Smittee, I agree with funsocaltiger about the local ones being bigger than what you get from those mail order ones. I haven't ordered anything through the mail yet, although I've heard some good reports from those who do. I find buying from the local stores allow me to poke around with the plants, check if they're healthy and finally take my pick. I usually scout for them at Home Depot, Lowe's, Walmart and even K-mart. Plus some other local nurseries if they happen to sell them. You'll most likely find Cavendish variety (whether it's the tall, dwarf or superdwarf specie). Occasionally, you may get something nice. I got my Kru from HD, Zebrina from Walmart. One Walmart also had some Basjoo. One thing nice with shopping locally is if you find something wrong with the plants, you can almost always bring them back for a refund. I brought one of the diseased cavendish back to K-mart one day and they took back their plant. Talking about diseased plants, make sure you look out for smelly juice oozing out from the pseudostem. It's a sign of virus infection. If you are just starting, you may find Cavendish a good one to start out with because they're the most easily available ones and fairly cold tolerate too although there was one winter when one of mine died. However, the corm didn't really die. The following spring, it had a new plant. Choose some more disease and cold tolerant ones to avoid some heartaches. I haven't planted them long enough to know for sure, but Ice Cream, Praying Hands and Manzano seem to be quite hardy. Hope you find something you like to plant soon. Once you start planting, you'll never want to stop. Welcome to banana addiction.

Once you have the nutritional information from the site that ravencajun posted, then you can enter the results into one of the WW calculators like the below. I haven't found a site that will go through both steps at once. If you do find a site that does both, please come back and post it. Thanks. Here is a link that might be useful: WW converter

My Dad bought a new Ford Monarch (similar to Mercury) in spring 1947 for $1,600. It was just a year or so after World War II and cars were very scarce - especially in Canada, for the war started in 1939 for us, ran for almost 6 years, ended just under 2 years earlier. He'd moved from owning a larger than usual farm in Ontario to share-cropping on a farm in Saskatchewan (landlord a guy whom Grandad had helped get accounting training 40 years earlier). It was to be the 100th anniversary of our family's immigration and they'd be having a blast at our annual family reunion ... and Dad wanted to show that he was doing O.K. in Saskatchewan. The dealer in the village where we'd lived in Ont. told Dad that Dad could sell the car then for $2,000. ... but Dad said that he'd take it! A less honourable dealer would have arranged to have made the sale and the extra profit himself. Hope you have success in finding what you're looking for, crafty one. ole joyful

bestyears: I have been to Ana's site but she only has info on making headboards where as I want to make and upholster a complete bed frame. Chickadee: There is also not too much on you tube about making frames, only one video and he seems to make it very complicated. Any other suggestions