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I am almost always a little emotional at events honouring veterans. Saturday's unveiling of the memorial wall for the battle of Hong Kong was no different.
I love meeting veterans, hearing their stories, feeling their courage and resolve, evident in their faces and their words -- even more than 60 years after their battles.
On Saturday, Aug. 15, I had the privilege to meet several Hong Kong veterans in person, including Winnipeg Grenadier George Peterson. Like the others who survived the battle of Hong Kong, Peterson was captured by the Japanes and forced into prison camps for the remaining three years and eight months of the war.
On Saturday he told me a little about that time.
"I can't say that we lived but we did survive. We lived on hope, we survived on hope from one holiday to the next. We were taken Christmas Day and the first day we said we'd be free was Easter. Then Dominion Day. Then Labour Day. Then Armistice Day. Then Christmas Day again. This lasted for almost four years."
I was quite moved to see Peterson and other veterans become celebrities at the event, mobbed by the family members of their now-fallen comrades, everyone seeking stories about their loved ones.
Roberta Baty was there from Winnipeg. Her father, Arthur Baty and her uncle, Stanley Baty, both fought in Hong Kong with the Winnipeg Grenadiers. When her father returned from Hong Kong, having spent nearly four years in a Japanese prison camp, he didn't speak of what happened.
At his funeral, after she delivered the eulogy, Roberta says she approached some of the men her father served with and said he never spoke of the war. They told her they didn't either, except with each other.
"They were men of stiff upper lip. They weren't victims," she told me.
I came across Pearl MacPherson standing next to the wall, wiping away tears as she looked at her husband Don's name etched in the granite. Don died four years ago. She said he'd be mad because they included his middle initials on the wall, names he'd officially dropped. But mostly she said he'd be very honoured to see it.
Then Don MacPherson's daughter, Sandy, gave me a copy of her father's story. I didn't have time to read it then, but this morning I came across it in my bag and opened it up.
It is his story in his own words. It is a compelling read, laden with the horrors of war and POW life, but interspersed with a spirit and charm that make Don MacPherson jump right off the page as if he were telling me the story while sitting next to me.
He writes of enlisting as a 20-year-old, leaving his hometown of Miniota along with three friends, including his brother-in-law. He was the only one of them who would return from Hong Kong. The others perished in the battle. It is hard not to be moved by the matter-of-fact listing of the men he watched die in battle, of the many moments he thought he was going to die himself.
He writes of sitting in a trench with his brother-in-law, and a mortar landing between them. Shrapnel hit his brother-in-law in the head and killed him instantly. Don survived. Later that same day Canada surrendered.
"My first reaction was relief as we were completely exhausted from lack of sleep," he wrote.
That did not last long. Two paragraphs later he writes of his arrival in prison camp.
"We were given one blanket and we had to sleep on the floor which caused big sores on our hips and shoulders. We had nothing to eat out of so I dug around in a garbage heap and found a jam can which I washed out the best I could and I used that for two years until I went to Japan - it was pretty rusty by that time. . .We had very little to eat - mainly rice and not too much of that - it was dirty and had a lot of white worms in it. It was a hard life."
MacPherson would shed nearly 70 pounds in the camps, but he didn't pity himself.
"Many were worse off than I," he wrote. "The whole camp was actually starving to death. Many prisoners and civilians in Hong Kong did starve to death during the first year."
But the first camp wasn't as bad as the second, he writes. When they were moved from Hong Kong to Japan in August 1943 they ended up in "a real hell hole.
"We would leave camp before sun up, march about half a mile to the railway and be put on cattle cars to go to the mine. It would be dark when we got back to camp at night and that was usually seven days a week. If you got too sick or too weak to work then you were put on half rations and that would be the end of you."
He writes of the illnesses, the pain, the beatings they endured: "We suffered from beri-beri, pellagra, dysentery and diarrhea."
Their feet burned, their stomachs got so bloated camp doctors had to remove fluid by sticking a needle into their abdomens. They lost vision from malnutrition. MacPherson survived the prison camps with just eight per cent of his vision left.
But then the war ended and the prisoners were liberated.
He writes of the day American planes dropped packages of canned coffee, cream and sugar onto the camps along with word they'd be back in three days with more food.
They did, and the starving, ailing prisoners were thrilled, even if their stomachs were not ready for real foods after almost four years of starvation.
"I ate 32 of those large Hershey bars and 11 large cans of peaches in two days," he wrote. "I just ate and threw up and ate and threw up."
When they were finally taken out of the camp he writes of hearing a woman's voice for the first time in almost four years, of meeting General Douglas MacArthur, of being treated royally on board an American ship taking them to the United States.
Despite the horrors it seems as if his spirit did not break. He writes of his return to Canada, of sneaking off the train taking the Canadians back to Canada so they could get ice cream and then missing the train when it left.
"When we got on board that head nurse sure gave us heck," he wrote.
He returned to Winnipeg but eventually moved to Vancouver where he worked for the B.C. Liquor Board. After retirement he grew "prize winning corn" and curled, despite being legally blind.
He ends his story with a quick summation: "May our future generations never know the horrors which we suffered."
I can only hope more stories like Don's are told and treasured.
And I encourage you to visit the Hong Kong memorial wall if you ever come to Ottawa. There are 1,975 men and two women who would be honoured.
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This is going to be a basic question for you experienced cider and wine makers, I think.
After my cider fermented dry (to about 0.994 with a champagne yeast, I hit it with pot. sorbate and meta and added some (3 cans) apple juice concentrate. I put it in a carboy to clear up a bit more...this was about 10 days ago.
I want to bottle but my s-shaped airlock still shows pressure...no bubbles, but the water is all pushed up to one side
I take this to mean it is still fermenting although the gravity looks stable at around 1.005. Tastes amazing right now.
Think it is okay to bottle?
Did you want it to have a carbonated cider? If so I'd actually be worried about there being no more fermentation since you added the K sorbate and metabisulfite.
As for the pressure I wouldn't be too worried about that, you've added yeast inhibitors which don't necessarily kill the yeast so there might be some minor fermentation still occuring. You can always just pasteurize your bottles if you're worried about fermentation continuing: Easy Stove Top Pasteurizing with Pics.
I'm not experienced enough yet to say definitively if you're good to bottle. Perhaps someone with more experience can chime in?
If the SG isn't lowering, it's still fine to bottle.
Airlocks bubble or don't bubble for many reasons. One, believe it or not, is barometic pressure changes! I've noticed the day before a big storm, my airlocks on bulk aging wine will bubble do to that. Weird, but it's just a pressure thing.
Temperature changes do it do, of course. Even warming up 1-2 degrees will cause an airlock to bubble.
Interesting about the barometric pressure! in this case yes it will be a still cider. Ill take a final gravity reading tomorrow and if it is still the same, ill bottle it up. It is already soooooo good, i cant wait to start drinking it in earnest
The air coming in (& going out) for changes in temp and barometric pressure is the #1 reason why I usually top off my ciders that are going to age for more than a month or so. If you're a purist just use some apple juice.. And I usually hit them with a little CO2 when I rack them.


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Are my staghorns dying?
I have a pair of mounted staghorn ferns, which were taken off trees a few weeks ago, and I am not sure if they are thriving. One seems to be showing signs of drying out, about once a week one frond gets a mottled yellow/tan dry look to it, and falls off, the other fronds look ok, just a few brown tips, I soak them 2-3 times a week in the sink.
the other has developed black patches on the basal fronds, near the 'neck' which I am afraid is rot or fungus, but otherwise the fern is full and healthy looking, and has not dropped any fronds since I acquired it.
They both get the same amount of water and indirect light, but there may be an age difference.
Here are the black patches.
A few little points. You need to be careful with tap water. The authorities often put a lot of chemicals in it, including chlorine, which ferns don't like. Keeping them inside can be a problem, especially if you have airconditioning. Air inside is usually much drier than outside. After a remount you can expect a few fronds to fall because of the disturbance. Also that darkening on the nest leaves can happen from lots of water as those leaves mature. The new nest leaves will cover them over anyway. If there's a possibility of leaving them out in the rain then do it. Rain water is great for them.
Collecting rainwater for watering any/all of your plants isn't a bad idea either when/if it can be easily managed. SO much better for them.
That dark waterlogged color is all over my stag as well,..and I'm hoping that whenever it feels like throwing on a new shield(seems like forever now)it will look alot better. Meanwhile it's putting out new fronds so things can't be doing TOO badly,right?
I'll get a pic in the morning.
Hey Tropic,
In your experience,do you recommend banana peals? Just gave mine some the other day and I'm hoping to see results. a feed is long overdo for all my plants at the moment actually. Hopefully by sometime tomorrow I'l give everyone a splash of the good stuff(I've really been putting it off),and thankfully I have been storing rain in heavy duty trash cans that are under the gutters(which are in bad shape lol),and I'll use that to mix my fert with because who wants flouride and chloromines with their nitrogen?
We don't get much rain in my neighborhood in the summer, but it gets moderately muggy. I am new to Hawaii, and have not been here in the winter, so we will see if it rains more later. We don't have air conditioning, and it stays humid inside, if that helps. I will have to examine my water more closely, see if that helps.
Thanks! Yours looks great. I am going to wait for the base fronds too, the new ones starting when I mounted them have dried up already, presumably from the disturbance. Hopefully I dont have to wait too long til some pretty green ones start back up.
well I have tried a few different ways, I have been alternating, between that and and hosing it off.
I like the hosing idea because it seems to recreate the climate that they originated from. Since these were taken off trees in a different micro-climate here in hawaii. While my neighborhood is hot and sunny, about two miles away is a valley where it is much more rainy and forested, where these ferns grow on all the trees.
But dunking may be better when I feed them, since I have them indoors I don't want to just shove a banana peel in there, as there are huge cockroaches around here, and I don't want to tempt them in. I woke up not long ago to one 2 inches long in the bathtub. Ahh life in the tropics.
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First things first...Thank you for the compliment on my stag...it started out as such a tiny thing too when I first bought it. It used to be in a four inch pot if you can believe that.
It's come a long way,and now I think I can safely say that I've finally managed something I've always failed at before...extracting a viable division! At the moment it's snug in a terrarium where I don't need to concern myself with maintaining it for the most part in any way(I love that about ters!)
Here in minnesota I haven't seen too many roaches,but if I did I'd feed 'em to my anole because she needs variety in her diet...thus,..I'm not worried about what might come in with the stag when it comes time to bring it back in.
Speaking of lizards,..seeing as you get the occasional monster cockroach,I can't help wondering if there are lizards that follow them in.
...Ever find lizards in the house?
Maybe one day I too shall live in the tropics...really is a lovely thought. :)
Here's a shot of my anole in silhouette...
We get a lot of geckos inside. Cute little things, except for their poop, but they seem to mainly hang out on windows so its pretty easy to clean. I let them stay in hoping they keep the bugs down, ants, roaches, and poisonous centapedes are part of life here, it took me months of agonizing before I accepted that you cant clean your way to a bug free home. Its the downside of living in a tropical paradise.
There are many anoles on the lanai, they are pretty friendly, I saw one the other day chasing a roach that was almost as big as it was, I wanted to see what it planned to do with it once it caught the roach, but they went under the fence. The anoles are bug eating machines, but they jump on me, which makes me jump every time, and after I saw one eat a baby gecko, I still carry a grudge.
How long have you had your staghorn? I am wondering how fast they will grow, what do you feed it with? I have been occasionally giving it some bone meal and boiled banana peal/coffee ground water, as advised from someone local.
Here is an anole visitor to my desert rose. The geckos are shyer, its hard to get them to sit still for a picture.
I'll bet if you held a bug out,one of the rascals would run up and take it from your fingers.
Doubt it will make you feel any better about the grudge,but it's pretty likely that the geckos are taking out a few of the anole's kids as well...not to mention that both will eat their own young given the chance. Not pretty but it is what it is.
It's been about five or so years since the staghorn was in the four inch pot I got it in,..and last year it was bigger than it is now...of course that was before the scale insect invasion came to lunch. Everything I tried failed to yield noticeable results and at this rate I feel lucky that it held out til spring...but it did...and once it was outside I kinda crossed my fingers in the hopes that natural predators of scale would discover an all you can eat extravaganza.
They did!
...was so happy I coulda done cartwheels in the yard
In general I'm real negligent when it come to feeding and when I do get around to it I use a weak solution at about fifty percent what's recommended. Boiling the banana peal is news to me...wonder if it makes a difference?
Asleep, those stags look good. But I still find it strange seeing them in pots instead of up on trees or rock faces. Banana leaves are a very "slow release fertiliser". They do take a bit of time to break down, and the animal life they attract will only bring slow results. I recall Purp. posting about how she pureed bananas in water and used that as a fertiliser. But blood and bone fertiliser is a good one for them.
I have a lot of wildlife on my place, and they're all eating each other (isn't mother nature wonderful). I try not to interfere but on occasion have separated the "eater" and the "being-eaten". That's mostly been snakes and frogs. I grab the snake in one hand and the frog in the other. The snake usually thinks they've both suddenly become the meal and lets the frog go. I guess that's why there's so much wildlife here, they've plenty to eat, like each other.
The peel I used was found in the park already brown and shriveled so I'm hoping that would make it better somehow ...like closer to composted state almost...or something.
A compost tea from banana peels sounds interesting,no?
As to prying predator off of prey,I can't say as I blame ya. When you get to know them over time it's like they become family and it's not like you can let that happen to your buddies. lol
I think compost tea is good for plants, there's already nutrients available in it. Worm castings tea from worm bins also.
On the matter of predator/prey relationships, I have no illusions about where they would place me at the dinner table if I were small enough.
Perhaps if I washed out a terrarium and kept the sludge left by earthworm culture and water the stag from the stained water...might have a similar effect?
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...Or they were BIG enough,right?
Just how big do those adorable baby constrictors in your yard actually get? Wonder how big the mama is now?
Wasn't there some saturday morning series with some mad scientist with a shrink ray...wow that goes way back there if anyone remembers that stuff I'll be really impressed! .
But seriously,..don't people get swallowed sometimes?
Asleep, that would be great for the plants, but I'd water it down a bit to make sure it isn't too strong.
The Darwin Carpet Pythons on average get to about 2 metres, although the largest I've seen at my place would only be 1.5 metres. The Olive Pythons get to around 3 metres but again, the largest I've seen at my place would only be 2 metres. The water Pythons are generally slightly smaller than the Olives, the largest at my place so far is about half a metre. The Darwin Carpet is the most common at my place, and they seem to be the most placid and not shy. I think for a snake to swallow a human it would need to be bigger than 3 metres, although babies would be vulnerable, and pets as well.
Good idea about watering it down...wouldn't wanna burn anyone should the N be too high(don't exactly have a lab at my disposal so it's better too err on the side of caution.
I'm thinking if I were surrounded by all those pythons I wouldn't feel the need for any more pets than the snakes themselves.
I've had friends who kept snakes of various kinds in enclosures but all I can think is how jealous they would be of you that rather than having to seek out and purchase these things,they just come right to your yard of their own free will. MAN they would be green!! LOL
Watering down fertiliser is always a good approach with ferns. Some are very sensitive, especially epiphytes.
The only "pets" I have are 2 Long-necked Turtles, Chelodina rugosa, and I only enclosed them to protect them from Cane Toads. But their enclosure is a very natural set up.


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Because of that love, we wish each other Happy Easter even when we know there is a lot of tragedy about it - Good Friday. As Christians, we know that what we see happening with and in Jesus goes to the heart of what we know from our own experience of life.
At the Second Vatican Council, the Christian lives we all lead were described as being shares in the Paschal Mystery. We have our share in the death and resurrection of Jesus every day. Our lives are part of the Paschal Mystery.
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China has made progress from the "rule of man" to the rule of law. It has created many rules and regulations to show it pays importance to the latter.
However, these days, with economic interests dominating society, many people regard money as being more important than any other thing in their lives. Thus some want to retain the rule of man as it is about personal connections, which is used to protect each other's interests, or a popular word – win-win!
The struggle between rule of man and rule of law continues to surface in our lives from time to time. Sometimes we just don't know whether to laugh or cry while feeling helpless.
The Chinese government bars its officials and their families from doing business, but everybody knows almost all large restaurants and entertainment venues have connections with government officials. If not, they could start business today, but close down tomorrow.
If you do not have friends in official circles, you cannot get even the smallest things done even if you possess good skills.
What is the reason? People usually give a job to one who has good guanxi with the officials because they know that the officials have more power than the people who manage the work.
Since the rule of man speaks louder than the rule of law, a lot of power, money and even sexual acts occur in modern society. Many senior officials have lovers outside of wedlock simply because they have power and money.
Imagine if they lived in the early Communist era in the mid-20th century, when senior officials did not have much money in their pockets, would they do the same thing? Corrupt officials were punished severely during that time. But today, Chinese officials can keep their rice bowls after being transferred to another post as long as they do not commit grave crimes.
To change this situation, I think the fundamental thing is to transform the bureaucratic system and ensure the rule of man becomes the rule of law.
Reflecting on the situation of the Catholic Church in China, it is more or less the same as in secular society. While humanistic management is necessary as we are brothers and sisters in the Lord, if the Church lacks a management system, it will turn corrupt gradually.
Even though the Church talks about tolerance and love, it should maintain its principles so that it can develop in a healthy way. To this end, all Catholic bishops, priests, Religious brothers and sisters and laypeople should not only enhance their spiritual life, but also follow the Church canons and teachings to maintain the oneness and universality of the Church.
The issue of electing and ordaining bishops is a serious ordeal for the China Church. This is a holy and grave issue, as a good or bad bishop will directly affect the development of his diocese. Thus, the Church should hold fast on its principle to help every diocese select a suitable candidate.
After a bishop is ordained, he should develop the diocese infrastructure and distribute work appropriately so that all members in the diocese can contribute their effort.
I hope every diocese in China can develop their pastoral work in normal and better conditions under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. When the Church achieves institutionalization of its management system, it can serve as an example for society.
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Do any of your kids share a room? How old were they when they started and what is the age difference between them. We have a 3 bedroom house so currently both my daughters have their own room and there is 2 years between them. We possibly will have a 3rd in 2014 and don't plan on getting a bigger house for some time. So I would have to have my girls share a room and kind of concered on how it will work out. My ODD's bed is a twin trundle (sp?) bed so the bottom mattress rools out. There wouldn't be room for 2 seperate beds anyway with the dresser and toys in there already Our house is barely 1200 sq feet so I am also concered about 5 people in such a small space, but purchasing a new home just isn't an option right now. We just bought our house not even 3 years ago and it's brand new so we won't be able to sell it for awhile. I know others have probably done more with less but just wondering what your expierance has been with sibling's sharing rooms.
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My two share a room. They are 26months apart and our Aug lo went into the room at about 8wks old. It works great for us.
We have a plan to move into a 3 bedroom in june time but the boys will still be in one room together since they are use to it and the extra room will be a daycare/playroom. Intel i can get hubby on board with # 3 then that child who BETTER be a girl LOL will have 3rd room. We thought about them not sharing a room but i think at this point it would just upset them and neither of them have lived any where else so we are worried about that change.
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^^^^ LOL thats how our friends kids are. They lived in a two bedroom (ours in fact) for along time and their 3 boys always shared the bigger room. They are now 16(twins) and 11. Their dad bought a house about 4 yrs ago and now they each have their own room for space but all still sleep in one room!!!
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DD5 and DS1 shared a room. The whole house was probably under 1000 sq ft. It took a little work and a lot of organization, but it worked.
If money allows, I might do bunk beds. It'll give more floor space.
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My girls sleep in the same room! We live in a 2 bedrrom apartment so not big at all but it has been fine for 2 girls... They are 2.5 years apart.
LO moved in there I think at 2/3 months. They are WONDERFUL in the same room... they love it. Miki goes to bed at 7pm, Suzi at 8pm. They both wake between 6-6:30am together chatting away. Gorgeous.
Once ODD stopped taking regular naps at 3 all I did was have her rest on our bed a nap time instead of being in the same room waking her sister up.
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This last time we put younger DS in there, that first night and he cried for 10 minutes and he has slept through the night since then. Now, if they aren't in the room together, neither one of them will sleep well. It's really cute to hear them talk to each other when they wake up in the morning too!! I am soooo happy to have our room back as we live in a two bedroom apartment. Their room is kind of tight, but it works.
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Here is a link that might be useful: photogreetings
I tried the HP site, jillzey, but you have to upload the picture to their site. I wanted one that I can take to my Picture It program and put everything together there.
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My fireplace looks bad :(
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Have you gotten a cost on removing the built ins on the 2 sides to face the stone? If not possible I don't think painting the sides to blend is a bad option. I assume you're also going to paint the built ins so right now, it looks worse than it will when things are "finished".
Sorry you are disappointed. It's so hard when the result doesn't match up with expectation. :(
The fireplace looks beautiful.
I think it looks "bad" to you right now because (a) there's nothing on your shelves yet and (b) the bright/dark contrast between the stone and the white drywall is very stark. Your eyes go there because there's nothing else to look at.
If it were me, I would first put the shelves in, put some stuff (books!) on the shelves, and then find a blue/grey matte paint and paint that return-wall.
It will blend....
It's not really possible to remove the built ins...they would have to be rebuilt since the stone facing is 2" thick. Anything is possible technically, I guess, but it doesn't seem feasible at this stage.
The built ins will be stained a darker walnut-ish color. I guess I can paint the return after I move in.
I wish I had thought of this earlier though...lesson learned for the next house ;-)
Oh, I think if you paint the returns in the darkest gray in your gray stones, it will simply disappear into the shadows, and you'll be happy. Anything lighter than the darkest color will work less well to make the return recede.
And as mclarke pointed out, once the bookshelves are stained and it's all furnished and part of the room, it will be just fine.
I think painting the returns will certainly make it just "go away".
I must tell you that it looks nice. You cannot imagine how really bad my fireplace is. We wanted a very angular rock, similar to yours. We were told that they could do it. It is horrible, plus the craftmanship that went into putting up the stone is shoddy. Full size stones on the left, and as they got to the right side, small pieces, some vertical, giant areas filled with mortar, and it doesn't touch the ceiling. During our walk through I asked them to just remove it. We would do our own thing later. Needless to say, the ball has been dropped, and we will have to remove it ourselves, unless I keep pushing. I have a lot of the hideousness hidden with a very large painting and some vases. Otherwise, everyone (I"m not kidding) who sees it just says "that's horrible".
Anyway....I think yours will work out just fine. And don't you love that we are actually making lists for "next time"? Yikes.
Thanks, guys, you made me feel better this morning! I admit I had feared a little being chastised for not putting in a real stone wood burning fireplace with real stone chimney, etc., but we are so not those people. I'll have to stop and get some paint samples this weekend.
BKW - That sucks they did a bad job on the fireplace. FWIW, Owens corning cultured stone in Echo Ridge is pretty similar to what we got. I was going to go with the Owens corning from the granite yard, but the brick masons would have had to install it, and my builder wasn't sure about their ability. So my builder found a local company that only does stone veneer and has their own product and installers who do only stone veneer installation. "Great Lakes ledgestone" was their closest product, and I do like the stone! Just not the ugly contrasty drywall return.
If you have access to Farrow & Ball, Plummett or Downpipe might work - Downpipe might be too dark, but worth a look.
Benjamin Moore has some nice ones, but watch for green or purple undertones, as many of their grays have noticeable ones.
You might consider Templeton Gray, Gray Pinstripe, Smokestack, Trout Gray, or Rock Gray - they are pretty neutral.
And I would use a flat finish, which looks deeper, and recedes and disappears better than eggshell.
I agree with everyone else that painting it dark will be fine.
If that doesn't do it for you, you can always stone the sides with the cabinetry in place (need extremely neat masons and protect the wood well) but you would probably need to run a strip of wood corner molding on each corner to hide the fact that the stones don't turn the corner...but it can be done.
Certainly decide that later though.
Or you could always get a faux painting artist to paint in the stone look. I have a grate on the stonework by my wood stove that I need to do... I'll give it a try as a winter project.
I agree that wrapping the stone is ideal.
But if you choose another solution, I would vote against wood in any case.
The reason is that things should look like what they do, and chimney breasts are rarely made of wood. They can be clad in wood or wallboard, but with yours, which looks to be built of stone, wood sides don't make sense.
Oh, I agree that photoshop looks better.
I wonder what the feasibility of going back and laying the stone would be afterwards. I think the corner pieces would have to be pulled off in order to pull it off. It would have to be just the top half because my builder says the stone is too thick and will interfere with the doors opening on the bottom.
I have to admit I lack energy to fight the good fight at this stage of the game. I may just paint it and see if it bothers me...and I can always go back to the stone people if it drives me nuts afterwards, right?
If you decide to add the stone later, make sure you buy the stone now and store it.
It is quite likely that your supplier will not have the same stone in the future and even if they have it, natural stone is hard to match unless it comes from the same lot/quarry.
Just a friendly warning :) Stone is cheap, labor is not.
I have to ask why you are the one that's compromising there to try to find a fix. The stone people should have done the facade correctly in the first place and the cabinet people should have taken into account that thickness when they did the cabinets. Your GC is failing you if he isn't stomping someone's head to make this right.
I have to disagree about the mantel. A mantel would make the fireplace look more "traditional", but that's not the goal here. Plus, a mantel would make the drywall returns more pronounced. There will be plenty of visual horizontals when the shelves are installed, and this will balance the unbroken vertical of the fireplace front.
Of course the photoshopped version of wrapping the stone is appealing. But let's look at the actual construction requirements of such a project.
If the stone has a 2" dimension, and you have typical frame and drywall construction on the side walls, the framing for those walls will be only 5/8" under the drywall surface.
In addition, the framing is probably located at the front of that corner, right behind the stone. If you try to cut the drywall back far enough to fit in the stone, you won't have a framing member behind the new drywall edge, which you can't do.
So you would have to go into the wall and reframe the corner (yow!), which presents the problem of supporting the existing edge of whatever the stones are attached to. Then unless you did some fancy reframing deeper inside the corners, the stones on the sides would present their edges to the front of the room all the way down.
And unless you reframed the corners at depth, you'd either have to stop the stone where your current cabinetry dies into the original face of the stone, which means the stone facade would be narrower on both sides from that point down, or you'd have to tear out and completely replace your cabinetry, because the dimensions of the doors would have to be changed to make them equal across the face.
I fear you'd lose more in looks than you'd gain, and at great expense.
That gray paint is starting to sound better and better, isn't it...?
I don't think I want a mantel, I do want it to look modern.
Bronwynmom, I agree that your fix sounds unreasonably complicated. However, I wonder if the stones could just be applied to the upper part. I don't think it shows in the photo, but the doors are essentially flush with the corner of the fireplace. A little dark grey paint on that would be adequate. I'm worried more about the upper part as in the photo.
Could stones be applied there around the built in, do you think? Or would that look odd?
Your fireplace is beautiful. If you want to see an awful fireplace you should see a photo of the lava rock monstrosity in the house I just bought. ;)
I agree that painting the sides a dark gray will really be an improvement, especially after the bookcases are stained and filled.
I agree with greendesigns that the contractor really should make this right, but if he won't...
My idea of cutting the drywall back would be not to completely recess it, but to keep it from sticking out quite as much. I think that if you just did the top portion it would look fine. And they would definitely need to remove the stones along each edge so that the front stones would cover the edges of the ones that wrap around the sides.


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In 1966, with spending in Vietnam on the rise, social programs growing and interest rates edging dangerously higher, Georgia's venerable Sen. Richard B. Russell Jr. asked "whether this nation, for all its wealth and resources, can fight a war . . . and carry on a broad range of domestic spending -- without a tax increase or a dangerous deficit."
"The president apparently believes that we can," the Democrat told his state's legislature. "For the sake of the country, . . . I hope and pray that he is right."
Within two years, inflation was galloping, the federal deficit was climbing, and Lyndon Baines Johnson was forced to slam on the brakes with an unpopular tax hike to finance the war and slow the economy.
In Johnson's experience, some see a cautionary tale for President Bush. Again, a president is pursuing his domestic priorities -- in this case, tax cuts -- even as he tries to finance a war that he insists will be limited and affordable. Administration officials say neither the amount of war spending nor the size of the budget deficit is enough to damage an economy they are still trying to push into high gear. But some economists and historians see enough of a parallel between the "guns and butter" debate of the 1960s and the nascent "guns and tax cuts" debate of today to raise the question of whether the administration is right.
"Right now we're in our unrealism phase," said historian Robert Dallek, author of the Johnson biography "Flawed Giant." "But they're going to have to face reality. There is the Lyndon Johnson moment coming down the road."
The economic backdrop of the Vietnam War is very different from the economy backstopping the fighting in Iraq. Back then, with unemployment at rock bottom, the economic engines were already revving hot when Vietnam spending slammed on the accelerator. Now, the engine is just coming out of idle, with plenty of room for acceleration.
Most economists say that under these conditions, the extra war spending probably will have an overall positive effect on the economy in the coming year. But whether the impact turns sour over time will depend on how long the war in Iraq lasts and how much it costs, they say.
No one knows just how much slack is in the economy or how quickly it could give way to a blown gasket.
"Economists are notoriously bad at predicting turning points," said Lee Price, an economist at the liberal Economic Policy Institute in Washington. "We can tell you the underlying factors that will push the change, but we can't say when it's going to happen."
War spending has already become a driver of the economy, most economists agree, although they disagree over its relative importance. Defense expenditures surged in the April-to-June quarter of 2003 by 45.9 percent over the first quarter, to an annualized rate of $519 billion, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis. The economy expanded at a surprisingly brisk 3.1 percent annual rate in the second quarter, of which 1.75 percentage points were attributed to defense spending.
Bush's $87 billion request to fund the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere will push defense spending near $500 billion in the fiscal year that begins next month, well over the height of Ronald Reagan-era defense buildup, in today's dollars, and considerably higher than the inflation-adjusted $433 billion spent at the peak of the Vietnam War.
Although employers shed 93,000 jobs in August, it may well have been worse but for the war. The military's mobilization currently has called into active duty 174,403 National Guardsmen and reservists, 20,000 of them in Iraq and Kuwait. Those troops are guaranteed their jobs when they return, but while they are on duty, someone else may be filling their post who otherwise would be jobless.
"It's fair to say what [growth] we've seen to date is largely defense driven," said Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research.
The theoretical fear is that once the economy is growing at a healthier pace, large, sustained increases in defense spending would exacerbate federal budget deficits already in record territory, drive up interest rates, rekindle inflation and distort the economy by directing investment to defense industries, which are inherently less productive than civilian ones.
During Reagan's defense buildup of the 1980s, "scientists took jobs at General Dynamics instead of General Electric," Price said. "I think we paid a price in technology, and government deficits crowded out private investment."
Economists also note that this extra defense spending comes just five years before the first of the baby boomers start receiving Social Security and Medicare benefits, further straining the government's resources.
A small minority of economists are already sounding warnings that interest rates and inflation will rise to unacceptable levels by the end of next year or early 2005.
"And when it all unravels, it will unravel fast," said Diane Swonk, chief economist at Bank One Corp.
When economics forecasters at Macroeconomic Advisers recently crunched the numbers, they indicated economic growth above a 6 percent annual rate for the second half of this year, a number not seen since the boom months of 1999. Spooked by the number, Chris Varvaras, president of the prominent St. Louis firm, said they simply lowered their growth forecast and "banked the upside risk."
If growth rates like that continue, economic problems are inevitable, some economists say. The only question is when.
"We almost always overheat," said Laurence H. Meyer, a former Federal Reserve Board governor who has been studying the Iraq war's potential impact on the economy for the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "It's one of the charms of the U.S. economy."
The political parallels between the Johnson era and today are striking, Dallek said. Like Bush, Johnson enacted a large tax cut as one of his first acts as president, then oversaw significant increases in federal spending.
In January 1966, Johnson proposed spending $10.5 billion to fight the war in Vietnam, $59.6 billion in today's dollars, but he assured Congress the war would be over by June 1967. The federal budget deficit would be only $1.8 billion, or $10 billion in inflation adjusted terms, he promised, hardly enough to raise interest rates or inflation.
But defense spending kept climbing, and it came on top of already enacted "Great Society" anti-poverty programs. By 1967, federal deficit forecasts for the coming year had reached $29 billion for fiscal year 1968, or $153 billion in today's dollars. The "guns and butter" debate had come to dominate Washington by then.
Jump 36 years into the future, and "this time, the butter is tax cuts," said Edward McKelvey, an economist at Goldman Sachs Group.
After three tax cuts and discretionary spending increases of 27 percent since he took office, Bush is seeking $87 billion more in wartime spending. The budget deficit is likely to exceed $500 billion in the fiscal year that begins next month.
Like Johnson in 1966, Bush has steadfastly denied any conflict between his defense spending and his tax cuts.
"I heard somebody say, well, what we need to do is have a tax increase to pay for this; that's an absurd notion," Bush said Wednesday. "You don't raise taxes when an economy is recovering. Matter of fact, lower taxes will help enhance economic recovery."
But the analogy breaks down when the analysis shifts from political parallels to economic ones.
In terms of the economy, said Charles Schultze, Johnson's budget director in the late 1960s, "that was a different world."
For one thing, the economy is far larger and therefore can more easily absorb defense increases. In 1968, defense spending equaled 9.4 percent of the economy. The second-quarter surge of defense spending this year notched it up to just 4.8 percent of the economy today, considerably higher than the 3 percent of 2001 but well below the Vietnam era. The true wartime economy of World War II saw defense spending closer to 38 percent of the economy.
Johnson had no room to maneuver, while for now, any defense spending can only be positive. By 1968, unemployment had slid to 3.6 percent, compared with 6.1 percent today. The economy was growing at a rate of 4.8 percent in 1968, compared with this year's rate, expected to be around 2.6 percent.
"The economy is just so weak," Baker said. The war "has been a source of stimulus, and at this point, it's not obviously pulling anything away from anything else."
White House officials say they are not worried because by the time the economy is again running on all cylinders, wartime spending will not be an issue. A senior administration official said last week that next year's war expenditures will be "overwhelmingly one-time spending" and not a long-term drain on the federal budget or the economy.
Many economists agree. Iraq war spending is likely to consume 1.5 percent of the nation's total economic output over the next four years, said William D. Nordhaus, a Yale University economist and wartime economy expert, or half the take of Vietnam or the Reagan buildup.
"My sense is what's going on right now will not have a very big effect," he said.
Others are not so sure. Meyer warned that the economy would soon adjust to the level of war spending and lower tax cuts, which will then lose their stimulative effect. "Looking out into next year, we're going to see a stunning decline in fiscal stimulus that the economy is going to have to deal with," he said.
If the economy hasn't kicked into gear on its own, a major hangover is inevitable, he said.
McKelvey said long-term deficits are inevitable without a change of course. Goldman Sachs warned clients on Friday, "The deficit issue is now on the radar screen of bond investors. They will be looking to see whether the policy of 'guns and butter' will persist or whether the Bush administration is now prepared to make some tough choices."
Although administration economists have downplayed the link between deficits and interest rates, many others believe the link is real. McKelvey expressed no doubt that higher interest rates and more government borrowing will push aside some private-sector investment. The question is only how much.
"The government is going to be in a position where it's borrowing $400 billion and $500 billion a year," McKelvey said. "It's first in line for borrowing. The notion that that guy can get first in line without shoving out the guy in the back of the line just doesn't pass the smell test. You don't have to be an economist to understand that."
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The Pittsburgh Planning Commission on Tuesday approved the first phase of Millcraft Investments' development plan for the former Saks Fifth Avenue location in downtown Pittsburgh.
he two-phase project will start with the construction of a six-story, 570-space parking garage as well as three retail spaces at the street level.
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Sold my Walther sp22 and never looked back. No more modern Walthers for me. Would like a Ruger Buckmark someday.
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Not sure what model came first. I would guess the sp22 came after the p22. I had the same problems, clean or not. Speaking of cleaning, the sp22 was a pain to clean.
I just bought a Walther P22. I bought Remington cheap ammo, federal HP bulk, CCI bulk, and CCI mini mags and took it out to the range after a cleaning with some Gunzilla. I ran through at least 100 rounds of each (only had 100 rounds of Remington and Mini Mags) and had zero FTF so far. I was concerned due to the reviews but I wanted a threaded barrel and was unwilling to spend $150 more for a Ruger aftermarket threaded barrel. I plan on going through a lot more ammo tomorrow.
The Sig Mosquitos are terrible. Even Silencerco tests using the Mosquito show that. I don't think they fired off a magazine without some kind of failure!
I have seen very mixed reviews of the P22. Some say it's awesome, and some say its junk. I have seen that the biggest complaint was FTFs with certain ammo.
Just an update in my brand new P22 testing. I put another 500 rounds through it. I had one FTF. It felt like a low powder charge and failed to move the slide at all. It was so weak, I checked for a squib.
Also, I had four failure to lock the slide back on the last round. All the failures were in the last 200 rounds involving CCI tactical ammo. I ran 50 rounds of Remington green box, 50 of CCI mini mag, 200 of Federal HP bulk and the rest was CCI tactical.
I have two Ruger 10/22 Takedowns - Save yourself the expense and headache of attaching a scope to the Takedown.
Because the barrel is not fixed and can be (however slight) moved when mounted, the barrel/receiver will never be perfectly aligned. For the gun to work properly with a scope, Ruger must find a way to attach the scope to the Barrel rather than the Receiver.
Until then, use the Iron Sights that come with the Takedown, or buy a 10/22 with a Fixed barrel.
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The Miami Lakes Town Council held its inaugural meeting in its new government center on April 23, following a celebration of the building's opening.
During the meeting, the council gave final approval in a 6-1 vote to expand Northwest 154th Street, also known as Miami Lakes Drive, into a four-lane road.
The ordinance is part of a roadway-improvement partnership between Miami-Dade County and the town in which each party is responsible for a tract of the improvement.
The county's portion of the project aims to extend Northwest 87th Avenue from the area around Northwest 162nd Street to Miami Lakes Drive.
Meanwhile, Miami Lakes is set to expand Miami Lakes Drive from the Northwest 83rd Avenue area to Northwest 87 Avenue.
The town is also responsible for the installation of sidewalks, new pavement markings and signage, left-turn lanes, and other construction on the roadway.
"We voted to get a loan, make the improvements on 154th Street now, so when 87th Avenue opens up, 154th Street will already be opened up," Pizzi said.
Although the town is taking out a loan not to exceed $2 million to fund the project, Pizzi said that taxpayers won't foot the bill for the work.
The town has a development agreement that states that any potential developer must reimburse the town for the loan before starting construction.
"Before we even have to make the first payment, we will be paid back by the developer, it seems to be the smart thing to do," Pizzi said. "The developer will pay us before the loan even comes due. He can't even clear the land until he pays all that back."
He said the project is important because it will allow residents a more direct path to get around town.
Councilman Tony Lama shares those views.
He said some people have felt disconnected in the western part of town because of the lack of easy access to the community.
"Today, if you have an unfortunate situation, if someone has a stroke, heart attack or a fire, heaven forbid, you need the firefighters to go around the town, essentially," Lama said. "This is something the residents have been screaming for for years."
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Decoration on my desk. My daughter gave me this a couple years ago. It's close at hand and pretty so I expect there will be a few more shots of it for 365 in 2009.
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