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Comments (29)Just thought I would report back that I looked into Bankers Fidelity and for me it is $205 a month for Plan F and $141 for Plan G. Plan F is an "issue age plan" and G is an "obtained age plan". I called the company and a very annoying local insurance agent called me back. Actually she seemed to know her stuff but her manner was annoying. I think AARP is going to be hard to beat. I downloaded and printed a booklet called Choosing a Medigap Policy and it is very helpful. It makes things clear and has great advice about what to ask an insurance agent if you choose to buy from one. It's on the medicare.gov site. Maybe my research will help the next person and it certainly helps me to bounce these questions off all of you!...See MorePlease pick your favorite elevations: A or B, C or D, E or F.....
Comments (14)I think the others may be right that the crown in F won't look good in real life even though it's more cohesive on the page (yes, I did get it about the space behind it). B'more has the right of it on the cupboard above the oven. In E, it's too fussy. If the doors were simple, like the pantry door, it would be better, and even better if it were a single, flip up, door. I liked the idea of disguising the small pantry door as cabinetry because the blank wall flanked by the two passage doors looks stark. Having different appearances on either side opens it up, whereas the two matching doors kind of confines the blank wall and makes it a focal point in itself by bookending it. Additionally, it's a visual cue that what's behind is an overgrown cabinet, whereas the other door is for the laundry/BP/large pantry or whatever the next room is. I think your baking area is fine, and so is the oven location. Some people do a lot of stove to oven and vice versa, but many of us do rarely, and I assume it's not a biggie for you either, or that you were going to use the Advantium for those cases. It's the prep path that feels awkward. I really don't know if there's a better path, given the walls. The distances are fine. There's just a lot of moving around the island to do prep. I think if you clean at the sink, then move back around to the end to cut, where you'll be just across from the stove, it'll work fine. It's that extra step that makes it feel awkward to me. Hm... Yes... What I did with a small island is put in a trough sink at the end so that I had the whole width to work on. Similar size to the end of your island. A lot of that is based on how you work. I can dry prep too, or use a bowl of water rather than a sink. The sink is there. It's not a big worry and you have the rest laid out usefully. Don't worry about it. There are compromises in every kitchen. As I said, not impossible. :) It'll be fine....See MoreFish pond winter considerations and protection thoughts.
Comments (4)Thx kindly unfortunately for me it takes a lot of words at times to really explain well. Best then be entertaining. Was it worth it? ________ Current 2017 Winter Spring yard plan We currently have an nice range of hydrangea getting underway in the yard as well as some being installed this winter through esrly spring. This is Hydrangea macrophylla 'Mathlida Gutches' with acid pH soil with Aluminum Sulphate added a few years prior. Electric Blue Division of same bush in new yard in the process of the root ball adapting to the new pH enviroment. Obviously there are local pH range variations working here. Over time it will stabilize to purple or pink, unless I act on it. Liking the effect I added dolomite lime to one side of tbe bush and Aluminum Sulphate to the other. Summer Yard Plan I'm going to add some serious Alocasia, Colocasia, Banana, Giant Canna and Giant Ferns this year. Many are hardy here or might be hardy enough and possibly survive a wet long winter too. That is if tricked just right. Others will need to be over wintered inside, until I have expanded enough stock to test for more effective outdoor methods. We have sodium vapor and T55 lights on timer and gas heater installed in an insulated side shed also an unheated 40 F garage holding Brugmansia planters, now in suspended animation. To have success as a zone shifter, one has to know why a (semi)tropical didn't work outside. Was the actual cause cold hardiness, drainage, rotting, or slugs or other pests eating roots and bulbs? Mulch type, tarping, soil amendments, correct bottom drainage, and/or correct pH* could make a huge difference on meeting challenges. I'm getting a little electronic temperature datalogger to help save me on making repeated measurement trips. For a highly desired buried rootstock survival outdoors, one could even lay a 20watt seedling heatmat over the crown area, dry mulch, and cover with a waterproof tarp (e.g., for a Colocasia 'Thailand Giant'). With our 50-ish F ground temp below and an 85 F small zone above, it just might work. 100 watts / winter for protecting 5 prize tropical plants zone would be much more cost effective, and last longer, than a tropical vacation. * pH could effect root health or function, fertilzer loading or type needed and possibly microbe aggression or pest range too. I've used so much commercial compost in my new yard that I better watch plants here liking either an acid pH or drier soil. I know this for sure because most of my purple to blue hydrangeas shifted to pink and red and I can also see that my ammended soil for hydrangeas stay more moist than before. Soil ammendments found here to shift hydrangea color and/or a pH test kit can teach me how to pH adjust here.. My soil is too dry, clay filled and rocky in fact to not add compost. My yard is not hardpan, having a solid clay layer, but is more of a glacial till. It has small to large rocks stopping most digging tools quickly. Having not pre-tested and already moved here, I must use an iron rod for initial digging. Then I screen out excess rock and add compost back, 20 to 50%, to make decent soil. I dig "root pits" and "bog pits (plastic lined) mixing the ammendents needed with my screened soil as I go. i dig a pit as wide and deep enough needed to support an adult plant size. My soil structure thus permits me to ammend, on a plant by plant basis, for that plants needs. For hydrangea, I can seperately adjust pH differently for side by side plants to display different colors. I can even try making a single hydrangea a bicolor red/blue or a have a mixed blue, pink and purple color range. The range is created with focused line addition of ammendmenrs lightly mixed into the soil, above the root ball. If concerned about eventual pH blending yielding a single color try a below ground water drip diverter(s) such as plastic edging strip(s). These effects work only becuase plants roots feed more verically than horizontally through the plant with major root zones feeding primarily above. Yes plants are more simply wired than our brain body connections. Or gardening success would be likely be thought to due to insightful plant psychology rather than plant physiology ... except for that Elf riden Butterfly Orchid that I'm growing under lights. Yes 'Hildos' rides again! Psychopsis Mendenhall 'Hildos' FCC/AOS Hildos' 'Papilio' clan was first seen by Westerners waving to them in the wind, while clinging onto trees in Trinidad and Tobago. Hildos' direct ancestor was promptly captured and brought back to England in the early1800s, where the seated Elf Rider likely magically initiated the craze for orchid collecting in Europe. An award was granted the butterfly in 1825. Interestingly, most viewing this stunning sight still only have seen the Butterfly and not Jockey rider. With plants you sometimes need to look closer to truely understand them....See MoreQuotes 12 - 13 - 17 : 1, Carr, Torme, Van Dyke
Comments (0)Emily Carr Quotes Canadian - Artist December 13, 1871 - March 2, 1945 It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw. Emily Carr Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul. Emily Carr Trees love to toss and sway; they make such happy noises. Emily Carr I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows. Emily Carr You always feel when you look it straight in the eye that you could have put more into it, could have let yourself go and dug harder. Emily Carr I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born. Emily Carr You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming. Emily Carr Oh, Spring! I want to go out and feel you and get inspiration. My old things seem dead. I want fresh contacts, more vital searching. Emily Carr There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness. Emily Carr You will have to experiment and try things out for yourself and you will not be sure of what you are doing. That's all right, you are feeling your way into the thing. Emily Carr Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence. Emily Carr You must be absolutely honest and true in the depicting of a totem for meaning is attached to every line. You must be most particular about detail and proportion. Emily Carr The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion. Emily Carr The men resent a woman getting any honour in what they consider is essentially their field. Men painters mostly despise women painters. So I have decided to stop squirming, to throw any honour in with Canada and women. Emily Carr Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs. Emily Carr Mel Torme Quotes American - Musician December 13, 1925 - June 5, 1999 Talking money is crass; so I'm not going to tell you what I made last year. Mel Torme I would be a liar if I said it wouldn't be lovely and soothing - that's the word - to have a hit single or a hit album. Mel Torme I want to sing for the broadest possible audience. Mel Torme As regards my feelings about drummers - there's Buddy Rich, and then there's everybody else. Mel Torme There isn't a dearth of it, but I will confess that it's harder for me to find songs on which I'm willing to invest anything from ten to fifteen hours writing an arrangement than it was in times past. Mel Torme It may sound a bit like an army barracks, but the truth of the matter is: there must be some time laid aside for arranging, time for working on either a book or an article - I've written two articles in the last four months for the New York Times book review section. Mel Torme I hadn't been a recording artist all that long when albums came on the scene, and I was one of the first singers to point the way to how varied an album's contents could be. Mel Torme How many radio shows I did is lost to memory now; it's in the hundreds - maybe even close to being in the thousands - for the span of years from the time I was eight till I was about fifteen. Mel Torme But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in. Mel Torme As a singer, the biggest joy I have are the arrangements. Mel Torme Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film. Mel Torme So I'm sorry, I'm going to continue to talk to the people, because I do believe that if they get to know you and what you are as a human being, they can more appreciate what you are as a performer. Mel Torme See, I never wrote arrangements for the band for Judy Garland; I did strictly special material, special lyrics, put together all of her medleys. Mel Torme Right now, my career is in three directions: as a performer, as an arranger, as an author - and I don't give any one of them true precedent, or true top marks, as opposed to the other two. Mel Torme My initial career, really, as a baby, was as a singer. Mel Torme I was a singer professionally when I was four years old, and I did not really begin to play any instrument - the first one, of course, was drums - till I was about nine years old. Mel Torme I got into radio when I was eight, and I was one of the busiest child dramatic actors in America. Mel Torme I didn't really have an act per se - a theatrical performance, as opposed to just: here I am, folks, and you're all supposed to be dead quiet while I sing eight or nine songs, then get off the stage. Mel Torme Buddy Rich is one of a kind; he's a genius, and that's all there is to it. Mel Torme Because obviously the whole purpose of putting records out is purely and simply to make money. Mel Torme Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub of radio. Mel Torme As Buddy Rich, for instance, broke into the business at the age of three, I think it was, on drums, so indeed did I break into the business at the age of four as a singer. Mel Torme Dick Van Dyke Quotes American - Actor Born: December 13, 1925 Just knowing you don't have the answers is a recipe for humility, openness, acceptance, forgiveness, and an eagerness to learn - and those are all good things. Dick Van Dyke When you're a kid, you lay in the grass and watch the clouds going over, and you literally don't have a thought in your mind. It's purely meditation, and we lose that. Dick Van Dyke Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them. Dick Van Dyke There are no sure answers, only better questions. Dick Van Dyke 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' was a movie that I repeatedly turned down. The movie's producer, Albert 'Cubby' Broccoli, known for his tight-fisted control of the James Bond movie franchise, desperately wanted to re-team Julie Andrews and me after the success we'd enjoyed with 'Mary Poppins.' Dick Van Dyke Don't worry so much. Most of the things you worry about never end up happening. Dick Van Dyke For some reason, as time gets short in life, wasting time escaping through entertainment bothers me. Dick Van Dyke Once you get the kids raised and the mortgage paid off and accomplish what you wanted to do in life, there's a great feeling of: 'Hey, I'm free as a bird.' Dick Van Dyke In my seventies, I exercised to stay ambulatory. In my eighties, I exercise to avoid assisted living. Dick Van Dyke But I wish they would make a musical of some kind. I miss musicals so much. You don't see them anymore. Dick Van Dyke I've always been a bit of an orphan, because actors say, 'Well, he's more of a dancer.' And dancers say, 'No. He's really a singer.' And singers say, 'No. He's an actor.' Dick Van Dyke 'The Dick Van Dyke Show' was the most fun I ever had and the most creative period of my life. Dick Van Dyke I've made peace with insecurity... because there is no security of any kind. Dick Van Dyke I never wanted to be an actor, and to this day I don't. I can't get a handle on it. An actor wants to become someone else. I am a song-and-dance man, and I enjoy being myself, which is all I can do. Dick Van Dyke I was 5 years old when the stock market crashed; I lost everything. Dick Van Dyke I was the class clown, you know, that kind of thing, and I gathered around me a group of guys who also were silly. I was in all the plays and everything. But I don't know, at that time show businesses looked like the moon, you know, it was so far away. I wanted to be a radio announcer. Dick Van Dyke The American people hit the streets and did something that the government wouldn't do: the Civil Rights Act. It didn't go down well with the corporate world. Dick Van Dyke I wanted to be Stan Laurel, then I wanted to be Fred Astaire and then Captain Kangaroo. I actually started out as a radio announcer when I was 17 and never left the business, so that's literally 70 years. Dick Van Dyke Here's the truth. Your teens and twenties are your Plan A. At 50, you're assessing whether Plan B or Plan C or any of the other plans you hatched actually worked. Your sixties and seventies, they're an improvisation. Dick Van Dyke I found out retirement means playing golf, or I don't know what the hell it means. But to me, retirement means doing what you have fun doing. Dick Van Dyke I never had a lot of drive, but because I had family responsibilities, I had a lot of tenacity - the tenacity of a drowning man. Dick Van Dyke My life has been a magnificent indulgence. Dick Van Dyke I'm not a loner. I have to have a life partner. Dick Van Dyke The Horny Toad in Cave Creek has great food. When I'm in Arizona, I have at least one meal there. I have a daughter who lives out there, and Dee Dee Wood, who was the choreographer on 'Mary Poppins,' lives out there. I still get out there once in a while, but not in the summer. Dick Van Dyke The secret to keeping moving is keeping moving. Dick Van Dyke In Bernie Sanders, I see a man saying that the emperor has no clothes while everyone around him insists they see clothes. Whether or not he makes it to the White House, I hope and pray that everyone hears the alarm he is sounding now; it may be the last voice we ever hear. Dick Van Dyke I've been talking about retiring for years. It's my standard answer to the question, 'What are your future plans?' The truth is, I'll always want to do things that are worthwhile or fun. Dick Van Dyke Somebody sent me a British magazine listing the 20 worst dialects ever done in movies. I was No. 2, with the worst Cockney accent ever done. No. 1 was Sean Connery, because he uses his Scottish brogue no matter what he's playing. Dick Van Dyke Television's going, as far as I'm concerned, downhill, and I'm an anachronism. Dick Van Dyke I was lucky to get the kinds of parts I wanted. I always said I didn't want to do anything my kids can't see. Dick Van Dyke I wrote a little autobiography about how luck has to do with everything. It's called 'My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business.' A publisher came to me and said, 'Write a book,' so I did. I wanted to call it 'Everybody Else Has Got a Book.' Dick Van Dyke 'Mary Poppins' was one of the best experiences of my life. Dick Van Dyke I never even had a bachelorhood: I went straight from my parents' home to a marriage. Dick Van Dyke I pay attention to the news. I take the 'New York Times.' I do the Saturday crossword. Dick Van Dyke As wonderful as they were, my parents didn't teach me anything about self-discipline, concentration, patience, or focus. If I hadn't had a family myself, I probably never would've done anything. Marriage taught me responsibility. Dick Van Dyke As for my studies in school, I was a solid student. I was strong in English and Latin, but I got lost anytime the subject included math. I wish I had paid more attention to biology and science in general, subjects that came to interest me as an adult. I could have gotten better marks, but I never took a book home, never did homework. Dick Van Dyke Divorce is something that I never dreamed would happen to me. But it did. Dick Van Dyke My brother and I laughed a lot as kids. We came up in the middle of the Depression, and neither one of us knew we were poor. We had nothing, but we didn't know it. Dick Van Dyke...See Morenannykins
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