When's the last time you saw a RAINBOW like this one?
Esther-B, Zone 7a
3 years ago
What a treat! We had yet another T-storm. This one was weird, with half our courtyard pouring rain and the other half not raining at all. I finally decided to go ahead to the store, since it seemed to be waning, and this is what I saw when I went outside:
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Babka NorCal 9b
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nicholsworth Z6 Indianapolis
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We are so close!Can you peek at our floorplan one last time??
Comments (10)Mmm. Hate photobucket. Okay, so clicking, you do eventually get to a larger picture. And, my comments: You have at least 2 toilet rooms with inswing doors. For safety, those need to be modified. In both cases, the layout is not conducive to simply changing them to outswing or pocket doors, but it is necessary (the J&J, you might be able to put in a pocket door easily enough, depending on where you put your water lines for the tub). The master bath WC--you might look into something like an ergon door, or rearrange that space to get a pocket. The reason NOT to have an inswing is... if someone collapses/has a medical emergency in the WC room, and there is an inswing door, the person usually falls against the door/on the floor in front of the door preventing EMS from accessing them. The hinges to an inswing door are also on the inside of the WC, so EMS cannot simply remove the door... SWIM? It is rare that this sort of thing happens, but I'd hate for it to happen in my house (or a house I reviewed on GW) when planning for that sort of thing could literally save a life. Where is your upstairs in relation to your down? Can you get a laundry chute in one of the bedroom baths? Do you like having windows in your closet? It is odd that you've decided to put your closet on a corner of the house--usually prime real estate within a house footprint for light--where you don't need (or necessarily want) light there. Maybe, to solve your WC issue, you can think about changing the location of your master bath/closet (swapping them). In either case, your WC will probably be the same (far) distance from your bedroom. Will that be okay with you in the middle of the night? Any reason NOT to have windows on 2 sides of your master bedroom? (for example, is there a house right there)? I would take your kitchen layout to the kitchen's forum. I like that you don't HAVE to walk through the kitchen from the garage entrance, but I don't like that if you do, you are walking past the stovetop to get to the great room. And, I think it looks like you have a HUGE aisle between the sink and the island. How will you use your island? For prep? Normally, your ideal prep space is between stovetop and sink. But, here, you have no real prep space for that. If you think you will use the island for prep, it is essential it have a prep sink, since it is so far away from your main sink. Where will your MW be? I like the location of the fridge fine. But, I am concerned you may have your MW located over by the sink. This will put main kid traffic (between fridge and MW) right through your cooking zone (stovetop). Again, not a good spot for your cooktop. The kitchen forum can help you optimize all of this. Otherwise, without seeing dimensions, knowing where you live, or what orientation for the house, I think it looks pretty good. I like that your J&J bath only has 1 door to the toilet and only the sinks are true J&J. If you do J&J, that is the way to do it, imo. Also, I didn't really look at the elevation/exterior (not really where I excel...I'm more a floorplan junky). Enjoy!...See Morewhen was the last time you threaded a needle?
Comments (25)At about 10:30 pm last night I got the needle threaded....dumb luck really. I had poked and prodded, and finally got the darn thing through. I wasted no time sewing the button on his pants before I lost my timing. So all is well, but I think I will go on a search for needles with a large eye. The one I was threading was for quilting, and they are tiny. I liked the suggestions of putting a white background behind the needle best. I would have never thought of that. I hate getting old and asking for help, but it is what it is...... Trin...See MoreWhen was the last time you had pizza?
Comments (32)We have pizza quite often...it's something easy when our "gang" gets together unexpectedly. We have nights where we get together and play board games...that's a good pizza night. Plus everynow and then I make homemade pizza. try one of these sometime... Tortilla pizza 1 flour shell spread Ragu pizza sauce on it add browned ground beef green peppers onions black olives Whatever you like Cover with Mozzarella cheese Put in oven. (I get the larger Tortilla's for burritos) These are good....See MoreWhen is the last time you spoke with someone you went to high school?
Comments (67)The woman who called me about our HS reunion (2019) agreed that what we really wanted was a reunion with our grammar school classmates. There were only enough of us 'barely pre-war models' (maybe 30?) to have one morning and one afternoon Kindergarten class. From first through sixth grade there were two classes of our grade level in that building. Soon the school had to be enlarged to start accomodating the post-war baby boomers. My group was combined with another to attend 7 - 8 in a third building in our town. Then we were engulfed, with over 900 kids in my class at a township HS. The school was on double shifts by our junior year, when the taxpayers belatedly started construction of a second building. That opened the year after we graduated. The township soon had four high school buildings in three different suburban municipalities; the result of *over-building*. Now there are three HS buildings in the township....See MoreEsther-B, Zone 7a
3 years ago
Beth (5b - SE-Michigan)
3 years agoI love rainbows, to me always a symbol of hope. Here one we saw while visiting friends.
Esther-B, Zone 7a thanked Beth (5b - SE-Michigan)Esther-B, Zone 7a
3 years ago
almosthooked zone5
3 years ago
Jon 6a SE MA
3 years ago
sandyslopes z6 n. UT
3 years agoken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
3 years agoken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
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steve duggins(Z6a) - Central Ohio
3 years agoJon 6a SE MA
3 years agolast modified: 3 years agoEsther-B, Zone 7a
3 years agoYes, Ken, we have a BEAUTIFUL courtyard; it's like a city park, with a perimeter sidewalk 1/4 mile long. That is what residents have been using for exercise, stacking circuits of the courtyard sidewalk.
newhostalady Z6 ON, Canada
3 years agoalmosthooked zone5
3 years agoEsther ...
This was a photo from Northern BC when we lived in the north, They have beautiful skies and large mosquitos. Fort St John is mile 49 on the Alaska Hwy. Thought you may enjoy this one too We made many friends there and as much as I like the time I am glad I live where the winters are warmer nowEsther-B, Zone 7a thanked almosthooked zone5sandyslopes z6 n. UT
3 years ago
Lolcia K
3 years agolast modified: 3 years agoI saw one last year. I felt like I was in a fairy tale...
Picture doesn't do justice to what I was seeing
Esther-B, Zone 7a thanked Lolcia KEsther-B, Zone 7a
3 years ago
loisflan
3 years agoSpeaking of Hawaii... Here's a photo taken last year on Maui. If you look closely, you can just see the second rainbow above the brighter one. By the time I got my phone out, the second one had faded.
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3 years ago
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