Shall we start calling you the deer whisperer? Oh deer! :) They sure know where to get the good stuff! :) Ginny

Wow, You are super productive! I see warm weather agrees with you. An aunt passed away 5 weeks ago, and her husband, by 2nd marriage, is pushing the family to get things out of the house. My time is being used helping my cousin. I wish I could be home babying my yard as much as you! 6 more days of school, and I will have more time to do the yard well! Dee

In case anyone is still looking for the patterns, here is the info. Sunshine Pineapple - email Vicki at vickistratton@comcast.net. Baby Honu - www.lisaboyer.com I went back to the shop today and bought a baby turtle print for the backing of the turtle quilt. I can find all the fabrics for the front locally, but I didn't want to chance not finding the turtles. I was so tempted by a pack of half-yards of bright Hawaiian prints, but I resisted. Of course, I'll be here for another 11 days, so you never know what might happen.

Thanks Joseph! I routed 1/8" into the substrate to ensure the sink sits flush with the plywood so there isn't any pitch/gradient difference where the sink is. I weld so if there is ever an issue with the sink I can either fix it in place OR cut the plywood from the underside, knife out the silicone from the top (where the reveal is), and drop the sink that way without damaging the granite. I would likely then use the Hercules harness or other fastening system on the new sink. PS, I've been reading a lot of your helpful advice on Houzz and you're a very knowledgeable and helpful contributor - I've been very impressed with many of your posts! "telluwhat"; Thank you for the question. As stated, my 'execution' isn't poor RE the seam as it is fully supported and hence, no structural issues. I assume you're asking more about the aesthetics? The two slabs that we purchased were 96" in length each. The single run of counter that we needed where the sink is located was 140". The dead center of the window (where we wanted the sink) was ironically 70". From the off-cuts we also needed to save two 24" pieces for each side of our range which is on the other side of the kitchen (so we only really had less than 4 spare inches of granite left after all of the cuts and factoring in blade thickness and our seam placement options were quite limited. In addition, we wanted the 'smallest' seam possible - in every sense of the word. By placing it at the sink, the seam is 4" long at the front of the sink and hidden at the rear by the faucet - it is nearly invisible the way we have it mounted; yet still structurally sound with plywood substrate and 4,000 psi epoxy that's bonding 8" x 3/4" surface area (24,000 lbs of holding strength). A few more pictures so you can get an idea of the seam - these are unedited/unaltered.