lol....my mom and I always say...you can take everything away from us...but you can not stop us from laughing. It DOES keep you young at heart!! Kylie I sure danced SO much and now I know that I am crossing fingers AND toes in the future right away...cause it sure rained a lot here also. It was such a relief not to have to go out and water and the WHOLE yard is wet. Of course I was thinking about you. Hoping that you got your share of rain. PA so glad you got rain too and the rest who needed it! Haase the only time I burn candles is when I have a romantic evening with a glass of wine and Andrew's Gold by my side. Looks like the candles have to wait a bit longer. Besides, I do not turn on lights...I have these little night lights...on the floor. They really give you just enough light were you think wow...everything is a ok lol Lucy

Candy, I've bought and sold on eBay since 1999, and rarely was a thing broken. Your package probably was insured, tho the post office should have mentioned if so. Most sellers on eBay are really nice to deal with. I think I've only left negative feedback twice in all these years. IF the plate was packed good, it really was the PO fault and not the Seller's. That being said about my good experiences as an eBay,... last week I recieved TWO out of 4 things broken. All were packed very well and I think PO is handling things way too rough right now. (it use to be UPS I didn't trust with fragile things). If y'all remember, I was delighted to get some new Cherubs. Finding them damaged upset me. For the PO to pay the insurance, they take and toss the item. I told the sellers that I was going to keep and glue the the items (each had one clean break and was easy to glue luckily) Neither could be replaced by the Sellers as they were estate finds, and I didn't want the PO to trash them. Both sellers offered compensation but I turned it down as I felt it wasn't their fault at all with their good packing. Had they packed carelessly I'd have let them know in no uncertain terms. Last week I think I commented, when buying Cherubs, that I had no idea why I was surrounding myself with this little things suddenly....I think know why now. hugs, Karen

I can identify with the too much to do in too little time stress situations and I also can identify with the there is too much to do and not enough time to do it and I don't know where to start so I don't do anything syndrome. In my case, it now takes me and hour and a half to drive home from work due to the traffic problems every day that seem to get worse. I usually don't leave work until after 5:00 PM, have to get to the other side of the river which means I have to go through or near downtown Nashville and there is always some function going on there where traffic does not move. By the time I get home it is 7:00 PM, I have to change clothes, feed the horses, cats, dogs, grab something for me. By then it's 8:30 or 9:00 PM. And by then I'm too tired to do much else because I get up at 4:00 AM and start the routine in reverse all over again. Saturdays it's almost the same. Got to get all of my trash together and haul it to the collection site, go to the feed mill, co-op, grocery shopping, maybe the vet and a dozen other things. I get home around 4:00 PM and try to mow the yard. At almost dark, I'm out feeding all the animals again. Sundays I am so tired that I don't want to do anything but I have to get my clothes ready for the next week at work, do what housework that I can get by with doing and try to have some time to just do nothing. People are always telling me to "get rid of my animals", I don't want to get rid of my animals and the only way I could get rid of them is to condem them to certain death. Nobody wants the cats or dogs and my horses are untrained and old. I don't think there is any way they would even load in a truck or trailer and survive the experience. I just want time to be able to enjoy my land and my animals, and, I am hoping that is in the near future. I hope to be able to retire at the end of June.

Thanks, everyone. I've been busy in the kitchen today and it's so fun to have 'just the place' for everything. bluekit - I have been extremely happy with the Showplace cabinets. The cabinets were very accomodating in terms of using everything inch. They were able to customize wherever needed. That being said, I really needed to do my homework because the kitchen rep at the place that sold them was not a great help. My space is rather narrow so I didn't have a lot of design options, but maybe someone with more experience could have helped out a little more with that. Guess I'll never know. The end product is gorgeous, and there are tons of door options and stain colors to choose from. I was able to get samples quite easily. pfmastin - Try searching on tile medallion, mural, accent or decorative tile. I had a terrible time finding what I wanted above the range and spent hours searching. Seems the manufacturers call them different things. Good luck! laxsupermom - I didn't really think about the functionality of that little cabinet until it was done. It was a by-product of the corner cab and where the microwave needed to be (and ended up narrower than what I was expecting). But it has become quite the handy little cabinet. The top shelf holds our ramikins(sp?), the next shelf holds cake/cookie decorating supplies(infrequently used), the 3rd shelf has cornstarch, baking powder, baking soda, salt and vanilla, and the lowest shelf has a few of my more frequent cooking spices and salt/pepper shakers. The only thing I may have done differently is to bring that cab and the one left of the microwave to the same depth as the cab over the microwave (15"). lynn2006 - I don't have other pix of the amendoim. I think you should just do it and trust me that you'll love it!! I enjoyed seing salmon-slayer's comment in his FK string about its longevity, based on his own experience. Happy New Year everyone!!