I have bought a pH test kit from Petsmart that is pretty good. It is a solution that you add 3 drops of it to prepare soil sample solution in the test tube ( in liquid form ). It comes with pH color chart that you compare your sample next to it. This kit is sold/used to check fish tank pH . Last year I did some of my own tests also had done by professional lab. They were virtually the same. the kit cost like 7 bucks and you can make 250 tests with it. With the soil pH you don't need to be dead accurate. Even a half a point deviation on the pH scale should be good enough for gardening purpose. Sey

We have the Bodbyn cabinets with the contoured deco strip. I wanted only a slim light rail, so I was planning to install it the same way it is mounted for the cornice (1-1/2 inch height). But I was also planning to extend the side panels down past the base of the cabinets and have the light rail dead end into them to avoid the need for a mitered outside corner. The mitered corners (unless very well done) don't look so great and are subject to bumps and nicks over time. I guess I didn't focus on the fact that that having the light rail dead end into the side panel only works if you turn the deco strip on its end (more height). Otherwise, the end panel doesn't extend forward far enough to cover the deco count our. Does anyone out there have another idea/solution?

Now I'm wondering if I've slighted someone ;0) I think I tend to tip fairly to generously, but do admit there are occasions where it just may not occur to me. DH will typically arrange for any auto service, retired now but worked 4 days a week for a few years, had a week day free and he would just walk across the street to Starbucks and wait - or have one of his coffee drinking friends pick him up. The last time I had a free ride from a dealer, I had dropped off my trade-in at one office of their ownership but my new car with papers yet to sign were at another about 8 miles away. They sent me to the second office in one of their cars with a 'boy', a lot boy I think - a teen, I'm sure not older. One who washes/details cars etc. It didn't occur to me to tip him. Now I'm thinking I should have.

It would be quite an expedition to "drop in" in any case, as they are located in a pretty remote area (also why no internet/email). I spent part of my childhood on a ranch in that general region, and my uncles worked in the woods out of Garberville, Greenmantle's nominal address. Their location is nearer Ettersberg (pop. 10), toward the coast, where the noted fruit hybridizer, Albert Etter, had his orchards in the early 20th century -- part of the basis for Greenmantle's other product, heirloom fruit plants, apples in particular. As the saying goes, while it's not the ends of the Earth, you can see it from there.