Sounds like something Monsanto would come up with. The biggest reason bees, Monarchs, and other pollinators are in serious decline is because companies like Monsanto make Genetically Modified Crops (GMO's) that are immune to pesticides and herbicides that are sprayed on them, but kill everything else. In addition, these GMO crops do not need pollinators and are probably designed to kill pollinators so to prevent a natural way for nature to diffuse the genetic make up of these plants. What better way to control the food supply by patenting the crops that do not reseed, that your required to buy rather than save back seeds for next years crop, and that kill pollinators like bees, because even if you have a non-GMO crop, you may not have a pollinator like a bee to actually make the crop a reality because a company like Monsanto killed them all off.

Someone said that her "friend" was troubling her by checking her machine ... ... to learn that that person's friend elsewhere - was having a haircut! Seems to me that the person being thus ignored ... was getting clipped, as well. How about suggesting that one tie her hands, hobble her and put a blindfold on her, for the length of time that she absented herself to do the texting and, as far as she was concerned, done something like that to her friend-being-ignored while so doing. As for the guy who'd spent a minute and a half texting at table after being told to not ... I think that I'd tell him that, since he'd shut his brain off as far as we were concerned for a minute and a half ... that he was forbidden from eating for a minute and a half, after the texting finished. But that'd be no help - he'd just do more texting, the turkey (while his turkey was getting cold). Or - banish him to another room, immediately, to do his texting there: no more supper! That should set the fox among the chickens! ole joyful

Jenna, the cost means nothing because a lot depends not only on where in the country you are building, but also the finishes you choose to put into your home. Are you doing builder basics with formica, carpet, vinyl flooring, and basic moldings, or are you planning on level 5 quartzite, marble, wide plank oak flooring, and complicated details? And that's just on the interior. My own house depending on the materials chosen could have cost $500,000 to build or 2 million plus.

Looks lovely . I love the cupola! The things that stood out to me were, The 12’4” wall in the master bedroom is too small. You have your bed on that wall and if it’s a king, which in a room that is 18’ plus long it should be, you won’t have room for decent sized bedside chests. I would not want to walk through the mud room to get to my pantry. When I’m cooking i enter and exit my pantry several times and when I’m unloading a haul from Costco or grocery i bring in my bags and set them on the counter to unpack and load the fridge and pantry from there. Both of these every day activities would be hindered by having to walk around the corner and through the mud room . It would be much more efficient To have the pantry door go into the kitchen IMO. I also would want a powder room. If i had guests staying in main floor bedroom , say at Christmas and then the whole family was gathering i wouldn’t want them to have to use a guest bedroom bathroom Where the guests may have their things out on the counter. Last the laundry looks small. If this is your forever home think about how much laundry will be done in there. That is small and doesn’t leave much room for hampers , ironing boards and folding. Another thought you might want to think about is doing a pocket door from master bath into laundry so you have easy access to take laundry directly in. This might be especially nice when you’re in your late in Life years .