Well, Arif, I like to put names on mine...like with friends, I like to know them by their names. It just seems more...friendly, I guess. Also, I like to know what each bulb will produce by looking at its tag. I suppose it would not matter so much if they were growing en mass for my own enjoyment outside like yours, but where each one is potted and looked forward too for weeks, I just like to be able to think of it with a name! I am like that with all my flowers. I might tell my girl friend that "teasing Georgia is about to burst into bloom, and she will know exactly what I am seeing because she knows my Teasing Georgia rose. And if we are planning a bouquet for one of our churches over the phone, I might say "I am going to have 3 Cafe Au Lait dahlias ready, then she immediately knows which colors we need to go with them because she knows Cafe Au Lait dahlia really well. IT is so much easier then saying "That big pale colored dahlia with the tints of pink and brown in the cream". THat is the way I see it anyhow. Names are a shorthand to describing a flower.

I've lurked here for a number of years through kitchen remodeling and house building. Thanks for all the years of help. This thread prompted me to finally join and hopefully spare others from my adventures with GE Right height. I had a Kenmore HE4T selected with the help of this forum that lasted 9.5 years until a controller board made it too expensive to repair. Last December 2013, I bought the GE Right height thinking it would meet my needs for water conservation and large capacity. The unit I received had problems from the day it was delivered: it banged loudly on the side of the washer cabinet every time it entered the spin cycle with a large or heavy load and moved across the laundry room floor. Yes, the machine was level. Yes, it had been installed by certified Lowes' installers. Yes, the shipping bolts were removed and yes, it functioned perfectly when it was empty or had a very small load. By large load, I mean, the number of towels and clothing listed in the washer manual as a typical load. Everyone should be aware that the GE warranty only covers REPAIR of the unit, not replacement. Thinking it was operator error, I waited until April and tried everything I could think of or could find suggested elsewhere to correct the banging. This was past the Lowes' return date so I was out of luck. In April 2014 I contacted GE warranty service at the suggestion of their on-line help desk. It took three weeks for a technician to arrive, This man said he had never seen the Right height machine before, didn't open up the unit, but told me there was a problem with a broken strut on the wash basket. There might have been, I don't know. There was a rattling sound like ball bearing sliding in a tube when the interior tub was turned. Technician 1 ordered a new wash basket and told me it would take another three weeks before the part would arrive and he would return with a partner to replace it. The part arrived in seven business days. Calls to the repair service said "too bad" we had to wait the three weeks. Now it was May, the part sat in my garage and a lone technician arrived to install it. Technician 2 looked at my washer, listen as I demonstrated the banging and "walking", and said he, too, had never seen the machine, but Technician 1 was wrong, there was nothing wrong with the machine. He adjusted a shock absorber and leveled the machine again. (All directions showed level before this man arrived). He said I would have to live with it, but he would return the useless wash basket to GE. Needless to say, I was not happy. I called both GE and Lowes asking for a replacement machine. At this time I met the GE consumer advocate who told me about the repair only limitation of the warranty. Lowes went so far as to arrange a third visit from the same authorized repair service. Not much help, but what did I have to loose? Three weeks later in June 2014, I had a third visit from Technician 3 who saw the same problems with the banging and the machine walking. This tech at least took the back off the machine, tightened a couple of springs, and rerouted the drain hose. He told me this machine had a Samsung interior and he had fixed it "for now." At least the man was honest, two days later, we were back to banging on the cabinet and walking across the floor at high speed spin. In the interim, I received a bill from the repair company for rejected warranty service because GE had classified Technical 2's visit as "consumer education." The technician listed his services as adjustment on the receipt he left with me. That is another ongoing story about a disputed bill. By August I had had enough. I went to Sears to look at the Kenmore Elites. I started with a 4.3 cubic ft that I thought would meet my needs. It turned out to be too small for the laundry generated by a cancer patient and an active quilter, but it is a good machine. No problems with banging or walking or water that doesn't drain. I learned from the Right height and sent it back within the exchange period. Then I got the Kenmore Elite 5.2 41072 another member was asking about. It's made by LG and is virtually identical with the mega sized LG. Yes, it's huge and I've been able to wash the king sized quilts, pillows and 8 yards of fabric with no trouble. Keep those extra towels handy for balancing the small loads, but it hasn't been a big deal. After 4 washers in less than a year, I think I've found something that works. You will find a few other complaints like mine about the GE right height, maybe those are the rotten apples in the barrel. The moral of this story is "get a machine that can be repaired where you live." I would have loved an Electrolux but nobody within 90 miles of my house can repair it. I am through with repairmen who can't do anymore than I can by reading off computer screens. I hope this will save some others from paying the expensive Stupid Tax I've paid in 2014.

I've given this a lot of thought and I just can't warm up to idea of the sink on the peninsula and losing space with a counter overhang in what's already a small dining room. I much prefer the sink on the outside wall. We need to keep the office closet and the shower because this is our "aging in place" house, and at some point we might need a downstairs bedroom. This morning our architect and his assistant crawled under the house to take the structural measurements and see what would be possible. There's a city requirement that the garage must be at least 9'x20' which has complicated things a bit because our original plan was eating into the 20' length. The stairs are a limiting factor as well. The new plan is this: steal up to 18 inches from the current furnace/water heater area to allow for cabinets to be recessed, and steal even more from the garage to have space for the fridge. With fridge/cabinets set into the back wall, that gives us 12 feet to work with for the rest of the room. The math so far is: 26" sink/window cabinets 36" aisle 36" island 46" aisle --- 12' The bad news is that there's no room for a double oven, so I've switched the cooktop to a range. The furnace gets moved to the spot just to the left of the door from the hall to the kitchen. We'll have a smaller furnace there because we're going to heat the upstairs from a 2nd furnace in the attic. The plans: The first tall cabinet unit will have to be shallower on top because it's limited by the stairs. The windows can't be centered on the back wall because the new office will come 3 feet into the end of the kitchen. I put in a few more uppers. The island will just be 2 cabinets with a 12" overhang, but I drew it as 4 to get the dimensions right. Maybe I can add another 12" set of drawers on the stove end. Comments welcome!

Generally, I do not expect much from my roses during the dog days of summer, Young Lycidas included, Diane. A handful of roses have the audacity to bloom during the hottest dry summer months ( July, August), but most do not, so fried blooms is not something I see a lot of (excluding DbB recently). I have had one Y.L. for 2-3 years and the other two for about a year and a half or so. All 3 lived in large pots until recently, so the verdict is still out. I know I had no complaints with the oldest plant and found the fragrance to be intoxicating. In over a decade, I have lost about 3 roses out of 100's due to summer heat, although most recently, The Prince... spider mites and being a pot on the second floor balcony led to its demise. Remember, Ludwig's roses is in Phoenix, which is hotter, and for longer, than we are here and you are there. Roses are seen in gardens and commercial landscapes throughout the city. That speaks volumes. I believe roses are a lot tougher than given credit for being; especially when established, and cultivated based upon the climate they are in. The love of roses, learning what works and does not through sharing knowledge, trial and error, etc. is what this is all about:) I cannot imagine ever having a garden without roses.