The Chateau Diaries #336 Enough is enough! Stay home and fix your dang farmhouse!

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You can learn so much from watching Fanny's vlogs ... 🤣
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graciemckitten said:
Here is yet another AI generated chateau video full of errors. It shows a photo of the château owned by Dick Strawbridge and his wife Angel as the Dump. The fountain in front of the dump is a photo of a pool from a South African Safari.


Here is the funniest part.

You have to click, watch 15 seconds total, and see who is pictured as 25 year old Philip “ Johnson”, Stephanie’s current “love.”featured at 3:41 in the video. Also check out 3:55 in the video to see Phillip Johnson. The screenshot of a mortified Isabelle is priceless.
SERIOUSLY, PLEASE CLICK AND WATCH A FEW SECONDS TO SEE PHILLIP JOHNSON.
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Oh how fantastic! 🤣
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Pekey said:
In for a hot night ...... its midnight here and its 27c.
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Cold here, view from my tiny place!
 

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mrsp67 said:
Hi y’all so much going on i hope you’re all doing well with your eye surgery and your bad knees. I kinda like Stan the man I’m not sure about y’all , but I can only put up with so many house Reno shows! Lately I’ve been watching a lot of Dr. Phil on YouTube. Hilarious what people put out there for strangers. I also did get masterpiece theater on Amazon prime so I have a lot more shows to watch. I know y’all will be jealous, but I had a visit from a famous Dino a hug and the 5$ she owed me lol!!! Turns out she and Mr. P. Love gardening so we had a peak in the back of her truck at her plant finds!! Plans will be made for a garden tour complete with Miller Lite!! @T Rex
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Mr. P made me laugh when @mrsp67 introduced us, as despite no make-up and crazy hair, remarked, "Of course I remember her! She is the the only girlfriend you have that is THAT tall!" (@mrsp67 is really petite, so I look like a giant next to her!) Mr. P gave me some really good advice on my my new plants- which was appreciated, as it made me rethink the placement of the crotons. @mrsp67- come over anytime for a garden tour- right now, it's nothing spectacular since I razed all of the fried foliage from Helene and Milton- but I did just remulch, and some things are starting to pop back up. I'll text you some picts after I get the crotons in the ground in Little Hawaii. ❤

@M&MsMom - thinking of you because I also was really into orchids, and had amazing success with them. When we moved here, I bought a few "scratch and dent ones" from a local nursery, had Mr. T Rex make me some wooden hangers for them, but after hurricane Irma destroyed the planters, ended up giving up and just put the survivors into one of our palmetto trees. Ironically, despite the neglect, the phaelenopsises and dendrobiums (the "weed" of orchids) are doing well, and have latched their tiny roots onto the tree, which is pretty cool. They flower twice a year!
 
Pyke said:
Buy thermal long sleeved vest, long johns and a jumper and some sheepskin slippers, I am not being unkind, I live in the north and heat myself lots,
not the house, my heating is on but only at low background temp, I refuse to let those energy companies empty my savings account.
Thick curtains with thermal linings help but make sure you let the sun in when shining.
3 inches of snow and -3 last night since Tuesday.
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Thank you my love, I'm already decked out clothing wise but there's only so much you can do when you feel the draft going through your eyeballs. Heated hazmat suit maybe 😆
I'm originally from a country which gets much, much colder than the UK in winter but for this reason even the poorest households have at least a toasty room heated by a terracotta wood stove. In this regard the UK is worse off than a developing country.
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Lochness Monster said:
It is horrible to be and feel cold and also having to pay out to heat the outdoors!
Although I only rented briefly and therefore did not want to spend lots on making it stay warm…
Have you got draught excluders the doors, letterbox and key holes, a curtain on the front door ? You can get tape for the windows or these sticky or magnetic window covers,
I put thermal curtains ( cheap from Amazon ) on all the windows .
If there are no suitable poles you can easily get telescopic no screws etc to fit.
I used a telescopic shower rod for my door curtain. It was lightweight blackout thermal and was a fake blue velvet with Pom Pom and was not too hideous!
As for heating, the portable OIL filled electric radiators with a thermostat are great and not too expensive to run IMO.Make sure they are not too big as they are then too heavy to carry!!
They warm the room up quickly and can help maintain just one room to be really cosy.
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These curtains are lightweight which means they don’t take up room when not drawn.

Hope this might help.
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Thank you, my darlings. Portable heating will be a must, so I was already thinking about an oil filled heatee plus the seal tape for the windows. Weirdly enough, my previous flat was way less fancy, no double glazing, yet the windows were better and there was gas central heating. Gone are those days!
 
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Pekey said:
OMG Rexy !!!!!!!!
Hubs was not impressed when I told him what you said .... Weed of orchids........ he is right into native dendrobiums - he said "She doesn't know too much about them" :LOL:
You know Rexy - those are "fighting words" to Aussie men! :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
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@Pekey, please tell Mr. Pekey I mean no offense! It's just that they are the hardiest of all the orchids, and can literally grow in the most austere conditions! :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: My dendrobiums just keep making little babies and try to take over the tree- it's fine. I do mist them in the yearlong and fertilize them in the winter. I don't mean at all that they look like weeds- they are beautiful! They are the least finicky of all orchids- I could literally forget about them, and they'd still thrive! ❤
 
LadyRed said:
Thank you my love, I'm already decked out clothing wise but there's only so much you can do when you feel the draft going through your eyeballs. Heated hazmat suit maybe 😆
I'm originally from a country which gets much, much colder than the UK in winter but for this reason even the poorest households have at least a toasty room heated by a terracotta wood stove. In this regard the UK is worse off than a developing country.
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Thank you, my darlings. Portable heating will be a must, so I was already thinking about an oil filled heatee plus the seal tape for the windows. Weirdly enough, my previous flat was way less fancy, no double glazing, yet the windows were better and there was gas central heating. Gone are those days!
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Heating is so atrocious in England, I sold my family home as it was old Georgian and cost over £500 pm to heat in winter, plus I became an empty nester and was just rattling around in it. We should have taken to the streets like the French and insisted on a heating bill cap. I use a log fire, but just little oil filled electric heaters in my tiny rooms here do a good enough job, also I've just ordered my first onsie, it has ears ffs... ffs 🙂
 
T Rex said:
@Pekey, please tell Mr. Pekey I mean no offense! It's just that they are the hardiest of all the orchids, and can literally grow in the most austere conditions! :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: My dendrobiums just keep making little babies and try to take over the tree- it's fine. I do mist them in the yearlong and fertilize them in the winter. I don't mean at all that they look like weeds- they are beautiful! They are the least finicky of all orchids- I could literally forget about them, and they'd still thrive! ❤
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We know you meant no offense. :love:
I only tease the people I like Rexy! ❤

Hubs likes the delicate ones like his dendrobiums but I like Big orchids like my Moth orchid that is a chic pale green colour ...... I do hope I can get it to flower again.
His oldest orchid that he and his brother stole out of the forest - :cautious::rolleyes: in Queensland in the late 1970's is a big old Rock Orchid Dendrobium Speciosum that they had to tie to the top of their car to get it home!!!! Bloody Men!!!
Sooooo illegal and their father was a Police man too ! :rolleyes:
We have it growing in our backyard ...... brought all the way from Queensland to Victoria when we moved .
Men!!!! :devilish:
 
Those pear trees snap like all get out and I should know as we stupidly planted 3 of them years ago ..... they will snap when young or snap when old . One snapped right across the road and thankfully no one was driving or walking when it happened!
Pyrus Calleryana or Bradford Pear---- fast growing and lovely autumn leave but beware!
Out they all had to come !
 
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