thanks for the picture and many thanks for the "bump." I've heard it refered to before, but was a bit clueless about it. (Oh great...just realized...I'm about to get sucked in to a new area of the forum. Like I have the time. LOL)

I know what you mean. I have searched my username in the GardenWeb search before and it always showed very old posts. I googled the words "beautiful pfcmcl" restricted to the site: http://forums2.gardenweb.com. It showed a link with a description that showed the exact subject to my posting "Beautiful Plant - ID Please" but when I clicked on it, it just took me to the Name that Plant Forum First Page, so I gave up. After I got the last post from purpleinopp, I googled "Beautiful Plant - ID Please" with no restrictions and it found the direct link! It worked just fine! The post is from Sun, Mar 10, 13 at 15:14. Thank you so much for your help. No idea why the search for my username from GardenWeb is not showing all my posts. I hope it gets fixed somehow someway.

I am so sorry for your loss. Not only the loss of your husband, but the loss of the wonderful times you would have had while he was living, if he had not been ill. Your doctor's advice certainly applied to me. My husband was badly hurt 3 years ago, and the recovery and rehab were long. When it was over and my husband was fine I didn't feel relieved, I nearly fell apart. The whole experience has made me stronger, made my family stronger, made us all better people, but I miss my old weak,innocent,sheltered self. Anyway, the experience gave me a huge appreciation for caregivers. I hope you squeeze every single drop of joy and pleasure out of every day now, as I'm sure you deserve that and then some. When my husband was in intensive care, sometimes I'd walk outside and feel shocked and outraged that the sun would still shine, the birds would still sing, the flowers would still bloom, and people would go about their lives when the world should be crumbling. But after awhile it was a comfort to know that whatever happens, the sun will still shine, the flowers will still bloom, the birds will still sing. Be comforted and enjoy, I'm sure your husband would want it that way.

OP, please forgive this OT commentary to answer Julie. You can email me, too, if you click on My Page. Julie, thank you for the compliments. It's taking me so long to finish that no one notices anything I do get done anymore! :o) Anyway, I posted something in the forum below about type of paint. As for painting 'pure white', I wouldn't do bright white, but something on the order of Behr's Swiss Chocolate, which is just a perfect, subtle white that will compliment your granite. I painted cabinets as described on the link below. After drying several days, I then took a small palm hand sander with 220 grit and sanded off the corners, edges, and high profile parts on the doors and other areas of the doors to show wearing away of paint. I then took a small 1" black foam brush and used Minwax stain on all of the exposed newly sanded wood, cleaning off excess stain off the paint and doors in about five minutes. You will have to choose a stain to compliment your granite and wood floors. This can be a messy process, so by a couple of boxes of disposable medical gloves. This is the best, easiest way to keep a messy job 'clean'. Especially if you work in the house like I do. Once stained, let it dry a day. Then I mixed the glaze as I described on the web address in this paragraph, except I painted it around all of the edges of the door profile to accent and define the interior areas. (I mixed up about a pint of glaze at a time.) I wanted a more dramatic look to my doors, so I left a lot more product on my doors that the average pro painter. Use a 2.5" sash brush by Wooster. I love Purdy brushes, but for this job, only the Wooster works the best. I know, I tried them all. http://www.sherichase.com/progress/July2008Update.htm . After the glaze, I also did another technique to the doors using an oak colored stain on the raised, thickest part of the door to give it a more golden, rustic look. I have a similar pattern in my kitchen table, except it has a light grey glaze. I did dry-dragging of a large brush across the front face of the doors with the light oak stain. It's subtle, but gives dimension and character when you're up close. I can take a better photo if you like. Let this dry a day. Then I waxed the doors with clear Briwax. Ut takes about five minutes per door or so. Here's where I made a bit of a 'mistake'. I waxed with light brown, but I think it was a bit too yellow, so I'm removing some of it now. Half of the kitchen is waxed with clear, the other half I'm having to really work to get the wax off without messing up my paint job. So even on my photo above, you can see the uppers have brown wax and lowers have clear wax. It's all subtle. Well, I do have some of the brown wax off the upper in that photo. It's going to take some time and I have a lot to do right now. As always, wet sand BY HAND between every coat of anything you put on your doors: paint, glaze, etc. Just make sure the product has cured before you sand. Wet sanding is the best. I gradually work up to 600 grit. I am still working on my doors now and am not pass 320 grit, I believe. I still have to get off that brown wax. It's not coming off like I think it should with the clear wax. That being said, my kitchen photos show myriads of stages and mistakes. You can see my progress at: www.sherichase.com/progress to see where I started and am today. Email me and I'll give you my ph.# in case you need to call. FYI: Only use a hand palm sander to remove wood and paint. Do not 'wet sand' with any electrice machine. All wet sanding is done by hand. Light pressure with the grain, wetting the door with a fine mist spray bottle then wiping off excess with a microfiber cloth. Hope this helps. Here is a link that might be useful: Painting cabinets