~ * ~ * ~ * G R O O V Y ~ * ~ * ~ * !!!!!!!!!!!! U ~~GRRRRRRRRRRRREAT little shopper (((( YOU ))))) Thanks for sharing the pics !!!! Looks like you and your trusty SideKick are... really gett'n J I G G Y *** WITH IT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Knock your selves out................... Have a BLAST !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Love & Prayers ! God Bless ! SusieSunshine = temp here is 0 degrees !!!BURRRRR Friday morning - 22 this is minus 22 degrees !!! Oh Man I wish I was on the porch of that little house of yours.................wish ..wish...W I S H !!!!!!!!!

Love it Jim! My son had a 3 piece set that we used to put up in the walking path, (asphalt) that surrounds a huge courtyard in our condo complex. It was heavy duty plastic and easy to move when the kids weren't using it. Every kid in the complex with a bike or a skateboard took turns on that thing! I don't ever remember a complaint... I guess as long it kept the kids outside, and getting some good exercise, all was well. As far as the potty, yeah it is a bit out there and in need some kind of disguise. I would have more flowers, something kind of trailing out of both the bowl and the tank would be nice. I like the planter though! It's also recycling and that's always a good thing, isn't it?

Sandy, I could drive down SR 37 with my eyes closed! We live south of Marion. A quick Google check for architectural salvage in Indy lists several. The prices are out of our budget, but the pieces are beautiful. One door (French door set) was $250. It's much like the french doors I got :) At least one GWer lives nearby. Tom lives within driving distance of Indianapolis. He put Kline cabinets in his kitchen last fall. He posted his kitchen pics and gave Kline Cabinetmakers a rave recommendation. I admired a display at Clarks in Castleton and contacted Kline after seeing Tom's cabinets. Kline will be making our cabinets, too! I cannot remember her name, but there is a couple living in southern Indiana who remodeled their kitchen in a few weeks. She posted day-by-day pics. It came out fabulous! It may have been over Thanksgiving last year. Caroline, Your house is wonderful. If ours turns out anywhere close to yours I will be thrilled. On the stone-You are right, it can always be used for something outside. The one piece was relocated under a tree. There is a chair and little table. It's a wonderful place to read. The kitchen plan has ~36'' cupboards flanking the refrigerator; I need small countertops. One slab for each counter would do it. No need to piece a long run together. One side has a countertop convection oven (it must sit on a non-flammable surface). The other side is for breakfast prep-coffee & tea, toaster, etc. It would be so wonderful to touch that every morning and think of the thousands of people who passed our house over the years. I get emotional just thinking about it! I picked up a chipped piece this morning and tried to figure out what kind of stone it is. It is a brownish gray, (more gray much less brown than these pics) feels grainy-like sand, and has lots of tiny sparkly bits. The rock is compact rather than layered. It must be porous because there are some green (moss stain?) areas. The scraped bits soaked with lime cleaner didn't bubble or dissolve. The large slabs feel very smooth, not flaky like the small piece. Maybe it is sandstone, but I thought that was soft-it would have lots of wear after 100 years. I am hoping one of the stone experts will take a peak and weigh-in with an opinion. If not I'll try a stone forum. Judy

Thanks for the desk stuff thoughts. Good thought on the pantry. I don't want my main set up there as I want to be with the view and I move back and forth between kitchen tasks and my laptop etc a lot. But a file drawer in the pantry fir project type stuff could free up space for the stool with a thin drawer or two in the kitchen. I'm thinking of putting the base of the home phone system in the pantry (one plugs into a phone line then we have a Few handsets). I don't want phone jacks or phones out in the kitchen. Might put a electric outlet for a handset in a hitch cabinet but no phone jack. Nobody calls us on the house phone only junk calls (despite being on the do not call list we still get some surveys etc) and reminder calls for doctors appointments I think the house phone is going away. On the Paprika it can save with one click for most recipes online. If it doesn't work you can highlight sections then click on buttons to tell it which part of the recipe it is (ingredients, directions etc). However, they recently had an update and now it can do just about any recipie (used to work with a fairly long list of sites but not everything with the one click). I also used to use MacGourmet and imported into Paprika. No digital version of the recipes? You might try googling and seeing if you can find them online then they'd be easy to add. If not scanning the print outs as PDFs might let you copy and paste in (it would need to be with OCR optical character recognition so it scans as words not images). Family recipes I have typed in and added my own pictures. I love how easy it is to add recipes (there are a few different ways to do it the built in web browser is one but you can add a bookmarklet tool to your regular browser and there is a safari share extension for the iPhone and iPad where it can show up as a choice where the print, email this etc options show up).. But I'm a bit guilty of being more of a collector than maker. I collect tons that I don't try but it is nice to have a big pre-culled collection of recipes that interested me. It's my first spot to look when I'm looking for something new and so easy to add that why not collect a lot! I still get a few cooking magazines that I like to flip through but I then go to the web site and get the online recipe to save to paprika.