YEP!!! At least 20 people... those who did not had nothing from my list that I am in need of...still some left..and YES, to YMADDOX,.... I AM SWAMPED!! Recontact me again if you have something else perhaps....thanks Realbusy on GW 100% positive feedback on GW and E-Bay (Sanssouci01 on E-Bay...)

Thank you all for the enabling...I mean support. LOL David Austins are very pretty, but I tried to stay with the older roses (for the most part) that might have been planted in the last eighty to hundred years (the old farmhouse was built in 1905). I ordered mostly hardy, old-fashioned roses, with a few extras that will rebloom. Many of the old-fashioned only bloom for four to six weeks, but by then, I should have annuals and perennials doing something in front of them. I couldn't resist a few Sweet Surrender hybrid teas for the front porch. They're so pretty and have a wonderful fragrance, but much like the star jasmine I put in pots on each corner of the porch...they're more like annuals in my zone. In a few beds, I have smaller blooms (polyanthas and some hybrid musks) that repeat, which should be a nice contrast to the bigger damasks, gallicas, albas and centifolias. I'm totally hooked :)

* Posted by dixiedog_2007 (My Page) on Mon, Feb 18, 08 at 22:47 Well I'm late to the party! I have made some of the dishes already posted and I can vouch for how good they are. Some new ones posted that have been copied & pasted and put in my "TO TRY" file. My TO TRY file is getting quite large! For a MD boy saying that Old Bay is not good enough...well, I don't know how to respond to that. Looks like I have some neighbors on this board. I'm an Old Bay lover - we put it on corn-on-the-cob, coleslaw, etc. YUM! Well dixiedog, I do owe "you" an apology in my opinion! I had been attacked previously several times by some guys on this forum to the extent that it had just plain made me paranoid towards any one that I thought was a man! I am sincerely sorry! When I read your response I thought it was an attack on me as presenting untrue statements. The things I told you about the commercial guys is basically true as heck although they will not admit it because of the "Aura" that OB has established with tourists and residents as well. It's the "if it ain't old Bay it's not original BS" As I said I use it lots (shrimp, crabs+other), crab cakes, etc,. and so do "some" crab guys in Maryland, but is it the best for crabs, NO! I have set in too many crab feasts in my buddy's crab shack and other places and heard people say " You just can't get that taste from anything but OB", we just laugh! I hope you accept my apology, if not, that's OK to. Changeling

Hue families, color notations and LRV is the tactical way to approach color. If you've read some of my stuff, you also know that I firmly believe that you cannot color by numbers alone. "Always remember that nobody accepts or rejects color because of numbers - it is the way it looks that counts." (Billmeyer 1970 and 1979) There is a balance of art and science with regards to color for the built environment; too much weight one way or another and it's like trying to juggle with one hand. Sure, you can do it but it's a heck of a lot easier with both. With that said... Do you think any of these colors would be good exterior colors? Yes. Which one is the best fit should be based on the fixed elements of the house: brick, mortar, stone, roof, etc. Which one looks right? Do you think either are too pink or green? Here are how the numbers stack up: Balanced Beige .44 Y / 7.25 / 1.49 ⢠LRV 46.0 Bleeker Beige 1.36 Y / 7.61 / 1.89 ⢠LRV 54.0 Jackson Tan 7.47 YR / 5.83 / 3.56 ⢠LRV 25.6 (color notations from The LoC color lab) About pinkness: all the colors, the two new and one old, are snuggled up around the 10YR mark. (see color wheel below). Odds of Balanced B. or Bleeker B. showing a pink overtone is unlikely because they are too far away from the Red Hue Family. About greeness: With colors from the yellow hue family like Bleeker B. and Balanced B., the lower the last number, chroma, the better the odds that a color could have some greeness with which to respond to a quality of light that also has a green characteristic. The direction of your house comes into play. The south and west sides are least likely to have a green quality of light to sync up with any greeness qualities in a paint color. Looking at the numbers and we know that Balanced B. with a chroma of 1.49 would be more likely to show an edge of greeness than Bleeker B. with a chroma of 1.89. I want light, but deep? Does that make sense? Yes. I'm assuming you've read up on LRV and will get this next part. The second and last numbers in a color notation combined are called nuance. In other words, value + chroma = nuance. Nuance is not the same thing as LRV. To evaluate "light" look at the LRV number. The higher the number, the more light a color will reflect. To evaluate "deep" look at nuance, value + chroma together. Both axes. Chroma - "Deep" colors will have an amount of chroma in the 2, 4, 6 range. -AND- Value - Comparatively, the lower the value number, the "deeper" the color. Hope that helps... and doesn't keep you up tonight. ;)