My son in law is like that, his beer can be cut with a knife. I'm totally boring having restricted myself to 'Coors Light' for decades. I also like 'Natural Light' which tastes similar but is much cheaper. I love a cold beer on a hot day or with a football game but am really not looking for the alcohol effect which I actually dislike. Never took a liking to the alcohol free beers. I'm not a moralist, just a loser when it comes to drugs. In my 20s and 30s I was surrounded by pot smoking, and coke snorting friends and relatives, tried it and simply disliked the effect. Never used it again. I had a sign on my front door in the 80s which read: 'This is a no smoking house, thank you for your consideration.' Enforcing that in those days took a major effort. Alcohol makes me the life of a party, I go to sleep in a corner. If the substance abuse industry had many more like me to deal with, they'd all go broke. Nick

Based on enablers photos from this year, I have orders in for Rainforest Sunrise and Cathedral Windows. They look wonderful! I bought several on McT's list the year before or earlier, so they don't count for new 2007 favorites. But I will comment that El Nino is my most favorite hosta, and looks great near yellows like Sun Power and Stained Glass. Orange Marmalade is a large that grows slowly, so its neighbors may overwhelm it. I bought 4 in 2006, and the ones getting more hours of sun grow much better. I love them! I think Eskimo Pie is slow, but worth the wait. Love the color varigation. I bought Tick Tock this October, a nice little potful. The edges were sunburned, so not photo-worthy. I can't wait to see what it does next year. Cowboy, I noticed that you bought Hadspen Samphire. Mine grew really fast, and the show in the spring is spectacular! It's a decent limey green later on, with a nice full shape. Phil, ditto Cowboy's comment about Hole Mole. It grows wider and taller than Guacamole in much less time. I am going to have to move mine. It is at the front of one garden, and needs to be switched with one of my runts that is behind it. My faves from last year include: Ice Cream...I liked it so much I kicked another hosta out of my favorite island garden to make room for it. A nice clean, tidy little guy. Silver Bay. Gorgeous thick blue wax, lasted all season. I damaged it by spraying deer repellent on it, however. Heat Wave. Thick leaves, a tetraploid, lovely colors. Don't know its rate of increase. Ice Age Trail. Another one I sprayed with deer repellent early in the season. Duh! Mine doesn't have as many creamy steaks as others, but I still really like it. Tortilla Chip. An all yellow sport of Stained Glass. Tolerates sun enough to be planted with some of my daylilies. Ginsu Knife. A small specimen when I bought it, grew very nicely throughout the season. Another I plopped in with daylilies. The fragrant ones do just fine in this area, and of course have wonderful flowers. Fragrant King. I ordered Fragrant King, Fragrant Surprise and Fragrant Fire. The last 2 grew slowly for me, and I was unimpressed. Fragrant King really jumped, and I like the ones that have wider edges. My big obsession is finding hostas that look good all season in midday sun, and have other than all-green leaves. Fragrance is a major plus. I need them to brighten my daylily gardens after the daylilies are done flowering. My favorites in this category are Stained Glass and Diana Remembered, but they were bought before 2007, so don't make this list of new hostas. ~Bunnycat

Aunt Jen my long lost retro soul sister :) That big chill fridge in your delicious picture is the second half of the first kitchen picture I posted with the lime laminate counters and vintage stove. I love that whole kitchen, it makes me smile :) Powermuffin .. yay, another cool chair aficionado! :) I'm going through a cute chair phase in life it seems, every vintage chair I find IRL .. I day dream new cute fabric on it. :D Still looking for the perfect pair of chairs to bring home to send to the reupholsters.

My Sea Pearl had bluish tones that turned greenish once in my home. Will they give you a sample? My stoneyard did not so I took a chance. Did you see the chart Karin_MT made up? Maybe you could go by her description of the various levels of quartzite. Will they let you do a water absorption test? The crystalline quartzite is easy to spot. Look at the names on the right, find one in your stoneyard and look for the grains, cross bedding, crystalline structure to see which one comes closest to looking like your stone. You might try either lemon juice or vinegar on a small paper towel in a zipper bag or maybe you could use an extra small empty hand sanitizer bottle. Don't ask...don't tell??? Don't forget to test it in different spots on the stone, not just one spot. Same with the glass test...use different spots. Read this article that Karin wrote about telling white stones apart. https://usenaturalstone.org/telling-white-stones-apart/ https://usenaturalstone.org/how-to-be-your-own-stone-sleuth/ And this one is excellent. https://usenaturalstone.org/properties-of-quartzite/