I am on facebook, that is someone listed my name there and I had to sign up to read that there was nothing for me. Now I get those monthly Email messages from FB that all my friends want to talk to me, baloney! Since I have no data there about myself, I can not get messages from Nigeria and China that I won lotteries, or they have great business deals for me. I use Excel and have a file with separate work sheets listing the hostas I have in a detailed table, those I want to have, my work plan, the chemicals I am using and made a map of my property with a fine grid listing abbreviations of hosta in this grid. That helps a lot, and is all I need. Should I lose markers again, i will know from the map which hosta is in that space. Have a good one! Bernd

I plan my garden in Excel. I adjust the row height and column width so that the cells are roughly square, then I outline my bed sizes with dark lines. I treat each cell as a square foot, and I type whatever I plan to plant in it, and my planned spacing for example, "9 beets, grid" (means 3x3 rows of beets) or "5 turnips, cross" (means 2x2 rows of turnips, with one in the middle). I make one plan for spring and one for summer. Fall is catch-as-catch can. On the spring plan, I might type something like "5 turnips, cross, 4 radish intercrop" (this tells me to plant the 5 turnips in a cross shape as described above, then to plant 4 radishes around the turnips in the empty spaces -- the radishes will be harvested before the turnips need the space) or "9 teton spinach, grid follow with lettuce" (which tells me to replace the 9 spinach plants with 9 lettuce plants -- I don't bother working out when this transition will take place). I don't bother typing notes to link the spring and summer plans, but I do record the earliest planting date I want to use on the summer plan, so it will look something like "sungold May 15". Then I just plant the sungold tomato in that spot anytime after May 15 that the spot opens up from spring crops. This is helpful with things like beans, which I succession plant two squares at a time. So two squares will say "9 dragon's tongue beans, grid June 1" and the next two will say "9 dragon's tongue beans, grid June 15". I do spend a lot of time trying to coordinate things between the two plans, like planning to put early beans in the spinach squares (since spinach is harvested early) and later beans in the broccoli squares (since broccoli is harvested later), but most of that is just in my head. I don't try to write any of that down.

The link is to a picasa album. Here is the before from the home listing: The elkay is black. DH(this stands for Dear husband right?) picks the color. We also picked our granite slab last weekend! We went with NVG. Our fabricator will throw in the remnants for the bathroom. We are pretty scared? that he won't do a good job.. Seam will be at the sink and DH picked 1/4" chamfer eased edge for kitchen and I wanted double pencil round for bathroom. I am contemplating to change the backsplash... We'll visit HD to see what's on clearance..

If you use Photobucket, PLEASE reduce the size of your pictures to something like 800x600 at the most (400x600 is better) before uploading them. You don't need any fancy software, the basic image software that most likely came with your computer, like Windows Paint, will do just fine! We don't all have monster monitors (if anyone would like to send me a new extra-widescreen laptop I'd be more than happy to accept it, but I won't be able to afford one for a long time) and having oversize pictures screws up the text in the rest of the thread, forcing the reader to scroll left and right to read each individual line. It gets extremely annoying. (It's a netiquette thing, kind of like not typing everything in capital letters or, worse, 24pt bright red type in some fancypants font. *shudder*) Or you can use Picturetrail, which also has free accounts, because they resize your pictures automatically when you upload them (I use the medium setting). Picturetrail also allows direct linking and IMO has a nicer public album design than Photobucket.