Oh but no. You all didn't understand. We spent the entire weekend cleaning out the garage and re arranging it. Not a single plant made it in yet, lol. Dweeb, that sounds just like us today. He said where is my space in the garage. I said right there on that one shelf and the spot the fishing poles are in, lol. I spent like 3 hours today listing things on craigslist to try and get rid of them. I did sell the exercise machine for $10. Yep, thats one bag of potting soil, lol. Nothing else yet. I know how to strip the furniture. Just don't think I can manage to do it with my neck and shoulder messed up. I am considering doing the gel stuff on the tops but I found I still usually need to do some sanding. Its really pretty furniture but it will be a lot of work I'm just not up to. As for the plants I am willing to get rid of some that I have more than one of, but the ones I haven't seen bloom yet are staying and the ones I have seen bloom are staying. I may sell a few of the ones I have extras of. Nobody around here has plant sales or I would have even more of them than I do already, lol. I need to buy lights for the fixtures in the garage. My ones from last year burned out. Its like telling a woman she has too many shoes, lol. I just can't give them up. I will be doing some stacking. I wanted to at least strip leaves today and spray everything but went dumpster diving with Pattie instead. She spotted a large wooden shelf sticking out of the top of the dumpster at walmart and called me because she knew I needed it. Glad we didn't get arrested. We have the shop address as the registration on the truck so if I disappear on Monday you all know what happened to me. We got it home and leveled all the shelving. Took everything off the smaller shelving unit that was in that spot and put it all back neatly on the new one. Then we put up these organizers on the walls to hang things on like tools and brooms and mops that I had gotten about a year ago and John would never help me put up. Then we put together an over the door thing with basket type shelves and made me a plant table out of a laminate table top we got out of the dumpster. We had just thrown away a table with folding legs the day before that had a messed up top so we dug it out and took the legs off. Now I have another plant table for free. That took all day. Got the plants watered and put up the few Halloween decorations I had just before dark and that was it. Next weekend some of the plants will start coming in. I am taking out that loan next year to build the big enclosed back porch I want. It will hold lots of plants. The rest will fit in the garage. He put the dang generator and both grills back in the garage. I WILL get them out of there, lol. Now I need some help with a hanging basket idea. I got a long thick wooden dowel looking thing and some eyebolts to go in the ceiling but after getting home I realized that the basket stick will be way over my head too close to the ceiling. Any ideas how I can mount it lower? I have about 6 hanging baskets that need to come in and I would rather not have to put a ceiling hook up for each one.

I am starting to worry about the slope of the deck near the house. It slopes toward the house, but we did not install drains there. We put a drain in a low spot in front of the existing patio. Builder said that would be the proper thing to do. I am looking at the deck that slopes toward the flower bed along side the back of the house. The lot slopes gently toward the deep end of the pool. Thoughts?

Mama Rachel thanks so much for the #'s, very helpful - can you tell me what brand of cabinets you went with? Are you happy with them? Where are you located, it sounds like you got a lot of work done for a great price. Funkycamper Thanks for the response on the appliance issue, I am still flailing about in all of this! Yes, my kitchen is pretty large, but filled with very bottom line cabinets (as in 1" reveals, plain stark white, ugh) ceilings are 10', I have a 10.5' stretch of lowers and uppers (considering a 2nd tier of shorter uppers w glass fronts on top to go to the crown moulding) as well as a 7' stretch of same + an island that is curved and hard to measure, we are changing it a bit but it's currently 3 lower cabinets w a cooktop. We are also re-doing the bar and that's adding another 14' liner feet, so it ends up being a lot. Looking at Decora maple w a stain right now, totally plain slab doors. Our first estimate should be back in about a week, 2nd guy coming on Friday to measure. I will post #'s as I get them. i guess if 30k is right that is what we will do, maybe I just need to adjust my expectations! I have decided on Crema Bordeaux granite and found a local place that has it for 65/sq ft so I'm happy about that...doing honed slab travertine for the backsplash. Thanks again for the input ya'll!

maifleur- I understand where you're coming from, and I'd be dismissive, too, if that is how these numbers were arrived at. But they don't arise from some doctors guessing that radon was the cause of death in particular patients, and then coming up with a total number. Epidemiological studies use statistics and complex mathematical modeling, as well as knowledge of medicine and toxicology, and these techniques and subjects don't lend themselves to simplified explanations that can be summarized in a forum post here. If you really want to see how this works, you'll need to do some reading like the link I just posted above to the paper in The British Medical Journal. That paper synthesizes the data and results from 13 prior European studies covering nine countries and had a very large sample size. The investigators used measurements and medical statistics collected over decades that correlated excess deaths from lung cancer with radon levels, and used statistical tools to remove other potential causes of cancer from the analysis. The results of the analysis were consistent in that they did not differ significantly with study, age, sex, or smoking. It's fine to be skeptical, but you need to take a little time to look at how these results are arrived at so you can make an informed decision about what exactly you are being dismissive about. It looks like you responded to me a couple of minutes after I posted the BMJ link, so I am hoping you're not saying you read the whole thing that quickly before discounting it :-)