Kristy I thought I recognized those deer roflmao. Seeing a whole flock of butterflies is awesome, isn't it :-) Oh the boys are fine. Just their pride hurt. Chandelier still hanging on a thread. So all in all, the Tarzan's just have to pay for the repair of securing the light fixture back into the hole lol Pat and everyone, that was my thought. But do you really think there would be a camera running when the get into something like THAT? No no Mom was upstairs doing laundry rofl. Having the passiflora growing just for THAT reason Pat. I LOVE watching those stages! Shirley now THAT IS FUNNY. lol. I mean I can see Alexander, the youngest grandson, wearing the leggins from Maddy, that we forgot when we visited them last summer. But GRANDMA's PANTS??? rofl Diane how was the Boulder Handweavers Show? Oh my a grandson....you MUST share!!!!We could introduce him to Dave's Katie lol they can grow up together in the virtual world rofl Margaret that makes two of us. I never know what I am up to either roflmao. I do not have a clue what I do each day lol April ...roflmao I ALMOST told DD to come and take a look when I saw your animation ha ha ha ha Lucy

This is a great idea, Bill, and I'd love to see the structure you're describing, Angela. My husband is planning to build a home and land is very expensive here. He's talking about possibly a rooftop garden, which is another way to go. But for where we're living now, something like you're describing would be great, because we'd still have the usable space UNDER the garden. We'd like a much larger garden that we have space for! As an aside, I was talking to a senior gardener who has built his garden up so that no bending is required (waist high) and he gardens in about an 8" depth. If you do find a site or articles with photos, please post about it! Thanks.

ken_mce, with so many seeds and corms under the ground, you would be weed whacking twice a week for years. Plus the fact that precision whacking isn't easy. These monsters are in with all my perennials. You can't suffocate them. I have moved big rocks in my garden only to find pinellas I hoped to suffocate still there and growing vigorously after two years! The only difference is lack of color, which they quickly regain. I spoke with a professional gardener friend of mine. He told me the only thing that will keep it under control (not eradicate) is a over the counter spray designed to kill poison ivy. Even using the spray, there are problems: 1/ there are literally hundreds of tiny seeds and corms in the soil that havenâÂÂt sprouted so one good spray job wonâÂÂt get rid of the future generations 2/ these plants are so hardy that often one application wonâÂÂt do it. You need to go back after a couple weeks to reapply. I intend to keep after them with the spray. Digging them out is thankless and futile. IâÂÂve thrown my organic principles to the wind and will use the spray.

emagineer... We have checked the restore and the cabinets they had were even worse than mine! They were absolutely horrible and ugly. Nothing new in that store, everything was used. Its about 45 minutes away, so not something we can frequent often. We had actually originally stopped in because we are trying to put a corner shower into our master bath (there used to be one but the po took it out and put in a huge hutch). They had one but it was 4 inches too big. I could probably go once a month though. Ill have to look in Feb. Electrical is going to have to be upgraded.. it drives me crazy when I cook. Thanksgiving day, dh just stayed downstairs so I could yell at him to fix the breaker again lol. And with 4 children... I could use a dishwasher!! I had thought of painting the cabinets white.. the big hutch is very close to me taking a sledge hammer to it. Whats interesting is the old stove plug in sits there. I can see why they moved it... since it would have put the fridge right next to teh stove. I would also like to put my new fridge over there again.. and I do believe that would make it fit though Id have to check height (just leaves water line to redo lol). Nope no Ikea close by :( But I have seen an island somewhere around here like that. I do have white curtains up now, but they arent doing anything for me. Hmm.. silver accents.. didnt think of that. And I can find ads online and print those off and frame those. The old walls are yellow... one of the many many paint colours in there (currently there is white that is peelign off, with the yellow under it, then theres the inside of the cabinets in an ugly olive green, and behind the old fridge is another green. I just dont love being in my kitchen, and seeing as I spend a lot of time in there, I would like to love it!! I could easily paint the walls yellow... but would that be too much? Ive gotta paint soon. And then of course look for new hardware for the cabinets.. and I do love a lot of the ideas!