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With winter almost over many of us are looking forward to the new plant introductions that will be available come spring. I have been trialing some of these new plants in my greenhouse this year and am anxious for the arrival of spring so that they can be placed into the yard and enjoyed by all.
One of the biggest joys I have being a garden writer is the option to see these plants first and share my opinion with you. The first plant I wish to talk about is Campanula 'Kelly's Gold' a plant that first came from a garden in Bainbridge Island and was introduced into the trade by Kelly Dodson of Reflective Gardens in Poulsbo, WA. This plant is now available from Terra Nova Nurseries.
Upon receiving this tiny plant last spring, I immediately placed it into my garden, watered it in and waited. The first thing I noticed was that is it going to be a spreader. It definitely was putting out new shoots long before it began to grow upwards.
The golden foliage on this plant makes it worth growing without mention of the white flowers which are kissed with blue on the edges. Overall I really like this plant. It gives brightness to the garden that typical green foliage cannot. It is hardy in zones 4 through 9. Once it was established in my garden it has been an extremely carefree plant.
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At CableTV.com, in addition to helping you order cable services in Edinburg, ND, we also want to help you discover a few new tidbits about how your city watches TV. We know that one-third of American households have four or more televisions. With a population of 203 in Edinburg, that boils down to 67 people with a plethora of plasma screens. American use of the DVR has jumped 7% since 2006, when it was only 2.2%, but there are still around 168 people who plan their viewing around a network schedule. And 72% of us also bundle our cable subscription with high-speed Internet service. Which means that 146 residents are bundling their cable and Internet services.


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North Korea takes over Mt. Kumgang tourist area, further dimming Sunshine legacy
North Korea has taken control of Mt. Kumgang, a jointly maintained tourist area in which South Korea's Hyundai Asan had invested more than $1.5 billion for a hotel, hot springs, shopping mall, and a road inside the North.
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Few natural wonders are more distinctive than the Mount Kumgang region of several thousand granitic crags looming inside North Korea beyond the demilitarized zone that has divided the Korean peninsula since the Korean War.
For the late Chung Ju-yung, founder of the Hyundai industrial empire, Kumgang, which means Diamond Mountain, was a dream that beckoned long after he ran away from the nearby village of Asan to seek his fortune in Seoul during the Japanese colonial era. One of his proudest achievements, three years before he died in March 2001, was to open tourism to Kumgang by boat to a small port on the east coast.
In recent years, however, Kumgang has come to epitomize the frustrations of entrée into the North. Hyundai Asan, the company that Mr. Chung founded to make deals with North Korea, has invested well over $1.5 billion in Kumgang for a hotel, hot springs, a shopping mall, a road, and other facilities. But the payoff has been tragedy – and, most recently, North Korea's announcement that it's taking over all Asan's operations at Kumgang.
"It's a political campaign by North Korea to change South Korean policy," says Yun Dae-gyu, vice president of Kyungnam University here. He sees little prospect of reopening tours to Kumgang, banned by South Korea's President Lee Myung-bak after a North Korean guard shot and killed a South Korean tourist who had wandered outside the tourist zone nearly three years ago.


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Rockies right fielder Michael Cuddyer — the NL batting champion and Silver Slugger award winner in 2013 — received his big-league hardware Saturday night.
He'll be honored again Sunday at Coors Field when the Rockies pass out Cuddy Bobblegnomes to the first 15,000 fans at the ballpark.
The Bobblegnome is, shall we say, interesting.
In the above video, Cuddy talks about his "likeness" in gnome form.
(Sorry for the fuzzy picture, but at least you can hear what he says)
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Alaska Seminar: Training at Kahiltna Base Camp
Posted by: Jason Thompson, Eric Frank | May 16, 2012
Categories: *Expedition Dispatches *Mount McKinley
Elevation: 7,300'
Well hello all.
Last week temperatures were frigid. I am happy to say today was downright balmy. We'll take it.
We spent our entire day today going over some critical information. Laying the ground work for crevasse rescue. A lot of information was downloaded and everyone seemed to grasp the concepts. Knots, anchors, rappelling into a crevasse, self extrication from a crevasse were some of our topics on this beautiful day.
Kahiltna Base Camp is getting busier by the day. More and more climbers are showing up to head up Denali, other friends are finding success on various routes on the Mini Moon Flower and the North Buttress of Mt Hunter with this current stretch of superb weather.
Word on the street is temperatures are about to get really hot the next few days. We will let you know how that plays out.
Everyone is doing great and says hello.
RMI Guide Jason Thompson
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Alaska Seminar: Team flies to Base Camp
Posted by: Eric Frank, Jason Thompson | May 15, 2012
Categories: *Expedition Dispatches *Mount McKinley
Elevation: 7,200'
Hello from the Alaska Range,
We departed Talkeetna this afternoon and the flight onto the glacier was spectacular, no one was disappointed. We quickly set up our camp on the SE fork of the Kahiltna Glacier and are beginning to adjust to glacier living. The weather is splendid.
We are looking forward to beginning our training tomorrow and will let you know how it goes.
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Alaska Seminar: Program Recap
Posted by: Jason Thompson | May 14, 2012
Categories: *Expedition Dispatches *Mount McKinley
Elevation: 358'
Our time in the Alaska Range finished wrapped up just a couple of days ago. We had an extra 2 bonus days in the mountains. Our fly off date was set, but the weather determines our true fly off date. The snow began to fall the night before our scheduled departure date, it kept snowing for the following 2 days. Veteran climbers stated that this had been one of the biggest snowstorms, at Base Camp, that they could remember in the past
7 years. Over 3 ft of snow fell in a little more than a 36 hr period. We woke up on Saturday morning to crystal clear skies, soon the planes began to fill the skies. Everyone at base camp looking for a flight out spent the previous evening stomping out the run way for the planes. Still, when the planes landed it was obvious how deep the snow was for the planes. I think the pilots were getting faceshots, as the snow was hitting the windshields of the planes. We all arrived back in Talkeetna in the early afternoon, on Saturday.
The week consisted of lots of information being uploaded and downloaded to a very enthusiastic group of climbers. Us guides were very impressed with how much information this group of climbers soaked up. Topics covered a wide variety of mountain tactics, how to simply live comfortably in an environment that was cold and snowy, how to set up a camp, crevasse rescue, snow and ice anchors, climber responsibilities, avalanches and rescue, ice climbing and the list continues.
Everyone had a great time experiencing the Alaska range. Ideas have already been hatched for future trips to visit Little Switzerland, the Ruth Gorge or other objectives around the base camp area, from members of this group. Climbing around the Kahiltna base camp area offers a great experience for your first time to Alaska. Hopefully we will see you up here soon.
Everyone is on their way home now but memories will last a long time of this very special place.
Thanks again from Jason, Andres, Anne Gilbert and RMI
Alaska Seminar: Return to Talkeetna
Posted by: Jason Thompson | May 12, 2012
Categories: *Expedition Dispatches *Mount McKinley
Elevation: 358'
After a great training seminar in the Alaska Range and a few days waiting out the weather at Base Camp, RMI Guide Jason Thompson and team have returned to Talkeetna.
The team awoke to clear skies and anxiously awaited the sound of aircraft over head. They weren't disappointed. Everyone is back in Talkeetna looking forward to warm showers and a meal they don't have to make themselves. They will be transferring to Anchorage later this afternoon.
Congratulations on a safe and successful week!
Alaska Seminar: Lots of New Snow at Base Camp
Posted by: Jason Thompson | May 11, 2012
Categories: *Expedition Dispatches *Mount McKinley
Elevation: 7,300'
Well the snow continues to pile up. Our storm board is reading 68 cm of snow in the past 36-hour period. The wind has been picking up, intensifying the storm. Turns out, this storm is a little bigger then they first thought.
We spent three hours this morning digging out our tents and the cook tent. We're all staying busy here on the glacier, experiencing the other part of Alaska, the weather.
Well not too much else to report, hopefully we'll be off the glacier sooner then later.
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Alaska Seminar: Waiting for a Weather Window
Posted by: Jason Thompson | May 10, 2012
Categories: *Expedition Dispatches *Mount McKinley
Elevation: 7,300'
There was about two feet of new snow last night at Kahiltna Base Camp. It is currently snowing and visibility is low. We are in standby mode and playing cards with our one set of 48 cards.
It turns out the little snow storm from yesterday is lasting into today. We are waiting for some clear weather and our flight off the glacier. The thunderous vibrations of avalanches somewhere off into the thick clouds are pretty cool canceling out the wind and the snow battering the tent. Everyone has had a great time, but most are ready for some beers.
Signing out from the land of positive vibrations.
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Alaska Seminar: Climb of Mt. Frances
Posted by: Jason Thompson | May 10, 2012
Categories: *Expedition Dispatches *Mount McKinley
Elevation: 7,200'
Hello once again. We went out to play today in the Alaska range. Our objective was Mt Frances which sits just north of the base camp. We are camping at 7,200 ft, Mt Frances sits at 10,450 ft. We left camp at 8 am in the cold morning air, the sun was just coming around the south buttress of Denali to touch the north buttress of Mt Hunter.
Our climbing involved a glacier approach via what some people refer to as rackets or otherwise snowshoes. We then transitioned into our crampons and went climbing up a super fun 1,200 ft chute. We climbed up steep snow surrounded by beautiful Alaskan granite and pitched things out a few times, where we gained the East ridge.
The views from the ridge and summit offered glimpses of some amazing features in the range. Masioli's tower sticks out in plain site as does the south face of Denali.
Our problem today was that the views quickly disappeared. Some weather came in and it began to snow. We began our descent and five rappels later we were back on the glacier. Everyone did great and had a super fun time.
The plan is to fly off tomorrow back into Talkeetna.
A very successful trip up here in Alaska.
RMI Guide Jason Thompson
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Alaska Seminar: Training Continues
Posted by: Jason Thompson | May 09, 2012
Categories: *Expedition Dispatches *Mount McKinley
Elevation: 7,300
Today was a good day.
Folks keep commenting on how this place keeps getting more stunning. With the new snow we have had recently, the contrast of the Alaskan Range with its freshly painted steep spines, flutes that glow in the alpine light and bright blue glacial ice glistening in the sun. I have to agree.
We have been waking up around seven each morning to some very chilly temperatures. Today camp was busy since some stable weather moved in and people took advantage of being out in it. We spent our entire day putting our skills to use. Everyone set up 6:1 crevasse rescue system simulating an actual crevasse fall of their climbing partner. We took a turn catching a fall, being lowered into the crevasse, and being the climber responsible for running the show. Everyone did very well and we were impressed.
After that we still had plenty of time left so we fixed some lines - ropes - and rappelled down into the crevasse where we transitioned into icicle climbing mode. I think a couple folks might have just acquired a new but expensive sport.
Now we are all chilling, making some pretty amazing quesadillas - the group contributions has allowed for some creative visions.
We'll see what we get into tomorrow.
Good night from the land of the six hour sunset.
RMI Guide Jason Thompson
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Alaska Seminar: New Snow Fitting for Today's Training Session
Posted by: Jason Thompson | May 08, 2012
Categories: *Expedition Dispatches *Mount McKinley
Elevation: 7,300'
This morning we woke to more snow on the Kahiltna Glacier. Over 7 inches of snow fell over night and the snow continued throughout the day. The beauty of the Alaskan Range continues to impress us all.
Today's training session involved the fitting topic of avalanches. We had avalanche rescue scenarios where we learned how to manage the scene of an accident, how to come up with a plan and how to execute that plan. During our time here on the glacier we have seen some very exciting and impressive Alaskan-sized avalanches, from a safe distance. We continued with our crevasse rescue technical skills training this afternoon. Everyone is grasping these concepts very well with an eagerness and excitement to learn.
We shall see what the weather brings us as that dictates so much of life in the mountains.
RMI Guide Jason Thompson
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Alaska Seminar: Great Day for Training
Posted by: Jason Thompson | May 07, 2012
Categories: *Expedition Dispatches *Mount McKinley
Elevation: 7,300'
Once again we woke to a beautiful morning today at the base of Mt. McKinley. Our day has been filled with technical information. We have thoroughly covered rappelling, fixed line travel, self extrication from a crevasse, and reviewed our knots and anchor systems. We will continue to put these skills to good use when we implement them into crevasse rescue scenarios. The planes have been buzzing around basecamp today dropping climbers on the glacier. The climbing season is getting underway here in the Alaskan Range. It is super fun to be right in the middle of it all.
Until next time. The Alaskan Seminar is signing off.
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Best Kitchen Decision you made
I really enjoyed reading through the best bathroom decision thread. We are in the process of remodeling our bathroom and will be heading into the kitchen hopefully by the end of the year. Never too early to start planning.. so, what was your best kitchen decision you made during your remodel and what do you regret doing or not doing. Looking forward to hearing everyone's responses!
The best for us was accidentally getting the best carpenter there is in the large city next to us. He didn't charge more than anyone else, but he does a lot of the carpentry on mansions.
He was so good and so experienced, he did stuff without asking me and boy was I happy with the little surprises! There's so much new stuff for kitchens that I wasn't even aware existed.
One of the most important things I did, which was kind of funny, was tell him I wanted a cabinet tall enough on the inside to hold THE largest box of cereal there is. LOL
One treat he did without my knowledge was take a dead space of cabinet under the counter next to the sink...it's about a foot and a half wide, and made it where I can store my cookie sheets and cutting boards.
I also had shelves made on each side of the kitchen sink (and elsewhere) on the side of the cabs for my decorative junk. :)
One thing you need to be very clear about is for them to sand sand sand on every shelf there is. A couple of my shelves inside my hutch weren't sanded very well and it makes it hard to dust.
To imagine outside the box.
When we purchased our current house, we thought we had forever given up the idea of having a dream kitchen again. We were going to tweak a few things but generally keep most everything the same. It was only when we said, lets think BIG and think outside the box. As we mulled things over, it was only then that we saw that we could not only have another dream kitchen, this one could be that much more!
After that awaking, the next best decision was go look on the internet. That's when I came across the Kitchen forum on GW. There are some awesome designers that can maximize your kitchen's potential. People come on there with designs that architects and other designers have drawn up for them only to find flaws (some major) and help the individual before it's too late.
My top highlights are:
* drawers almost everywhere
* a large island with seating
* a large pantry
* a deep cabinet to the counter, next to the DW, that houses all my dishes and glasses (w/ the drawers below housing silverware, knives, etc.)
My regret:
* The hood vent is very weak, but it isn't something I cared about during the build. Mistake... I care now!
Although they are de rigueur nowadays, I'd never had a trash pull-out before, and I LOVE it. We'd always kept a large, covered trash can just outside the kitchen door, in the mudroom, so having a trash pull-out conveniently under my prep area is wonderful.
Now have a vented hood, rather than recirculating hood, and LOVE it, too.
My regret is not removing all soffits, even though it would have taken longer, and made a much bigger mess.
I lived here in this house with a very ill-planned kitchen for almost 13 years. I had years and years to think about, research and plan how to make it more efficient and I'm so happy with the results. So much so that it's hard to come up with a favorite. I'm adding pics of them, so that you can better understand what I'm talking about.
#1. A well thought out prep area with pretty much everything I need within arm's reach. Drawers to hold prep dishes and untensils, prep knives, plastic, bags, foil, waxed paper, etc. Microwave drawer, MW dish drawer, dishwasher and super-susan nearby, too. Four years later and it still thrills me that it all works so efficiently and well for me.
#2 A good view from family room into the kitchen and vice versa. Before our family room's view into the kitchen was of a big ugly fridge smack in the middle of the back wall. I relocated all that to a side wall, and had an Old World hood over a cooktop built in it's place. Now the rooms flow well and the hood is so much nicer to look at than the fridge!
#3 A spice drawer. Gosh I love this thing! It's just a simple, hard plastic insert that fits into any drawer (cut to size), but it helps keep my spice and herb jars organized and easily accessible. Oh, and they're alphabatized, of course (LOL)!
#4 a light in our deep corner sink cab. My DH thought of it. Our GC had never seen one done before, but he loved the idea. It's just a simple under-the-counter light with a switch, and plugs into the same outlet that our R/O (reverse osmosis water filter) uses. We love the convenience of it and keeping the cab clean and organized in easy with no dark corners to deal with.
#5 Sneaky, easy, extra storage cabs. I had them put in a deeper counter on the eating/bar stool side of the peninsula that divides the kitchen from the family room. This gave me room to add a long bank of shallow (12") cabs there. They hold all my appliances, dish sets and other kitchen things that I don't use every day but want to keep handy (we don't have basements or attics here).
Layout of your space means more than anything else, in my opinion. If you have great cabs and great appliances and everything else that you can possibly think of and a poorly functioning layout it all means so much less.
Appliances that are the very best you can afford and are purchased with the way you cook in mind is the 2nd biggest thing you should consider. The way you plan to learn to cook should be taken in to consideration also. Many folks decide that they don't need double ovens or a large capacity fridge/freezer or a good vent ( see lolauren's post) or a larger cooktop or any other feature you can think of because they don't currently cook that way. BUT...you are almost certainly not cooking as well as you could/will when you have the optimal space that I referred to above. So keep that in mind.
Plan , plan and plan some more and have enough money saved/ready to borrow to get the things that are going to make it the space that you need...and want...up to a certain point that only you will recognize. Stay out of the rat race to be "timeless" and keep your eye on the $$$ and the practical . Ask for advice and then think it over and ask some more and then finally go with your gut.
After all is said and done there will always be things that you will see in someone else's space or in a magazine or TV or on the KF that you wish you had thought of. There is no way to have it all and you really don't need it all. What you need is a space that works as well as you can possibly get for you and your family . c
If you have a good carpenter who's worked on many kitchens you won't need a designer or architect, IMO. Or maybe I lucked out. The carpenter will know exactly what will or will not work, plus they're full of ideas.
Lynn, we did a spice drawer like your's and just love it.
Drawers are another important thing. I had a total of three drawers in my previous kitchen, now I have 24. The ones under the kitchen counters slide out which makes it amazingly convenient.
My own take on garbage drawers. While nice I think they use up too much valuable space. The cabinet bottom under our sink pulls out and we keep the trash there, which I do have to empty every day. I'd rather have the extra cabinet space for stuff instead of trash. Unless you have a huge kitchen. lol
One thing I didn't do that I would do, is have the cabs pulled out from teh wall to make deeper countertops. I actually lost about an inch of depth and it took me about a year to stop shoving things into the backsplash thinking I had that extra inch.
Oh, another thing I really like in my new kitchen is my Silgranit sink. It's from Blanco and I'm crazy about it! I've had every other type of sink imaginable over the years, and this one is the best for me by far. The color (Anthracite) makes for an easy flow with our dark Silestone counters. And, this sink is a workhorse that I don't have to baby. It never shows scratches or stains and always looks great. Did I mention how much I love my sink????
You know that common suggestion that you start by tearing out magazine pages or collecting images of what appeals to you from pics on the 'net.
My advice: Don't do it!
Start by carefully measuring your space and thinking about your personal cooking/food pathways. Where does the food come in the house, and is stored? How it gets to the cooking places; what's needed to prep or process the food; what's needed to plate the meals; what's needed to set the table; what's needed when the meal has ended and you have left-overs, trash and dirty stuff to deal with? How does the clean/washed stuff get back to its storage place?
If you think deeply about this, you will begin to develop a sense of function for your space. You'll have some either/or points (size of fridge, range, sink), wall ovens or not, etc. that you may just have to leave blank during the functional design period.
Once you have a good functional plan, then you can populate it with the infrastructure needed to make it work. And with style/design elements that seem attractive to you.
You'll still have some tweaking and give and take as you select the cabs, appliances and etc., but you won't be breaking your heart because you settled on a particular look that can't be achieved without sacrificing good function.
In other words don't think about the "look" you're aiming for until you know you've got the best possible design for you space.
Recessed lighting. Love it. Insulation! It was expensive to basically gut the kitchen, but this is an 1875 home and it was the coldest room in the house. Now it's the warmest. I also love my sandblasted radiators, which are lovely and now put out more heat. I'm glad I picked a plain cabinet instead of one with slots (for cookie sheets) cuz space is at a premium and I can fit more cookware in it (cookie sheets are in the stove drawer). I would have gone with a wider pantry because I don't think it really would have looked much more crowded (my kitchen is very awkward, with a front door, back door, basement door, bathroom door and doorway to the dining room plus two windows). Love my LG stove, GE dishwasher and Avantium microwave.
Due to my awkward layout I have a backwards L-shaped area, which is in the pathway to the only bathroom. The kitchen person at Home Depot designed an angled cabinet and counter at the corner and, boy, that was genius!
Deciding to get a one level kitchen island. I have a fairly large island and everyone tried to get me to raise the sitting area to bar height, but I am so glad I didn't. I love having all the prep as well as serving area. It makes the best place to make cookies with my babies and it was just what I wanted.
We've done 2 custom kitchens now and I'll second some of the above suggestions.
1) Layout. Don't just redo your current layout with new things, but actually think through the best layout for the space. Don't automatically go for a U or G shaped kitchen (my least favorite), but as said above look at your space. Then look at the kitchen forum or other pictures to help you work out your best layout. Even a kitchen designer may not necessarily think of the best for you...but they may also have some great ideas you hadn't considered.
2) This is part of layout, but for our lifestyle, I like a counter-height bar (as part of an island that's all one height) rather than having the island or peninsula split with the taller bar height. I find it so much more functional when I'm cooking alone, when 2 or more are doing prep, and when serving buffet style off the island. I also love a huge island that's 4 ft wide so cabinets open from both sides with the bar stools at the end--even if it's not rectangular (mine isn't).
3) Drawers or pull-outs in lower cabinets. Drawers are preferable and cost the same as pull-outs, but shelves that are as deep as your lower cabinets (22-24 in) are just so much less functional than either--so put in as many drawers as you can afford. Deep ones work great for pots near your cooktop.
4) Adjustable shelves in upper cabinets and in the pantry.
5) Walk-in pantry. We didn't want a corner with either a lazy susan or have dead space, so with just a bit more depth & width I was able to have a walk-in pantry. In one house it used the space behind our curved stairway. That one had an automatic light so when the door opened it came on. We also put at least one or two outlets by the pantry shelves/counter for a toaster oven or other small appliance there. (Even rechargeable things, like a small vac.)
6) As Lynne above mentioned, we faced the frig so it's not the main view when you look into the kitchen. Let the cooktop and vent take that place.
7) At least 2 ways in and out of the kitchen! So many less bottlenecks when multiple people are in the kitchen if you can exit more than one way. Maybe that's why U or G shaped kitchens are not my favs since they often have one entry/exit point.
Things we put in one kitchen that later we thought were not as important as we'd first thought and omitted on the second one:
1) Special knife drawer with cutting board below--much prefer a wooden insert for knives in a standard top drawer with cutting boards totally separate.
2) Flour bins--total waste of good drawer space. Now I keep it in the pantry in rectangular containers.
3) Special appliance shelf for pro mixer that raised to counter height--just an unnecessary thing and it took up more space. Now I keep some small appliances in the pantry. Even our toaster oven is in there, and I love not having it out on the counter.
Virginia Jet Mist granite in honed
Curved edges of granite
Keeping my backsplash
Deep single bowl sink
Bosch Appliances (especially dual fuel)
Dark chocolate stained floors set off my white cabs
Not getting a built in soapdispenser (hated the one before)
Not having more drawers
Over the Range Microwave Oven
Wishing I had a Modernaire hood in barrel shape black
Coughing up the extra money to move a doorway. It gave me a much better floor plan. I was trying to work within the existing space, which didn;t work in the first place. I went way over budget. I spent twice as much as I had intended, although I will admit that my original budget was unrealistic.
I also adore my big deep drawers on the bottom. I wish I could have had them everywhere, but in some cases the space wasn't deep enough.
My biggest regret is a tile floor. I hate it. It is cold, hard to stand on and anything dropped smashes to bits. The grout cracked in spots and gets filthy in spite of sealing.
We did just an update but I love all the things we did. The top of my list favorites would be:
Getting a stove with multiple convection cooking options
A french door fridge with the water option inside the door
Our silgranit sink (too)
Addition of recessed lighting
Wood floors (so easy on the legs)
Air switch button for the garbage disposal
Widening of our window so I can see!
These are great! Lynne, gorgeous kitchen! Our kitchen remodel will be part of an addition so I really need to think about layout as we will be gutting the entire thing. We have a large family and most major holidays we have between 30-40 people who always want to stand around my small island. Non-holidays we still spend the majority of our time between the kitchen and family room that are open to it. This is my first home and I made a lot of mistakes the first couple of years w/o researching. I want to make sure these bathroom and kitchen projects are well thought out as to not waste any more $$.
I love the idea of drawers on the bottom. I hate my current bottom cabinets as everything in the back gets lost. Thanks again! I love hearing everyone's own experiences, you don't get that real world perspective in a magazine.
I love that my L shaped kitchen doesn't have a corner...where the corner would be was where the architect made a cased opening into a small l-shaped office for me, and the door to the walk in pantry, which is behind the range wall.
I love my pantry...it is huge and since the ceilings are 10ft...I have tons of storage in there.
I love my KA dual fuel 36" range. Love it. It is lovely, and a dream to cook with.
LOVE my Sharp MW drawer! LOVE my big, 12" deep single bowl sink!
HATE my counter depth KA fridge...too small. Awful.
HATE the stupid round rug I thought would look good under my bfast room table. It doesn't and will be replaced.
I agree with those who talked about function.
We were fortunate enough to enlarge and fill our kitchen with what we wanted when we remodeled about 10 years ago.
I reflected after we were done, that if my budget had been less, it would have been best used by enlarging the space and getting the layout to be successful.
If I had kept the original (poor) layout, and remodeled it with beautiful things, it would have been a beautiful kitchen that was as much of a frustration to use as the original, and therefore a big waste.
Biggest mistake was not designing periphery for 4 adults. We have 2 daughters that were in grade school at the time. But eventually we had 4 phones, chargers, sets of car keys, wallets, bags, sunglasses ,etc. in the landing zone. A hot mess.
Although it's not in the cards to remodel my kitchen right now, one thing I would keep from this one is the closet that holds ALL of the pots/pans, cookie sheets, appliances, etc. I really like not having them scattered all over the place. I think if you can put all such things in one place, it's great and keeps things well-organized.
i regret not bumping this kitchen out 4 ft when it was being built---could definitely use abit more storage! i didn't design this kitchen and had very little 'say' about it's design since it is not a custom house...
but, one of the best decisions i made was to change out our 'ordinary' gas cooktop a couple of years ago to a dcs cooktop---love the control you have with the gas and the way it cooks!!
I love my kitchen-aide mixer pull-up shelf in it's own cabinet. There is no way I'd want to haul that thing out of the pantry to use it or have it visible everyday. Pop it up, use it, push it back and shut the door.
I love my walk-in pantry. I love the pull out drawers with my pots & pans.
I regret the cut-out for a display area above the fridge & pantry. Nothing fits in there very well & it's a pain in the neck to dust.
I'm short, so I love that all of my lower cabinets have pull-out drawers with heavy duty hardware because all of my dishes are in the lower cabinets as well as my pots and pans.
The pull-out spice rack that's in the lower cabinet next to the cooktop is convenient. It's two-sided and each side is just deep enough for one spice container so that all of the spices are lined up and visible. It even fits my oil and vinegar dispensers.
A cabinet with dividers that will fit cutting boards, baking sheets and serving trays is fabulous. Mine is over the double oven stack, but I can just reach the bottom to pull things out.
A sink that is wide enough to put a pan flat in the bottom to scrub, but not so deep that I can't reach the bottom easily.
I would have liked to have electricity in my pantry so that I could keep a cordless handheld vacuum with charger in it.
I am very glad I don't have an island, though I wanted one. Walking around that thing in my son's kitchen is a huge nuisance, a nuisance so big he and his wife are thinking of having it moved to the end of their kitchen, to serve more as a divider between the work area and the eating nook, than as the huge obstacle it is now in the center of things.
I love my water glass doors on the china cabinet. It lets the pretty colors of the dishes, etc. show through, but disguises any disarray. It was my carpenter's suggestion, bless his heart.
Also, as I am tall, I am very glad he had the good sense to raise my countertops to their maximum. It makes an enormous difference in my comfort factor while cooking/preparing meals. And I love my hardwood floor, rather than ceramic tiles. Much easier on legs and back, and a cinch to take care of.
I would love a walk-in pantry.
Single most important thing was probably getting the cooktop out of the island and on a wall with an overhead vent. That made my open island and prep sink possible too.
For me, getting rid of the corner "walk-in" pantry was a great decision. It opened up my space and gave me better storage with easier access. The way it had been built, I had 10 foot ceilings and couldn't use a lot of the space. Now I do.
I did a spice drawer, but my jars stand on their bottoms and are labelled on top. Put it in my baking area, which is next to my cooktop, so everything is handy for baking or cooking. Works great for me.
Adding a second DW, creating a breakfast/beverage hutch with fridge drawers in the breakfast room, taking the cabinets to the 10 foot ceiling and going for a large single bowl sink would also make the list.
Just thought of another simple, inexpensive idea I had added towards the end of our reno. Like others here have already mentioned, I wanted an upright tray storage area put in above my double wall ovens. Our Before kitchen had this but the wire dividers were too flimsy and the weight of the trays leaning against them caused them, over time, to lean, wiggle and fall out themselves. This time I specified that I wanted heavy duty metal dividers.
As that cabinet was installed, I leaned my tallest platters and cookie sheets on their sides the way I would be storing them and noticed that I still had a lot of extra space above them. So I had the cabinet guy add a shelf towards the bottom to make good use of that extra space. I now store my long narrow serving platters and small serving plates stacked there. I'm sure this explanation sounds confusing, so here's a pic I took of it. They added the finishing molding to the shelf edge a week after I took this pic. With the molding, you can't see any of the small bolts that hold the dividers in place.
New to the forum here, and I have to say this is just wonderful!
My kitchen is now 11 years old, and I still love it.
I love my reconditioned O'Keefe and Merrit gas range, but I wish I had painted it bisque instead of black.
I love my butcher block counter tops, and I really love the little 24" one next to the range that remains unfinished for chopping, etc.
I love the pine cabinets I had built in Mexico. I'm glad I got two with drawers instead of doors, wish I had gotten drawers all the way around! I should have used polyurethane instead of lacquer to seal them. Oops.
Love my flagstone floors. Should have used something other than lacquer to seal them too.
I don't like my Price-Pfister "Marielle" oil-rubbed bronze faucet. Its finish is peeling off and lime deposits make it look dirty.
I love all of the windows.
These are great, thanks for sharing! I'm thinking I want wood floors as well. For those who installed wood floors, what kind did you use? We put in tigerwood through our family room, living room, study and dining room. Huge mistake, they were gauged and scratched within days. I cried, a lot. It would never hold up to the traffic in our kitchen, thoughts on mixing the different woods? Also curious if anyone used the appliances with the cabinet door faces? how much more expensive were they and do you like them? I would love to see some pictures of the integrated spice racks, that's a problem in my current kitchen.
Take an inventory of everything you have in your kitchen and think about how you could reorganize it. I realized I needed cabinets the size of a hutch to hold all of the many papers, pencils, light bulbs and other office items. I now have areas for baking, cooking, food storage, cleaning, office supplies, and even DH's cabinets (barbeque grill utensils, occasional tools, ect)
Also, pick out EVERYTHING before buying ANYTHING. I ordered my cabinets early on and then had a very hard time picking out a granite. Once I got the granite, I was exhausted trying to find a tile floor that would go with both the cabinets and the granite. Then I went to pick out appliances and realized that I wish I had left 6 more inches for the stove. I also realized that the stainless fridge I bought had a finish that wouldn't match any stove or dishwasher out there.
I love everything about my new kitchen.. the corner cabinet pullout unit, drawers everywhere, heated tile, appliances.. But the very best decision I made was my shallow pantry wall. I LOVE that thing and it allowed me to have an island in my galley kitchen space with room to spare. It takes up 3 inches of floorspace, but using a header and going into the wall gave my 7 inches of pantry depth.
Here is a link that might be useful: finished kitchen - pic heavy
I'm renovating my 1948 kitchen now, but 15 years ago, I was online at Home Depot waiting to pay for white linoleum square tiles to freshen up the kitchen and tied us over until we could renovate. Just before I paid, I decided I just can't clean these white tiles everyday and I swapped them for navy ones. BEST DECISION EVER - had the navy tiles for 15 years (but glad now to see them go).
One of my favorite things in my kitchen, The Cork floors. They look very similar to wood, self healing so if I accidently drop a knife on it or the dog goes sliding across the floor the hole or scratch mark just disappears. It is so nice to walk on too, almost soft feeling. I loved it so much I put it in my mud room and it has held up beautifully to New England winters with the salt and wet feet being tracked all over it.
Love my Delta hands free faucet. When my hands are dirty from cooking I just tap it on and off with the back of my hand or elbow and it doesn't get all yucky.
I made sure I had plenty of outlets in the kitchen. You never know when your going to have a party and need to plug in heating trays or whatnot in areas of the kitchen you wouldn't normally use. Also put light switches on both ends of the kitchen so depending which way I came in or went out I could always hit a switch rather than waundering in the dark to find the switch when you only had one bank of switches.
recessed lighting. Love it. I had it done so that each half of my kitchen had a seperate bank so that I could use one or both and not have the whole kitchen lit when I didn't need it.
Putting a window over my sink. Sounds silly but I hate doing dishes in the first place and staring at a wall while doing so made it worse. I had the sink and window placed where I could watch the wild life and our animals outside to keep my mind occupied while doing the dishes.
The best decision for us was to buy only what we could pay for without borrowing a cent. We didn't want to sacrifice cabinet quality so the project was all diy except countertops. The no dept decision was hard at first because I thought I needed a much bigger kitchen when really what I needed was more working counter space and storage for the little used items. We took out a bulking badly placed sort of pantry thing and added the desperately needed countertop with fabulous drawers underneath and stacked cabinets above, we get all the usual in but gain a countertop. The other change that I love was a small one foot move with the stove away from the corner where all the action was (now no people in my bubble). The other thing I love is the counter height peninsula where my sink lives. This area used to be two levels, boy do I love the extra usable countertop I have gained there as well as the extra 16" at the end of the sink. I kept my otr micro/2nd oven because I don't mind it there (I didn't give in to peer pressure). What I did do though was give a thought to the fact that my future home buyer might want a big beautiful hood (which I do love) so I put pullout 6" spice cabinets on each side of the otr micro/2nd oven. These can be removed and the area would be easy to convert to a fancy exhaust/ hood. I really still love my kitchen a year and a half later. I'm happy with the tweaks made with the existing floor plan. For the way I cook it's perfect for me and the colors make me happy.
Angel, per your request, here are some pics of integrated appliances. These are the ones in my kitchen:
French door refrigerator. I hated seeing the old SS one right in the middle of my focal wall in our Before kitchen. I had the new integrated fridge placed on the side wall in our After kitchen. I love it:
On the opposite side of the kitchen I have my integrated dishwasher I put a red arrow over it so that you can tell where it is. Sorry I don't have a better pic of it:
Not the norm, but the best decision I made was to make the kitchen narrower by about 2 feet. This allowed for a built in alcove in the dining room, and extra storage on each end.
The kitchen was just a bit to wide and the sink and cooktop had to be across from each other. Didn't want a bigger island in the middle, and now it's just perfect.
This was totally done on accident:
Our dishwasher was placed in the island directly across from the trash pull-out cabinet. The trash pullout is right next to the sink. It makes it very easy to scrape the plate clean, and rinse if needed and then place right in the dishwasher. My trash pulled out and the dishwasher door open all the way meet up exactly so nothing ever drips on the floor! It was genius and all by accident!
The next best decision: I originally ordered a 30'' Shaw Farmhouse sink, in 2007 they were backordered, so I tweaked the design and got the 36'' so I didn't have to wait. I am SO glad I got the bigger sink! It is fantastic especially when we do our annual tomato canning.
I knew I wanted a white farmhouse sink, and painted white inset cabinets. Other options might have been more practical or less expensive, but I stuck with my vision, and the kitchen feels like mine. Also love my 2 dish 'drawers' below the peninsula which are easier for my kids to access than upper cabinets. Although it meant extra work, I am glad that I 'shopped around' to get the products that fit our needs, even if it meant checking every store in town over and over again until we found what we wanted.
To have 2 different cabinet finishes. The perimeter cabs are a cherry/walnut stain, and the perimeter cabs are glazed ivory. One or the other would have been too much(IMO)and the builder actually tried talking me out of it, but I stood my ground. When the cabinetry was finished the builder, cabinet installer, and others working on the house thought is was one of the most unique kitchens they had ever seen. I've had nothing but compliments. ;)
Ours was such a hot mess it wouldn't be difficult to make a MAJOR improvement. DK oak cabinets, with matching DARK laminate on the counter tops and back splash and inadequate light fixtures. We made many esthetic changes which we love but I would say the best choice was the sink. It has three compartments. Two large enough for my largest skillet to sit in and the third always free for disposal and rinsing. It is not a common choice, but anyone who helps me do dishes wants one when we are finished!!
Microwave drawer instead of a microwave in a wall cabinet or on the counter. Hands down best decision, both functionally and aesthetically.
FD refrigerator with separate produce drawer that I can see into from the main fridge, no more produce rotting in the back of the vegetable bin.
Silgranit Super Single sink with offset drain(Cafe Brown), which allowed us to put our trash pullout under the sink.
Drawers in the base cabinets, I really wish I had more! I have two base cabinets other than the sink and corner cabinet that don't have drawers and I really wish they did!
Absolutely love my elevated dishwasher cabinet, so easy on the back. Worst choice, Swanstone sink, it stains and is very hard to clean also it has a plastic collar around the drain basket holder that gets hairline cracks and always looks dirty.
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Taking the scroll in hand, Shari darted a suspicious eye through the abounding crowds that had split apart in the brawl's wake. Probably would be a good idea not to unravel it in the open... For all they knew it was some kind of trap or contraband designed to get them in trouble with the Shogun. Paranoia was an ugly thing, but the inhuman minds they'd been facing were uglier. Nothing seemed out of the question anymore.
Righting herself with a slightly queasy stance, Shari just appreciatedly gave Kai and hand back up to his feet, and ended up just staring at him for an added pace. Why was he being so nice to her? At this point he certainly couldn't have much respect left for her fighting skill, stamina or code of honor. He made her feel so warm on the surface, but underneath that, bitter and filled with regret. The man certainly wasn't perfect, not a saint of any description; but his brief flashes of virtue seemed to just cement how much better of a creature he was at the core, despite what he had been through in the past. She almost couldn't take it. Even if it was a truly self-obsessed day dream, the implied scrutiny he carried around with him was unbearable.
Wholesale, that idea was crammed to the back of her mind for now. They had business to attend to.
Shari went into the closest convenient doorway, grunted slightly, then opened the scroll at arm's length. It did not explode... but she couldn't read it either.
"We need to pay someone to decode this." She remarked simply, showing them the unbounded strange scribbles and sighing heavily. "Shouldn't be too hard in a place like Yamaguchi, through."


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CreepyPasta: Ticci-Toby
Last weekend after a friends party, I'd been walking home. Of course most people would find the city creepy at night, while the breeze blew signs around making them creak on their hinges. I passed under a flag that flagged eerily in the wind. But I knew this city well. Very well. Not only do I have a knife in my hoodie, pocket, but I find myself fast and strong so I'm not easily scared.
As such, I didn't think much of it, when I passed by a street lamp, and peered down the alley way of one of the streets my friends and I often ran around in.
I simply gave it a quick glance, and caught sight of a figure at the back, probably looking through the dumpster looking for scraps or something. I didn't see the person's face. However I didn't miss the cracking sound as the figure's head suddenly turned to the side, almost like an owl. I jerked back slightly, shock and amusement lighting my face. I guess that was an unusual reaction for a teenage girl to have, after seeing a strange figure in an alleyway. But I guess I'm just weird in general.
Damn the crackheads around here are weird.
I laughed at the thought, and continued down the sidewalk, boots clomping against the cement in a small rhythm. I was looking forward to having the house to myself again this week. My mother was working more and more these days, leaving me with plenty of free time and the house.
It's night time. Everything around me had started off warm, while I was slowly floating through the dark fuzzy world of dreams. You know, that peaceful feeling where you know you're asleep and you simply feel like your drifting along restfully. Ever thing is at peace, and your perfectly comfortable, brief fuzzy images pass through your head on occasions, accompanied by the heart warming or strangest scenes like small little movie clips. I don't marvel at the drifting images for long, because I'm suddenly being woken from my slumber. It dragged me out slowly, and by the time my eyes are open, I'm already sitting up in bed. I blink a few times, my eyes already adjusted perfectly to the dark, from sleeping.
I sit there for a moment, wondering what had woken me, and I'm just about to lay back down to curl up in my soft sheets. But just before I can, a sound catches my attention and I quirk a pierced eyebrow.
It didn't sound too loud so it had to be downstairs, the cats were probably getting into something. Stupid animals. I hated it when the cats woke me up. Rolling my eyes irritably I let myself fall back against my mattress which bounces slightly beneath me. My pillow felt cool against my cheek, and I slip my arm underneath it, ready to let sleep find me once more.
The sound doesn't stop. And instead of continuing in an irregular pattern, it continues in a... strangely predictable way. I began listening to it, timing it in my head, after a few seconds I began to be bale to tell when the crack sound would happen.
What the actual fuck?
I sat up again, thin cotton sheets slithering off my arms with the motion, I keep one hand on the bed next to me, while my other travels to the knife on my bedside table. My fingers find it's handle and I wrap my hand around it. I was probably just overreacting, but still. Better safe than sorry.
I'm trying to think of possible conclusions as to what was making that weird cracking sound, when all of a sudden, I realize... It's getting closer. I grip the knife in my hand tighter. It was definitely coming closer and closer, almost like it was walking down the hallway.
The Hallway.
That single word seemed to kick a new sound into my head, and as if on cue, the slow sound of footsteps began drawing down my hall, leading towards my room. By now I had no doubt in my mind, there was someone in my house. I can feel a gross tingling crawling up the back of my neck as my hair stood on end. My vision went sharp, as my heart shot a burst of adrenaline through my body. I'm frozen in place like a marble statue, not daring to breathe, but I can see my sides moving of their own accord. My heart beat is slow and loud, and I can feel every pulse reverberate through my body. If it grew any louder I was afraid the person down the hall would hear it.
I was willing my body to move, as I tried to sort my thoughts out through the hazy fog in my mind. What do I do? Run? Hide? Stay and ambush my invader? I leap out of bed, and just as I do, I see the shadows of feet fall out front of my door, the crack that flooded a small amount of light into my room, now has two little patches of shadow covering it. I lean against my bed frame.
The door creaks open, and I freeze again, my breath hitching in my throat as my lungs suddenly decide to take a strike. For a moment I'm sure that my heart was going to follow their lead. But my blood continues to slowly pulse through my body as a cold sweat comes over me.
The hinges groan slightly as the door opens all the way, and a figure stands in the door way. My mouth doesn't work. I'm trying to scream, to call out and cry for help. But I can't get the words out. I'm paralyzed.
I shouldn't have been able to think so deeply, but the figure in my door way triggered something in my memory. Walking home. The Alley. The dumpster. The crack head at the dumpster. The outfit he'd been wearing. It was the same as the figure who was standing before me now. A dark blue hood was pulled up over his head. But his pale greyish skin glows eerily from the light of the moon that fell in through my window. His eyes are covered by orange lensed goggles. His khaki coloured vest was sprayed with blood. This sent another electrical shiver up my spine. I narrowed my eyes, not sure what I should do. My mind kept screaming at me to move, but I just couldn't my limbs would not comply with my brains demands.
"No." Was all I could say, and once again my mouth glued itself shut and refused to open.
The figure was male. His face was hidden in almost all aspect, goggles over his eyes, hood over his forehead, and some strange mouth block over his mouth and chin.
He came forward, lurching slightly, his arm twitched at his side twice, as he stepped agonizingly slowly towards me. One hand was lifted to his mouth and he put a finger over his lips.
I backed up against my bed, pressing my spine against the wooden bed post. I was clutching the knife in my hand so tightly that my knuckles were turning white. My gaze suddenly drifted down to the object in the boy's hand. I could feel my pupils dilate in fear, as I saw his weapon much outclassed mine. And by the sight of blood dripping off its blade, I'd say it had more experience too.
The intruder held an axe in his hand. Blood was trickling off it and splashing to the ground below. I could move. And my grip on the knife was suddenly loosening, before I knew it the knife was falling from my grip and clattering against the hard wood floor. I gasped as the sound reached my ears.
"Shhhh..." Said the figure again, as he continued his journey to meet me across the room. After his foot met the floor again, his neck cracked to the side on an inhuman angle, I could hear the bones crackling against his tendons and the sound sent a sense of doom through me. I wasn't going to get away. I wasn't going to move. I was going to wait. And this... thing was going to have its way with me. My heart was thunder in my chest crashing against my ribcage, as my vision suddenly blurred from my lack of oxygen intake. But my lungs still refused to accept air.
The figure's head was now on a 50 degree angle from normal, and he twitched occasionally as he strolled over to me, pace never quickening. Another step and his neck cracked the other way and to the other side, bones making the familiar eerie sound.
"Shhh!" He said once more, and one more step would take him to the spot only a foot away from me. He took it, the hand with the axe was rising slightly, my vision was spinning. My body felt heavy. I could feel my knees shaking. Hell, I could feel my entire being shaking. The axe came towards me, slowly. And I felt it resting against my stomach, the blade simply sitting there. I feel forwards unable to support myself any longer, and then I felt a hand on my shoulder, holding me up only slightly, and only long enough for the blunt blade to be crammed through my PJ top, and pierce though my belly. Instant agony took over, and my body once again seized up and went rigid with a combination of shock terror and fear. The stars in my vision went black and white and my world spun for only a brief second before the pain over took me, the last thing I saw were a pair of silver tipped shoes, and a pool of my own blood, that was just reaching out for the soles of those shoes.
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PS Vita's latest update adds calendar, voice messages and the ability to display more apps (finally)
Posted By Enrique Manalang On March 26, 2014 @ 4:58 AM In General Tech | No Comments
Sony has announced that the latest software update for the PS Vita system will be rolling out to the handheld consoles beginning today. Version 3.10 brings with it a number of new features, one in particular that many users have been "waiting patiently" for.
The first is the highly-requested feature of being able to display more than 100 applications on the homescreen. The PS Vita will now be able to display up to 500 applications.
Next, the Content Manager is getting a new "Manage Content on Memory Card" option. You can view memory usage by content type, then delete unneeded content and applications. Another new addition is voice messages, letting you exchange voice messages between PS4 and PS Vita users from the Messages application.
Finally, there's a new calendar application included in the software update. Sony says it'll let you plan gaming events with friends, and it'll also sync with Google calendar.
Update 3.10 for the PS Vita is available now.
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The 404 1,056: Where you don't win friends with salad (podcast)
Leaked from today's episode: a new Netflix video player, "30 Rock" enters its last season, a band randomly picks up hitch-hiking John Waters, and how popular is your birthday?
The Netflix video streaming player finally gets an overhaul , but most of the upgrades to the navigation and video thumbnail layouts feel vaguely reminiscent to us, but we can't put a finger on it.
Speaking of streaming video, we'll also made a plea to HBO to broadcast episodes of "Game of Thrones" to non-subscribers. The show has quickly become the most pirated show of 2012 so far, and although we understand HBO's rights to keep the episodes in-house, we can't help but wonder why the network isn't taking advantage of this opportunity to get more money. Related: this week's Low Latency comic .
And while we're talking about shows we love, we're saddened at the news of "30 Rock" closing its doors after this fall. There's likely many reasons why the sitcom is ending, but we think it might have to do with the psyche of the average American couch potato that prefers a show like "The New Girl" to a more cerebral, metropolitan setting.
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I like it so far in pics. Can't wait for the reviews.
This is a discussion on The Ruger LC9 within the Defensive Carry Guns forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; I like it so far in pics. Can't wait for the reviews....
I like it so far in pics. Can't wait for the reviews.
Very nice. The extra 2 oz. in weight over the Kahr could be a plus. Given how nice the trigger is on the SR9c, maybe they've been able to do something good with this one, too.
Since I've got the SR9c, this would be a redundant firearm in my lineup, so I think I'm still going to get the 638 2.5in. to fill in the easier-carry gap - but if I didn't have the Ruger already, I'd be looking real hard at this one. Looking forward to seeing the reviews. Ruger has staked out a niche for producing high-quality firearms at a solid pricepoint.
"It may seem difficult at first, but everything is difficult at first."
Since it has an external safety maybe it has a nice trigger, like the SR9c.
-SIG , it's What's for Dinner-
know your rights!
"If I walk in the woods, I feel much more comfortable carrying a gun. What if you meet a bear in the woods that's going to attack you? You shoot it."
{Bernhard Goetz}
How long before the LC40 is announced?
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around laws. Plato
I would've preferred a striker fired pistol.
I don't like the manual safety.
Trust in God and keep your powder dry
"A heavily armed citizenry is not about overthrowing the government; it is about preventing the government from overthrowing liberty. A people stripped of their right of self defense is defenseless against their own government." -source
Depending on the reviews, I might have a double pocket carry going on. PF9 in one pocket. LC9 in the other.
Glock 26 9mm, Ruger LCR .357mag
"Protect yourself at all times."
"Don't forget, incoming fire has the right of way."-Clint Smith
I was just about ready to get a LCP this week....now I'm not sure if I should wait another month or so untill I can check out the LC9?
I like it, I will be taking a look.
Nothing new. Yawn.
Makes me glad I got rid of my LCP well, tomorrow.
This will probably be the replacement for my missing Walther PPS (Price is just too much for me at the moment). It has real sights so that's a HUGE plus over the LCP, the trigger is supposed to be "Nice" so thats another huge plus over the LCP, 9mm....say no more.
Actually, just the opposite is true. The Sig P290 is considerably more compact that the new Ruger LC9 The only advantage the Ruger has is that it is lighter in weight, that is all. The SIG is also made from stainless steel, while the the Ruger uses a steel alloy. Both guns have the exact same width. Here is a comparision chart that I posted in the other Ruger thread illustrating the other dimension differences.
Remember: All three of this guns below have the exact same width:
. . . . . . . . . Ruger PC9 . . Walther PPS . SIG P290
Barrel Length: . . 3.12 . . . . . 3.2 . . . . . 2.9 _ inches
Length Overall: . .6.0 . . . . . .6.3 . . . . . 5.5
Height: . . . . . . . 4.5 . . . . . .4.4 . . . . . 3.9
Weight: . . . . . . .17.1 . . . . 19.4 . . . . 20.5 _ oz
I fully agree that I expect that the SIG P290 will most likely have a better trigger pull than this new Ruger.
I like it but I don't think I will get one. This is a very good design and I think that a lot of people are going to buy into it. I would rather buy a Walther PPS or Glock 26 and I prefer to pocket carry a J frame.
"If you carry a gun, people will call you paranoid. That's ridiculous... If I have a gun, what in the hell do I have to be paranoid for?" [Clint Smith - Thunder Ranch]


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ISA77.82, Fossil Fuel Power - SCR Control Systems
ISA82, Electrical and Electronic Instrumentation
ISA84, Electrical/Electronic/Programmable Electronic Systems (E/E/PES) for Use in Process Safety Applications
ISA88, Batch Control Systems
ISA90, Instrumentation and Computer Grounding
ISA91, Criticality Ranking for Instrumentation
ISA92, Performance Requirements for Industrial Air Measurement Instrumentation Related to Health and Safety
ISA93, Sealing Technologies Committee
ISA95, Enterprise/Control Integration Committee
ISA96, Valve Actuator Committee
ISA96.01, Terminology for Actuators
ISA96.02, Electric Actuators
ISA96.03, Pneumatic Actuators
ISA96.04, Hydraulic Actuators
ISA96.05, Partial Stroke Testing for Valve Actuators
ISA96.06, Electro-Hydraulic Actuators
ISA97, In-Line Sensors Committee
ISA98, Personnel Certification Standards Committee
ISA98.01, Qualifications and Certification of Control Systems Technicians
ISA99, Industrial Automation and Control Systems Security
ISA100, Wireless Systems for Automation
ISA101, Human-Machine Interface
ISA102, High-Power Research & Development Electrical Systems Standards
ISA103, Field Device Tool Interface
ISA104, Device Integration
ISA105, Commissioning, Loop Checks, and Factory & Site Acceptance/Integration Tests for Industrial Automation Systems
ISA106, Procedure Automation for Continuous Process Operations
ISA107, Advanced Measurement Techniques for Gas Turbine Engines
ISA107.1, Tip Timing
ISA107.2, Thermographic Phosphor
ISA107.3, Tip Clearance
ISA107.4, Wireless Standards for Turbine Engine Test Stands
ISA107.5, Dynamic Pressure Standards for Turbine Engine Testing
ISA108, Intelligent Device Management
ISA111, Unified Automation for Buildings


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