I need to check on mine today Gary. My male is fairly skittish, and he like to do a big "fly in your face to intimidate you" kinda thing. I never get bombed by the birds in my yard, and I think it's because I am out there so much. This particular male though is skittish, and it really worries him for me to actually touch his box! He is fine as long as I don't touch it. :o) I may take my step stool and an umbrella out so that it's easier on him and me!! I will let you know. Mine should be hatched out by today if all is going well.~~Angie

Olivertwist - I went to the GE website and looked up PT 7050. The Ten-Pass is the broil and bake elements that are coiled ten times or make ten turns from edge to edge of the oven. I.e. full coverage. By contrast, there have been complaints on this forum of other brands' ovens having the element covering mostly the center, so that things go uncooked if they are at the edges of the oven. E.g. a large baking pan filled with cookies where the cookies on the outside rows are not cooked at the same time as the cookies in the middle of the pan. GE is saying their Ten-pass elements prevent that. I think if your appliance guy had not found a replacement oven, you'd be here complaining how he left you with no oven. Much worse outcome than him finding you the newer model. Yet he just can't win. Also you are overthinking the matchy-ness of the OTR. If you are so concerned that the "eyelid shape" of the OTR doesn't match the non-eyelid shape of the new oven, get a different GE OTR. It doesn't have to be a GE Profile; I saw several OTRs on the GEappliances website that were not GE Profile, just plain "GE", that do not have the eyelid shape and would "match" your new oven. (and frankly I think the eyelid shape is kinda '90's.) Here is a link that might be useful: PT7050 on GE Appliances Website This post was edited by Mrs_Nyefnyef on Sun, Jul 21, 13 at 23:16

YES, definitely. Felt the same way building a house. Looked at the stakes for the garage thinking, "there's no way two cars can fit in here" but after it was built, there was room for a third car! My pool definitely looked the biggest when it was filling with water and we were standing in the middle of it. (see blog link) The one thing that surprised me after filling was how deep the middle of the pool was. I guess I was used to pools where it was shallow/middling and then a sudden, steeper drop-off to the deepest part. If you've looked at my blog, I expected this spot to be around the bend to the right, east of the spa spillover. Instead, I can't stand with my head above the water past the long bench on the east side (even with the corner of my lanai). I have to swim to reach the bench on the left side of the spa instead of walking up to it. Definitely be around for the shotcrete if possible. If you've read my blog, I wrote about having the guys adjust the width of the steps after seeing that they were narrow and steep. I would have done more except the pool light was right up to the new extension that I had them shoot. If something doesn't look right, SAY SOMETHING RIGHT AWAY, so that they can fix it or at least reassure you that it is fine. My PB didn't like the way the short diagonal wall looked along my lap lane and had them scrape off some - it would've stuck out just a bit (not that I can swim that straight anyway). It just looks weird because the lap lane is not parallel to that diagonal wall and your mind wants it to be. The geometry won't let it. Also we refused to accept the electrician's solution because frankly, he was lazy. He ran the electrical up through the attic and dropped down to switches in the lanai. But, he was going to drop the cable along the outside of the wall and have a big switch box sticking out. Looked crappy. So we ran the conduit from the attic down the inside of the block wall and out a hole, so now the switch is recessed just like any wall switch you have in your house. He wasn't happy, but too bad, we're the ones who have to live with it and we weren't going to have to fix it later after paying him to do it right. Here is a link that might be useful: Pool filling up from my blog

I agree with the suggestions to paint the areas around the windows a taupe (tan/gray) to tone them down. The white is so stark that it immediately draws your eye to the second floor. I'm going to respectfully disagree with Tina, I don't think a metal roof is appropriate for your home. In my community a number of people have put metal roofs on ranch style homes. If you're a farmhouse, coastal, etc. then the metal roofs look good, but they're not for every style home. If you're going to keep storm doors then I would do a full glass style and paint your front doors for a pop of color. I wouldn't spend money to stain the front steps. Get a power washer and give them and the sidewalk a good cleaning. If you're interested in seeing some virtual make overs check my web site, Creative Visual Concepts.