Scott, We have too many houses too close together to allow deer hunting by rifle. None of us on our end of the road (6 houses on plots of land ranging from 5 acres to 200 acres) allow hunting with guns on our land because there's so many cows, horses, dogs, cats and children within close proximity. Our neighbor to the west allows bowhunting on his place. And, we still have idiots spotlighting and shooting from the road, which is illegal of course. One year a bullet came whistling by my head and missed me by only a couple of inches, and I was about 600' back from the road. We never found out who fired that shot. We all enjoy watching the deer. You know that I feed them, as do most of the neighbors. One of our newest neighbors has set up a deer feeder to attract deer so they can take photos and videos of the deer. The aggressive deer that was dancing and prancing in the road probably was returning from visiting that feeder. I always encounter a few aggressive bucks each year, but they tend to stand on the edge of the woods and snort and stamp their feet. This one just really shocked me with the "dancing and prancing" as it ran right down the middle of the roadway. Last night, as I was closing up the guinea coop, a buck stood on the edge of the woods and pawed the ground impatiently, waiting for me to go inside so he could come gobble up any henscratch the guineas and chickens missed yesterday. My sister told me earlier this week that her boyfriend isn't having much luck at his new deer lease in south Texas this year. I told her that if he'd come up here and sit on the patio for a couple of hours around twilight, he could get a couple of deer in no time. Really, though, I hate the thought of anyone shooting 'our' deer. They were here first. Dawn

sorry, I thought i had posted it, but forgot and just wanted to give the update at the tail end. sorry for wasting the space.... rgds, Less_Lisamarie

Rebecca, That's great to hear. I'm feeling content with our purchase so far, but I haven't started using the light yet. I'm planning on installing it today as a matter of fact. For some reason I dragged my feet about getting those adjustable hangers, more because I just got busy, so today I'm just going to hang them with S hooks and chains so I can get started sowing seed and I will order the adjustable hangers today as well. I love hearing about the positive experience you've had with them. I have never liked having to adjust the chains in the past. You're right, you have to hold the light up to adjust the chain. And the S hooks - if you leave them all the way open to make it easier to adjust, then when you try to move them the S hook keeps slipping off. We're going to tighten the S hooks into a closed position at the top of the chain where it attaches to our metal shelves and leave the S hook that attaches to the light fixture loose. At least I think so… [g] I was thinking of sowing onion seed, but I'm wondering if I've waited too long? Maybe I should just go with sets this year and use my space for other things. I'm starting out slow and sticking with the one four foot, four bulb light this year, but if it goes well, I may add another. What kind of bulb do you use? In the past, I think I had one cool and one white in each fixture. My husband brought me home all the same bulb and they all look like bright white. Wondering if I should take two back and exchange for cool bulbs? Thanks for your post and the photos. :-)

Both times we have done ikea kitchens, there were ultimate mix ups - either missing parts, incorrect parts, damaged parts, or too many parts. For the latter three categories, no problem - we returned them and got our money back. For the first category, we were told we were out of luck - that because we didn't flag it within 24 hours (? 48 hours?) of delivery, we were not entitled to any refund or replacements. The first time we did a kitchen (in high gloss white), one of the door fronts had a scratch down the front. We took it in to get a replacement and they refused because we were out of the 48 hour window. $178 for a new door. The second time we did a kitchen (same high gloss white), they delivered a total random high gloss grey end piece that had random drill holes in it. We technically couldn't return it because of the drilling holes (24 hours had passed since delivery, so at that point they'd just say that we were the ones who drilled it) so we were the terrible people who returned it in the box without pointing out the holes. Got our money back ($150). Feel bad but clearly that's what the last people did too, or otherwise it wouldn't have ended up in our kitchen.... And it was a lot of money.