Kippy, I will try to get some more photos for you. Did you see the "roses recently discussed" thread? There is a photo there. Mine is very tall, like 8 ft high. I thought it was a typical HT. The buds are hot pink and slow to open with a nice fragrance. Blooms last quite awhile. It's more lavender than Love Song...Love Song finally has put out some decent blooms but the Huey rootstock just doesn't work for my garden. I will likely reorder on multiflora. Susan

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Kieffers_Guy, thanks. It was a custom built home and we used the contactors cabinet makers. They did a good job, even carrying the cabinets to a built in hutch in the breakfast area and a built in entertainment center in the family room. mmhmmgood, we like both appliances. As for the double oven, we bought an additional roll out rack for the lower level. The oven is the upper convection model. We have not used the self clean function and don't plan on using it. All self cleaning is nothing more than a super hot cycle and heat like that is not good for electronic components. I find the inside is easy to clean since there are no exposed elements. Soap, water and a little BKF seems to work fine when needed. The MW is great. It is all stainless inside. You will see where some people complain that it is noisy and has a cool down cycle. If you heat something for more than 4 minutes in it, it will continue to "run" for a few minutes in a cool down cycle. It is basically the same noise level as if it were running. In an open kitchen "great room" environment like ours it is a non issue. I suspect the people who find it most offensive are those with an enclosed kitchen or one where the MW is near the eating/living areas. People who see it at first think it is some sort of small oven and not a microwave, since it basically looks identical to the double oven.

Eileen, I am hoping I will get avocados from a lone tree - I've done it before in Venice, and so it should not be a problem, although I was told that you need two trees or at least another tree nearby in the neighborhood, which I think I have a couple of doors down. I know there were other avocado trees in Venice. Pam, bromeliads are great for growing indoors because many of them do not like too much sun. A lot of them will bloom twice in one season, once they start to bloom. I have all of mine outside for space reasons, and many of them I have to protect from too much sunlight, or else the leaves will get burned. I have a similar problem with many of the orchids as well, especially the Phalaenopsis, which cannot handle much direct sun, if at all, but the flower spikes bloom for about six months! Since I don't have room to grow them indoors, I built some shelves in a fairly protected area outside the kitchen. I've had a bit of trouble with dendrobiums and oncidiums getting burned also, and so I have them in a semi-protected area, and they only get limited direct sun. All of my orchids that are blooming right now (except the epidendrums) are in the house, and so they will go into a separate photo folder that I will create later. Nancy, I might get some more proteas because they do well here, once protected from snails/slugs. I might try growing some from seeds. I saw a lot of proteas in Hawaii also, but none that I had not already seen here. Have you tried drying the flowers? Lars