Thank you all. :) I feel like she was sent to us for a reason and we love her so much. She hasn't snapped at me in almost a week. LOL She still doesn't care much for our pug kids but we're making tiny steps in the right direction. I took a chance on her level of trust in me and cut her hair earlier. She done very! well , much to my suprise. Healthwise, she's on a roll in the right direction. Finally putting on some weight (she was 9 whole lbs @ her vet checkup :( ) , her hair is growing back and her owies are healing. I hope on hope there's a special place in hell for the person that treated her so badly and the more I work with her and learn , the more I hope that person goes there. That isn't neccessarily the right way to think but from my experience and in working with her , I've figured out she was absolutly loved , pampered and trained by someone in her former life and then for whatever reason landed in the wrong hands. I took her to a public event and she socially gravitated toward older gentleman and not even knowing them , sat ever so gently next to them at their feet. I really think she was owned by such a gentleman and then he met an unfortunate fate of some type (i.e. nursing home, facility or worse) and whomever was supposed to care for her in a way he hoped, sure failed her miserably. She lets me work with her , love on her and care for her BUT she truly thinks the sun rises and sets on my husband so she certainly puts more trust in men than women. Lucky for her , he loves her as much as she does him or she'd be in trouble (or I would...LOL). Anyways, that's the Honey update. :) Have a safe and happy holiday weekend everyone!!

I think rmkitchen or someone recently posted about getting out a rusty spot, but I would make your fabricator try it first. Did you preview the slabs? I have not seen the brown/rusty looking spots on Cararra before, but I could be wrong. Our Calacatta has a couple really tiny veins of a rust tone in just a one spot, but that really looks like something on top of the stone. Where the sink cut out is, does the brown go through the stone, or is it sitting on top like a stain would more? If it was part of the stone as he claims, it would be more likely to penetrate through. Good luck!

Hi Lynn! I just remove the whole head once it's spent... But i I sometimes don't even have time to get to those until they're way past... Do you use pesticides in your yard? Maybe that's why there aren't any pollinators???? Mine are usually buzzing with bumbles and friends, but they're interplanted with monarda and agastache is close by, not to mention Joe Pye Weed, so it's like a little pollinator heaven. I'm not sure how many pollinators would come just for the phlox alone.

Several ideas: 1) They got cooked in transit from the heat 2) They were kept too wet and rotted 3) They were damaged during the extraction process 4) They got crushed in transit. Hope you didn't have to pay for seeds.