(((Cross posted this on the 'Conversations' side yesterday)) I've been thinking about starting a garden blog lately. Not sure if I will actually do it or not, still pondering that one! I'm pretty ignorant about the ways of blogging though... I did get some of my questions answered on conversations, except for the one I am having the most trouble figuring out, how to manage pictures. I have ALL my pics on Photobucket. Shall we say hundreds? I constantly upload pics to certain albums (such as one for Perennials, organized alphabetically to coincide with my personal plant records etc), delete old pics and such. Trouble is the html links all get broken when I do this. How do you guys manage this problem? I would hate to forget, shuffle things around and then end up with blank pics on my blog that I would have to go back and fix later. I don't want to have a secondary hosting site- I would prefer it all on my current PB account if possible. As I said, I am challenged in this area, lol. Only way I could figure of doing it is to create a separate album for blog post pics on PB, and then sub-albums for each of my separate posts from there. I could copy the pics from my other albums and move the copy to the sub-album so the link will never be broken to the blog and I could still move or delete the originals (in the original album) as I liked. What do you think? Or is there a simpler way of doing it I have yet to think of? Thanks for any tips you can give! CMK

I appreciate the real world cook's kitchen aspects of this. Thanks for posting. I'm thinking about the counterspace issue. There's room on the range itself plus room either side of the sink. The "island" is a work surface and launching spot for prepared food. But I suspect there is also a multi-purpose table where the photographer is standing to take that first photo and I also suspect there is a chair out back with an outdoor table or such next to it--if a second person volunteers to help out, hand 'em a basin and a potato peeler and send 'em outside into the California sun. When prepping, a single cook could have a lot of recipes under way at once inside the space. It's the crowd of eaters that I wonder about. I suspect that they're outdoor parties. The bookshelf unit is double-deep in the bottom shelves--what's stored in the bottom section _behind_ the books--more books? or less-used cooking equipment? And is the lip of that unit used for prep or for receiving/launching if the display items are put away? Love reading that she uses aprons. That's a real-world cook! Note the size of the refrigerator. It's like mine. Gotta keep the grocery buying within bounds. For parties, I suspect there is an outdoor supplementary option for keeping things cool, even if it's a couple coolers. And does she do any prep work for home parties while in the restaurant kitchen? Wouldn't be surprised.

Update... First off, thank you all very much for every single comment, advice and resource! Of course, I did my own research, but getting a varied response of peoples views is what is really helpful. I went through every comment and summarized a point by point list of advice, resources and Do's and Dont's for this person. We met a couple of days ago. he still thought he wanted to sell his home and just be done with it. I was able to show him how spending $7000 to get $8000 is not a smart financial move, on top of the fact that he would no longer own a home, no longer have any equity to his name and on top of it all, be paying more per month in rent. He eventually saw the light, and is not going to sell. He found a room mate yesterday for $500/month, and he is going to call the collection agency's Attorney every week to offer what he thinks he can afford. This way, we thought he could show this effort to any future Judge and the Judge could see that it was them that were saying no to a settlement as opposed to the other way around. I told him to keep track of every correspondence, and to bring this to court if they sue him. (The "summons" he told me about was not a summons at all... it was a certified letter delivered by the Sheriff, just explaining that the agency had now hired an attorney to handle all negotiations. The attorney was the last person he spoke to who refused his offer. There is no court date set.) Thanks again for your help. He feels much better now.

Way back in the administration of G.H.W. Bush, we were having a rather heated debate between the parties about whether to raise taxes to improve the balance sheet. R's were opposed, D's in favor. Sometimes, when the budget of a program was not increased as much as the D's wished, that was called a "cut" -- even though no actual cut occurred, even when the budget was actually increased -- and that "cut" terminology would be repeated in every news story on the topic. The reporters knew that no cuts were happening. The Soviet Union was falling apart and the Russian economy was floundering. The Dems proposed that we send them economic assistance, including cash IIRC. I recall hearing a report on CBS News about the debate on the proposal. A Dem sound bite in favor was played, then a sound bite in which Newt Gingerich said that it was irresponsible, if our national budget was in need of a tax increase, to then be sending money that we didn't have to Russia. The reporter then wrapped up by saying, in an acerbic tone, that no one had said anything about raising taxes. Was the reporter (who is now an anchor for 60 Minutes) unable to see the big picture or was she deliberately shading the reporting, by ignoring context, in order to make Gingerich look silly? Of course what she said was strictly true -- and yet, not true. By the way, conservative media is no cleaner. I relate all this to make the point that it isn't just newly and all about the jerk who is currently president-- it has been going on for decades. They just have been gifted a mother lode of idiocy to make hay with in this presidency.