Pat, Ohhhhh, I've spent an evening or two out there! I'll be out there even more as (ugh!) winter sets in! Still haven't tested WiFi transmit capacilites, yet!!! Thanks for the compliments on the garden! I'm actually very proud of it - since I had ZERO experience with landscaping prior to this (and, yes, I planned/planted almost all of it myself!). There's been a lot of 'experimentation' (and several hundred $$'s worth of stuff that ended up in the compost pile!) But when it's all said and done, I'm *really* happy with it! We skip summer vacations and just hang out in our backyard resort! Come late winter, however, it looks pretty dismal out there. I'm hoping the GH will allow me a little 'sanity' through winter! Greenhouser, If you were referring to a free website: Check out Freeservers. They offer 'Ad-Supported' web-hosting - but it's basically free. *I* don't see any ads b/c I'm on Firefox, but I'm sure others do. Heck, it's free - so what does it matter?!! If I got enough traffic, or was doing anything 'commercial,' I'd bite the bullet and pay for Ad-Free hosting (It's a 'hobby' site. So what they Hey?!) I've been w/Freeservers for almost 10 yrs now. I'm very happy with them. And they've got Super-Easy Webpage-Building Templates available. I have the Garden Page on a totally free freeservers site. My 'personal' page is also on freeservers (but I paid for my domain and wrote my own ['Beginners!'] html). They're a *little* limited in that I have to send ppl *to* the website (rather than link to a specific picture), but waddya want for free? ;-) I definitely highly recommend them! -N Here is a link that might be useful: Freeservers

Oh, I missed a sentence up there LOL, that is the bush/tree with the deck that we cut down. The SO was cutting it while I was taking pics. I had to get them taken before he cut down all the tree/shrubs in pic #2 because I wanted before and after pics. In pic #10 if you look in the background at the bottom of the hill you can see one of the neighbors houses, this is the one I want to block the view from. I am planning on planting some fast growing trees in a line. In pic #9 on the right side of the pic is my holding flowerbed we put in too, I am using it as a nursey bed for young plants. I didn't take a pic of my WS containers LOL. Dan, tell the kids I said thanks for thinking about me, but I think we will leave the scratching and rubbing to lavish on them! LOL. Bunny, I am a country girl through and through, I can't stand the thought of living in the city although we did consider it but only for a minute. I like being in the country and NOT seeing my neighbors everytime I go outside. At the other house the trailer park folk would pull up chairs to watch us that I think that is 1. RUDE and 2. CREEPY, WHO does that? Joan, I am so totally pleased to be here. It is a small country house and it could use some work but I am tickled to finally have a place that I am surrounded by nature and not homes. We even have a nice size front porch to sit out on when we get it cleaned off LOL. It is so peaceful here, with the exception of the little &^*&^* that run up and down the main dirtroad on the trail bikes and 4 wheelers but if I had one I would be too! hehe. I am just so pleased to be here. A lot of folks wanted to see the place and this thread was the easiest way for me to share. In the front yard where that little ridge is, we are putting a flowerbed in there too, to make it more level. Can't understand WHY someone would make a cut out section in the front yard but someone did! Crazy is all I can say. Ok, well, thanks for the comments. Have a great night. :) Fran

LOL Ok what did they do? Can't imagine those little angels being naughty! Our Doxie Miss is a velcro dog! She needs to be right beside you if you sit down, she is on your lap pronto! My kids get so disgusted with her and ask her "did I call you??" I tell them, she thought your lap was lonely! ahahaha

My intentions were good to get back on here after I settled back in, but day before Thanksgiving the transformer to our house and 8 others blew, no power for almost 24 hours, finally came on Thanksgiving morning, thankfully (in more ways than one) I wasn't cooking. THEN found out we had no internet, just got it back Monday after a lot of false promises and lies from AT&T, still not working as well as before, but at least I'm back on the net. Don't ask what else happened, it was a crappy week. Anyhow, wanted to jump back up on here and reply and update. We had the first inspection on Monday, replied with a list of things I want the sellers to fix prior to me having the pest and chimney inspectors called out. Nothing too major, which was good, and surprising to the inspector for a house of this age. Just waiting now. palimpsest- thanks for the links, they'll be very helpful and I've put them in my favorites. I would never have known that the style of the cabinet is considered French Provincial (Rockler) though I can't find it as such anywhere else. You've really got a lot on your plate with that kitchen - wow, I think that's about the worse I've ever seen, and I've seen a lot looking over this past year. I'm still not sure what I'm going to do with this kitchen should we get the house, so many people say paint the cabinets and I've seen a lot of photos on the web with painted cabinets, but I'm having a hard time finding pictures from those who have just cleaned up the natural looking wood cabinets and possibly just put the varnish, or whatever else the clearcoat is/was back on. Does anyone know of a site that will allow you to upload your own pics and put solid surface to see what it looks like, similar to the paint sites they have where you can see how a color looks (BTW, I can't figure out the one on BM for some reason) Should I paint the soffits above the cabinets or leave them as is? They seem to be a darker color than the cabinets. Any suggestions on what color to do the walls that will compliment the cabinets? I'm thinking about a solid surface countertop in the brown/tan tones - not in to white, grays, blues, etc. Maybe something on the "dark side" or would lighter look better?? Backsplash suggestions? I think tile, cheaper and I think too much solid won't look good. Knobs will take me forever to pick out, no idea what would be complimentary and it's hard for me to make a deicision. Flooring, thought about the Trafficmaster Alurre in the darker slate - not sure if that would look good or not. Whatever I do, have to tie it in to the eat=in area. Not sure what to do about the lower half of the wall where the wood is - leave it, or paint it? If I paint it, will have to paint tha backside of the kitchen cabinets. Any thoughts of how to "enhance" that back area? I really have never had "color" in my home, so I'd like to keep it a bit subdued - I'm sort of scared of the unknown! I'd love to move the stove as suggested, but that would be a problem with what to do with the wall oven and the opening it would leave as I wouldn't have a cook top on one side with the oven on another, or would one? Also, the exhaust vent is vented to the outside and I don't want to have to move that either. I don't mind the layout, really. I'd like to try and put in some pullouts for the blind corners and cabinets underneath, any suggestions who has the best price out there? There's a comfortable feeling about this home for me. The wood cornices remind me of my Grandparents cottage in Upstate NY and the whole house has a familiar feel ss it's almost the same layout as I have now. It has so much potential if given time (and money) As much as I'd love to have a totally brnd new kitchen, I know in reality, I can't afford it and I can't put myself in to debt over a kitchen. I know there has to be others out there that have done what I'm thinking, I'm just not finding anything in all my searches, which is driving me batty! Thanks to Palimpsest I know that, at least where Rockler is concerned, the cabinets are considered to be French Provincial? but as I said above, I can't find anywhere else that they are considered to be that style. I haven't found but one pic with anyone else having cabinet doors like this. Thanks again to everyone, truly appreciate each and every reply!