potentially wildly different, styles / music/ lighting/etc, presumably corresponding to the different perspectives of the interviewees.

but each director would have a fixed set of "rules" so that it does not feel like separate movies. For example, how the zombies look and move, etc.

each chapter introduced similar to the book, with the interviewer being the string the ties the whole story together

a Tarantino chapter, a Baylis chapter, etc.

That's a pretty big nice looking tree

I would either chop it between the lowest branches and that fork, and top work it, or chop it just above the branches and graft a different variety onto each branch to create an open center multivariety tree

If it was mine, I would order cuttings of several of the many cultivated improved native persimmon and graft/top-work them on to the already established tree, leaving at least one branch of the male to optimize production.

Example source for cuttings:
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