If you use mulch around your house be very careful about buying mulch this year.

After the Hurricane in New Orleans many trees were blown over.

These trees were then turned into mulch and the state is trying to get rid of tons and tons

of this mulch to any state or company who will come and haul it away.

So it will be showing up in Home Depot and Lowes at dirt cheap prices with one huge problem;

 Formosan Termites will be the bonus in many of those bags.

New Orleans is one of the few areas in the country were the Formosan Termites has gotten a strong hold

and most of the trees blown down were already badly infested with those termites.

Now we may have the worst case of transporting a problem

to all parts of the country that we have ever had.

These termites can eat a house in no time at all

and we have no good control against them,

so tell your friends that own homes to avoid cheap mulch and know were it came from.

 I didn't use any mulch on my new Florida project:

Here's how that went:

First, a neighbor whose house was wrecked by Ivan agreed to redo his siding with me:

Before:

After:

Boomer and DL cleared the trees:

Here's the roadway that we built in one week to serve 4 lots :

David and Allen raked.

On Saturday, Dave and I flew out to the project:

He let me fly back toward the airport.

There's the new road in the center top:

Can't wait for the houses to be built.

Thanks Sue and Manfred for hosting me all week!

This long distance project is going great!

Pete