I only need to get the pictures uploaded to snapfish... it's possible the bowl of the boy's is going to be not grouted...we don't know yet, cuz court is in an hour and a half..it'd be a fine bowl, as is..... I need to leave in a few minutes, to the juvenile court house...if his mom gets custody, they will be leaving for Oregon this afternoon. this girl/lady is the same age as my oldest daughter..eleven days apart and is the daughter of a friend of mine, that I've known for 40 years... my friend lives in Corpus Cristie and advised her to call me, when she was at the CPS office, here in town and needed a safe place, right then...man, expedited background checks and a visit from the case worker and CPS case worker, here at the house and my place was approved, right there on the spot... ( I swear, they must have had blinders on...lol cuz my place is filled to the rafters with art supplies and not a lot of space to do any square dancing, in my front room!!) that was last Monday..and here we are, 11 days later and the future is unknown for them but it's a new beginning, either way... Zach went through trama and I watched a transformation, while he worked on his glass piece.. here, on this forum, we all talk about how doing mosaics is a healing process.. Zach got a broken finger, when he blocked a blow to the head, when his dad was beating him up... the dad had also taken everything important to Zach, including little clay pieces he had made, from first grade on...the kind made in the classroom, with clay, glaze and firings...all of his favorite games, his laptop (I think I mentioned he's 14 and is a very sensitive boy)and made Zach ride with him to the landfill...then threw all of his belongings in the dump and said he would have to work to pay for the trip to throw it all away... it was a cruel and needless assault on Zach, both physically and emotionally.... This week's journey helped him take something broken, both from himself and other things and make something beautiful from it.... he first walked in the house with a rather empty look in his eyes.. this morning he's full of hope... I only wish and pray the judge sees the same thing.... I have his bowl and some of my projects, in a display case right now, with an overhead light and it's so pretty... it's a 6 hour drive to where she lives and we've already been talking about her coming up to visit friends and an aunt, or me driving there for a couple days..but not in winter...I would take grout with me...lol the lexel is in a tube just like the GE11 and is 5 oz...it was under $5...I think it was like $4.85 or so.... it's a lot cheaper if it can be found in a 12 pack but then again, I'm not going to do that...lol it's gone a very long way, with just the 5 oz... the number on the tube is 13013, evidently to be sure which one it is, between clear or white or something... at least that's what I noticed, ....it's on the bar code and this one says 31525 13013 super elastic sealant it also says it sticks to wet surfaces...guess that would be in an emergency, to maybe fix an aquarium...?? I'd better be going now, to get to the court house...

Thank you @User. I buy parchment paper cookie sheet liners on Amazon and the circles (with holes) for the AF I can get there too - for about $7.00 for 100. I wouldn't mind cleaning the silicone basket liner after each use; I don't think that would be a big deal. @girlnamedgalez8a I think we are talking about two different things. According to my findings today, always set your AF on a heat mat. The heat from the AF can damage countertops. That heat mat is silicone, but it is different from the silicone "liner" that goes inside the basket. From the looks of the liner on Amazon, it is very flat and has holes in it. Same as parchment paper liners, but reuseable. Again I don't think cleaning the liner after every use would be a problem. The cookbook and my manual say to clean the basket after every use and to deep clean periodically. The "after every use" appeared to be wiping out, although I guess that should depend on the residue left. Hope that makes sense - 2 things - liner and mat.

I have had prolifs flower on the stem like that twice now. Weird, isn't it? I don't remember what it was last year that did that, but the blooms were the blooming with the plant's other blooms and I did not notice for a bit. It had a decent number of blooms too, on a branched scape. I do think a plant can be crossed with itself. I intentionally did that with Indian Giver years ago, hoping to get some that looked like Indian Giver. They resembled Indian Giver but just were not quite as pretty. I kept them a few years. Cherry Treat is quite pretty.

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