I'm coming in late to this thread, but here's a few photos. You can click on the photos to see more at my photobucket album. Master bath with natural-cleft quartzite floors More master bath - the missus' makeup area. I made the little jewelry cabinet on the counter. Den (Scherr's cabinets, finished and installed by me) Living room/music room (tile is tarvertine with copper accents in a pinwheel pattern) Swimming pool (my daughter walks on walker :) This is actually the view directly out my kitchen windows. The waterfall cascades into the pond, then feeds back into the pool. The backyard at night, an awesome place for small dinner parties.

When I began the series of radiations for prostate cancer, Jan. 6, the radiation therapists (as they call themselves _ I call them "radiators") told me that I'd likely need to be visiting the bathroom more often - and they ... were... not... kidding! Like - about 20 times a day, some days, sometimes in rather concentrated "shots" ... so that sometimes I can have a couple of hours to myself. Anyway ... the doc suggested some imodium to slow down the diarrhea, and I've been using it for a couple of weeks ... with little visible result. The therapist told me the other day, on my having asked, that I could probably expect some "hangover" ... ... for a couple of weeks ... to a month ... after the radiation is completed, on Wed. Feb. 24. Wish me luck! ole joyfuelled ... with rather low level of usual fuelling, lately

I have enjoyed this thread so much! I love seeing everyone's homes and where they spend there time when not in the garden. I enjoy renovating and decorating almost as much as gardening. We have an old farmhouse (first a strawberry farm, then a Christmas tree farm) we have been renovating over the last 15 or so years. It has been a labor of love! Also, I plan my garden from the windows of the house...house and garden go hand in hand for me. I couldn't have one without the other. During gardening season, my house is usually more cluttery....but my mom came for a visit and I snapped these pics yesterday before she arrived (and I had tidied up!) This is our living room, which we haven't renovated yet. This music room used to be an old porch, which was enclosed by the previous owner. The view from these french doors is of an arch set in the middle of a boxwood hedge...the future home of my Florence Bowers Pink Tea rose! The dining room is one of the rooms that is almost finished. I just had this Laura Ashley wallpaper hung which I love! Here is the little dining nook in our newly renovated kitchen. Those are Pearly Gates roses on the table :) Here is the kitchen, which we renovated in 2013. I love to bake, so I have the marble on the island. I also do a lot of dishes...hence the huge sink! The wood counters on the sink wall were made from old Douglas Fir trees on our property. The french doors look out onto the back garden. There is another set on the other side of the stove. Everyone, and I mean everyone, tried to talk me out of these doors in my kitchen. But I wanted the garden to almost be an extension of the kitchen, and when the doors are open on a summer day it is! I don't miss the cabinet space at all! This kitchen is a Gardenweb kitchen....that's how I discovered this site: during the renovation (or actually, just before). I designed it with the help of all the amazing people on the kitchen forums. Without that forum it never would have turned out so well! I would love to post more pics, but something is wrong with my computer this morning...so I will have to do it later when my husband is home :)

I despise commercials of any kind-unless they're truly funny. There's a few for Orkin I believe, that make my DH and I giggle. Gigantic cockroach/ant like creature with hairy arms that drives a car. It kind of acts like a mobster of some kind. There's different scenarios for the ad. There's also a cute one with different versions of a family of Golden Retrievers driving a car and acting like a human family. I cannot stand the drug commercials. Most prevalent between 6 and 7 during the evening news. Aimed at the baby boomers like me. And I've noticed a pattern lately. The newest drugs seemed to be introduced on Mondays. My husband knows to automatically mute the remote during those ads and pretty much all others if I'm in the room.