"Michael "Dog3" Lonergan" wrote in message
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Chatty Cathy
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david the elder wrote:


I voted MCINL because we use ours every day -- the kitchen's too small
for a table.

Heh. We use ours once a year... usually for Christmas lunch. That pool
table is starting to sound like a good idea.

I'm with you Cathy. I'm ready to pack up the china and sell off the
dining
room furniture and make it into a family room type thing. It's right off
the kitchen and has a fireplace. Steven fights me on this every time the
subject is brought up. Everytime we have friends over for dinner they all
gather in the kitchen anyway.

Michael

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When's the next time he is out of town on business? (wink, wink)....call
those people who did the show about 'While you were out....'
Then give him a BA (BA = big ass)glass of something strong when he comes in
the door and say 'look at the little bit of "rearranging" I did while you
were gone'......

Then, if he doesn't fall into a dead faint or kill you first, let us know
how he likes it.

-ginny

Nancy Young wrote:
"kilikini" wrote

Nancy Young wrote:
"Chatty Cathy" wrote

http://www.recfoodcooking.com/

I win!! Guess I'd better get cracking making my own prize.

Congrats, Nancy! :~)

(laugh) Good timing.

I have an eat in kitchen, no dining room. That was one thing I
rather looked for in a house. Suits me.

nancy

I don't have an eat-in kitchen but I don't, strictly speaking, have a dining
room, either. The floorplan is such that the dining area is open to the
living room. I have the area partitioned off with a standing floor screen.
But I don't have a dining table (at least not one that is assembled LOL).

Jill

Chatty Cathy wrote:
david the elder wrote:


I voted MCINL because we use ours every day -- the kitchen's too
small for a table.

Heh. We use ours once a year... usually for Christmas lunch. That pool
table is starting to sound like a good idea.

LOL Did you ever see 'The Beverly Hillbillies'? You could always claim the
pool table is the "fancy eatin' table" and the pool cues are fancy "pot
passers"!

Jill

Michael "Dog3" Lonergan wrote:

I love eating outdoors but we have too many birds, if you get my meaning.
I feed them, so I expect pooh on the patio now and then, but don't want it
on my food. I'm thinking about investing in one of those retractable
awnings. Do you have one, or know of anyone that does? I'd be interested
to see what people think of them.

Michael

The retractable awnings are pretty neat. They're the same type of
awnings used on RVs (recreational vehicles) of all sorts (motorhomes,
campers, and trailers, etc.). You have the option to keep the awning
closed or open it, especially when you're eating outside.

Sky

Nancy Young wrote:

I have an eat in kitchen, no dining room. That was one thing I
rather looked for in a house. Suits me.

We don't have a separate room as a dining room (our kitchen/dining
room/living room/office space is a large room (30x25 feet), but I
said "almost every day" because I think of that area as the dining
room, and we eat most meals there (every now and then, James is in
the middle of a big meeting and can't come to the table, so he eats
at his desk, but not usually).

Serene

jmcquown wrote:
Chatty Cathy wrote:
david the elder wrote:

I voted MCINL because we use ours every day -- the kitchen's too
small for a table.
Heh. We use ours once a year... usually for Christmas lunch. That pool
table is starting to sound like a good idea.

LOL Did you ever see 'The Beverly Hillbillies'? You could always claim the
pool table is the "fancy eatin' table" and the pool cues are fancy "pot
passers"!

ahem. we are "The Boondocks Hillbillies'. Same difference
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says...
Nancy Young wrote:

I have an eat in kitchen, no dining room. That was one thing I
rather looked for in a house. Suits me.

We don't have a separate room as a dining room (our kitchen/dining
room/living room/office space is a large room (30x25 feet), but I
said "almost every day" because I think of that area as the dining
room, and we eat most meals there (every now and then, James is in
the middle of a big meeting and can't come to the table, so he eats
at his desk, but not usually).

Serene


Our dining room has been converted into a music room and is filled with
instruments, music, etc. About once a year we clean it out and use it
for a formal dinner. 99% of our eating is done at a dining table in the
sunroom.

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Peter Aitken

On Fri, 18 May 2007 15:27:28 +0200, Chatty Cathy
wrote:

http://www.recfoodcooking.com/

Vote now!

Thanks go to Andy for suggesting this survey....

BTW, before anybody asks... MCINL= My choice is not listed. I love acronyms.

We don't have a dining room... the dining table is in the corner of
the livingroom closest to the kitchen, and we use it about three ior
four times a week. I try to get us to eat dinner together, but John
has a bad habit of wanting to eat in front of his computer or at odd
hours when I'm not remotely hungry...

jmcquown wrote:
Nancy Young wrote:
"kilikini" wrote

Nancy Young wrote:
"Chatty Cathy" wrote

http://www.recfoodcooking.com/

I win!! Guess I'd better get cracking making my own prize.

Congrats, Nancy! :~)

(laugh) Good timing.

I have an eat in kitchen, no dining room. That was one thing I
rather looked for in a house. Suits me.

nancy

I don't have an eat-in kitchen but I don't, strictly speaking, have a
dining room, either. The floorplan is such that the dining area is
open to the living room. I have the area partitioned off with a
standing floor screen. But I don't have a dining table (at least not
one that is assembled LOL).

Jill

I was just gonna say, I know you have a nook in a box! LOL

kili

Peter A wrote:


Our dining room has been converted into a music room and is filled with
instruments, music, etc. About once a year we clean it out and use it
for a formal dinner. 99% of our eating is done at a dining table in the
sunroom.

LOL. "The Sunroom". You are a wannabe 'kugel' [1], Peter.


[1] the South African equivalent of a snob

GIYF, BTW
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Chatty Cathy

On May 18, 9:27 am, Chatty Cathy wrote:
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Vote now!

Thanks go to Andy for suggesting this survey....

BTW, before anybody asks... MCINL= My choice is not listed. I love acronyms.
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Chatty Cathy

Our house came with a dining room with a built-in buffet/sideboard.
We found that every time we had people visit, we had to move the table
to the living room (and the couches, too) because you couldn't breathe
with the table open to it's full 12 foot length, so we finally gave in
and created a "den" out of the dining room and made the living room
the piano room and dining room.

If you count the number of times my daughter has had projects that
needed a lot of space, then we use our dining room quite often. Prior
to my last women's group meeting, it was home to my husband's in-need-
of-repair lute, my daughter's graphic novel-in-progress, a sorting out
of the filing, and my vain attempt to organize the photo collections.

maxine in ri

Chatty Cathy wrote:
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Vote now!

Thanks go to Andy for suggesting this survey....

Very bad wording. We use ours daily but not to eat. It is a
HotWheels racing cneter and storage facility at the moment.

-L.
(How many HotWheels are too many HotWheels?)

-L. wrote:


(How many HotWheels are too many HotWheels?)


Dunno. Is that the same as too many Barbie dolls?
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Chatty Cathy

On May 18, 12:09 pm, Chatty Cathy wrote:
-L. wrote:
(How many HotWheels are too many HotWheels?)

Dunno. Is that the same as too many Barbie dolls?
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Or too many fridge magnets?

David

"Michael "Dog3" Lonergan" wrote in message
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Dave Smith
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We use ours in the winter more than in the summer. We have a nice big
patio and with nice table and chairs and as long as the weather is
nice we cook and eat on the patio table. We always try to do
something special for Sunday dinners and eat at the dining room table.

I love eating outdoors but we have too many birds, if you get my meaning.
I feed them, so I expect pooh on the patio now and then, but don't want it
on my food. I'm thinking about investing in one of those retractable
awnings. Do you have one, or know of anyone that does? I'd be interested
to see what people think of them.

Michael

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I've never actually *used* one before....more later..... but did remove one
for a client a few years back (Sunsetter 12 X 18) and replaced it with a
LARGE trellis. The homeowners didn't like it for the simple reason that they
wanted everything in their life to be maintenance-free (retiree's) and found
out the hard way that if you happen to retract the awning when it is wet, it
has a tendency to generate a lot of mildew. Long story short and since I am
both frugal *and* a packrat, I brought it home, hit it with the pressure
washer and it cleaned right up. I let it dry and put it away in the basement
with plans to replace our rotting deck trellis with it at some point. SWMBO
took one look at it and decided that it was the wrong shade of brown to go
with the house so after sitting in the basement for 3 years, I sold it on
ebay for $200 last fall and the new owner is as pleased as punch.

My only rec would be to look at the various types and methods of
construction.....specifically as to how they extend/retract. The model we
had was really sturdy with the outside framing forming a big triangle
running from the house to the full length of the extension. Sturdy is good,
but it also means that you may have to walk around the outside supports
depending on the size of the deck and location of your doors see pi$$ poor
example of ASCII art below and understand that the roofline of the top is
not really this dramatic, but I am limited by my ASCII skills and available
time to be creative at the moment. I've seen another type (whose name
escapes me now) that is motorized and the stabilizing arm remains above head
height so you don't have the arm getting in the way of people travel.



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