Nancy, As I was reading the posts, I was wondering when someone was going to recognize the ready-made planter that said friend was kind enough to provide! You missed pointing out the advantages that it is a movable planter, though, and since we don't need the friend to "find" said keys (I suspect they were never really "lost" in the first place--just too lazy to do the right thing), if the location is not ideal, you can put it right next to the back-filled pond. It'll be a nice accessory: have water, have boat, have garden. Sounds like heaven to me!

Started stripping in December of 2004,two 30 yard (BIG) construction dumpsters and 14 days straight with a sledge hammer and my favorite (YEP) pry bar, we were ready to START our remodel. All new drywall and insulation. Rewired almost everything, removed 2 closets and 2 windows to reconfigure 2 bedrooms to end up with walk in closets in both. Removed wall between bathrooms to make master bath larger.EVERTHING in 2 baths new including all plumbing.Solid concrete slabs down here to bust up to redo octopuss of plumbing to rerout it all.Repoured concrete floors when done.ALL windows and 2-12ft,2-8ft and 1-6ft sliders replaced.Front door and laundry room doors replaced and had to make the opening for laundry room door bigger,can we say more of the old sledge hammer through solid old hard concrete!ALL new lighting throughout as well as paddle fans replaced.Every light switch and electric outlet as well as their covers replaced.New Cabinets(NIGHTMARE ON PRIMA VISTA)and THEN we hire someone to remarcite our pool and they POPPED it 3 ft out of the ground and destroyed it and the entire patio and screen room,you would not believe the pictures if I could figure out how I would post a few!We have just paid $10,500.00 to have it taken out and have hired an Att. to sue their Ins co. as they want to pay me $34,000.00 an amount that will not even pay for another pool let alone take the old one out, pour a new patio and the screen room alone is $17,000.00.So that has been an ongoing nightmare.All new flooring and then painted most of interior.Have'nt gotten all the wallpaper up yet.Trim still needs to be caulked Then painted and the gameroom ceiling still needs drywall and the drywall in the cabanna room(used to be) and laundry still needs to be finished.The tile in both showers still needs to be done AND the stucco on the outside still has to be fixed from installing all the new windows and doors and THEN the outside painting can begin!OH YEA they still have to form and pour the new patio(minus my pool)and pour the new driveway that the tree took out when it blew over in hurricain Francis.Then the landscape lighting and plants can go back in. ANYBODY WANT TO TAKE A "FREE" VACATION IN SUNNY(HA) FLORIDA THIS WINTER!! OVERWELMED? I CAN STILL LAUGH!!! I hope this puts it in perspective for you, as someone else said somebody always has a story worse than ours. OH YEA did I mention the new security system that they got the dates messed up and hooked it up on MONDAY when it was supposed to be hooked up on FRIDAY? We were robbed on Saturday night!!! NO KIDDING!! BUT my to do list is shorter than my GOT ER DONE list!!! Oh well I live in the land of the FREE and the home of the BRAVE and I can get on here and get it all off my chest and fell better (HA!) about it all tomorrow when they start forming my new patio(NO POOL) and driveway. Did I mention NO Pool? OH WELL I will jump in the brook behind our house in Vermont(if I ever get there!!!)

I know that joyful, but it's all a part of being healthy. If we live long enough we will all probably have cancer. I found this article very interesting. Man, Environment And Life Expectancy By Edward Grimsley In the beginning, the air and all the rivers, lakes, and oceans were clean and pure. And darkness was upon the face of the deep much of the time. Man spent most of his time looking for food and shelter, and shivering, clothing made from fig leaves not being very warm. Finally, he learned that animals were useful not only as food but also to provide clothing and shelter, since their pelts and hides could be used for cloaks and tents and so forth. He became a hunter and hunted all the time without a twinge of remorse, since there was no animal\-rights movement to tell him he was doing wrong. So he roamed the earth, searching for food and shelter, breathing the pure air and drinking the pure water. He had plenty of room to roam, for the Earth was not crowded in those pristine and prehistoric days. The average life span, you see, was only 18 years. Man limited his activity to the daylight hours, of course, since he had no light strong enough to dispel the darkness that covered the face of the deep several hours of each day. He was in bed by sundown, which means that he spent much of his short life in unconscious sleep. Over the centuries, life changed. Man discovered the fire, which provided heat and light. True, it burned forests, and occasionally human beings, but people decided the advantages of fire more than offset its dangers. Through the years, more and more people began to live in permanent villages, towns, and cities. They dumped their garbage into the streets and nearby streams and rivers. Thus they invented pollution. And life expectancy rose, reaching 30 years by Roman Times. Man continued to develop and change. Eventually he invented candles. Then he discovered that lamps fueled by oil, from whatever source, produced stronger light than candles. Since whales were a good sourced of lamp oil, people killed a lot of whales in those days. But there was less darkness upon the face of the deep. People could even see to read at night. Hardly anyone spoke out in defense of whales. In the 18th and 19th centuries, man moved into the Industrial Age. This featured factories that filled the air with black smoke and poured new pollutants into the rivers and lakes. Man breathed poison 24 hours a day. His live expectancy jumped to about 40 years. Miracle followed miracle. The industrial revolution led to the internal combustion engine in automobiles. Soon there were millions of these vehicles running about the globe spewing fumes into the air. Somebody invented cigarettes. With factory smokestacks, cigarettes, and automobiles filling the air with foul particles, lungs didnt know what fresh air felt like. Since the internal combustion engines and the factory furnaces and the power generators needed fuel, man drilled for oil and transported it hither and yon. Now and then he spilled some, polluting the rivers, lakes, and oceans. And his life expectancy soared beyond 60 years. And so it has gone most of this century. Good lighting provided by generators powered by coal, oil and nuclear energy has dispelled much of the darkness from the face of the deep, which means people no longer have to lie down when the sun does. Factories have produced machines that have made life easier and richer than prehistoric man ever thought it could be. Once forced to spend most of his waking moments merely to obtain the necessities of life, man now has leisure time in abundance. He can play at home or, if he chooses, hop aboard an airplane and fly to another playground on the other side of the globe in a matter of hours. And his life expectancy is about 75 years. From all this, it would appear that pollution is manÂs best friend, since the dirtier the environment, the longer he lives, and the more he prospers. Pollution actually is a very bad thing, however as the experts have been telling us for days in observance of the 20th anniversary of Earth Day. Civilization is doomed, they warn, unless people cleanup the air and water, stop smoking cigarettes, stop cutting down old trees, save the spotted owl, and recycle everything. Exactly how man can restore the purity of the air and waters and preserve the forests while retaining all the benefits of industrialization and technological progress is not clear. But future generations probably will have time to figure it out. Experts predict that babies born in this highly polluted year of 1990 may live an average of 110 years. Distributed by Heritage Features Syndicate.

I have one and love it. One of the best things about my kitchen. However, it's not a corner one, it's a straight one (opening is 36" IIRC). And it's not a tambour (roll up) door. It's a lift up pocket door. The pocket door was a requirement for me. The door does stay closed when appliances are not in use. If you're going to just leave it open, don't bother getting one. My old kitchen had only one plug and all my appliances sat on the counter, plugged into a strip, cords tangled, and the whole thing looking messy and cluttered. I could not WAIT to hide all that but at the same time could not stand the thought of getting those appliances out of a cabinet. I use some of them almost daily! The appl garage solved that problem beautifully. My kitchen is almost six years old and I still LOVE it. Pix are on the FKB. Oh! I forgot to say, it actually IS in a corner which you can see in the pix. But it doesn't face out into the corner, it faces out into one of the legs of the L. This gives it the advantage of using a corner which would otherwise be very much underused while still having the wide pocket door.