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Comments (10)Andrew: If you can not find the ingredients you need to make the gritty or 5.1.1 mix, you could always amend a bagged one you are planning on using to hold you over briefly until you do. Yup, I actually said that. Many still find a way to grow in amended mixes bagged mixes. I would sift most of the peat fraction out of any bagged mix until you have mostly bark left over. Do 5 parts left over bark, one part of that sifted out peat, and one part perlite. The smaller perlite will work well if you just strain the dust out with a sifter/spaggetti collander. It would be better than any mix right out of the bag. In fact, you WILL need a better mix if you want those small cuttings to thrive, epsecially on those roots. Let us know what you do. When you get some time, you should really look into investing some time into finding any of the ingredients you need to make the mix you use to be much more efficient and durable. Perlite you can practically buy at any box store or nursery. Try and give them the best start as possible into anything better than what you described. You might want to watch they don't over dry out in those black pots since the hot sun this time of year can practicllay burn them in pots black, that big. Can you pot them into colored ones, or even better, clay? Over watering and under watering can be very tricky in containers, black that size. It is great to see you back buddy! I love those little plants. Mike...See MoreWhat do I need in a laptop?
Comments (39)Ms. Rose, do you have a Micro Center in your area? They have a web site but when you go into their stores, unlike a lot of the Best Buy folks, the people who work there are VERY educated in what they sell and the prices are great. My uses are very similar to yours. I've owned a lot of laptops and have paid a lot of money for extra's I never used. My favorite so far has been smaller sized, inexpensive HP's and Compaqs (400.00 or less) with a key pad on the board. They have all the features needed like micro card slots, usb ports, ample ram and hard drive space but are lighter and easier to move around with. After having an 18 inch mammoth HP and hating it, I'll never go larger than 15 inch again. It hasn't happened yet, but I am glad that if after a couple of years something does go wrong with the unit, it won't cost an arm and a leg to replace. Micro Center also has a great warranty program if that's something you are interested in. One thing that people don't usually think about but is really important is to know where the vent fans are for your system. HP used to build them on the bottom causing the units to get very hot. They've now redesigned them to vent on the side, but I'm not sure if all manufactures have done that yet. Also, I know a lot of people are happy with them, but my husband is an IT computer guy and a Dell employee; he's very familiar with their products and feels they are not what they used to be and are over priced for what you get. Here is a link that might be useful: Micro Center...See MoreThe good and the bad of 'great' rooms :)
Comments (11)The house where we live now has one big space that is the kitchen, dining area, and family room. A six-inch step down and a vaulted ceiling define the family room from the kitchen/dining room. It is all behind the garage (which faces the street),so is in the quietest corner of the house. There is a formal living room space next to the front foyer, but we use it as the library/music room/office. We love the homeyness of our great room area. Someone in the kitchen can still see the TV program or hear the stereo, so DH does not mind doing clean-up. Times like today, with the Olympics on TV, we can hang out here all day. I like being able to hand a glass or dish up onto the counter from my chair. Our fireplace is in the family room and is on the wall that faces the kitchen/dining area,so can be seen from there. We have a small art-deco oak buffet and a kitchen table and chairs for six, that expands to eight when needed. When small, the table can sit in either direction, when large it has to extend into the kitchen half of the kitchen/dining area and the kitchen island has to scoot over to the end of the line of cabinets on one side of the kitchen. Some of the pros are listed above. We like the informality of being in either room and still being "together." With a good, quiet dishwasher (we brought the Bosch from our old house) we have no difficulty with dishwasher noise. My chair is right behind the dishwasher cabinet, and it causes no problems. There is a blind corner cabinet in the kitchen next to the dishwasher, and if we wanted to, we could cut a hole in that cab and add a door to access the back of it from the family room, or we could even inset a bookcase into the back of that cabinet. Our rooms are too small to consider having a breakfast bar on the backside of the cabs facing the family room. The island, on wheels, does have a fold-up breakfast bar, however. We don't bother with it often, since we really don't have room for counter stools. We mostly use that bar surface as a server during large gatherings. The cons: our squeaky floors mean that anytime anyone who is here taking care of my father-in-law enters the kitchen, it is best to pause any programs we are watching because just walking drowns out our entertainment. Even with good floors, the noise of getting ice, running the faucet, running the microwave would interrupt movies or music in the family room. Most people, however, do not always have other people in their home like we do! Either one of us is in Dad's room with him, or a caregiver or sibling of my DH is here taking care of Dad. Our other problem with the set-up is that our biggest dog (a setter-sized mix at 60 lbs) can climb from our family room chairs onto the kitchen counter. I have to use a shock mat on the counter to keep him off of it. I am sure that if the smaller guy wanted to, he could do the same at 40 lbs. Again, most others would not have this same problem! I recently had another difficulty with this great room. I have a small table set up in the dining area on which I am working on tiling some wooden boxes to use as stands for planters that I currently have sitting on the carpet. I am at the point where I am using my Dremel to etch cut lines into the stone tiles. I am making a lot of noise. DH was trying to do some work for work on his laptop in the family room, so I figured I better not try to cut my tiles today....See Moree-receipt?? Good or Bad
Comments (14)I've rec'd e-receipts from only 2 places (so far): Redbox (they send an e-mail both when I check out a DVD and just after I return it), and from the Apple Store (I signed my credit-card receipt using one of their iPads with my fingertip; great marketing strategy, but I didn't buy one!). I did get a paper receipt when I bought my laptop a few years ago -- either they weren't doing e-receipts at the time or they asked my preference, and I guess for that big buy (there were a few things I needed to get along with the laptop itself), I probably asked for a printed one. OH! I probably got an e-receipt from Amazon last time I ordered something (a few weeks ago). I bought 2 items sold by Amazon (not an affiliated merchant's store) and they were delivered by a contracted service, and I was surprised there was no receipt in the box. I guess for things that I think I might have to return or exchange (like clothing), I'd want something printed. When I purchase something more than $100 (or close to it), I typically scan the receipt and attach it to a photo of the item for my personal "household possessions" record that I keep on my computer. Perhaps it'd be a little more difficult manipulating an e-receipt, I dunno, So for those more expensive purchases, I'd want a printed receipt. I'm not sure there are many dangers in having e-receipts, other than them getting misdirected into your spam or junk mail folders in your e-mail basket, and you not seeing them, or for some reason a technical glitch tosses that e-receipt back to the sender. I wouldn't really want the hassle of having to go back to the vendor for a replacement receipt. You'd perhaps have a form of proof you bought something by checking your credit-card account, if you used that and not cash, but it'd still just be a hassle....See More
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