Kristy we can have a painting party lol. I really thought of not putting them out but they remind me of my mom. Marian that is FUNNY. It sounds like something I would love to do IF it was not for the fact that nobody can see it in the back yard. I do not dare putting anything in the front. Years ago my Husband had them upfront and someone stole the best ones. Yesterday someone ripped out one of my solar lights in the flowerbed in the front yard. So I moved them in the back now. The Castor bean tree came back from next to nothing after the frost had killed the rest of last winter. I just LOVE how pretty it is growing. You will not believe where I got it from. I had planted it over 10 years ago from seeds I had brought with me from germany one time ...not knowing it was illegal :-(..grew it and my husband said that while I was gone it reseeded itself year after year. Surely enough I picked a LOT out of the spot it had grown before. So I will harvest all the seeds before they fall into the soil. Karyn you gave me a early morning giggle. I forgot all about those commercials. Mary I will only dress them up with flowers lol. Mike don't envy me to much. The only fence side I COULD hang something on is the wooden one and if I do, it would most likely collaps. The back side is deer country and the last one belongs to my neighbor :-( But hanging baskets are another great idea until I am ready to dig holes. Thanks everybody for taking a look. Have a wonderful Monday and may it bring nothing but joy! Luzia

Okay, get in line. Who wants to get smacked first. LOL I am not a green person in the least. I convinced myself that it was needed since the drapes were gold. The green with the check marks, has a gold tint to it, but not much. Okay, so tomorrow I will go look at gold colors again. I dont want a dark gold, but something with a little pop! If that is possible. If I go with one color only, and lets say it will be gold, do I bring it into the entryway on that wall, or just end it at the column. Any suggestions in the gold family and how light or dark should I go? After searching the golds, I will definitely be considered a "gold digger". Thanks all Susan

Golly G, They are both superb! Watch out Sue----Competitive work there! Urlee

I've gotta tell you about our 1922 beach cottage made of spit and bubblegum. PO's? There must have been a PO for every year of the house's life. It seems that we are the first owners who planned to stay a while, without renting it out. It has gorgeous views, a beautiful beach and is in a very desirable second home and rental home beach community. So po's buy it, rent it for big bucks, never put a dime into it, and sell it-they then buy their 'real' second home. It was the cheapest, shabbiest, and only affordable house on Lake Shore Drive, so we bought it. 1. It's on a dune, and still sits on a two foot tall iffy crawl space. The walls of the foundation have holes. We found brand new boxes of floor jacks (to hold up the floors) in the crawl sp. Pre-sale, the inspector could not inspect the contents of the crawl because it was jammed with 80 years of stuff, deliberately. 2. Crawl contains the plenum (thingy which distributes heat and a/c to the various rooms), lying on its side and connected to the furnace in the first floor util room. Two of the four second floor bedrooms are unheated and un a/c'ed because the plenum is too far from the rooms. There are no chases, no ducts going to these bedrooms. I'm afraid room air conditioners will blow the knob and tube upstairs wiring. 3. There is no real drywall or plaster, just wallpaper smoothed out over paneling. Only thin paneling over random studs. 4. The floor under the second floor toilet was rotted, a common occurence I've been told. The metal linen cabinets in the solo upstairs bath were rusted, dented, disgusting. The shower was uh, kind of blue and rust colored. It was worse than fourth world countries' bathroom facilities. We gutted to the random studs, searched for elec in the most unexpected places, and remodeled into a beautiful room. 5. Bedrooms measured 7X9, 8X9, 9X9 and the master is 9X15 with a sloped ceiling, from 6.5' to 7' high. No upstairs ceiling is taller than 6.5'+. Painted paneling with many, many holes. Had to remove closet doors:they were gerryrigged and never fit. 6. Oh, yes, the popcorn ceiling panels collapsed in two bedrooms. Fixed it once and after the second collapse, we installed new drywall ceilings upstairs. 7. Instead of having regular can ceiling lights in the bedrooms, they had shower lights, which gave off, oh, 10 watts of dim. 8. The walls bow a bit, here and there. 9. The floors have holes but I covered every square inch with inexpensive laminate which looks great and has a few bouncy spots. A marble rolls on the floor from one end of the house to the other in a split second! 10. We have fixed most of the major things and it is now a cute cottage, but The afterthought utility room which holds the furnace, some water pipes and the water heater has a 13" wide door. However, the diameter of the water heater is 18". This may be the year when we create a new door from the wall of the util room to the outside of the house, to replace the water heater, whenever, not if. Still, 6 years later, some money, lots of effort, it's delightful and in great demand by family and friends. Oh, btw, dh and I went there for N.Y. Eve and a big snowstorm hit and we had to evacuate quickly, because, among other reasons, the only way to get down and out, would be like sliding down an olympic luge, aka known as high flights of stairs, unevenly spaced stairs. We went to the casino hotel and had a great time! Bev