Gbsim: In ALL the 25+ years I have been Fabricating - I have come to know that the three people's names most often associated with ANY kind of damage to a tradesman's finished work in these cases are: "It Wasn't Me", "Not Me" and "I don't know" Bill is correct in his recommendation to you - I would add to his remarks by saying that IF you are going to be supplying the sink to your Fabricator - have it there on the jobsite on the day of templating, open up the box and inspect it WHILE the Fabricator or templator IS THERE WITH YOU - take as many pictures of the sink unit from different angles and close ups of each bowl to show you that there is NO DAMAGE today. Then let the Templator or Fabricator take it with him when he goes back to his shop. Keep the pics for that "rainy day" when you happen to see either "Not Me", "I don't Know" or "It wasn't me" get out of the truck to do your install...... HA! HOWEVER - There IS another issue in what you have described that gives me cause to make another comment - you said that your Fabrocators used a "lifter" to hold the sink "up" when it was being installed...... Question: Is your sink attached to the underside of the stone countertops with ONLY an adhesive - like silicone? No mechanical clips or supports were used? IF this is the case - the Fabricator has installed the sink INCORRECTLY and it should have some MECHANICAL means of supporting the sink, and the associated weight that is added to the downward pull on the silicone - like the 20 pounds of pressure being exerted on the sink and silicone from the garbage disposal, and the added weight of sink bowls being full of water - add to that - a turkey or big ham, and you'll have a failure - eventually. I have seen hundreds of sinks installed by "knuckleheads" that JUST use silicone to "glue" the sink flange to the underside of the stone - it's going to fail - it's not a matter of "IF" = but only a matter of "WHEN"....... sorry to be an alarmist - but you need to check the finished work, Hopefully your Fabricator is one of the "good guys" that does his installs right - using mechanical support - clips or sink-setters / undercounter mounters.... as well as sealing the flange with silicone When ANY undermount sink application is done CORRECTLY - the silicone that's used will ONLY be acting as a "seal" - NOT as an adhesive.... hth kevin

Had to pop this one back up to the top. It's true. The Obama's will support this again in 2009. Thank goodness. Check out the list of authors attending. I finally made it to DC earlier this year and visited one of the three buildings that comprise the Library of Congress. Quite impressive and I'm looking forward to returning so I can check out the other two buildings. Thinking this would be a good opportunity to do so. Here is a link that might be useful: The 2009 National Book Festival

Thank you Dave. After I posted this, I did find my link and yes, it was Katie C's. I have run out of steam tonight, so I'll take the onions I've already prepped and make ups some fresh and tomorrow, I'll run a load of this through and see how it flies. Question.....I usually have some of my own stock already canned and on hand, but don't this year. With the price of beef now, I'm not likely to sacrifice my roasts or beef joints for broth and canning, and none of my kin are raising a steer this year for butchering. Can I use the canned broth on the supermarket shelves one can buy in large sizes? I check the ingredients out on the labels and could find nothing in it I would think would be forbidden for canning other than hydrolyzed yeast extract. I was wondering if this was a 'filler' or thickener and therefore not be wise to use in a home canned product.

My mother loved to cook and had numerous cookbooks plus recipes she had written down, many tucked into her cookbooks. She had nice handwriting so they are fery easy to read. Although we already had many of her recipes before she died, my brothers and I divided up her cookbooks eventually, going through them and sorting out some of the written recipes. I treasure those written recipes, which still hold their place in her cookbooks. We made copies of those we wanted so I do have several that are copies. I also still have a few letters my grandmother wrote to me when i was a child. They had moved to east Texas for my Grandfather’s job when i was around 6 and I missed her terribly. And she had kept some I wrote to her, which I was given when she died. We were very close and I enjoyed reading those.