Because a female Japanese Beetle can lay 40 eggs in her lifetime, if you let her and her twenty female egg mates from last year live, next year they can produce 800 JBs. Maybe some skunks will get some of them. Moles might wipe out ten or twenty, but every female that lives ...do the math. I may be the only person who has a good history with beetle traps. But when you say spraying is your only option, you are overlooking letting the trap catch them so that all you have to do is drown them. The beetles will find your roses regardless. And the pheromones they give off while one or two are on a rose will attract more beetles. That's why the beetle traps have two different lures. one pheromone and one flower. My part of the world has had horrific beetle infestations. We started putting up traps ten years ago. We had stopped the horrible multiplier effect that having a JB Target Plant flower garden can cause. We had gone from putting up ten traps to only putting up four. Then came three years of drought that finished the beetles off by encapsulating their larvae in hard clay. This year? I've decapitated three beetles. That's all I've seen and our first beetle date was June 6 or 7 for eight years. I will put a couple of bags out after tomorrow's rain, just in case any vagrants are around.

Thank you all so much for your comments. You make me so proud to own this sweet stove! I just finished the renovation on the duplex (three months of sweat, stress, and $$--you all know the story), and I have a good tenant. She likes it but she doesn't loooooove it like I do. I'll leave it there for a year and then move it home to my own (small) kitchen. I am really a newbie in terms of vintage stoves. I know next to nothing, so I appreciate all the links and feedback. Deedles and Circuspeanut: I had no idea that the left rear spot served another function than just holding pots. (Yes, I feel like an idiot.) I can't wait to research the "slow cooker" issue. Thanks. Controlfreakecs: You are right. The very bottom drawer is storage. The door to the left seems to be just an empty place--but isn't that weird? Could it be another oven? I do not see any element inside--just a metal roof. THANK YOU ALL. I adore this stove and hope to move it home soon and keep it forever.

I've done more than my share of internet dating. It's possible to meet "the one" this way. So is winning the lottery and being struck by lightening! Get out, join a hiking club, take a class, do the local art walk, become involved in volunteer work, hang out at the local coffee house, go to church. Internet dating can work but it's like trying to take a shortcut to your goal that is questionable, like a fad diet. My opinion! With all respect, I've met some wonderful people online but nothing takes the place of social context and a sense of community when you date someone. It really does make a difference.

I did online dating for a few months. I hid my profile recently only because I'm starting a new job and want to focus my energy for a little while. I plan to resume online dating as soon as I feel settled into the new job. I think that online dating is not geared toward making friends, but depending on the site, it may be geared toward finding a life partner or a sex partner. Eilleen, while I understand your hesitation to send someone a photo if that's all they are interested in, I myself will not carry on communication with a man who won't send me his photo. People who refuse to post/send a photo often have a reason: they've lied about their looks or they're married. I believe I can tell a lot about a person by how he/she looks (but not everything, and I know that looks can be decieving) and if I'm thinking about eventually maybe kissing this person or even having s e x with him, I want to know that I don't find him physically repulsive to me. Looks are a part of who a person is, and I want to be intellectually, emotionally, and physically attracted to someone I'm considering entering into a physical relationship with. There are ways to minimize the number of sexual responses you get when you post a profile. Of course, you can't always control who responds to you, but the occasional sexual-content emails are easily deleted. I've had no sexual emails, though one man, who seemed nice via email, wanted to talk sex when we finally spoke on the phone. I told him that I didn't feel that we were a good match, wished him luck, and got off the phone. I lost nothing except for the fifteen minutes we spoke on the phone. During the ten weeks I was online, I got dozens of emails, talked to about six men on the phone, met four men, went on one to four dates with each. While none of these men was my soul mate, they were all nice guys and I'm glad I met them.