Like your indoor peach “tree” @PomGranny. Mine are just now starting to show some small buds and tiny green leaf tips.
If I understand what you’re asking, if you want to reply to a particular post, hit the white “<- Reply” icon on the bottom right of the person’s post. You obviously know how to do that, or your replies wouldn’t show up.
I think what you’re asking is if you want to include part or all of someone’s post in your own, do this:
To enable you to do this, click on your Settings, then Interface, then make sure the “Enable quote reply for highlighted text” box is checked. Save your settings, and you’re ready to go.
Click on the white <-Reply icon on their post. Then select the part of the post you want. If on a tablet, try to touch and hold on the screen where you want the quote to start. You should get a couple of responses, you will see two blue cursors under the word you selected, and a gray ("Quote) icon. To expand the quote, move the left cursor and right cursor where you want. When you move the cursors, more words will become highlighted. When you have all the quote you want, press the gray "Quote icon, and it will paste it to your reply post. You should then see the person’s avatar and name, and the quote in your post.
If I reply to your reply, does Pom get a notification for this also? Or do I need to at (@) her? Just as a question like she had about how the reply structure works, lol.
If you hit the reply button to her post it will notify her of your reply…as long as she is not muting the post. Underneath her post on the left hand side it will say how many replies have been made and you can click on that to bring all the replies to that post together for viewing.
If you reply before someone else posts then it does not do this and I think that confuses me sometimes because I’m not always sure it’s a reply to my post or just a reply to the thread. There is usually an avatar of the person you are replying to the right above the reply and you can click on that to see the post that it is a reply to. But this also does not work if your reply is just under the post you replied to…SEE…CLEAR AS MUD…
Hmm, I don’t see that on the left. I’m using Android on the web page. I see the heart, a share icon, then three dots that open to flag and bookmark icons.
Oh, the reply where it doesn’t show the avatar has been confusing me! I thought I didn’t know how to reply or something.
Anyone who gets a reply from someone will get a notification of it, unless they have it muted. If you reply to someone who has the last post in the thread, it won’t show their avatar in your reply. If it is one or more posts above the last one, it will. I asked @scottfsmith about this and we did a little experiment to test it oot. It’s just a little idiosyncrasy of the system.
Yes, yard is very mushy. I can tell you more - my yard is sinking down . With last year very wet fall I noticed that part of the lawn right between my plum and apricot (both on hills) sunk for about 8-10 inches. My yard is raised, they filled the hole with big and small rocks and dirt. So I thought dirt between rocks liquidized and filled some empty pocket, and grass sunk in… Now I also see a hole about 6 inches in diameter where water from the yard is going… I have no idea where all this water goes- I do not see any obvious outlets for it on my border, where raised part ends. I used a bamboo stick about 5’ long - I can push it all the way in that hole. Do not fill any dirt on the way, just large rocks… Big project fixing it up coming up this summer. Don’t even know what to start with. There is no way to move the rocks to fill pockets properly. So I guess we will have to use sand and a lot of water to sink the sand down the hole and fill the pockets.
No, my quince doesnt get those gorgeous red flowers! I have seen those though, and they sure are beautiful.
I believe those are flowering quince, scientific name Chaenomeles Japonica. Fruiting quince is Cydonia Oblanga. The flowers on the quince tree look just like your typical white apple blossom. I have only had mine for one year, this was its first winter but when it arrived from One Green World it was leafed out and had buds all over it! So i probably should have picked them all off but i didn’t. It is pretty in bloom but nowhere near the flowering quince beauty.
Your yard is so cute, i love the layout! Small yards done well give me inspiration. sorry you have a yard full of potholes though! That is frustrating.
That is a different story… House is sinking as well, but it is doing it since 2007 or even earlier… My neighbor told me they broke all the rules when they built it - instead of raising foundation from the hard ground they filled the hole first and made foundation on top. This topic is so depressing that I try to avoid it all together. I don’t think it is in our budget to fix the issue properly by making new foundation below sinking one. And it also requires removing all my trees for heavy machinery to come to the sinking corner and now I know that machinery can sink in my lawn… As of now we want to try to lift the corner of the house itself , and place something between foundation and the frame. If successful it will cover the problem until another very rainy year when the rocks to start moving again…
And . . . ‘Well what do ya know’??? I highlighted Cafeaulait’s ‘who’s on 1st’ comment . . . and “Quote” appeared - so I clicked on it - and a box opened up - annnnnnd . . .
Wallahhhhhh! I typed my reply to her reply to my reply . . . and it ended up right underneath the thing I was replying TO! And, THAT’s what I was asking about and what I wanted to be able to do!
What always happened before . . . was that my reply would end up all the way at the end of many other posts that were not necessarily about the specific ‘comment’ I was referring to. Does that make sense? Anyway - I stumbled upon how to get it how I wanted it . . .
Now all I have to do is REMEMBER IT! LOL
We have similar problems where I live . . . but not to that extent. I feel for you . . . that is a terrible thing to have to deal with.
I always say that every house around here should be built on, and strapped to, a steel-reinforced slab of concrete. $$$$ The ground is so wet and often unstable. Many homes in my area sink ‘unevenly’ and the slab would at least keep the structure connected ‘soundly’. Perhaps not level . . . but without the stress and fracturing. We also live in a ‘fly zone’ for the Navy . . . and there isn’t a nail in my house that has stayed put!
I grew up in Miami, and homes were built out of concrete block. I don’t remember anything ‘settling’ or going ‘out of square’. Too pricey, I guess, for Virginia. They build out of ‘toothpicks’ here. When I see new homes going up . . . it is VERY scary. Just sticks and boards and sheetrock . . . and they call it a house. Yikes.
. With last year very wet fall I noticed that part of the lawn right between my plum and apricot (both on hills) sunk for about 8-10 inches. My yard is raised, they filled the hole with big and small rocks and dirt. So I thought dirt between rocks liquidized and filled some empty pocket, and grass sunk in… Now I also see a hole about 6 inches in diameter where water from the yard is going… I have no idea where all this water goes- I do not see any obvious outlets for it on my border, where raised part ends. I used a bamboo stick about 5’ long - I can push it all the way in that hole. Do not fill any dirt on the way, just large rocks… Big project fixing it up coming up this summer. Don’t even know what to start with. There is no way to move the rocks to fill pockets properly. So I guess we will have to use sand and a lot of water to sink the sand down the hole and fill the pockets.
sorry you have a yard full of potholes though! That is frustrating.