Sorry about that. There was some delay in the loading process, and I suppose it went awry. The post was actually titled SLUGGO and crows. To rewrite: Like many of us, I have been using Sluggo successfully for years. I recently bought a new bottle and used some of it to protect some basil seedlings I put out as well as in my flower garden. I noticed that the color of the Sluggo was a little different and the pellets seemed slightly smaller, but thought nothing of it, at first. Then I became aware that the Sluggo was not protecting my plants as well as it had in the past. But the real damage came a few days later when the crows discovered it scattered through the garden. They love the stuff, and quickly decided my garden was their own private feeding tray. A two pound crow can make short work of a row of marigolds simply by stomping them to death. And 5 crows in a 9X9 garden is 5 too many. Then I discovered that the mourning doves and towhees also love it. If I spread it around in the morning, it is gone by nightfall. If I put it out in the evening, they eat it the next day. Basically, Sluggo has suddenly become more of a liability than an asset to my garden, due to the damage caused by stomping and scratching birds. I don't know if they changed the formula or if this is something that has been going on and I just never noticed it before. I wrote to the Canadian office to see if they can give me any ideas. I'll post any response I get. So my traps (boards and overturned pots) are still getting their share of slugs every morning when I go empty them. I have stopped putting out the Sluggo. The crows are still checking to see if there is any, but leave when they find I have stopped feeding them. I suppose (hope) they will quit coming around in a few days of finding nothing to eat. Has anyone else noticed this phenomenon, or is it just me? Jerry

Thanks ladies! The pattern is called "Sawtooth Cats", designed by Janet Miller and put out by The City Stitcher. It is one of those patterns that comes in a zip lock baggie. As far as I can tell the body of the cats are like the New York Beauty pattern, but I have never made a NY Beauty so I'm not totaly sure. The points weren't too bad since it was paper pieced. I'm one of those lucky people who strated sewing curved pieces before some one told me they were supposed to be difficult so that part wasn't tough. I must say the borders were enough to drive me crazy after a while. The cat faces were supposed to be stitched on, but I cheated and used pigma pens. They show up well in person, but not so much in the picture. This is the first quilt that I went totaly wild with the quilting. Normally I'm pretty blah with the quilting part. I tend to stitch in the ditch way too much.lol This time I did chains of hearts on the sashing, diamonds on the cat backgrounds, outlined the stripes on the cats and put one heart on each cat body. Yep, this one is for me:) The quilt I'm working on now is for a baby shower gift. It's the Yellow Brick Road pattern that took a small detour.lol All I can say is if you are doing that pattern follow the directions to the letter. If you don't I have tips for saving the quilt! Thanks for the welcome back too! Foxy.

When you copy from photobucket there is an html option among the 4 different copy options, and that has always worked for me. When you copy from Houzz.com, right-clicking gets you html code that you can post directly. If you want to post a picture that is hosted on someone else's site, like something you found while searching the web, you use the img src="x" approach, x being the location of the image. There's a primer on this at the link below. Right clicking on most pics you will find on the Web (not all) gives you a pop-up box that includes the address where the image is located (like http://blahblahblah.jpg). Here is a link that might be useful: Primer on posting images using html

Here are a couple more...one has a peninsula instead of an island (Amy2202 #2) and the other has a flattened island w/the shallow cabinets along the LR wall that you really seem to want (Amy2202 #3). Both move the oven stack to the office wall and have a corner cabinet Message Center across from the office door and next to the garage entrance. They also both eliminate the tiny pantry. #2 puts a dish hutch in that cubby area extended into kitchen area by 24". It also has 42" of pantry cabinets on the refrigerator wall (the other side of the MW). #3, instead, recesses the MW into that cubby along with a counter and base cabinet below the MW. It also has a pantry on the refrigerator wall, but it's now 45" wide. I like #3 best except it doesn't have any nearby landing space for the refrigerator and pantry. BTW...there is plenty of room b/w the office wall cabinets and the Pantry/Refrigerator...42+ inches. One other thing in #3....I took a 21-inch portion of the cabinets on the LR wall and made it a utility cabinet for brooms, mops, sweepers, etc....unless you already have a place for them. Then I put a similar looking cabinet the same width on the DR end to balance it out. Then, perhaps put glass-fronted upper doors in the cabinets b/w them. +++ Amy2202 #2 +++ +++ Amy2202 #3 +++