Things to get done before drywalling
Teri Ziegler
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Getting the spring crops done before summer ones?
Comments (8)Ribbit, some crops will take up their spaces for most of the summer. Broccoli will continue to put out little side sprouts for a while after the main head is cut. If you cut, rather than pull, your cabbage it will make a few baby heads that are sweet and delicious. Your lettuce and spinach will bolt as soon as it gets hot, so you will use these squares for summer planting, as well as radish squares. Peas are finished early and can be followed with another crop. Just as soon as a square is empty, look at your days to maturity on your seeds or transplants and fill the squares with anything that has time to grow. Granny Here is a link that might be useful: Annie's Kitchen Garden...See MoreGetting Things Done On Maui
Comments (8)Hi Sue, Sorry I haven't gone here recently. I have been busy watching the convention, finding it very interesting, and time consuming. Problem here is everything is going on in the middle of the night, so here I am at 12:30 am at the computer, David is asleep, and Obama just was nominated unanimously by the convention - a very emotional time for the African-American community especially - and especially for the older ones who lived through the 60's. I'm undecided but will watch next week as well just to see which side will finally push me over the edge! The grocery store closest to us is Waitrose - a store that is considered a little more up market from Sainsbury. We like it, has most everything we need and want. I still haul back items from CA that I can't get here but for the most part it's very good. Their meats here are fantastic as well as their fish although it's harder to get wild salmon that I like a lot. Yikes! That's a high utility bill for 21 days! We hope to invest in solar panels if we figure we'll benefit from them financially - I think it takes 10 years before you see the pay off. So, we still need to evaluate that a little more. Yes, I will post eventually. We just finished the design of the house and so I'm starting to look at more of the details including exterior as well as the interior. Right now I'm working on the kitchen and trying to decide what kind of wood to use for the custom made cabinets. Our architiect/designer wants us to get vertical grain Douglas Fir because most of the house will be trimmed out in DFir - very popular in HI. I'm not so sure about this and go back and forth between a wood cab and a painted cab. Being in Hawaii sort of dictates what your style is going to be and a lot of the cabs I see in mags show more wood cabs than the painted ones. Any opinions you want to share? It drives me crazy really! That and trying to pick out a faucet. I think our cab hardware will be ORB therefore the faucet and air switch should be ORB right? I've seen a Grohe that is ORB and that is nice but not too much else. I'm frustrated, too, because being over here limits me as to what I can go and check out. Fittings are different for one plus our house will be more contemporary and a lot of people here like to decorate more traditional styles so I don't see a lot of modern styles. I use the Web constantly to look at things but there is nothing like the real thing. In January, I will do some heavy looking around both on Maui, Oahu, and the Bay Area. Hopefully, I will start to find things that I like. What is your style of decor back in IL? Well, as usual, it's late and I must get to bed so I can get up and watch more convention coverage! Take care, Mandy...See MoreI did 2 things I've never done before!
Comments (10)Through most of the year I have a landscaping business. In the early spring I help at my brothers greenhouse. Winters are very slow. This year I worked as a substitute teacher in the Rochester school system. I have never done anything like that before. I enjoyed it. I spent a week in an Emotional Behavior Disorder classroom. Wow. I spent just one day assisting a teacher in an elementary school teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL). with the Mayo Clinic in Rochester they get kids from all over. Something like 75 kids in the ESOL program at this elementary school (K-5) representing 27 different countries. I had a little 2nd grader that insisted on teaching me how to write his name in Hebrew; his family moved here from Israel in November. It was a great experience this Winter. Ron...See MoreAnyone else scrambling to get renos done before Christmas??
Comments (17)We thought we were so close that it would be no problem. Most of the work being done, with "most" being a famous last word now. Yes, we did get all the moldings stained, finished, cut and up. Hooray! We have more recessed lighting to install (the boxes are there in the attic wired and capped, waiting for final steps). Husband had avoided doing a full ceiling sheetrocking; seemed eco-friendly and budget friendly at the time. (These decisions always do.) The sheetrock around the old light fixture had years of heat and whatever. Therefore, plaster just crumbled when we put the Halo can in. Argh. Many phone calls. Patching. I need to go to a special store. Will the "mistake ring" arrive at our lighting store soon and will it cover enough of the problem? These are the days of our lives. When we're not chasing down our kids. Stairs to the family room, still not done. Subcontractor had to make those special, wanted to finish some bigger jobs first. More famous last words. Goes it without saying that I too lack a backsplash? I liked a "value" (really a relative term) glass tile from Ann Sacks. But then I find out that really I want the clear poly grout, and the installation really goes up in price. And too, I have the rest of my granite on hold. I have enough granite to do both my bathroom vanities upstairs. And I ought to do those tile backsplashes at the same time... A decision before February is needed....See MoreTeri Ziegler
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