In all likelyhood mine are exactly the same as yours. I did not plant them either. They are medium sweet and yes definetly eaten so far. I would have harvested at least 10 by now. I will upload some pictures. Some of them pretty much came off the vine when I touched them, a sign that they are ready to be harvested? I have two big watermelons growing. Any idea when they need to be harvested? I doubt I can do the tapping technique, not sure if I am such a pro :)

Any computer can be considered unworthy by someone, because a lot of it is nebulous and personal taste. For example, for my previous computer purchase, I bought a cheapie laptop because I had all the bells and whistles I needed at work so the last thing I wanted to do at home was use a computer. So I just bought something for e-mail and online shopping at home. THEN, I lost my job. Now I work from home a ton, and my DVD player that was attached to my TV went out and I can't afford a new one so I am using my laptop for watching movies, which I also do a ton more since I replaced expensive cable that I didn't care much for with Netflix. I use this as an example because even though you maybe bought a little more than you think you need, you never know where your life will take your or where technology will take us in the future. I know I paid 100 dollars more for getting a new Sony laptop, with the sole reason being I didn't have to struggle with the keyboard the way I did with all the other ones I tried, and I know I will be typing a ton in graduate school. So I have some remores at paying 100 more for a computer that is not that much better than the cheaper ones, but I KNOW I will be thanking myself later when I am knee deep in my doctoral disseration and am spending hours on it. It's very hard to know how to parcel out financial priorities in these difficult times, and THAT I DO think is worth discussing on a forum. I say, if you CAN, pay a little more to get a little more which will stand you in good stead for the future. But other people will say, get the minimum and live with it. Neither school is right or wrong. But once you have decided, own your decision and don't look back, IMHO. Because you are just going to get conflicting advice from the two camps til the cows come home. If you made what YOU thought was a good decision, stand by it. . . . Of course that is just my opinion, lol!

I haven't been able to download my camera pics so I will try and describe what has been done now. They have put plywood on the interior side of the garage wall that the furnace is on. They will drywall over the plywood as this is an interior room. They have built a soffit around the upper 12 inches of furnace and duct in the garage and will drywall around this soffet. So there will be no drywall between the upper part of the furnace/ducting and the insulation. I will try to have my DH upload the pics for me. Thanks for looking. Laura

If you don't add a prep sink to that island, you'll still be using that same small area between the sink and the range as your primary prep space. Your habits won't change. There won't be any reason for them to. Adding an island won't help your kitchen function better at all. I think you have some decisions to be made here. Is creating more function more important than creating a more social space? If social space is more important, then just put a counter height dining table there and call the remodel done. If getting yourself out of facing the corner while you're prepping is more important, then doing the island with a prep sink is what you need to focus on primarily. If your table is just "steps away", then I personally don't see the need to have more than maybe 2 stools for perching at that island. Adding in seating at the island just gives you another space for the kids to mess up rather than a place to confine the mess to. Perhaps setting better ground rules as to where food or toys are allowed in the open space would give you the clutter control and the prep space you need. You created a playroom. That's where toys are allowed. You have a dining table. That's where food is allowed. Period. See if you can start that program right away and then judge the results of those efforts before trying to decide about your island.