And the winner is... BIGFOOTsz10 !!! Since Bigfootsz10 got a slow start he wasn't in the original photo, but with lightening fast speed he swept in at the last minute and SMASHED the competition! That brings an end to today's activities. Please use designated garden exits. Thank you for attending this little race and have a great growing season this year.

Thanks for all the advice. To summarize my plan (more for my records than anything). I will: 1. Add fuel with Stabil at every filling 2. Change the oil before the last mowing to allow clean oil to move around the engine (Warm up the engine first) 3. Run the mower dry after the last mowing of the season 4. Put 1 oz of oil in the cylinder and slowly pull cord a few times. 5. Leave the plug hand tight with the wire off and grounded 6. Pull the starter rope until the compression stroke starts (1/4 slow pull into resistance and slow release) 7. Change the oil again at the beginning of the season after the first mowing. A little overkill, but cheap insurance!

Those are very nice chairs, ML. I agree that they could go in the living room as easily as the dining room. I like the wavy "x" legs, especially. It gives them a little something extra. I have studied your diagrams and read your descriptions, finally. Ran around all day yesterday - went and got a Holter Monitor at the cardiologist's and then hit Salvation Army, where I got a sweet little bakers rack - solid metal, welded seams - for $35! Just needs a little 3M Rust Reformer. I think you have shown us the kitchen design before. I remember the sink across from the Bertazzoni, the big garden window, the baking area. I am not sure if you had the nice indentation there for the cook to have a safe zone, though. I do remember the sitting area outside the bedroom, though. It is neat to see the diagram of your home after all these years of seeing photos of little parts of it and imagining how it all fits together. The nosy neighbor, is he on the side with the clawfoot tub and your clothes closet? Is the new vestibule in the front new this time? I don't think I remember seeing that. I am also a bit surprised that you gave up on the storage/pantry units on either side of the window seats. I like your idea of base and wall cabinets with your favorite solid surface counter there, though. Does the table that you use in that space have extensions that you can use to fill the dining room if you have a large group? I am now struggling with an idea I have for my family room. We now have a nice (but huge) 1990s TV unit with the doors that slide out to shut the TV behind. Which I never do. The thing is 5 ft high, which is too high to place my gnome garden upon. I have my air plant garden up there, but it can hardly be seen. I want to ditch the furniture, get a larger wall-hung TV (old eyes can't see small print) and have a furniture piece that I can set things on and under. Craigslist had an beautiful console table for $230 that was under 2' deep at its smallest configuration that looked like a sofa table. It could be pulled out to 8' long! Yet it was only about 8" deep! I could set things on the floor underneath it, as well as on top. It did need a little restoration (it was from the 1930s), and I would not feel really comfortable putting a garden on it, as drips could happen. But since I made the entire kitchen into an island, I have no place for a table-height table, and thought I might want that option if I could ever talk DH into getting rid of the hunk o'oak that I once thought that I just had to have! I'd love to give it to someone to make into a nice play kitchen set like MamaGoose made! We could bring up dining chairs from the basement and have a sit-down meal if we wanted to. Currently, we eat at the island or sitting on family room furniture. I have a tea cart DH and I have used as a dining table, though. So I am imagining that you have the extending table that I wish I had! I hope that you are well by now, and that Marti is over her cold, too. I hear that both flu and colds are going around in Michigan, with Norovirus and RSV also hitting hard. We have been lucky, so far.

Actually preferred the Nicad process , at least it gave you an indication . The new lithium just quit , however my New Dewalt batteries have a luminated battery level button . My previous Milwaukee units just died . Battery improvements are increasing every yr . Just followed testing on the Worlds most powerful and fastest Production Motorcycle , (lightning 215 mph ) yep electric motor powered . Also the same within Tessla,s New electric 248 hp Production Sports Car which can travel 200 miles per charge ! The electric age is progressing quicker than I had anticipated . lol.