"ears bleeding...?!" What!!!?? Doesn't anyone like Britny Fox?! Surely there's some 80's Big-Hair lovers out there!? FV...you're too funny! Naw...my hair is kinda boring. Shorter-to-medium length. If I had MY WAY THO.... I'd be doin' the "Gordon Gecko" longer slicked-back hair sometimes! I WILL see that new movie! GADS! Almost forgot...my 49th B-day in next Thurs. the 16th! I started life when my beloved MN-Vikings did...1961! Faron (BIG hair forever!)

Agree that the "official" names of,the rooms mean nothing, notice how the PO used the first room as a home office! We rarely see people want to gather in a formal LR, but in the cozier room. You could do as I have seen done by many families: the dining room becomes a playroom (handy to the kitchen, toddlers love to watch the cars and bikes and dog walkers go by, and look at that wonderful windowseat you have, just toddler-height!). Then the room to the left of your front door is the dining room. Between playroom and dining you could put in a door or, more easily, hang a curtain (I'm picturing a drop-cloth curtain). As baby gets older, like school and teen years, you might even turn this into your own sitting room/mom central/"butler pantry". The cozy room is for family tv and reading time. I'd put the TV next to the fireplace so you can see it from the kitchen. And the sunroom is for everything, reading, gathering, playing. My friends' boys had all their Lego bricks in the sunroom, they loved the light, and there was no furniture to get in their way! The flat floor was good for building, spilling, rolling trucks. And when moms gathered, the kids played happily in the sunroom while we chatted in the connecting family room. I,really expect that even if you want to entertain in the LR, you will be shooing people out of the FR and kitchen, so why fight it?

lacey-when you try to do several quick posts to one thread, the site does get cranky. all you need to do is change the text in the "subject of posting" box above the message box, and it will accept your subsequent posts. weird, but true! Lady Jane Grey is an enigma, and thus an easy subject to "historic-fictionalize." Carolly Erickson, whom I have enjoyed as a biographer for many years, has been seduced by the success of the Other Boleyn Girl series into doing one of Lady Jane...imho, greatly inferior to her bios of the Tudors. sigh.

I believe that's called catfacing which results from incomplete pollination. Do a google search. It seems some varieties are more prone to this than others. One website said cool temperatures might be the reason - 60 degrees for a few days three weeks prior to bloom. That sounds like the cool temperatures we had a few weeks ago. Your title "splitting" made me think your problem was the skin cracking when there's too much rain which is something a lot of cherry tomato types do when the tomatoes are ripe but the skin bursts with a fresh crack, not like the dried deformity in your photo. Catfacing may also be the result of too much nitrogen.