Proudgm - I'm late to reply because I don't usually watch this forum but I agree with Linda. It CAN be caused by a vitamin deficiency. I had trouble with it when I was pregnant. It's hard to get enough vitamins when you're eating for two and in my case, I was eating for three since I was pregnant with twins. It makes it hard to sleep since it seems like when you try to relax, that's when it bothers you the most. My leg muscles would crawl and then jerk just as I was starting to go to drift off. I was thinking it was vitamin E that helped me but it's possible that they use other vitamins to help it also. Try putting "RLS vitamins" in the google search box and see what you find. Some people use magnesium as a natural muscle relaxer and years ago, when I worked at a pharmacy, I was surprised how many people swore by it for migraine headaches. I can't find it now but I'm sure that I've read that Missouri's ground water has a low amount of magnesium in relation to the amount of calcium that it has. A high amount of calcium makes you need more magnesium. It might be something that you would want to research. Here is a link that might be useful: Get a good night's sleep Missouri

I was there a few weeks ago on a Sunday. They were busy and a nice woman walked around the showroom with me and pointed out several items I hadn't considered. I went hoping to see a Bluestar wall oven but they did not have one on display. I'd suggest if there's something in particular you're hoping to see, call first to find out if they have it on display. BTW, the nice saleswoman gave me a cold bottle of water after hearing me clear my throat several times. I greatly appreciated her thoughtfulness.

On dealing with real estate agents: You've really got to hate that practice of trying to extort freebies at the end, don't you? Real estate agents are the worst at that. When they're trying to close a deal, they trivialize repairs all the time. One thing to keep in mind is that the real estate agent is looking at a fee that's a lot larger than the "profit" of any tradesman employed to get through settlement. Leveraging that fact, one reply tactic is this: "Tell you what: If somebody has to eat the over-budget item(s), how about we split the extra cost?" If it's truly such a minor thing (heh!), why wouldn't the real estate agent advance a few bucks against his/her fee to get the deal done? And if it's not so trivial, res ipsa loquitur ("the thing speaks for itself"), doesn't it? If you can get any traction with this idea, follow up with: "OK, I'll throw in the labor and you cover the materials cost of the GFCI..etc." My thinking about using this approach is not that anyone's going to get rich from nickel-and-diming extra items, but that it may act as an ethical and fair deterent to agents who routinely try to stick repairmen with overages from their own low-ball estimates of the costs to complete a sale.

I have a picture, someone painted, not horrible, but the colors are off and too bold for my calmed downed more neutral farmhouse decor. Has anyone ever whitewashed a painting? My friend once painted over some parts of a large floral theme canvas so the colors would go with her new decor. I couldn't tell & she pulled it off, but this wasn't changing the entire canvas.