Sounds like your doing O.K. with your plants. As far as taking the phals. outside or not, you will get people on both sides of the fence. I personally never took my phals. outside when I was growing under lights. I think you did the correct thing in bringing the oncidium and cattleya outside as once they get used to the higher light can take almost straight sun all day long. I don't know if you know it or not but the nobile oncidiums are easy to rebloom but due require a certain treatment to get them there. Please check out Yamamato Orchids. There is lots to read there especially about fertilizing nobile's only up to a certain date and then they need a 30 day period of at least one hour of cool weather. Check it out at : http://www.yamamotodendrobiums.com/html/general_care.html I do have a greenhouse but have started to enjoy the nobile dendorbium. A few months ago I bought a half dozen of them out of bloom. This is the only orchid that I own that is currently outside in New York, U.S.A.

I went with IKEA cabs in my kitchen and love the quality and value. I have an old house with leaning walls and uneven floor and found that I could not hang the wall cabs myself--even with a carpenter friend helping the 2nd time round. So I hired a contractor for that part (shared all the IKEA literature and directions, they even had a free DVD about installation) and got a very professional install. The adjustable legs for the base are very useful. You can assemble a cab in 30 minutes to an hour. The regular boxes are very quick, the corner cab and pantry took longer. By the end, my 13 year old assembled the over the fridge cab all by himself! Just get make sure when you attach the back panel that you square up the corners with a corner square tool--that allows the wall cabs to hang side-by-side nicely. I had the cabs all ready, and the contractor hung the rails, attached hinges, squared the doors and attached the trim. They also cut and attached the wood countertop and replaced my window. It was worth the extra $2000. So the cabs ($2500) PLUS installation was $4500, the price of other cabs alone. You do need a contractor who is open to installing European style cabinets. They will question the rail system and want to screw through the backs to hold the cabinets to the wall. I found it useful to share that IKEA has engineered the heck out of this attachment system, and that my 25-year warranty might be voided if the cabs were installed differently. Depending where you live, you might be able to find an IKEA certified installer who would do your install very quickly, since they understand the system. Hopefully the installer could also do your fancy trim-outs which would look grat with the Lindigo style. Also, if you are near an IKEA, consider having the store deliver your order. The delivery for my cabinets would have only $250, and I live 320 miles away! Wish I would have done that. They deliver right into your house, or garage--wherever you need the flat packs located. Here is a link that might be useful: My IKEA kitchen remodel blog

Thanks, dreamgarden. That almost makes sense, but don't they also look at comps? For the asking price on these you can get a lot more, like a newer complex with many more amenities, a better location, a third bedroom, or a garage--and that's assuming you aren't interested in single-family. ask your agent to ask the seller's agent Ah, well, that's a slightly sticky point, ncrealestateguy. I don't have an agent yet, and I've dealt with two here. One, last summer when I wasn't looking but went around with a friend who was. That agent was a complete flake--didn't even know the numbering system for the complex so we spent hours driving around just trying to find units and then didn't see any of the more desirable listings, as I discovered afterwards when I started doing my own research. Then I met the agent who handles most of the listings for this complex at an open house. She has been extremely obliging, even did some research on her own to find answers to some questions I had that she couldn't answer that day (although to be sure they're questions an agent ought to be able to answer, like "how is the second story constructed?"). I'd like to use her as a buyer's agent except for one thing--she persists with the 'property values have turned around and will only go up and it's not a buyer's market anymore' spiel, and I can foresee a lot of resistance to making a low offer when a low offer is reasonable. Actually, my first choice would be the agent who handles my current rental, who has always been extremely fair and honest, but that firm doesn't deal in that area or price bracket, unfortunately, and I expect they'll be particularly annoyed because my landlord who used to be an agent for them (which is why they do this rental) plans to do a FSBO instead when I leave. This place will list for about three times the cost of the ones I'm looking at.

..everything's over-engineered, yes ..hates to ask for help or delegate-yes ..dislikes to part with things, what if they'll be of use one day? even if decides to-I can see how excrutiating is for him ...always late-yes ..has this strange persuasion of how he can do everything, it's just that 24 hours isn't enough,50 would fit him more ..different perception of time and space..he'd make a good austronaut, actually.. ..company coming..I don't want to start. lol. He'll go to get something for the table-will be back in 5 hours..and won't be something, will be three times as much of what's needed. and yes, why you start with the garden when we have company coming? ..doesn't give a damn about his health. But is very preoccupied with mine. but my main worry..he doesn't sleep. Drives me crazy. And I don't think it's innocent btw. Plain dangerous.. Otherwise he's amazing and - I love talking to him. Even him always starting with arguments against, even when we vehemently disagree, even when he says something that I find irritating, and I know he just exaggerates for the fun of it. Even when he insiss I don't need Exilis Ultra..)) Even when he drags me to places, when I don't want to go anywhere, period.. I don't know whether I ever had a closer person in my life. A partner, I mean. So what do I ask already? I don't ask for much. Get home and sleep. Gosh! (would be nice to organize the freaking garage too. lol. He promised..I'm waiting...years go by..) How he puts up with me? He makes it seem easy..I know it's not, but he makes it seem that way. I can tolerate myself much less than he can tolerate me Once I tell him: -listen it's maybe good you're of a different gender..makes one reconcile with lots of stuff.. And he answers:: -well, frankly, if I knew a boy like you- I wouldn't be exactly excited to befriend him either..