It was said: "The white eggs are the leafminer eggs." Could be. Look at this blurb from Colorado http://www.ext.colostate.edu/Pubs/Insect/05548.html As has already been said, the spinach and beets both have leafminer. Two different kinds, but still leafminer. (Explained in the above blurb.) As for the arugula, it's in bud and will soon flower. Leaves get rank tasting when that happens. Start over, either with seeds or young transplants. Celery is short on nitrogen. Here is a link that might be useful: leafminers

Everyone is invited to come to my house on June 21 for our 5th anniversary party! Finished the colonoscopy this morning, and then learned that the plumber is still out of town and unavailable, and so we hired a different one, as we do not want to wait another week without a kitchen sink. Enough is enough! It is probably costing us a bit more for the new plumber (the first one never gave us a written quote or contract, but he's two doors down from us), but I feel that he is doing a competent job. After not having a sink for 10 days and then having a colonoscopy, my patience for waiting had run out! I will be very happy to be able to cook again this evening, even though we are having a terrible heat spell. I am not up for shopping, but I don't think we need anything, and I still have all the frozen leftovers that we never ate. Saturday we installed my new bathroom faucet (to go with the new shower controls), and so we had to go to Bouget Brothers in Santa Monica to find a brass coupling (Afterwards we had lunch on Sawtelle at a new Vietnamese restaurant). We first went to B&B Hardware in Mar Vista, but they are going out of business and are not restocking and were out of what we wanted. I am sad to see B&B go - when I lived in Culver City and Venice (from 1989-2009) I went there a lot and seldom bothered to go to Home Depot. Now, we are only a mile from a HD and go there a lot, but they did not have brass couplings, and I would not settle for galvanized steel. Here's a picture of the bathtub faucet:

Noellabella, I click my car starter at my front door when I'm tired. At least it gives me a laugh at the end of the day! I wanted to tell you how fun and cheerful your kitchen looks. I've recently been bitten by the painting bug. Even to the point of taking my first day off for myself since I went to the dentist 8 months ago. I took an ASCP class and am excited. I've got over 150lf of cabinetry to paint, let alone some God-awful furniture that takes on new life after paint. Have fun with this and love it. Your kitchen is fabulous!

My vote is for the new bathroom. I'd make the old bathroom space part of a new dining area. And I'd beef up the roof support structure to get rid of the 2-2x4 post you show as a beam in your new layout. Move the kitchen into the wider dining room. Which is 12 feet wide. Take down the short wall blocking off part of the old dining room from the old kitchen. Now you have wall space for a well designed, very functional kitchen. 12x16 using the back wall and the adjacent end wall at the porch end of the house. With nothing on one wall you've got room for a 35x72 island with no seating. All lowers 36" or wider drawer cabinets. No corner susan. No uppers. Space for windows. I remember now you have a beautiful view. You can have seating without much walk behind. I guess it may be worth it. Maybe take a bit from the porch.