david the elder wrote:


Or too many fridge magnets?

That too.

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Cheers
Chatty Cathy

Michael \"Dog3\" Lonergan wrote:


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.


That is one of the reasons I stopped feeding the birds and let them fend
for themselves. I used to hang a feeder or two on the clothes line and a
few other places. It wasn't so bad cleaning up the crap in the spring, but
they little twits kept hanging around and they didn't seem to mind sitting
on the upper line when we had clothes hanging and blowing around on the
bottom line. It made a more challenging target for them, but they overcame
the problem of the moving targets and a lot of things had to be re-washed.
Eventually they found other places to eat and left my laundry alone. We
still get the occasional humming bird coming buy to feed on the Rose of
Sharon next to the patio.

Thank goodness the neighbour moved. He had a knack for coming out and
cutting his lawn every time we sat down to enjoy the patio. It is a four
acre front yard and he had a lot of health problems so he never finished it
in one go. It seemed that no matter when we were out there he would start
up his noisy tractor mower and mow for 10-15 minutes. The neighbour on the
other side has a much quieter machine and you know that if he starts it he
is going to finish it, so it is just one low volume session instead of an
almost eternal one.


He has a four

Michael "Dog3" Lonergan wrote:
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

They're great, but be sure to get the wind sensor so it will close
itself in case a T storm comes. It could otherwise be GWTW.

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Because the need for a support post may traumatize some of those more busty
around here because I have to say that's what hit me first.

Cindi
hanging her head in shame


KW

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Sorry.... couldn't resist a little editing :-)

kilikini wrote:
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

Yeah, but I have to hire someone to put the danged thing together. I'm not
nearly enamoured of the dining nook set as I was when it arrived and I found
out it takes 2-3 people to assemble it. And if I decide to move (I know,
I've been here almost 10 years) what a PITA it would be! I'm tempted to
sell it and just get a regular small dinette set with a table and 4 chairs.

Jill

On May 18, 12:08�pm, "-L." wrote:
Chatty Cathy wrote:
http://www.recfoodcooking.com/

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?)
When you step on one of those little cars barefooted..;. It is too
many.
Rosie

"rosie" wrote

On May 18, 12:08?pm, "-L." wrote:

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

(How many HotWheels are too many HotWheels?)
When you step on one of those little cars barefooted..;. It is too
many.

Not as bad as stepping on jacks, or those Lincoln log connecter
things. Yikes!

nancy

On May 18, 4:09 pm, "Nancy Young" wrote:

Not as bad as stepping on jacks, or those Lincoln log connecter
things. Yikes!

nancy

That's a tradition in our family, stepping on the Lincoln log
thingies. My dad stepped on mine, and I stepped on my son's (much to
my dad's delight when I told him.) Can't wait for my granddaughters to
be old enough so my son can have the opportunity to step on some. :-)

David

"Michael \"Dog3\" Lonergan" wrote:

Thanks to you for this info. Thanks to all for their input. A wind sensor
would be a consideration for us. It gets real windy here sometimes. Of
course the power goes off at the drop of a hat and we would not be able to
get it closed. I can see a lot of issues with a wind sensor.

They all have a manual crank to use if the power is out. Of course, you
would not want to leave it open if you were away from home, so I'm not
sure of the utility of a wind sensor. My niece and her husband have one
that I think they just open when they want to use the deck and close most
of the time otherwise. They seem to love theirs. I've been looking at
them for my house as well.

Bill Ranck
Blacksburg, Va.

"david the elder" wrote

On May 18, 4:09 pm, "Nancy Young" wrote:

Not as bad as stepping on jacks, or those Lincoln log connecter
things. Yikes!

That's a tradition in our family, stepping on the Lincoln log
thingies. My dad stepped on mine, and I stepped on my son's (much to
my dad's delight when I told him.) Can't wait for my granddaughters to
be old enough so my son can have the opportunity to step on some. :-)

Haha! That's funny. You can just smile. Heh.

nancy

On May 18, 2:09 pm, "Nancy Young" wrote:
"rosie" wrote

On May 18, 12:08?pm, "-L." wrote:
Very bad wording. We use ours daily but not to eat. It is a
HotWheels racing cneter and storage facility at the moment.
(How many HotWheels are too many HotWheels?)
When you step on one of those little cars barefooted..;. It is too
many.

Not as bad as stepping on jacks, or those Lincoln log connecter
things. Yikes!

nancy

Legos!

We use our dining room maybe twice a year - Thanksgiving and Christmas.
The rest of the time we eat in what we call the "breakfast room"
(haha) - a partitioned area off the kitchen. Can you believe - in that
spot we have my parents' small dining set that they brought from England
and which they used every day from the time I was about 5 or 6.. I love
having it - it's a link to them and to home. We even cram the family
around it when they come.

Dora

"limey" wrote:
We use our dining room maybe twice a year - Thanksgiving and Christmas. The
rest of the time we eat in what we call the "breakfast room" (haha) - a
partitioned area off the kitchen. Can you believe - in that spot we have my
parents' small dining set that they brought from England and which they used
every day from the time I was about 5 or 6.. I love having it - it's a link
to them and to home. We even cram the family around it when they come.

That's a term you don't hear all that much any more - breakfast room. When I was
growing up, one of the houses we lived in had a breakfast room. That was the
room we ate in all year other than for a Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner. Then
we ate in the dining room.

That house, built in 1926, was pretty neat. The dining room had French doors
leading to the living room. On the other side it has a swinging door with glass
in the top leading to the breakfast room. From the breakfast room was another
swinging door just like the first leading to the kitchen. When we were kids, we
thought those swinging doors were great, just like in a restaurant! ;-) There
was another feature of the kitchen that was nice, a half flight of stairs
leading up to a landing with the main stairs going up to the living room. Kind
of a junior version of stairs for the servants.

In my current house I always eat in the dining room. There is no alternate room.
The kitchen and dining room are on the first floor. The living room is up a
flight. It's funny, but most of my immediate relatives also always eat in their
dining rooms, perhaps because there is no other option in their houses either.
The dining rooms are separate and the kitchens aren't big enough.

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okay whatever you do do not look at the art before reading the WHOLE post.
Because the need for a support post may traumatize some of those more
busty
around here because I have to say that's what hit me first.


Now that's funny right there....I don't care who you are! You had me
ROTFLMAO on that one.


Cindi
hanging her head in shame


KW Happy for some levity after a tough work day.....Thanks Cindi