What changes/improvements would you make to this space?
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Comments (4)Look at all that green grass. It's just waiting for a few gallons of Round Up a few small trees and a Hosta garden. Steve...See MoreWould you make this change?
Comments (6)If using barley, I would cook the barley first, in a large amount of water. When tender but still chewy (if you cook it too soft, it will tend to dissolve somewhat and get mushy), I would rinse and drain it very well, cooking the vegetables and seasonings separately to toss together when done. Barley releases quite a bit of starch as it cooks, and ends up sticky like a badly cooked risotto. Rinsing and draining well counters this. In fact, after draining it well, I would probably spread it out in a thin layer on a flat pan to air dry for a while before tossing the other ingredients together with it. I use barley quite frequently in mixed grain salads, and this is the technique I use when doing so....See MoreWhy Would One Make Home Improvements?
Comments (49)A county should be required to justify its current level of taxation. Some posters here have accurately stated that taxes (or other form of revenue) are required to achieve a certain level of civilization. Folks have also voiced support for funding the education of our next generation. While I agree with those positions as basic truths, I don't believe the basic truth of them can be extrapolated out beyond some point where the county is using the revenue for things that don't provide a cost-worthy benefit to those who are taxed. The reason I want to make this note is because I think we have passed that point in many areas. While my area is very much lower in taxes than some, my cost of living and salary base is also lower so it may be much more comparable than it would appear on the surface. At some basic level, taxation is needed to pay for county drainage, maintenance of county streets, and the local school district (if, a big if in my very single-non-parent case, one assumes general tax revenue should pay for elementary education). Is it OK to increase county taxes to pay for limo-style school buses? Most would say that's extravagant and goes well beyond what's reasonable or needed. I would argue that the same goes for requiring the local taxpayers to pay for educating the four (even five or six) kids lots of families choose to put through school. At some point, parents should be responsible for the costs of raising their own children. My parents scrimped and saved so one parent could be a full time parent and home-schooler while the other worked to fund the household....four of us kids. Seeing that worked, I would personally argue that it does not take taxation to fund a local school district in order to have a good education for our kids. Now, with home school groups who can share different areas of expertise and teaching abilities, it's even easier now to properly educate kids outside of the public school system. I see tax funds wasted in my county to build a generally mocked amphitheater that is seldom used, wasted on horribly planned intersections, wasted on consulting for pet projects for which there is no general consensus, and wasted on huge school improvement projects that don't improve the quality of the kid's educations. It's disheartening to see the profit I should be able to realize through renovating and enlarging my home be eaten up each time I mail a check to the county and even worse to know I get no benefit from over half that check. See, it's been three weeks since I got my tax statement and I'm still mad :>)...See MoreImproving Curb Appeal - What would you do to improve curb appeal?
Comments (15)Shutters should appear to be operable, so they would need to be as wide as the window... so if closed, they would cover the window. So no shutters on your house. I agree with taking out the boxwood that have been butchered. If you take the bed all the way to the sidewalk, you need a pocket bed on the left side. Yes to learn more about pruning the Crepe Myrtle. Ever heard of Crepe Murder? It's a thing. LOL Honestly you don't even have to prune them. We had several over 30ft tall at our last house, but you don't want one too tall right next to the house. Having lived in the South all my life, I don't have a problem with the grass since we get rain. No idea where you live, but the grass looks healthy. Unless you want to spend every weekend gardening, or hire a gardener, I would not go to the extreme of removing the grass. If there room for a wooden bench on the front porch?...See Morekatrina s
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