You guys are fantastic!! Jenanla: I only have one light "hole" above my island, so I need a fixture that only requires one electricity hole. I would love to do several of the individual pendants, but I don't have electricity for it and adding that electricity is not an option right now. AunttoMichael: I've been going back and forth with PB Customer Service for a week now, trying to find someone who actually sounds confident about the information they are giving me. Strange that the dimensions are not listed on their website; usually they are really good about providing detailed information about their products. Anyway, the first person told me the pendants hang 78" from the ceiling. Ummmm, no. It is not possible that they hang 7 feet down from the ceiling. The second person told me "The track lighting comes with 3 rods measuring 4", 7" and 14" to allow you to determine how far down from the ceiling that you would like the fixture to come down" and that the height of the installed track is 8". So that's how I did my math - 108" for the 9 foot ceiling minus 8" for the track minus 14" for the longest pole. I am eagerly awaiting PB's response to you - at some point I will just give up and order the blasted thing to find out for myself how long it is. But I hate to pay $30 in shipping and handling just to find out what their customer service should be able to tell me over the phone. try_hard ...

Hi there Carla. When I saw this topic, I couldn't believe how up my alley this question was. For the last five years, I've been working in selling cameras while going to school. Our store stresses superior product knowledge and I pride myself in keeping up to date on the camera market. Basically, I'm familiar with about 90% of the non-professional cameras on the market. Anyways, sorry for tooting my own horn there. The Yashica T4 is an excellent camera (I own one!). Lore hit the nail on the head in that it's all in the Zeiss lens. The T4 Super Date should run you around $200, about half of it's value being in the lens. The only other P/S camera that might come close to it is the Olympus Stylus Epic (make sure it's the one with NO zoom, and an f/2.8 lens). We did a side by side comparison of the two when the Olympus first came out and we couldn't really tell the difference. You may also want to consider upping your price range to get yourself an SLR camera. While spending more money doesn't GUARANTEE you better pictures, SLRs do tend to do a better job than P/S's. Lastly, Consumer Reports is probably one of the worst places to do research on cameras (though they did rate the T4 #1 for like 4 years straight). The problem is that they rate a small sampling of the cameras on the market and definately miss out on many models, both good and bad. Second, they rate cameras every 2-3 years, while in those off years, just reprint an old report with the updated models and just assuming that the new models are EXACTLY like the old ones. Good places to look are in photo magazines, though they don't "rate" as much as they just list them all and describe them. You kinda have to dig to find the actual tests they do. I'll try to dig up some URLs for you. I hope that helped for now... :)

"For instance, growing kale seedlings at 80F sounds like a recipe for failure - this is a cool-weather crop which would not appreciate anything over temps in the upper 60s. The same advice applies for growing most vegetable seedlings, including tomatoes." Did you read my previous comment about the effect of light and dark temperature differences on stem length? Did you ever try growing a plant with a higher dark period temperature than light period temperature? I did by growing tomato seedlings with lights on during the night and lights off during the day in a greenhouse. See http://forums.gardenweb.com/discussions/2005610/how-to-easily-supplement-fluorescent-with-incandescent-light. I was struwwelpeter then. I call your attention to the following: "In hopes of keeping plants stocky, I will try to keep the average dark temperature higher than the average light temperature. To do this, the lights are on only from 6 PM to 10 AM. The greenhouse heater is set to go on below 55 deg. F. and the greenhouse ventilator fans and shutter are set to go on at more than 95 deg. F.. I am aiming for 80 deg. F. light temperature and 95 deg. F dark temperature." "To my amazement, these tomato plants are shorter but heavier looking than their greenhouse grown counterparts. The weather was mostly sunny, and, my Gro-Lux bulbs are decades old and used. Who would have guessed?" "Left to right, daylight, Gro-Lux, Gro-Lux Plus Incandescent. You can read the variety on some of the tags. The pots are 4.06 inches diameter at the top outside. http://www.general-cathexis.com/images/BigZac3.6.jpg http://www.general-cathexis.com/images/BestBoy3.6.jpg http://www.general-cathexis.com/images/VelvetRed3.6.jpg The biggest difference is with Velvet Red (which some people claim is the best tasting cherry tomato that isn't sweeter than a normal tomato). This is the first time I have grown it. It is supposed to have bluish foliage and fuzzy fruit."

OK I'm going out on a limb here. Honestly I don't think your bed linens look bad. They are overall lovely. And I think that perhaps you're not going to want to right-away redo the ceiling light. After having invested in the furniture, I'll bet you are just struggling to make it work in the room. No need in my mind to go out and get new bed linens as a top priority. The pattern and fabric of your current curtains are bringing the room down. Blinds or curtains, in white, your choice. Then, maybe some light blue ginger jar bedside lamps. There are a million iterations of this kind of thing, but here's one example: That big black blob of a TV on top of the dark dresser would bring me down. I would consider switching out the TV for the mirror on top of the long dresser. Easier to watch TV and that lightens up the other wall that the dresser is on. Then, consider getting some light colored boxes or woven baskets to put your shoes in. Shoe clutter brings me down, even if they are neatly stacked. Long term, in that tiny bedroom, I would consider getting a mirrored frame for the TV and/or moving that large mirror out into another room. Your bedroom is too small for both big dark square things. You can mount a white framed floor length mirror on the bathroom door. You can also lighten up the room with some light colored art. The art you have is kind of dark. Blue, brown and gold are the colors of the sea, maybe some landscapes emphasizing water. Or rainy city scenes. Or even abstract. Whatever floats your boat but much lighter in color. You're style seems to be leaning towards what is known as "British Colonial" which has a tropical vibe. Either one big area rug or smaller ones on the sides of the bed will lighten up your floor. Plus make your feet happy when you get out of bed. None of what I'm suggesting will preclude redoing the ceiling light or bedding, I'm just thinking of priorities.