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

Chocolate mint sounds heavenly! I'm a sucker for chocolate, have a huge sweet tooth, and that's what makes dieting so difficult for me! I just love bakery and chocolate... preferably chocolate bakery! I usually grow some regular mint and also spearmint in the garden, along with oregano, basil, thyme, sage, cilantro, parsley and chives. The herbs are mixed in with the perennials, and the mint usually takes over and requires a drastic cutting back in summer! This spring, I have to dig out some of the oregano... it's overtaking the dianthus and coreopsis, and starting to get in the way of the garage door! Some herbs are just a tad bit invasive! Good zucchini bread is a great trade off for tolerating a few plants and bulbs! You have lucky roommates! They not only get to enjoy your baking... they also get to enjoy your flowers! I've heard that species tulips are fabulous for forcing... I may try some next year. I also want to try forcing Lily-Of-The-Valley... now, that would be a wonderful mid-winter pick-me-up with that heavenly scent! This is my first year forcing any bulb, and I've got a nice pot of hyacinths getting bigger every day, just begging to bloom and spread that lovely perfume! Without my indoor garden, I'd go winter wacky!

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.

IdaClaire, I live about 25 miles outside of Houston. My husband is a collector. We have a lot of stuff not normally found in a home (like the toucan that he put on an old stand). It was a kiddie ride in its former life. I try to utilize as many of his "finds" as I can without it being too much. It's a compromise. I would probably pare a little of it down. He would have more.