Hey Carla! I'm gonna give you my 2 cents as well. I live with 16 cats( and 11 rescue dogs) in the house. All are spayed or neutered. All are rescued strays. Some are related, most are not. All came to me a different ages. Some were born with me ( took in a pregnant mother), some were young, some were old. There are 6 females and 10 males here. I have 4 that will pee in the house. 1 old male does spray. 1 is just so feral that she freaks out, hides and then pees in my stove burners! 2 are siblings, a male and female, that suffer urinary tract trouble. The female is actually being x-rayed for stones tomorrow. They stopped using the box when it started to hurt. They associated the box with pain and thus avoided it. Needless to say, they both have seen the Vet numberous times for this trouble. I believe the problem is just hereditary with them. Looking into their mother's possible mates, I feel strongly that she bred back to her own father. The entire liter has had problems. I was able to do this because she was a stay that my mother was feeding and she was able to give me this information. The other female that freaks out so bad is also from this mother so we are not surprised that she a little mental, as some of the others from that litter are. I truly believe that all 3 of these cats have litter box issues because of their inbreeding. The 1 male that does spray came to me as an adult male tom cat. He has the big cheek patches from fighting and is FIV ( feline AIDS) possitive. He is now neutered, but does spray. I agree with quasifish that this is a behavior issue due to stress. I think he objects to there being so many cats in the house. There's only one problem with that, all my cats are people's "throw away" cats. Cats that people have dumped or abandoned. Most have problems, physical, behavioral or mental. There is no other home for them. No one wants them but me. So we have to think outside of the box to solve the problems. How I solved this one is I gave them their own room, a spare bedroom. It has a window and we removed the door and put up a screen door so they could see out and get air flow. This works great! They love their room where they only have to deal with each other and it enables me to keep an eye on the 2 with urinary trouble. If they stop using the box, I don't have to wonder who did it. The floor is vinyl for easy cleaning and the walls are painted in a semi-gloss. Everything wipes up with ease. But honesty, since Caleb (the sprayer) was put in the cat room, he hasn't sprayed. I have floor length drapes and have never found a mark on them. Now understand it is a cat room. It has beds everywhere, toys and things to climb and claw on. Everyone seems happy. All eat well and maintain a good weight. Also know that I clean houses for a living. I am a bit fussy about how clean things are kept. So to end this book, I would have to say that in my experience I don't think you have anything to worry about with this kitten. The chances of him being a sprayer are very very remote, or pretty much nonexistant. Just neuter him before 6 months old and there won't be any troubles. As for asking your Vet questions..... I used to work for a Vet and you need to remember he/she is a paid employee! You are paying them to help you and answer your questions. If this Vet or his/her staff is making you feel uncomfortable about asking for information then you need to fire their butts! That is what they are there for. That is what they are being paid for! I don't work at my Vet clinic anymore, but I call them all the time and ask questions! I even call the emergency clinic and ask them questions! If they get offended then they are a lousy clinic! As for sexing. When they are young or a male has been neutered young it is a little tougher to tell, but I will do my best to describe the difference. Pick the kitty up and face him to you, butt first. First find his rectum. It is right below the tail. Just below the rectum is his genital area (where he pees from too). In males there will be a little bit longer distance between the rectum and genital area. This is to allow for the testicals. In females, you will see that the genital are is a little bit closer to the rectum and there will be a very faint line between the rectum and gential area. If you need to, look at you other girl cats to see what I am talking about. I found a good picture, but I don't know how to post it here. So, if you email me directly, I will send it to you. Axelsrose2001@aol.com Hope all of this helps. Susan

The J-channel fascia that I am familar with can be used to cover the fascia either with or without installing soffit covering at the same time. Coolvt has already pointed out to slip the fascia trim under your roof edge drip molding. I prefer the J-shape to cover the bottom edge of the fascia board at a minimum. From your pictures, enclosing the soffits at the same time would be fairly easy and then your soffits and eaves would be a no-maintenance item on your home. Its always easier to work with proper instructions, so below is a link to the vinyl installation manual from the Vinyl Siding Organization. Near the end of the manual is the section regarding fascia and soffits. Good luck! Here is a link that might be useful: Vinyl Siding Installation Manual

No problem, Breezygirl, here they are! I'm starting to get anxious now that i'm starting to get quotes. Custom cabinet guy is coming Tuesday, no idea if he will be in my price range or not. Now that I have to actually make some layout decisions I'm starting to freak out a bit. Just noticed I did not include the extra fridge depth in the two potential layouts, it is 33 inches deep with another 2 inches or so for handles.

Let's take my illustrations less literally. And we'll all be happier. :-) Where I use "purple-y" plants is to illustrate a plant of substantial difference from the main shrubs below a window. It could be a perennial. Or it could be a spreading shrub. Or just about anything in between and of any color. Where I used red to flank the porch, that is any kind of seasonal color or arrangement. I'm not trying to limit your choices. A main feature of my design is a limitation of shrubs. Therefore, there are "leftover" spaces and these can be filled with annuals, perennials, subshrubs, low spreading "shrubs," bulbs, etc. ... using, of course, some kind of sensible repetition and balance. But all the details would be up to the person putting all their fine tuning on my schemes. What I'm hoping people don't do is: a line of shrubs marching across the entire front ... delete trees where needed or have them too close to the house .... make beds too shallow ... and those kinds of things. I'm not crazy about annuals in pots if there is the option to place them in the ground because it's more maintenance of potentially in the way (visually or physically) of the entrance. (Just don't squeeze them in too close to the walk.) In the case here, I don't think the larger window warrants two shrubs, and that one shrub could easily get to the right size. If the same species is used, keeping them sized to the window would boil down to trimming. Or different types of shrubs that are similar (green) but of slightly different sizes, could be used. It's pretty much impossible to tell a shrub to be a specific size and expect it to comply. Trimming is the control. I might be shaping and subdividing the bed along these lines. (Something at the back of the bed would be taller than what's at the fore.) Hopefully, your walk will be at least 4' wide.