Boxerpups, the first sample photo of Quartzite looks like Silestone's Stellar Snow. It is a white speckled with gray and little sparklies all through it. It definitely does not stain. We have it in the kitchen up in Massachusetts, and I love it so much we are going to use it for the counters in our Alabama cottage too. (Probably along with the backsplash that Scottielee put on her kitchen, Biazza Damasco Bianco Glass tiles). The Stella Snow pattern shows absolutely no fingerprints or even dust or breadcrumbs or anything. Beet juice nor KoolAid can stain it, nor red wine. It is perfect in my book. We will also be using the same Silestone series in the black version for vanity tops in two baths when we get that far in our redo.

I forgot I had posted this. It was about Leslie's dh who passed away 10 years ago while they were at the cabin on July 4th. I was just thinking what a difficult holiday it must be for her. Linda

Well, Don, I guess thank you? hehehehe Like olives, I had to acquire a taste for serpents. Or snakes. I mean, they were everywhere down in Louisiana AND south Texas where I worked. We had to watch out everywhere we tied up the boat, especially if under trees overhanging the bayou banks. I'll never forget the day I observed a tug boat crew with 4x4 long timbers stepping lively and beating the dickens out of something I could not see. It turned out to be a big rattler that was trying to go down an air vent into a compartment below. Cottonmouth moccasins open up and reveal how they got their name....totally white like a boll of cotton.....and the moccasin just as soon chase you as leave you alone. Not a peaceable critter at all. Do you remember the movie/book by Larry McMurtry LONESOME DOVE? The young cowboy falls off his horse in the stream, and by the time they get him out of the water he is already past saving? Yep, moccasins. Even the baby ones have enough venom to kill a man....or so I was told. And years ago, a young man (I knew his family) was water skiing on the river in springtime. He fell off and the same sort of thing happened to him as in McMurtry's book. But in naming my home MoccasinLanding, it was more the fear factor I called into play. There is a certain uneasy feeling comes upon one who anticipates encountering such an aggressive critter. And that kept people away from my uninhabited home for almost 20 years. That and the 6 foot long flattened snake I mounted on a board and hung from a tree by my dock. hehehehe. It was Louisiana roadkill flattened by an 18 wheeler. I made no claim that the snake was from MY yard! I live peaceably with snakes here, they are part of the ecosystem. At our river property, I see them regularly, not sure they are venomous or not. Not a problem, I simply watch where I step and make some noise and stay out of the muck. They like fish and frogs for dinner.

http://www.mydisconnectday.com/ This suggestion came with my Cabela's catalog.