There is also Garden Voices, but I am not sure who handles that GW section where can link to your blog and put in a feed to it. Use the "contact us" link that's at the bottom of every GW page and ask them how to go about getting your blog onto Garden Voices. Here is a link that might be useful: Garden Voices

You ARE lucky to have found this site. I feel the exact same way. I have been fortunate to be ahead of the game here as we are still in the designing stage. We plan on breaking ground a year from this fall. I plan on having everything picked out before we submit our bid to the GC this coming fall. I currently have our exterior almost done (windows and doors are already picked out). I am now researching major appliances and bathroom fixtures. I have my custom cabinet company lined up, too, for any wood that we will have in the house. Still have a lot to decide on though! But so far it has been fun looking.

How wonderful!! I'm doing the happy dance for you all! Congratulations on the newest sweetheart in your life too!

Pets- I'm a 3rd year vet student and want to help. Plus there are tons of really great people with excellent advice on training and other non-medical issues with pets. It's a great forum for me to both give and receive advice. Animal debates- I think that as a future vet, it is important for me to know where people get their information on certain topics and how they feel about certain things. So although I don't always participate in the debates, I do read them a lot. Home decorating- that's my favorite forum, hands down. Mostly because of the people on the forum, how they can be so helpful and really give you another perspective on your decorating dilemnas. They are also excellent resources for saving money- the more you can do yourself, the more money you save. They also know where to get good stuff cheap. I've totally transformed my plain tract home on a budget with the help of the people on that forum. They are wonderful! Household Finances- I usually glance at that one, but not so much now that Dave is gone. Stupid moderators- he was a HUGE asset to the forum, a wealth of information. Now the forum is not as helpful to me. Not that others don't have good advice too, but he really explained things in terms I understood. Marriage- I used to look at that one a lot, but lately it's been so depressing with all the cheating and major problems. I don't seem to have anything in common with the most recent posters, being in a happy marriage and all.