We're all exhausted from you and Ursula being away at the same time, Jim. I have shown my few blooms repeatedly for a month to try and carry the thread, and everyone's bored with them incl. me.
I have a trip to Salt Lake looming and have to get the black plague under control before I leave or I fear I will see only dead and dying when I get back! So this weekend I've been busily and unhappily engaged in chemical warfare. Everyone's getting a douse of Bayer 3-in-1 against the scale, and I've treated the pool cage area with Physan twice now. It takes the algae off the screening nicely, as well as cleaning the patio bricks - also growing algae from all the orchid fert that falls on them.