Oh, OK. If you have about 1 ft. thick bedding it's OK, no need to push all to 1 side. Do not believe what has been advertised about the amount of food worms will eat. There are so many variables in the calculation. That is also why it is said "under ideal condition". Then there is the "quality" of the worm food. How much of the poundage is water? There is a difference whether you feed them .5 lb. of juice pulp or .5 lb. of melon rind. With only 1 hole at the bottom of your bin, you do have to be careful with your feeding and moisture management but it is do-able, even w/o any hole at the bottom as several of my RM bins. Once you've got the hang of it, you'd know how much you can feed w/o "over"feeding. As long as there is a large area the worms can retreat to if conditions get unfavourable, they would be OK. I do not feed the bins with citrus and pine-apples. However, I do have an open composter that has local worms in it and I dumped lots of orange peels (from juicing, no pine-apples, don't eat them) in there. Once they break down, worms will attack them. No personal experience with papaya, don't eat them either. What I've read so far, it's the seed that you have to avoid as they will render the worms temporary infertility. Didn't say how long. What I do know for sure, papaya leaves are used as meat tenderizer, I suspect because of the sap they contain. Therefore, I will also avoid young papaya (if you happen to live in the tropics), since they also contain that sap. If you're not sure about other food than the no-no, moderation is the word. It looks like once everything breaks down, it's OK. There are more no-nos for indoor bins out of concern for humans, the worm keepers, therefore, no oinions and cabbage family because of the smell. True, there's also the gases that will harm the worms but with lots of holes on the lid, it's no biggie. In a worm bin, everything except solids like rock, plastic, glass and metal will be converted into black gold, eventually. We have a lot to thank the worms for..

"Not sure why that one word, out of a 100 on the show that are probably pronounced a little differently, bothered me so much." Your question got me interested in the derivation of the word. According to one explanation, it's a fairly new word in English, taken from the French to England only in the mid-19th century. Hence, the French-ish pronounciation in England and much of the former Empire (foy-yay). In America, the pronounciation has been, well, Americanized further (foy-err). IOW, the phonetic shift is still occurring. The explanation also went on to say that, when people (presumably foy-err-pronouncing Americans) realized they were mispronouncing, they began saying foy-yay. IOW, the phonetic shift may have halted. Is that TMI? Probably. :) I've always pronounced it foy-err. When I hear foy-yay, even though it seems to be the correct (?) pronounciation, I envision Hyacinth Bucket!

Amy, we bought 12 acres of what was left when Table Rock Lake went in on the White River, West of Branson, MO. The last person to live there died in 1946... we bought from my parents who had acquired it in 1965 from his son. My folks only wanted a camping spot on the lake. So the majority of the property had lain idle for about 40 years, as I am sure the elderly man had not been keeping it in use as his age increased. It was nothing but trees, vines, brambles, and brush. The lane in had stayed clear enough to drive in... probably due to people using it to get down to the lake. Brush scraped both sides of the truck... I am talking pickup or jeep country here. LOL It was months before we discovered what all was hidden in there. Nearest neighbor was 2 miles away... I'm talking about nearest full time neighbor.. lot owners came and went back to civilization. We found a goat dairyman in Northern Arkansas who was giving away unwanted kids. We intended to take 4... came home with 8 because the fella was pushing to get rid of them and said "half of them will die". We raised 7.. one bloated during the night and we found it dead the next morning. (Milk replacers are not the best way to go) While they were little we built an electric fence around the area we wanted to clear first. They ate the vines, brush and cedar leaves off 7 feet high. (We kept one neutered male who could stand on his hind legs and reach limbs 7 feet high...he pulled them down and the girls helped him eat anything they could chew. Once we could actually walk in there to work, we moved the goats over to another section. We cleared underbrush, vines, and unwanted trees... some were scrubby and others just not desirable. Kept mostly, ash, maple, red oak, some hickory, persimmon, mulberry, dogwood, redbud, and various others. Found two ancient pear trees. After we had all that under control, we changed to sheep to keep the pasture grass down. Never had an urge to have pigs... saw too much damage from wild hogs to want to endure that. We chose to clear by hand rather then use heavy equipment. Hilly land is too prone to erosion.... needed to keep the native grasses to prevent that. The real treasure we found was an old Ice House that we could repurpose for use as a root cellar. Walls were 24 inches thick (actually two walls with rock rubble in between)... roof had fallen in, but once restored it would hold summer warmth to keep canned goods from freezing all winter. By that time it was very cool in there and that would hold until fall, when the whole process started over again. It had a date of 1898 traced in the interior plaster. We let Virginia Creeper cover it and that probably helped keep it cool in summer. Whee, I have made myself tired just thinking about all that we did... good thing it was 35 years ago. LOL

A small chandelier would add a lot! Even in a rental you can replace a ceiling light, provided that it's installed correctly with a junction box, which is probable (except in my house, where about half the lights are installed without junction boxes - no code enforcement when it was built). Just save the original fixture to reinstall when you move. One that might be particularly nice is the Ramsele pendant lamp from Ikea, which is ingeniously self-dimming (pulling a cord makes it more open or more closed). Also ideal for renting: peel-and-stick removable wallpaper, perhaps for the headboard wall. Something subtle like a faux grasscloth is what I would aim for, not a pronounced pattern.