Maybe try posting in the tools section? I'm not familiar with these. The engine was built in 1999 if that helps.

Buckeyeguy, In Ohio, I would defer to Subywu's experience. He seeded a similar blend two years ago (he lives in Ohio, if I recall), except I believe he used Award rather than Midnight II. His lawn was beautiful. You are correct. Midnight II, Moonlight and Bedazzled are the names of the KBG cultivars I used in my lawn. You'll probably have to buy them online. I did mix my own. Bestlawn may be able to help you locate these seeds. But I purchased my Midnight II and Moonlight from Rose Agri-seed in Oregon. Again, Best lawn will be able to provide contact information and the like. As for overseeding (versus rounding up and killing the existing lawn), you could try it -- but I don't think you'll like the results. Many folks here have tried it over several years with less than stellar results. I believe Philes is one of those folks and he's finally decided to round up his lawn this year, if I recall. He may be able to pipe in here with his own experiences. In my opinion, you'll get best results by killing the old lawn first. My neighbors all thought I was nuts. I told them about this forum and that I got the advice to roundup my lawn to start new with elite KBG cultivars. They were laughing their butts off. They later told me that they thought I had run into some jokers who were telling me to just apply roundup to improve my lawn. One guy threatened to call the HOA because I killed the lawn. Fortunately, our rules here are pretty lax. The only thing remotely applicable was that I can't remove trees without permission from the HOA first. So, you'd have to call my lawn a forest of millions of tiny trees to make that fly. Of course, none of them are laughing now. And the guy who wanted to call the HOA actually asked me for advice on how to improve his own lawn. I was tempted to tell him to buy a big container of Roundup...

Sorry FTM, what you described does sound rather disgusting, but we have a rodent problem around our home and as far as I'm concerned almost any successful means of catching or killing a mouse or packrat is a good one. I normally just use common spring loaded type mouse traps, and even those things can get pretty disgusting to empty and reset, but it's worth it to keep the foul little buggers at bay and stop them from trying to move in and make my home their home. I can't say I have ever used a glue board and I doubt I ever will. but I have in the past used plenty of poison although I avoid using it in the house simply because I don't want them to crawl off into some hiding place and start rotting and sticking up the house. What is at stake is more than the mere annoyance of having them share our food and living space with them, they breed so fast and carry all kinds of diseases and my families lives and health come first over any rights or discomfort of rodent that try to invade my home territory. Don't get me wrong, I do not enjoy the inhuman treatment of any creatures, I just find it hard to sympathies when there is plenty of wild open acres all around for them to enjoy and live in peace. Invade my home though and the gloves are off, and don't expect any mercy. However, if you want to talk about man's inhumanity to man and human rights, read this article from Amnesty International. It's my own little rant (well, not just mine) that focuses on real people getting caught in a much larger sort of figurative "Glue Pad" and suffering and dieing. At least if a mouse was caught in a glue pad in my house I would know he was guilty (because he was caught in my house), but if I started putting glue pads all over the place in the bushes out side my home with the hope of stopping mice before they ever entered my house you could be sure that I would be causing many innocent mice to suffer and die needlessly. One good quote from that article "Respect for human rights is the route to security not an obstacle to it."

Hey Judi, Welcome y'all! If you haven't guessed, we're in Texas. You will learn, love and laugh in this forum. I just finished priming the trim in our kitchen--not a remodel so much as a redecorating, but work nonetheless. However, a good kitchen usually reflects a good cook, and I'm sure your kitchen is going to be superb! I have a sister in S. Illinois, and we are in back of nowhere ourselves (in fact, we have to drive about 10 miles to get to nowhere) but making do with what you've got is the mark of a great cook. Check out some of the other forums--kitchen, recipe exchange, money saving tips, vegetable gardening, herbs etc.--and post any questions or comments you have. Your input will be welcome!