Brenda, it is nice when even family members are enablers, eh? LOL!! I actually keep telling my husband "There's this garden in Western NY that someday we have to go visit!" I would love to see your beautiful garden some day. The different areas you have planted and the variety is amazing. I've been lusting for some more photos from you. Would love to see what you have on file for your veggie garden from last year if you have any time to post some. Goodness! I finally cracked open the catalog for my local nursery who I really like to support. She's a true plantswoman who I so enjoy chatting with, etc. I just sent an email over to her with my "list" (is was a long one) of plants to put aside for me for pickup when they open. It's a terrible habit I have of giving her a list each year for pickup. But my birthday is always right around when she opens, so it's a birthday present, right?!?! LOL!

Robbi, nice to hear from you! You have been a busy lady...your quilt is just lovely! Love what you made for your Mom as well. Welcome back...don't be a stranger. v.

Pleasant looking room. Liking all the natural light potential. You might consider wood or faux wood vertical blinds for the window wall. Would add more wood vibe to the room and offer more options for light and privacy control . https://www.blindster.com/vertical-blinds/faux-wood-vertical-blinds/ Plants give a farmhouse vibe. You'd have more room for plants if your loveseat were not backed up to the window -- not just plant shelf/stand sitting on the floor but brackets with hanging baskets of the plants you really like that will get enough sunlight from your windows. Having your loveseats facing one another set at each long end of the rug with only a table and lamp between the one side and the exterior wall would be worth trying ... setting the front feet of the loveseats on the edge of the rug. If you draw, to scale, on graph paper the size/shape of the room with all its fixed features (windows, doors, fireplace, etc.) indicated, you can draw and cut out the size/shape of the furnishings you have and and see what works without moving the actual furniture. Taller thinner wood or metal post table lamps with medium/large white shades could help lighten the room ... and have a less formal vibe than the ones you are now using. An "industrial" style could work.

Yeah, I'm one of them. It really was just the very beginning of the video that was really bad. If I had the right software I could have edited out that truck noise. I also know that my "teacher voice" which projects, bothers people with sensory issue. I once did a program at a school where as soon as I started my presentation (for a group of 5th graders) a kid in the front row broke out screaming and crying. He must have been on the autism spectrum where the combination of new routine, new person and "projectile voice" was too much for him. His aide took him out and I felt terrible but the rest of the class said it was OK. I don't know if they were being nice or what. We were outside most of the time, that incident was just at the very beginning too. In general, I am a "guide on the side" type of teacher and don't spend that much time just me talking. I've never been much good at that, I'm not a public speaker, although there are five year old who think I'm the bees knees, or so I have been told . . . I really don't have time to devote to finessing this. Wish I did, but it just isn't going to happen, realistically. I'd like to be good at this kind of thing, kind of the "Monty Don" of the environmental field, but it's starting to look rather implausible due to my heavy schedule of responsibilities. I'm sure those shows that are good have a LOT of takes . . . of course they are fake, but a good fake seems real . . . or at least "genuine" whatever that is. These days its hard to tell . . . Edited to add that I don't have time to reshoot some mistakes, like saying 700 LITERS of lemonade mix vs 700 Milliliters which was the correct amount. Just a brain glitch, I know the difference!!