Hi all!!! Hope everyone staying cool as cucumbers. Just think... we got 3 more months of this to look forward to... think I shoulda been born a yankee as I can take the cold weather better than this heat. Course, I never really seen any snow to amount to anything. Saw in the weather forcast that it will be hotter in D.C. than Atlanta over the weekend. Ed, for those kind words, sir, if any of our kids in Atlanta come down during harvest then I will make sure they bring some back up there for you. They live in the Buckhead area, if you know where that is located. Will advise more when time draws nearer. Satellitehead, I can relate to what you are saying. My story is the typical country boy that couldn't wait to get grown to move to the big city... then spent most of my adult life trying to make enough money to move back to the country... does make sense??? The days of the small farms are gone. You have to own or rent enough land so that you will have a large volume as you only make a little on each acre. I have been to several equipment auctions and the biggest selling items were things for 2 row tractors that people would use for their gardens, like me. Four row stuff you couldn't give away as the large farmers have went to 6 - 8 row equipment or larger and the home gardener only needs 2 row equipment. You mentioned sitting around doing the veggies... some of my fondest memories involves pulling up peanuts and sitting around picking them off to boil. Us teens would have a party and boil peanuts in a large wash pot (if any of you know what that is). The cast iron would turn the hulls almost black, but boy were they good... especially if there was a cute little girl sitting next to you... (blush) Mk87, wish everyone thought like you. Same with fish... "are the cleaned?". We have two large pecan trees in the back yard and one fairly young in the front. This past season was a record breaker I think for pecans. My trees were so heavy with nuts that it was dangerous to be underneath them as limbs (huge ones) kept breaking off. I took one of my chain saws and cut up and saved the bigger pieces for fireward or bbqing. (love to bbq) Several hundred pounds of Stewarts (only kind you can sell here) from one tree. They brought .60 a pound. Quite a diffence from $7.99 huh? The other tree is paper shells and we shelled them and put most in the freezer. Course, me and the dogs eat quite a few right out of the shell. Both my dogs loves pecans, but one will only eat them if you shell them for him. The other will crack his own. Think the one has me pretty well trained... lol One of my wife's brothers still lives in the Jacksonville area and when he comes up for a visit, he goes by Mayport (fishing village at the entrance to the St. Johns River) and brings us a mess of shrimp. My wife can fry them just the way I like... correction... love'em. JMZ, think it is great that you are a country girl at heart. Wish you were my neighbor. My wife was born and raised in Jacksonville, Florida and she is also a country girl at heart. When we moved up here she bought a bunch of chickens from one of my cousins. We also got two dogs and some cows. Things she had always wanted. Told her when I'm dead and gone she could sell the farm and move back to the city... you would have thought I spit in her face... lol. About the potatoes... you would have to bring them up... we broke down and opened up one of the two bins... lots of ants and few potatoes. My brother-in-law on the other hand had almost 2 - 5 gal. buckets full out of his bins and he planted a week after me... I gave him the left over potatoes from my planting. We discussed this in another message or forum and think my problem was too much dirt and not enough mulch or straw. The plants grew well, but it appears that the dirt packed down and there was really no place for the potatoes. Think about it... when you plant them in a row and throw dirt to them as they grow, the potatoes expand and push the dirt up and away. Hard to do that with 2 - 3 feet of dirt on top of you and boards on the side. My wife has gone to Jacksonville for the weekend for one of the grandkids birthday. So, I'm baching it. Got to end this novel and go gather some cucumbers. Hope all have a great weekend and lets keep watching the tropics for a tropical storm to move up the gulf and dump some rain on us. (Not a hurricane please, Lord) Shot

David, Ahh, I think I now understand that you were not trying to distinguish between DWV fittings and standard fittings, but rather between normal DWV fittings and long-sweep (or long-turn) DWV fittings. Is that right? If so, you may ignore my previous post. Your post threw me, as I would not have referred to standard DWV fittings as "small radius"; that term connotes standard supply fittings to me.

Dang, shows you how observant I am. Mine is a 1.5"!! It is very generous and looking at it, I would prefer it a little smaller too but not that I ever noticed that until now!! I can't imagine with the 12" overhang they can't give you a 1". I would imagine there is more risk of fracture in transport and handling then after installation. Can't see how you could void the warranty if Cambria says 1/2" min.

Thanks everyone for your suggestions and comments. After looking through the comments here and looking at some pictures on Houzz, I am more comfortable with the idea that the pattern should stay consistent around the counters. As I mentioned earlier, the fabricator will have software running by Friday which will also give me pictures of how the seams will look. A secondary question now, is whether the pattern should run in a consistent direction between the island and countertop. Here is a very rough sketch of our kitchen layout with the 2 options I see (I know that not all aspects of this design meet GW standards, but mine wasn't the only voice with an opinion): I was speaking with our KD/GC today, and we both agree that the pattern should run down the main length of the island. He also feels strongly that the pattern should also run parallel to the longest length of the countertop (Option 1 above) and my wife agrees with him. He's not that concerned that the pattern directions don't match between the island and counter, and my wife actually thinks it's better that they don't match. Option 2 would keep the pattern moving in the same direction throughout the room, but leaves the pattern running perpendicular along the longest run of countertop. I'd appreciate hearing any thoughts that others might have on this.