I have lavendar growing in a very well drained flowerbed. It is thriving there. I'm attaching a link to Lavender Hill Farm here in Oklahoma. The following advice came from them: Growing Lavender in Oklahoma Always keeping in mind your particular growing conditions, here are some tips for successful growing in our region: Adequate sunlight - all day is good, but at least 6 hours/day is necessary. Soil - loose and well drained. Lavender does not like wet feet. Try to mound the soil and adding lime is good. Fertilizer - I use fish emulsion one time/year. No manure please. Mulch - Pea gravel is very good. It helps drain and keeps the plant clean. Irrigation - Think dry. When you water, drip irrigation is best. Try not to plant where there is overhead sprinkling. The biggest cause of plant failure is overwatering. Pruning - Do prune back every year. I prune in early fall and cut back by one third. If you get too far into the woody center you may kill your plant. Choose varieties that grow well in our climate. I like Grosso, Provence and Hidcote. For more information on lavender, check out these websites: www.foreverlavender.com www.norfolklavender.com www.museedelalavende.com Lisa Here is a link that might be useful: Lavender Hill Farm

Oh on the stairs my question was are there any stairs underneath the ones going up from the foyer besides where it crosses the basement stairs. If not that is a great place to put a storage closet to not waste the sq footage. So you want to sit 2.5 ft from the TV? The seat nearest looks to be that close based on your dimensions. You were worried about a cramped foyer that could be reduced by a couple of feet as is and still not feel cramped, yet you don't care that you are crowding the built-in and that will look odd? BTW you either have to get a smaller sectional or remove your divider to have space to walk there if you pull the sectional out further. Might just have to forgo any seating on the side parallel to the divider and just have a sofa against the windows to allow walking space. A chair might fit in that space if on a petite scale. Anyways did another option. It does still have some wasted hall space, but got you a more functional closet and more separation from the bathroom noise. I did have to reduce the master size though, but it is still a comfortable size for sleeping. Also changed the shape of the den.

I hope so, xedos. This was definitely a first-world issue, no question, but ouch. We had many issues with the cabinet designer. But back in 2003 when the kitchen was planned there were basically 2 high end built in options -- SZ and Viking. Also Monogram. My cabinet dimensions were standard for both at the time. Cannot fault the fit on this really. Instructions said a 25" cabinet would allow it to fit flush. But having seen the design of the frame, which is about 36-1/4 or so to cover the cut out, I don't see how that would work.What's interesting is that the Miele door is much slimmer than the SZ. It doesn't protrude as much. And having the grill hidden on the bottom makes a difference in the look -- at least for me. It's very neat. I spoke to the dealer about the water filter. When the time comes, I spend $60 on a bypass. End of story. We have a very good water filter on our well pump so it's not needed on the fridge.

I would really consider un-installing Limewire p2p file share is a problem a lot of infections come from here. damccoy is right your best Virus protection is between your ears. SuperAntispyware is more of an on demand scanner when you think you need to run do so by redownloading it and updating it.. Here is what is recommend by the folks that work with stuff. 1. antivirus Avg or Avast these can be you choice, Norton/Macfee frowned upon although these programs work well for some but you have to pay and they don't offer any more protection, the word is if you have strange problems on a pc that can not be explained un-install these products. 2. A software firewall and a hardware firewall like a router is great. Zone Alarm is free and is most recommend 3.Spywareblaster. 4.spywareguard 5. Spybotsearch&destroy, This tool can be used as an on demand scanner and should be run once a week, by using the Teatimer function you can set spybot to run at startup. 6. ccleaner install and use it once a week cleans temp files history. 7. This comes from the professionals and is a suprise to many Do not run registry cleaners on xp including the one built into ccleaner called the Issues button. Windows xp/2000 is not performance degraded by a clogged registry like 98, 95 were. Better to leave the registry alone. Now to get some of these programs go to the link above (help2go) enter the spyware forum no need to sign up, now look for any post by Steamwiz in his signature you will see a link "Ways to keep your computer safe" click it--Steamwiz is Microsoft certified security spyware remover and well known in the Malware removal community.