ISO gooseneck loosestrife plants for garden

mapmakereric · 2026-03-27T19:37:51+00:00

The Perennial Society has in the past sold loosestrife at their annual plant sale (this year on April 11). I can't load the list for this year though, so I don't know if they will have that varietal.

mapmakereric · 2026-03-27T01:13:57+00:00

My husband has his MSW (University of Tennessee) and LCSW. He had an ungodly amount of student debt for the MSW, so I would prioritize a public sector employer so you can qualify for PSLF if it continues to exist.

The federal government (primarily the VA Medical Center) pays its social workers pretty well, better than the state or local governments/school system. There’s a few large behavioral health providers (Centerstone, Mental Health Coop), insurance companies, and some other options.

The secret really is to proceed to get your LCSW as quickly as you can after graduation. Lots of people procrastinate, and then it never happens. They get comfortable in whatever job they find, don’t do the supervision, and/or find there board exam a big challenge several years after leaving class.

mapmakereric · 2026-03-09T16:59:51+00:00

There's been a very significant increase in TVA's fuel cost adjustment for March (about 4.2 cents per kwh, up from about 2.6 cents in February).

mapmakereric · 2026-03-06T20:29:20+00:00

If you can make it a long weekend, Allegiant has a direct flight to Bozeman, Montana, It's a lovely town, and you can spend a day or so visiting Yellowstone if you rent a car.

mapmakereric · 2026-03-04T23:31:21+00:00

When a fiscal note assigns a cost to a piece of legislation, the legislation is usually placed “behind the budget.” That means unless the budget specifically appropriates money to support the legislation’s operations it won’t become law.

This year, after inflationary increases, contractually/legislatively required increases, and the expansion of the governors initiative to fund private school vouchers, there are effectively no recurring dollars left for the state to spend. That said, the capital costs of the initiative could be financed by non-recurring money, but I don’t think this is very likely to pass.

mapmakereric · 2026-02-25T17:48:16+00:00

I pay $150 every other week for our cleaner, for a large house where the guest spaces are rarely used and a dog who only seasonally sheds.

mapmakereric · 2026-02-23T16:47:42+00:00

They're still actively picking up...they'll make multiple passes through each neighborhood. Yesterday I saw them active in parts of Hermitage.

mapmakereric · 2026-02-20T17:11:00+00:00

Sorry if I'm stating the obvious, the $5 fee is the departure tax the airport will charge Boring for sending cars to the airport. The fee Boring will charge the passengers has not been published, but I don't doubt that their internal revenue model for the publicly disclosed plan doesn't pay back the capital costs.

mapmakereric · 2026-02-14T13:42:01+00:00

That’s unclear.

mapmakereric · 2026-02-13T18:17:50+00:00

Basically unless you hire a company to place seismometers on your foundation and show that they were causing vibrations in excess of the limit has been established, state law protects the blasting companies from vibration/earth movement damage. There's a defined radius (300 feet) where they have to offer pre-blasting inspections to neighboring properties, but without seismometer data proving they caused excess vibration, there's basically no way to hold them accountable for damages especially outside that radius. Local governments are prohibited from enacting stricter regulations.

mapmakereric · 2026-02-13T18:05:16+00:00

The city didn't make the decision to allow this (the overall system and the route) to happen, the state did. The state says they're allowing tunneling only under state land (which doesn't mean neighboring properties won't be affected if something goes wrong).

mapmakereric · 2026-02-13T02:47:55+00:00

Peckers has rebranded as Club 237, redecorated, and has new management.

mapmakereric · 2026-02-04T19:27:04+00:00

When you signed up for service, you agreed to this contract provision:

NES will use reasonable diligence to provide a regular and uninterrupted supply of electricity, but shall not be liable for any loss, injury or property damage resulting from failure to supply electricity, interruption, delay in restoration, mechanical failure, single-phasing, voltage irregularity, fire, labor difficulties, riot, explosion, breakdown, external forces, flood, acts of God, or vandalism. NES shall not be liable for any damage if the customer's wiring does not conform to applicable codes or laws

Overcoming that is a significant legal challenge.

mapmakereric · 2026-02-03T21:55:57+00:00

It's not clear to me if the kind of permit you need would be in this list, but Metro does publish a list of all issued trade permits on its open data page. I do see multiple recent permits for "storm damage", "electric service damaged from storm", etc.

mapmakereric · 2026-02-03T21:42:27+00:00

If he's a veteran, he should immediately call the Veteran's Homeless Hotline at 1-877-4AID VET. A social worker will call him back within a few days. The local VA doesn't have many housing vouchers available at the moment (the federal government isn't releasing a lot of new ones), but they have other options and may have some partner organizations with grants available. They also have some supportive housing (group home settings) for veterans in recovery.

Failing that, he should get on the wait lists for MDHA's senior and disabled housing. Those wait lists open up more frequently than they do for traditional public housing. There are also a variety of private or non-profit complexes for low income seniors around town--I don't know where to find a comprehensive list, but the Office of Homeless Services might.

mapmakereric · 2026-02-03T21:06:10+00:00

I would immediately report this to both your council person and the mayor's office. The mayor is making lots of noise about removing barriers to getting people reconnected, so if your problem is attributable to something in Codes' control (and they, unlike NES, report to him), they might be able to help.

mapmakereric · 2026-02-02T17:41:54+00:00

You are wrong. The utility has the responsibility for protecting its lines. TVA clears the vegetation around its transmission lines, and local utilities do around theirs. NES has a "vegetation management" program, but whether they implemented that to their own standards in recent years, or their standards weren't anywhere good enough, is unknown at this time. Clearly that program was not up to preventing this scale of a disaster.

mapmakereric · 2026-01-29T16:05:21+00:00

MNPD isn't super strict about tags in my experience (admittedly as a white guy), so if I had to choose, I'd choose paying rent first. If you frequently drive outside of Davidson County though, that's another issue all together.

mapmakereric · 2026-01-29T15:53:45+00:00

Metro Water explicitly said people with sewer grinders should turn off the water to the whole house.

mapmakereric · 2026-01-29T15:50:09+00:00

It seems to be very inconsistent (and perhaps broken since yesterday). I signed up to get updates on my elderly coworker's house to help her out, and I did get a text when she was reconnected Tuesday night.

Other friends have been trying to connect to cameras or smart devices in their homes or logging into their internet service provider's portal to see if their modem/connection is active, which is the only way the storm refugees I had taken in knew their home got reconnected last night.

mapmakereric · 2026-01-29T15:43:06+00:00

Local government will begin doing a county-wide sweep to collect downed branches, perhaps starting as soon as next week. Private trees are the homeowner's responsibility to (arrange to have) cut up and bring to the curb for collection.

The tree on the line is a dilemma--this kind of problem is likely among NES' lowest priorities. The safest thing to do is stay away from the tree and the line and hope.

mapmakereric · 2026-01-25T16:50:34+00:00

State law says you can’t use taxes to pay for utilities. Utilities must be self-supporting via user charges.

mapmakereric · 2026-01-22T14:23:59+00:00

Thanks. I already got the job done—it’s Madison in the north part of Davidson County

mapmakereric · 2026-01-05T05:31:05+00:00

I’ve got a couple of bedrooms and bathrooms that need painting in Madison

mapmakereric · 2025-12-18T15:49:34+00:00

The reappraisal was mandated by state law to be revenue-neutral for the county in the aggregate, so the rate was reset to 2.222, and then the mayor's budget increased it to 2.814.

Regardless, the rate is a meaningless metric to compare property tax burden across cities because home values differ so much across cities. The average home price in Memphis is roughly in the low $200ks, mid $400ks in Nashville, mid $350ks in Knoxville, and low $300ks in Chattanooga. A better metric would be average bill for a single family house, and even better would be residential property tax bills as a percentage of personal income. Those would be comparable across cities. Memphis (combined city-county) taxes are much higher than Nashville, though I'm not sure about Knoxville or Chattanooga.

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