I can temporarily forget that we are eight inches behind in rainfall since December, but DH keeps reminding me of our well. Even though April was sort of approaching normal, the big question (and mostly unanswerable) is," Do I irrigate and make them very happy, or do I let them adjust to less water so that if our well starts coughing, they won't miss the pampering?" Our fenceline and species roses are unpampered as are our Canadians and Bucks and the European once bloomers. I am so tempted to just pamper the one and two year olds and let the rest carry on as they have for the past two years.

The only book title I can think of is "Follow the River" but it is about a pioneer woman captured by Native Americans who eventually escapes and follows the Ohio River to the colonies. I think it was supposed to be a true story.

lindar2540, it is easy to embed images in a thread from a photosharing site. You can find the instructions in the Posting Pictures portion of the New To Kitchens? Posting Pics? Read Me! thread that is usually found on page 1 or page 2 of this forum (unfortunately, no way to "sticky" it to the top of the forum). I linked to the specific post for you below. All I did to post an image from your Flickr site was to click on the image to bring only that image up, click on the "Share" button above the image to bring up a window, click on "Grab the HTML/BBCode" to open up that section of the window, made sure that the HTML box was still selected (just below the code) and then did as instructed, "Copy and paste the code below" into this thread (Ctrl A, Ctrl C & Ctrl V). Here's your plan as your home was designed (if I understand what you're saying, that is). This is the photo size setting of Medium 500 (might be default setting). And this is photo size of Medium 800 (click on the pull down area next to photo size to see your choices). You'll get more responses if the images are in this thread instead of making us hunt through your whole list of images to find the one you're referring to. One of the key things we need - and what is missing from the "as planned" images found at your Flickr site - are dimensions of the space. We need to know overall size of the room, size of windows and doorways and where they fall within the space. It's really hard to judge from images or plan whether the window is 48" in from the corner or 60" and those 12" will make a difference in proposed suggestions. You don't need to have professionally drawn up plans. It doesn't even have to be pretty. But it does need to be legible. So grab a sheet of graph paper, assign a value (for example, 1 square = 6") and draw up your existing kitchen. Then scan it to upload to your Flickr site so that you can embed this image here. If you don't have a scanner, take a photo of your drawing (I've done this) instead. Lastly, it would be helpful to know more about you, including size and ages of family, how you cook, what you like to cook, how many cooks there are, etc. You can find the info we need to know in the Layout Help post in the New To Kitchens? Posting Pics? Read Me! thread (you'll also find tips about drawing up a kitchen plan in this thread). Here is a link that might be useful: Posting Pictures portion of New To Kitchens? Posting Pics? Read Me!

I see hydrangea by tally. Some tablets will work with the picture posting feature some don't right now. To post a picture click on the camera icon at the bottom of the reply box that says photo, then click where it says browse that will open a directory for your computer, go to the location there where you have your pictures stored, once you see the picture you want to post double click on it and it will put it in the box hit submit to attach it to the post. It might work that way for your tablet, one of mine does one clicking on the browse button does nothing. However you might be able to add pictures to an idea book you create under your Houzz area. And then post pictures from the ideabook. Just have to try it out.