*** Dear Cait ~~~~ Just want you to know that we are ALL still continuing to pray for you and your family and all your neighbors and fellow countrymen & Women !!!! ~ ~ ~ Let us hear from you when you can.... Until then............. I Know God Will Hold you in His arms and & I Know the He will comfort you.... I don't mean to take it lightly..... I can Not even imagine .... how scary and how frightening... and how... Terribly Sad... this all must be... But... Your Life Is soooooo Important to us.. and we are glad that you and your family are safe ! We Treasure Your Pictures that you have shared and the hard work you have put into your home & garden.... We will be continuing to Say Many Special Prayers for All of you ((((((((((((((((( Y A ' L L ))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))) God Bless ! SusieSunshine (

Howdy Guys...and Gals... That picture is sooooo Funny !!!! Thanks Karen...!! It's snowing here in Illinois !!! I'm cold.... But I have so many things to be G R A T E F U L for !!!! I always like to make a Gratitude List on Thanksgiving and all of Ya'll are on my list... I'm so glad to live in America the Land of the Free and the Brave!!! Thanks to the soldiers who make it that way for us !!!! and I'm sure glad to be a Grammie Jean !!! and I am glad that ya'll inspire me to be Creative it helps me to see the Beauty in ALL THINGS !!! * * * * So On this Snowy Thanksgiving Day I remind each of you to not only stop and smell the Roses and be grateful... while you are stopping to smell that T U R K E y and/or ~~H A M or the whatever...(tee hee!) remember Susiesunshine is grateful to each of you for being such Good ~~~ Kind ~~~ Loving and Creative People to take time to share your ~~~Knowledge ~~~ Ideas ~~ Creative Ways and Instructions ~~~ Pictures ~~~ and mostly W O R D S OF I N C O U R A G E M E N T with "ME" and with eachother!!!!! T H A N K S * * * * Y A ' L L !!!!!!! Give yourselves a (((((( HUG!!!!! ))))) from me !!! GOD BLESS ! susiesunshine

In the last few years I've mostly been making jams and jellies, Ana's raspberry vinegar and Annie's strawberry rhubarb jelly are a couple of my favorites. I'm definitely going to try Natals Berry Berry Hot Pepper Jelly, it looks soooooo good. I freeze more than I can nowadays, always used a water bath when I did can so that limited what I could put up. I used to do a lot of peaches, pears, cherries and plums, they taste way better than what you can buy, especially peaches. We've got a propane burner (for want of a better name) which we take out and fire up outside either in the courtyard or lathhouse where it's cool and do any water bath canning there, no need to steam up the kitchen. Annette

Sue36--You're not understanding Buehl's duct. The opening is in the floor, next to the wall. It's not spaced out from the wall where she could use a floor duct. The duct is not coming up into the stud cavity. This style of register is quite common here in the upper Midwest though they were new to me when I moved here from the south central part of the United States. My house has them & is 30+ years old. And it is the overwhelming choice for forced air systems in new builds. They looked weird to me for a while, until I got used to them. Now, I don't notice them because they're 'normal'. We've owned houses with both styles of registers. I prefer these because less dirt & stuff gets into the duct than what does with floor registers. And, there's no need to attach a deflector to them, either. Moving that opening out from the wall is a big deal if she has rigid metal ductwork. I can guarantee blood loss & depletion of one's French vocabulary. :) And for no good reason other than, to a few people, a minor aesthetic one. No one is going to notice that duct except for Buehl and only for a few days and that's because she is admiring her beautiful new floors. Everyone else is going to see the gorgeous floor, the pretty windows & what's outside the windows and the duct is going to disappear in the same way that outlets & switches do.