Y'alls look great compared to mine. Mine is scary. I have an industrial wire shelf (found in field) lean-to covered with an old pool liner to keep rain off. It's mostly hidden behind the dog kennel. I was hoping for a shed next year! I love that dedicated area. You sure got a work out! The potting shed with a porch is too cute.

I hate to admit to myself how long I looked for "MY" oven. It began over 4 price changes ago. And that's the part that hurts. But I'm SO glad I did or I would not have made the choice I made. All along I wanted the Millennium Dacor but I did not like the appearance of the Dacor Convection MicroWave (which is really a Sharp, in a Dacor kit). One of two dealers who suffered with me for a few years--introduced me to Miele's H4088BM Conv MW. OMG! It took me a few months to get over the cost. Then to find the best price to put in the dedicated 220. I couldn't be happier!! I've only had my 30" MieleH4882BP and the ConvMW since January 2011, but I couldn't be happier. And also with the service. One of the racks was faulty, and they quickly shipped me another. And they corrected a scratched oven glass. Oh my! Can't tell you hope much I use the MW!! Since I'm normally alone, I use it as my main oven. I love ALL the features and I do use the Master Chef when appropriate, like the pork loin. And we through in an apple dish. on and on, I could rave.

Using a lighting circuit for a receptacle in the pantry would be a code violation as pantry receptacles are required to be on a 20 AMP small appliance circuit like those in a dining room and kitchen. If the microwave is 1200 watt or more it should probably be on it's own circuit. There's seldom an issue if you're just nukeing coffee or a sweet roll, but when you get into cooking taters and similar where the unit is on for more than a minute or two it does make a difference. Specifically, the code says a single cord and plug device can't exceed 80% of the circuit rating. In the case of a 15 AMP circuit this is 12 AMPs, a bit less than a 1500 watt micro is rated at. In this case a 20 AMP would be required . If you're remodeling and doing electrical work anyway a dedicated circuit for the micro is a good idea anyway. People often use an existing micro when adding one in a pantry, often electing to put a new one over the range as part of a remodel. In this type of case, what the pantry micro would be replaced with when it fails should be the consideration.

James Roosevelt Quotes American - Politician December 23, 1907 - August 13, 1991 Its success lies in the fact that it's an insurance plan, not an investment plan or a welfare plan. James Roosevelt Small changes done now would preserve Social Security at full benefit. James Roosevelt Even the Congressional Budget Office and the Social Security trustees appointed by the president say that Social Security is financially sound, without any changes for the next 40 to 50 years. James Roosevelt Social Security should have a self-sustaining portion that was funded by contributions from both employers and employees. That's what we know and have known for 70 successful years. James Roosevelt It is really quite amazing that all of the folks supporting privatization, from the president on down, keep invoking the name of my grandfather, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. James Roosevelt It has to have a payroll tax that's dedicated to Social Security. The Social Security tax has been very successful over the years in raising almost all of our elderly citizens out of poverty. James Roosevelt Yousuf Karsh Quotes Canadian - Photographer December 23, 1908 - July 13, 2002 Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera. Yousuf Karsh Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness. Yousuf Karsh Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can. Yousuf Karsh I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create. Yousuf Karsh The trouble with photographing beautiful women is that you never get into the dark room until after they've gone. Yousuf Karsh If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity. Yousuf Karsh There is a brief moment when all there is in a man's mind and soul and spirit is reflected through his eyes, his hands, his attitude. This is the moment to record. Yousuf Karsh Helmut Schmidt Quotes German - Statesman December 23, 1918 - November 10, 2015 The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement. Helmut Schmidt Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take many small steps. Helmut Schmidt I remember the youth movement in 1968. It started on American university campuses as a protest against the Vietnam war, then came to Paris, Frankfurt and Berlin. Within a year, you had an uprising of youth against their elders. Helmut Schmidt Particularly since the computerization of the world, the impact of media has grown enormously. The printed books and the printed media have become less important. Why should somebody read Laozi or Confucius if he can Google? Helmut Schmidt Germany is one of the medium powers of the world. It is a non-nuclear power. It is in a lower class than the United States, the Soviet Union, France, the United Kingdom and others. Helmut Schmidt Americans tend to feel satisfied within the wide boundaries of that huge, big country. Helmut Schmidt People with visions should go to the doctor. Helmut Schmidt The critical thing about Western democracy is the fact that you usually have a transition of power without bloodshed. That is an enormous advantage. But still, democracy as we know it was only invented recently in the West, historical speaking. It did not really work in ancient Rome. It functioned for less than 200 years in ancient Athens. Helmut Schmidt When I became a soldier, I was drafted in 1937, and instead of being released two years later, I had to stay on because the war had started in the meantime. I was a soldier for more than eight years, as long a time as I was Chancellor. Helmut Schmidt Farmers are always conservative. They stick to what they have learned from their fathers and from their grandfathers. This is the same all over the globe. Helmut Schmidt I was in government for 13 years and in that time only once met the head of the German security services, and that was because he was an old friend. Otherwise, I carefully avoided having anything to do with these people. They are unavoidable but not really necessary. Helmut Schmidt My education has been pro-England. I have been an England-minded citizen of Hamburg, and I am still in a way English-minded, but I have been disappointed by the Brits over the years. Helmut Schmidt The British are very stubborn. The Queen, the Commonwealth, and the special relationship with the U.S. is much more important than Europe. Helmut Schmidt Britain is less European-minded than Greece. Helmut Schmidt The British claim to have a special relationship with the U.S., but if you mention this in Washington, no one knows what you are talking about. Helmut Schmidt I had a Jewish grandfather. We managed to hide this fact from the authorities by falsifying documents, my father and I. His father was Jewish, but because my father was an illegitimate child, it was rather easy to pretend that his father was unknown. Helmut Schmidt Democracy is not the end point of mankind. There may be developments in many different directions in the coming centuries. Democracy has only existed for about 200 years. It started out with the American Declaration of Independence. The Americans got their ideas from the Europeans, in the main from the French, the Dutch and the British. Helmut Schmidt If I ever had to emigrate, I would probably go to America. Helmut Schmidt The German public knows me quite well. I have been in their kitchens and living rooms for years. Helmut Schmidt In a mass television democracy - which all of us nowadays have - it is impossible to take basic political decisions with long-term consequences without the public knowing it, without the public understanding at least some of it, without the public forming its judgment, heterogeneous as it may be. Helmut Schmidt I will not be remembered in history. I have not been shot. I have not launched any great tragedy or victory. I have not borne any great defeat. It was a very normal - it still is a very normal - human life of a political leader. Helmut Schmidt Since I came an adult - for more than 45 years - Marcus Aurelius has been my great idol. Helmut Schmidt The concept of multiculturalism is difficult to make fit with a democratic society. Helmut Schmidt James Stockdale Quotes American - Soldier December 23, 1923 - July 5, 2005 There was nothing there but black water and American fire power. James Stockdale Yeah. I mean, it just seemed to me that it was - I felt so helpless to this business of not having any papers. That seems like a throwback to a schoolboy. James Stockdale They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech. James Stockdale In order to do something you must be something. James Stockdale And so, I mean, he declared war right there and then in so many words and Alex says later in the book, nobody in the White House from that point on had any doubt that we were going to bomb the mainland of Asia. James Stockdale And we had our own laws. I mean, I wrote them. And we had our own customs, and traditions, and proprieties. James Stockdale But there were highs as well as lows, it was as though they said everybody was picking on the man who had more practical real life experiences than the whole batch of them put together. James Stockdale Half the issues they - are so polished they're talking about - are dead by the time they get into the office, and into the midst of their tour where they're really productive. James Stockdale He's a novice, but he's had these - he's experienced in leadership in tight circumstances. He started - he dropped the first bomb, led the first air strike into North Vietnam. James Stockdale I mean, I didn't - I should have demanded attention of the boss maybe, or something like that that might have backfired. This I would just take as it came. James Stockdale I never had a single conversation about politics with Ross Perot in my life; still haven't. James Stockdale I think character is permanent, and issues are transient. James Stockdale I'm a grown man. You know, I've been in a lot of scrapes, but I never felt like I got so - there are probably a lot of things I should have done that I didn't do. James Stockdale So the first thing that went on was to decide... trying to find a time when we could get reprisal raids out. James Stockdale Sybil's my wife, and on the first day of October, that's the first time I knew Ross was going to run. James Stockdale The guy that just arranges things so that the stock market holds up is nobody in my - in my estimation. James Stockdale They were heading out to the middle of the bay - the Gulf - that's another thing that became kind of standard practice, we didn't hurry the destroyers around the beach any more, when it got dark, we'd take 'em out thirty or forty miles out in the middle of the Tonkin Gulf. James Stockdale This idea, as you know, that I have firm convictions that the idea of issues being a big deal where our mutual friend went back and he felt so strongly that the determining factor in electoral success should be a proven character. James Stockdale Well, first of all, I was asked by Ross Perot on a telephone call in March of 1992 if, since he had committed on the Larry King Show to becoming a candidate for president, to get on all 50 ballots. James Stockdale I was commanding officer of a supersonic fighter squadron, F-8 Crusaders. James Stockdale I was tortured fifteen times, that's total submission. They did that with shutting off your blood circulation with ropes, giving you claustrophobia and pain at the same time, bending you double. James Stockdale On the eighteenth of December 1972, when we thought we were getting another of the hundreds of little tactical air raids, we heard the bombs going in out there in the railroad yards and this went on for about thirty minutes. James Stockdale We couldn't generalize on the people. Some of them were known to be tough guys and they didn't say much, but some of them were kind of soft-headed, but they did that. That was an East German film. James Stockdale Avi Quotes American - Author Born: December 23, 1937 Listen and watch the world around you. Don't be satisfied with answers others give you. Avi I want my readers to feel, to think, sometimes to laugh. But most of all I want them to enjoy a good read. Avi I don't like the idea of a book being a test or being used for a test. The way - in my opinion - to make good readers is to let kids choose their own books and not test them. Avi Don't assume that because everyone believes a thing, that it is right or wrong. Reason things out for yourself. Work to get answers on your own. Understand why you believe things. Avi Work, Believe, Yourself I was born in New York City, along with a twin sister. I am five minutes older than Emily. It was Emily, for reasons no one knows - she certainly doesn't - who called me Avi. It stuck. It's the only name I use now. Avi In elementary school, I did well in science, but I was a poor writer. When I got to high school, I failed all my courses. Avi I definitely have an affection for detective fiction, and when I first read Dashiell Hammett's 'The Maltese Falcon,' that book and its author made an enormous impression on me as a reader and a writer, and led me to other hard-boiled American writers like Raymond Chandler and Ross McDonald, among many. Avi A lot of people think inspiration means magic. But really, inspiration means to put life into something. Avi In my books I try to tell a good story, not give messages. Avi The truth is I don't watch TV at all. It bores me. Avi Writing takes a lot of patience. It usually takes me a year to write a book. One time, it took me 14 years to write a book, not that I worked on it every day. Avi I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers. Avi My mind has become somewhat like a book. What I mean by that is that when I look at the world, I see it as a story. Avi Every night, I was read to. Every Friday, we were taken to the library. I always received at least one book for my birthday. I have a few of them yet. Early on, I had my own collection of books. I loved to read. Still do. Avi For some 25 years, I worked as a librarian, first at the New York Public Library, then at Trenton State College in New Jersey. My life has always been with, around, and for books. Avi Writing is my profession. Photography is my hobby. Avi To become a novelist, the most crucial thing one must do is read, read and read again - gradually you begin to think like a writer. Ideas are not found - they are shaped. Avi Writers don't write writing, they write reading. When I was a kid, I read four or five books a week. And that is how I became a writer. Avi Everybody has ideas. The vital question is, what do you do with them? My rock musician sons shape their ideas into music. My sister takes her ideas and fashions them into poems. My brother uses his ideas to help him understand science. I take my ideas and turn them into stories. Avi It makes it harder to write if I watch a lot of television, because television is not like a written story. Avi