I've never used salt either. While you clean can you put plants and fish in a separate holding tank? If your water garden is filthy then you're going to be releasing a lot of potential harmful bacteria in the crud mix. I would not stock the golf course's pond if you want to cull the heard. If your fish have disease then leave them be and work it out -- if you must cull the heard I've been told that the humane way (if they're not health so you can't give them to other pond owners)is to place them with some of their water in a bag, one fish to bag, and freeze them. Their metabo shuts down and they go to rest. Good luck. Glad you have the help you need.

I e-mailed a complaint as soon as I found the change. received reply yesterday. the just of response is, they will pass the complaints on. Thought to myself, "how kind of you to do that". I'm complaining about the contrast color, size of print and difficulty reading it, confusing mess that was made, and hubby took one look at the new disaster created by some "incompitent program designer, who never uses the site, came up with some stupid new design and obviously isn't interested in whether those of us who use this site wear glasses, have poor vision, ETC. The damn pop ups where bad enough, the stuff floating buy was bad news, and the damn bee flashing was enough to cause me to have a seizure, now this." He was furious, since the bee started flashing as he has a seizure disorder and he has had to limit his use of the site because it has caused problems for him. After seeing the new mess, he has me click on the computer help site for him to use and help others. Oh, he's decided not to buy me the present he was going to get me. Paid membership in gardenweb. No way with this crazy change.

I've been staring at your layout for quite a while and really can't figure out what to suggest. It seems like you have so much space, but the kitchen looks awkward to me. Personally, I wouldn't want the clean up sink on the peninsula looking over the breakfast room, but I'm not really sure where else to suggest moving it. Butler's Pantry - if you really think kids are going to be running thru there, I'm not really sure if I would want it as my "snack center". Imagine when your kids are older and you and your DH are standing in there fixing coffee and bagels and the kids try to run through. Just seems like a small space to get those types of tasks done. Dish storage-I agree with Bmore that the type of hutch you're talking about could be difficult to access. Also, if your dishes are near the sink, they are fairly far from frig, pantry and proposed "snack center". The easiest path is right between the prep sink and range, which could be an issue. I also think you have a long walk with groceries from the garage, thru the mudroom, thru the butlers pantry into the kitchen. Depending on what you do with the pantry/laundry room space, you might want a door from the garage into one of those rooms so you have a straight shot with groceries. This might be crazy, but I almost see a better space with 2 islands instead of that peninsula. Shrink the bigger island the 6' and then add a second island next to it that would house the clean up sink and DW. You could unload dishes into upper cabs and lower drawers on the back wall.It wouldd almost be like a galley kitchen with 2 islands. Or...you could do 1 really long island. Another idea...does the pantry have to be on that side of the kitchen? If you moved it to the other side, eliminated the peninsula, closed up that pantry doorway, you would have more counter space(I think). You could move the range a little further towards the frig and get the clean up sink on the back wall. I'm sorry if this is sounding negative. I'm really just trying to help. There's just something not working for me here. Any chance of widening the kitchen at all? I think the biggest issue is that you have very limited wall space. You only really have the back wall, which when you factor in the doorway for the pantry, there's not that much room there either.

@Chi83. Yes, I set the system up so it does it automatically. It's a good practice for me to sign in each time. It helps me to remember the different user names & passwords that I set up for different sites. @Jasdip. The banner appears as you scroll down the page. If you're either at the top or bottom of the page, the banner won't be there. If the banner is smaller/less, it wouldn't have bothered me. But this thing takes half of the page. The message that I get from it is that either I'm allowed to read by logged in or not at all. If this forum was a paid membership, I can understand this restriction. However, it's not! Is Houzz trying to turn away readers? What's their point?