Fredrick Mystral- Give Freddie lots of room, he likes to spread out. He is late to start blooming, but once he gets going, he's almost constant. If you have a thrip problem,they will find Freddy... Yves Piaget- Yves was a fun flower to smell, but a little bugger to grow on his own root. Maybe a grafted one would be better I don't know. Comtesse De Provence- A polarizing scent. Either you love it or hate it. I love it. Easy in my Chicagoland garden. A dependable plant. Rouge Royal- I love it, I hate it, I love it I hate it. Mine are own root and lot very vigorous. I'd like to try a grafted specimen. I'm not sure why others have a hard time cutting it. I find it to be perfect for cutting, if you cut it before it is open. If you let the flowers open on the bush, many of them look bad. Better to cut most of them and bring inside. They open slowly, last a long time and the scent is absolutely unbelievable. I don't think it would be a problem near William Shakespear, they are very similiar color in my garden. Peter Mayle- Is a rose everyone should grow. The scent is unbeatable, the cut flowers last a long time, and it doesn't take much space. This rose grows tall and narrow. Not super winter hardy, but I live in Chicago and mine has lived for about 10 years now. Bolero- A great, dependable grower. Kind of a subtle scent, but it is there in quantity. This is a very easy rose to grow in my garden and grows less like a hybrid tea and more like a small rounded shrub, very much like julia child, only white and a little bigger.

I saw my first one a couple of days ago. Then nothing until about two hours ago. I saw one visit the feeder then jump over to my hanging fuschia. Then she was gone. I am really pleased with these little mascara brushes. The feeders really do clean up like new. I've been cleaning off and reusing the brushes, and they hold up extremely well. So much easier than pieces of paper towels pushed through the ports with toothpicks. :) Kim

Thanks everyone. We met with the builder this morning and I told him I wanted to move the fridge as Greendesigns mentioned. Thinking more about that, I'm really warming to the idea. I do like the idea of big drawers in the island. When we get to the point of meeting with the cabinet folks, we'll talk to them about prices for this. Hopefully we will have the contract signed on Monday and start moving forward for real! Kirkhall, that's a good point about french doors, we'll look into that. I was concerned about frozen pizzas fitting in a side-by-side... I think we probably will keep the side of the fridge open--we're excited to have magnets and kids drawings and such covering the front and side of the fridge! Kirkhall and LL, I haven't brought up the new plan on Build for a couple of reasons: 1) I'm pretty happy with it; 2) changes are much more difficult when they have to modify a stock plan, so playing around with layouts for a marginally-improved setup is not worth it. I'll post something this weekend, hopefully, when I get a chance to put everything together so it looks right and can give an explanation that I'm not exactly looking for feedback but am wanting to share with the great community that has helped me so much.

Congratulations. He's precious and his big brother looks so proud. Wyatt is going to be a great big brother to "little" Wade. Grandson was over 10 and 1/2 pounds at birth. He was popping out of the 6 month old gowns within 3 weeks and only wore 3 month sized clothes for the first two weeks. LOL It was kind of sad that we missed him in the layette type items and then all the My First holiday clothes end at nine months size so we only got one holiday.