Bright Lights's Profile

It's all fine and dandy to say no roosters, but what are you supposed to do if you get one in your batch? Send them back? Risk transit a second time? Set them loose? Abandon them? All of these options sound pretty awful to me and would seriously discourage me from trying out backyard chickens.

Does anybody know of a good source for non-US-plug lights like these? We live abroad (moving about every two years) and would therefore love to find some good sources...

Can we talk about invitation timing?

It seems like every time I get an invitation, the timing is really off for a genuine RSVP- either it's a day or two before (necessitating a massive game of schedule Tetris- what can I move into what place in my evening so I can make it?) or it's like 4 months before, in which case, other than say a wedding, i have no idea if i'm going to be able to make it- I don't plan anything in advance that far!

As a host, I find that 3 weeks is usually my golden number. That way I don't get a bunch of people saying yes and then backing out in the last week before the event.

I actually feel strongly enough about this that I finally signed up for an account to comment, three years after I first started reading AT...

Our kitchen breaks my heart. Not because it's atrociously ugly or anything, but because somebody put a bunch of money into renovating it but never actually cooked in it before moving. That's my only reasonable explanation for the horrific design it has going on.

Problem A: no wall plugs. ANYWHERE. If you want to plug in the toaster, coffee maker, stand mixer, anything, you have to take it out into the dining room. Now that I live with it every day, I kick myself for not having noticed that during the house showings, but who counts the plugs?

Problem B: there's no triangle. It's a line, and to make it more frustrating, the sink a d garbage are in the middle, so one person can't be cleaning anything up or otherwise prepping if the other is cooking. It's not that tiny a kitchen, but it can definitely only have one person in it at a time.

As much as I wish I could rip it all down and start again, there is nothing abjectly wrong with it. The cabinets are new, the counters are new, nothing's broken... There's no logical reason to other than it drives me crazy and could have been avoided. *sigh*