Green Beans and Peanut Butter

[mrockwell]

Writing

*Submission, Lone Star Stories, 10/16

Well, it's a start. Heh.

Everything Else

First, I want to wish a Happy Birthday to saetter, keelamonster, and samhenderson! Consider yourselves spanked, or hugged, whichever you prefer. ;)

Moving on, EB and I are a week into the green bean experiment. Not only have the beans sprouted, but some of them are 10 inches tall! So far, the sprouts under the red and blue lights are doing the best; those under natural daylight are doing the worst. Go figure.

And lastly, an update on the bookshelf saga. The shelves we want are only physically available at Office Depot, but the nearest store is 70 miles away. We could order them on-line (they're $30 cheaper at Wal-Mart), but I want to see them in person before I spend that much money.

The Ikea shelves are pretty, but would never stand up to my toddler, and are more than I really want to spend, besides. So, short of Stu coming down here to build them for me, anyone have any other shelving suggestions?

Interesting thing #33: I cannot stand the smell of peanut butter on someone's breath. I can eat it myself, cook with it, bake with it, even make birdfeeders with it, and it doesn't bother me, but if I smell it on your breath, you'd better not get in between me and the nearest bathroom. You've been warned. Heh.

Comments

[thefirespiral.livejournal.com]

I can't stand peanut butter breath either -- ditto on popcorn or corn nut breath.

Have you checked out the shelving at Lowe's? That's where we got ours.

[saetter.livejournal.com]

lol Unfortumately, my furniture projects are backed up more than my writing. :) My dad had the nerve to take his wood shop with him when they moved back east, so I'm without more than basic tools.

I'm not sure if this would help, but I could stop by the Office Depot here in Denver and check out the book shelves you're interested in. I can take photos and/or check durability, quality, resistence to toddlers, etc. If you're interested, send me a link so I know which ones to knock around, I mean test.

And thanks for the birthday spanks/hugs/wishes. :)

[mrockwell.livejournal.com]

Oh, Stu, could you? That would be awesome!!!!

Here's the link:

http://www.officedepot.com/ddSKU.do?level=SK&id=479854&No=40&Nr=200000&N=201641&An=browse

We are looking at getting two shelves with doors and two without. They'll be sitting on extra-thick carpetting, so we are just worried that they may not be stable enough to withstand a curious climbing toddler without falling over. I know a lot of shelves marketed to CA are designed to lean backwards slightly to help keep them from falling over during an earthquake, but I can't tell if these are like that. I really like them, and would consider getting them even if they need to be anchored to the wall, but I'd want to know if they had an acnhoring system they'd recommend for that. Also, while they look very classy on the website, they might look cheap in person.

Wow, thanks Stu! I owe you! :)

[saetter.livejournal.com]

I'm out of town in Clevelnd (joy) until Friday, but I'll try to check it out this weekend (or next Monday). Glad to help!

[saetter.livejournal.com]

LOL!!!! I just looked at your link. If you could see the bookcases I built about 7 years ago sitting in my living room... I used a darker stain, but I modeled them after the same mission style (one open and one with the lower doors), as well as the end and coffee tables.

At least you have good taste. ;)