Sounds great. It is very nice of them to fill your bin regularly for you. You are probably right that they are only giving you what they think you can handle as they probably produce far more. It probably does take them a little extra to keep things separated for you but you are reducing their organic waste a little in return. I hope things continue to go well for you.

We had a loft bed with desk below it for our younger son, but by the time he was about 10, he got very tired of having to climb in and out of bed all the time, the bed was horrible to make, and as he got tall enough he felt like he was almost hitting the ceiling as he climbed in (we only have 8 ft ceilings in our home). A futon style bed is okay for short term, but not supportive and not great for long term use. A drawing to scale would help a lot, as was mentioned. Could you pull out the window seat and put the head of the bed where the window seat was? What about a murphy bed?

Wow, I was on the edge of my seat, reading your story, Marilyn!!! When you have some spare time, (yes, ha ha!!) you really should write your stories down--I think we discussed this one time. Such a book would indeed sell well as most of us humans have a soft spot for animals, especially down-and-out rescue animals. It's hard to believe that little cutie-pie survived and shows how strong he is. I hope you know there isn't one person who would think you tell these stories to make yourself look good because you're not that kind of a person at all, and it shows. Thank you for entertaining us and taking such marvelous care of all of God's creatures! I hope you will be able to give us updates. Oh, my, and I hope your dh continues to do well. I was so fascinated with the kitten story that I almost forgot to comment on your poor hubby! I hope he's up and at 'em soon--though not too soon--and back to working the job he most enjoys.

We are in the middle of renovating the kitchen & dining area of our 1979 split level-entry home (stairs going up & down from the front door). We have 2 small kids and were really lacking storage and usable countertop. There is an entrance to the kitchen at the top of the stairs & one into the dining room towards the back sliding door. It was an L shape with a pantry closet, fridge, & range on one wall the sink & dishwasher on the other. That left 2 empty walls with nothing. We took out the pantry closet and put in a broom closet, moved the fridge down, added a deeper cab above the fridge, moved the range over giving us room for a corner lazy susan and a bit more countertop. We took out most of the wall between the kitchen & dining room. The remaining empty wall we placed a pantry cabinet and to the left of that an open shelf cabinet. There will be a peninsula of cabinets being put in there between kitchen & dining room. The microwave going under the open shelves and on top of the counter. The remaining wall will hide the micro from the dining/living area. The peninsula & pantry are going to provide a lot more storage for us, much more countertop, and a place for the kids to pull up at the counter. We also took out the big rectangular fluorescent lightbox and installed 2 solar tubes in that recess, and recessed lights around the perimeter. I can already tell this space is going to work so much better for us and we'll be able to see the kids better in the other rooms while we are in the kitchen. We really tried to utilize all of the space that we have. I will post some pics when we are done, right now it's a mess (Mostly DIY project as well).