I have been looking for years, too. Now more intensely because we sold our house and are living in a furnished apt. I'm not a shoes off in the house person, but because this place has that awful cheap, light colored carpet I'm going shoeless and I've injured my toes. I need a house. There are mini-blinds in the bedroom: it's not dark in there. A couple of years ago we found 3 nests one Spring, scattered about the lawn. One was a big, mud-fortified robin's with an escape hatch where there must have been a supporting branch, one a sweet, perfect, feathery finch's, and the third was in between. Figured it was an omen. So when I found a property with a regular house, a mobile home and a really cool tree/guest house I thought maybe we should take it. DH didn't agree and I didn't feel that strongly about it. I keep trying to figure out a business where I could make this search process easier. I'd like to rich while I'm homeless. So the rental will be for you to live in?

I don't intend to be rude but I think any one of us would be mortified to know that 'a friend' started a thread in a pubic forum to discuss whether or not posters (strangers) know someone as 'odd' and possibly 'personality defected' as Oakley's friend. He likely long ago realized that unless he stayed with safe topics such as the weather, Gunsmoke and history it may be broadcast far and wide by said friend (who admits she has been 'watching' him for at least a year). This thread takes talking behind someone's back to an entirely new level, so ungracious, and so unfriend-like.

I did look at PepperPlate, but it was too involved for me even to figure out where the basic stuff was. I do browser bookmarks for things I'm looking at but not seriously, and save as text or Word recipes I think I'll make even if far in the future. I finally got my old recipes transferred to the new computer. Many years ago, I typed up all the bits of scratch paper that family recipes had been jotted on, as well as yellowing clippings. What I really should do is make some booklets in Publisher and bind them for posterity, but there's also the web. My standard shopping is in my head, with an aid from Alexa. I don't have much use for it--I even forget to ask it when I want to know the time--but I love that I can tell it to put things on the shopping list without putting down what I'm working on and washing my hands, and then have it show up in my devices at the store. In this way, the MenuBoard shopping list is good, too. Very easy shopping from the app. You can also print or e-mail the shopping list (love that built-in honey-do). I'm never going to be a power user. I have my most used recipes on paper in page protectors in a little binder, and two large binders (one cooking, one baking) with repeaters. And too many books. :) But I'm very happy with how this is doing for projects after just the chili bar. The corn muffins was a short recipe, so I typed that in too because the book doesn't lay open. :) (The muffins were good, but not the muffin. I don't know if I'll ever find that.) I've also entered the recipes for the Princess Cake into it.

Sarah I was going to say sponge painting too lol! Not necessarily a bad look, but the aforementioned bedrooms in my first home were done poorly in ugly colors by the teens of the previous owner. One room was smurf blue, so it looked like a smurf blew up in there. With red shag carpet no less! The other room we called the "mudroom" because of the wall color . . . None of that was "trendy" but to the taste of the teens, and I already mentioned the horror of my teen bedroom. My dear mother tried to keep it under control, but I had bright pink zinnia wallpaper and purple shag carpet. And bright white painted furniture with psychedelic trim elements in orange, pink, lime green, bright blue and purple . . . It was the bomb! Sock it to ya! But, as a cautionary tale, I would say try and keep teen room design elements to those easily replaced. It took two coats of paint before my splatter painted walls looked flat with color. I would not be able to function in my former bedroom, but I kind of wax nostalgic for my little brother's wallpaper with the small print of astronauts and rocket ships against a white background. That was less of a moment for regret, although not necessarily something an adult would like, unless they were terribly sentimental. He acquiesced to just one accent wall . . . I think after my room, my wallpapering parents were burned out!!