I WISH I had a well for watering the garden. I got into a fight with the water coop here over my bill from watering the garden last year. We had a terrible hot, dry spell at the beginning of the season and the only way to get my transplants established was to water using city water. The price per gal was perfectly acceptable, but they charged me $150 for sewer! I gave the manager a huge problem over the issue. They assume that every drop of water you use goes down the sewer pipes and there was no recognition for garden or sprinkler use! Their excuse was that the pricing policy was 'industry practice', and there was little that could be done. I was mad enough to sue, and was ready to start a nationwide push to provide an exemption form for gardeners to have their sewer use estimated throughout the year, and garden use to be exempted. The guy was fairly understanding, and instead of following through, I have swore off using city water for the garden. I'm collecting water now, and need to travel to get food grade drums. I have no good thoughts on the issue lol. Oh, and people who didn't realize the issue - like myself with the garden - have had the problem trying to fill a swimming pool.

I took a second look at the photo and I can see now that the planter boxes don't cover the entire yard. There appears to be grass between the boxes and the street, and mulch around the boxes. If they zoomed out and got a picture of the entire yard instead of just the boxes, it might not appear so much like a landscape nursery. I still don't think it's pretty, but if the boxes aren't as large as they appear in the picture and are only a fraction of the front yard instead of all of it, it's probably not as bad as the photo makes it look. Like I said, too much is unknown and the media is playing up the sensational angle. Yes, I think people should have the right to grow things on their own land, but I also think people should respect their neighbors' rights as well. The article quotes two neighbors, one for and one against. And that's probably the same reaction they would get if they planted all grass, or all flowers. Can't please everyone. Bottom line for me is what it would do to property values and there is no indication of that in the article.

Hi marcolo, yes that is Theresse's faucet- absolutely perfect in her kitchen and even with my hesitation about it's quirks, I always covet hers when I see her photos! The showroom model I played with was not live, so I could not experience full functionality, these are just my impressions. I expected to be able to just easily slide the sprayer out and down from the neck and retract it back when I'm done -- like traditional pull out/pull down faucets I've experienced. The Jaclo seemed to want you to lift the handspray up and off. (Maybe there is an easier trick?) The faucet neck is like a big tray--you lift off the flexible tube sprayer, move the tube around the neck to use, and then when done you need to lift the tubing up, line it back up with the tray, and push it back down into place securing the hand spray mechanism. My memory is that there was no button on the sprayer attachment. I believe the spray pattern could be adjusted, though and if I remember correctly the salesperson explained that you could twist the head of the sprayer mechanism to change flow pattern. If that were true-maybe Theresse will chime in?-it seems very inconvenient to need two hands to adjust your aeration pattern when you just need to rinse off some berries or whatever. (see link below for davidro's comment about potential to accidentally spray yourself with this faucet, too. I thought this was what he was referring to since there is no "pause" button on the sprayer.) It seems like you'd have to think about this and adjust your spray before the water was on, which seems difficult if you can't see the spray... The part of the sprayer that you hold felt a bit awkwardly small. It looks very streamlined, but in my hand I almost wanted to hold more like you would a pencil (that is to say, with my fingers) rather than grasping with my whole hand. (It's not a wall mount--and I didn't select it because the sprayer retracted too loudly--but for comparison ergonomically the best pull down hand sprayer I played with--my girlfriend just got one so I've also used it live now--is the Grohe Bridgeford faucet. Extremely comfortable to hold/grip/well-designed to fit in your hand. The opposite of holding the Jaclo handsprayer which felt too...delicate?) I feel like I'm frequently mentioning aging in place/arthritis/carpal tunnel considerations in kitchen planning, but I'll say here too, in my opinion the Jaclo would not be a good choice if any of those issues are a concern. Trying to describe all these little things here undoubtedly makes them seem like a bigger problem then they are. And all that said, for the functionality of even having an integrated wall mount sprayer--not to mention the cool/sexy factor-- I think the faucet is still something worth investigating. Here is a link that might be useful: Who knew picking faucets would be so complicated?

catspa wrote: "The practice the IRS has been trying to forestall is about 501(c)(4) groups ("social welfare" organizations) using a higher percentage of the funds supposedly collected for tax-exempt purposes than is allowed under the law (which limits donations to political candidates, campaigning, or that sort of thing to something less than half -- political activity can be part of a "social welfare" or 501(c)(4) group's activities, in other words, but not the major part). The 501(c)(4)s that proliferated during the Tea Party movement, and after the Citizens United case, have been doing just that, by using vague descriptions, if not outright lies, about their activities (and 501(c)(4) is an advantageous vehicle for them due to donor anonymity -- the Koch brothers love that). 501(c)(3) groups are not allowed to engage in direct political activity at all, but we suffered because of how Form 990 was changed because of 501(c)(4) malfeasance." No, the issue is that the IRS was denying 501(c)(4) applications to conservative groups in a pattern that indicated unfairly targeting them for their political beliefs. If MoveOn.org -- hardly a "social welfare" organization -- can be considered a 501(c)(4) group (George Soros and Peter Lewis love that too), then it is hypocrisy to deny the same right to assemble and advocate to citizens who, though they don't share your political point of view, have every right to express it via the same organizational methods. I am not buying the excuse that the fault was shadiness on the part of the groups themselves when liberal 501(c)(4) application were approved and conservative ones were not. Sorry it made your job harder, but pinning the disingenuity on tea party groups only is disingenuous a disingenuous statement itself. This is the kind of funneling of Justice Department settlements to liberal activist groups that the WSJ link was referring to: http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2014/08/doj-give-leftist-groups-cut-b-settlement/ You won't like that source either, but it's the sort of topic that the Democrat-leaning media doesn't report on. Thank goodness for the internet.