THANK YOU to anyone who checked out my pictures. A double thank-you to anyone who fell in love with Zeus...haha. (He's my baby boy). I still don't understand why God designed peonies to have such massive flowers on those ridiculously flimsy, thin stems. Unless you use peony rings or cages, they fall down from the weight of their blooms and end up in the mud. Jean...I still feel pangs of sadness for you that you lost your dear Ms. Blackie. I knew you would enjoy seeing the cats, Zeus especially. Lily likes to spend her days hunting and will sit in the grass and rest once in awhile. She is getting up there in age but is still a good hunter. Fat Cat Nemo likes to go outside then turn around and beg to come back in. Rita...It's amazing isn't it, to have gotten a photo of Fat Cat Nemo when he's awake. That is one lazy cat. I am pretty sure in the above photo he had just woken up. Probably getting up to go eat some more. LOL. Linda...we do have lots of plants you don't have down there, but you also have some we don't have. Anything slightly tropical is an annual here unless you bring them inside in the fall. I still think Fat Cat and Little Boy were seperated at birth. FC sends his best wishes to Little Boy for lots of good food in his tummy. Kay...Zeus thanks you for the compliment. He is a very, very spoiled kitty and deservedly so. Glad you liked the peonies. Celeste

Interesting information. Me too Phil! I grew up like you, no indoor plumbing and it was the norn in our rural area. Only 'townies' had indoor plumbing in the 50's early 60's The farmers had running water to the barns,with windmills and electric pumping, but homes didn't get it till later. We all had electric and old wall crank telephones with telephone operators for other than our party lines. Those were the good old days?!? In a way they were. We had to find ways to entertain ourselves as kids. Nature was our haunt with trips to the woods, making forts, making boats to float down the bigger creek. Catching tadpols in the spring at the swanp, fishing and raising wild animals. Mink, raccoon, hawks, fox, pegions and groundhogs were a few my brothers and I raised. my sons never got to do the things I did as a child. For one thing we lived in town as they grew and didn't have access to the area I grew up in. I did take them there many times berry picking and hicking but we never got to spend the time I did. My family hunted and so did I but we don't even own a gun at our house. That's what happens when you marry a 'townie'! Connie

We are disputing it with the credit card company because it's also not just plywood construction, but the actual quality of the construction. We have been in contact with buycabinets too. With respect to the plywood, I thought I knew what I was signing and even later as I said above, I thought I was covered with the way it read. We learn by our mistakes and NOW I know what to look for on their paperwork, which isn't necessary, because I would never buy from them again or recommend them. I should not have been trusting of the voice over the phone who verbally assured me they were plywood construction. The cabinets I bought are Arch Bay and I have never been able to find them here in So Cal and you all are right there too from this hard lesson. Don't buy what you can't see. I have the door samples, but that doesn't show me the rest of the construction, including the cherry "paper", which is majorly cheesy in my opinion. The cabinet doors are Riverton Cherry Allspice with a Noire Glaze in the kitchen, Sheridan maple cotton in the laundry room, sheridan maple sesame chocolate glaze in the baths. The doors look great, but I'm worried about how they're going to hold up. Monablair: How is the plastic/paper on the front of the doors holding up in the kitchen? A final note: my contractor has been installing the cabinets and many of the screws are loose on the glides for the drawers, there are alot of the staples that didnt actually hold the edges together and he's having to reconstruct many of the cabinets and glue the edges because they're falling apart. He did say that they will probably be okay once they're hung on the wall, but this is a very disappointing event after spending almost 35k on the cabinets.

Didn't see a pattern, but this fabric has a dalmation doing the hydrant watering! Here is a link that might be useful: dalmation