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Comments (10)Dale, I spent most of the time on this last trip in a house in Beaufort, but did camp three days. Two of those days with Carol in different campsites in South Carolina on lakes. One night we were the only ones in the campground, full moon over the lake that was steps away and warm enough to be very pleasant to swim in. On the way back I camped along the Blue Ridge Parkway. It was OK, nothing special, and I packed up in heavy rain and had to deal with riding the motorcycle in dense fog the first two hours getting back to interstates. I found out that two of the Thermarest Guidelites (full length but 20" wide) were OK for two people, but on the way back I was by myself and one was definitely not good enough for me alone. I ended up rolling the second one out in the middle of the night. I'll either always carry two, or switch back to a Thermarest LE Long when by myself. We'll definitely use the LE's when car camping, they are slightly more comfortable and, of course, roomier. On the other hand, switching from the Eureka Timberline 4 to a Sierra Designs Sirius 3 tent worked well. We'll keep the Timberline for car camping, but I'll exclusively use the Sierra on the bike. The only other new piece of equipment was a GSI Lexan 30 oz coffee press. Makes much "cleaner" coffee than the Nissan Stainless, and is lighter and slightly more compact. I still have the GSI 10 oz, may just throw out the Nissan...or keep it for when we need regular and decaf at home, and use an extra post coffee-making filter....See Morenecessary evil: the toaster oven
Comments (107)I hate to admit this - but I actually ended up putting the toaster oven on a shelf in the garage - just outside the door to the garage. I have a pretty towel covering it up tho! hehe Anyhow, that's where my toaster oven has been banished to until I can think of a better idea. At first, I had it on a slide out shelf in one of my lower cabinets. There is already and electrical outlet inside the cabinet so it worked perfectly. Then while unpacking all of the other oodles of stuff for the kitchen, I found that space wise, having an entire slide out shelf for the toaster oven just wouldn't work. It's been replaced by food storage containers. In our old kitchen, it was mounted under an upper cabinet and worked GREAT. But I think that somewhere along the line, I must've turned into a kitchen snob - because I just could NOT have that in the new kitchen. LOL Somehow though - kitchen snob and toaster oven out in the garage - just don't go together....See Morewhere to put DAILY drinking/drunk used glasses?
Comments (29)Phoenix is really dry and dehydration is an actual health risk so we drink a ton of water all day long and we just have glasses everywhere :) I gather them all up and stick them in the DW constantly. When my DH was growing up each family member had a color (for all things) and they had large plastic water glasses in those colors on the counter so they could keep track. I like drinking out of glass so that doesn't work for us. I use lidded straw cups with my kid and he gets regular cups at meal-time. TMI: DH and I don't worry about sharing glasses. We share way too many cooties as it is to worry about drinking glasses. I know, we are gross :) I see lot's of cute pins on Pinterest that involve using chalkboard paint on glass, that would be a cute way to label/differentiate glass glasses... No need to drink Gatorade all day long, it's full of sugar. You do not need to replenish electrolytes unless you are an athlete or working for hours in the hot sun or are at risk for dehydration due to illness (like kids needing pedialyte) I have spent my lifetime in dry 115+ degree summers in addition to working out for up to 2 hours at a time and I have never needed electrolytes to hydrate. That is really just marketing hype. Now, healthy people should not be avoiding salt either, but that is a whole different subject :) Here is a link that might be useful: chalkboard paint glasses...See MoreDesign Around This #2: Colonial Revived
Comments (123)Wow, LWO!! That is fantastic. You've given a lot for us to talk about. I was staring at samplers this week trying to figure out how to work them in--your idea is pure genius. Someone who updated a kitchen that way might never get around to a full renovation. Lavender, every word is spot on. The One True Kitchen is very specifically Edwardian in inspiration, sometimes veering into a bit of Victorian butler pantry. In the '20s, color and prettiness came in, and there was a lot of interest in European design brought home to the farm by doughboys who had seen Paree. Circus, I agree on the no white kitchens. What about no subways? We probably should also exclude straight-out craftsman, too. Those are very easy to just cut and paste, because there are so many gorgeous examples on the Web. Mtnrededux, yes, we should write the rules to say, everybody deserves a comment, and nobody should feel slighted by criticism, right up front. Don't know about the deadline, though. People may have busy schedules. Who wants to write up the post? I don't mind doing it again if people can wait for the weekend, but at the same time I have no desire to take over like Reese Witherspoon in Election. We do have to specify the Rules and point to that website as homework....See MoreBumblebeez SC Zone 7
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