Homemaker, if you are still hanging in there, our experience has been as follows: water through the wall after a rain storm has been the result of a clogged gutter or downspout or downspout drain (which takes the H2O away from the house to a dry well), which allows water to accumulate against the house, or a diversion of water against the house (like the paving of a drive). So during the next deluge do go and look at what is going on, even if you have to crawl under the deck. We found clogs in the most unlikely places. The joys of an old house. We also found that water through the floor was the result of a rise in the water table or undergroud diversion. Not all basement floors are built the same way. If you have a "monolith" type, the floor was poured first and the block was set on that using the floor as a footing. You can't dig up a monolith type floor or even trench around the wall, without compormising the foundation so do have a really good inspector look at it before a contractor has a go. Finally, can you see where the water is coming in though the wall? If not, do take the dry (or not so dry) wall away and, again, watch through a rain storm, you may have a crack or hole that wants hydrolic cement.

There are also a ton of wineries in the Niagara Region. Sorry I can't name one but when we were out there, we just stopped here and there. I hope to make the trek out to the aquarium too but we are four hours away - but I'm doing it!

Linear foot pricing is typically based on a "10 x 10" ktichen. The 10 ft measure is taken at the wall, not the front of the cabinets. It include all uppers and lowers, a 30" range, 24" dishwasher, 36-42" window, 36" sink base (cheapest base cabinet available), 30" range hood (not wood). Most often there is a blind corner, NO moldings, NO drawer bases, NO toe cover, and may or may not include finished ends. They add up the cost and divide by 20 for the per foot price. All that means the typical per foot price has little relationship to real life, what people buy. Some dealers make an effort to come up with something more accurate based on real kitchens. It helps with quick ball parks but still won't be accurate. There is little consistency in how the more accurate per foot numbers are arrived at. Some local makers use a per foot price- that will be different and more realistic for ball park- in some cases even amount to final price. Yes drawers are more, ply to mdf or particle (more common than mdf) runs between 5 and 15% depending on brand. Really the best way to get a sense of price is to go somewhere with a layout and ask. If you have a decent layout in hand many places will price it up. Explain your situation. They will cost more than Ikea.

+blakrab NoTex - thank you for the picture; yes I got cuttings of exactly such looking tree - it was in flooded site, government tried to clean site and tried to cut (badly) tree. It had exactly same looking leaves, big, rounded, rough, very leathery. And it was growing almost in a water. Very young mature tree, maybe 8-10 y.o. I also have Illinois Everbearing and leaves are almost the same (this is very young tree, under full sun), except that glossy: What I noticed from past experience, seedlings of different species may look the same until mature age; seedlings of Morus Rubra may look the same as seedlings of Morus Alba first few years. For example, I have 1 year old seedlings of Morus Alba which look the same as my Morus Nigra: rough not-lobed leaves. But under sun in backyard it started mature, stared becoming shiny. All mature fruiting wild mulberries in my area (I have about 15 at golf-club border, and about 3 in small park) have very regular and very shiny leaves, absolutely sure: M. Alba, super easily propagated by birds, all my neighbourhood has it as weeds inside hedges etc. But seedlings of Morus ALba, or for example new branches after heavy cut, have very lobed and much bigger leaves. Pictures of my 14 y.o. heavy-pruned Weeping Morus Alba Tatarica, leaves and buds, it looks the same as what I found in a park, except that size of leaves 10"-12" and small sharp teeth on leaves margin on a variety I found vs. big rounded teeth on margin on Tatarica and size is twice smaller: Logically thinking: I found 3-4 years old seedling with 11" huge leaves in a full shade, sharp small teeth on leave border, etc.; I suspected it to be Morus Rubra. But: if it is seedling then we have mature tree around? No we don't, what I've seen (mature, fruiting) all have regular small shiny leaves. SO it is just nice specimen, 10-th generation+ hybrid, maybe some influence from M. Rubra: shade tolerant, flood tolerant, huge leaves. Government listed 300 M. Rubra in Ontario, and published map of distribution. I am wondering what happened? did we have 30,000 rubras last century? And M. Alba is "invasive" - how can M. Alba kill M. Rubra?