OMG. Doris, this is awesome news. We'll actually have a place where we can all relate to the same times that things sprout and how big they're getting. We won't have to look enviously anymore at our southern neighbours planting out already and we haven't even got our first sprout. Thank you, thank you, thank you, GardenWeb. Doris, as a celebration of being the first on our forum to find it, go and be the first to post on it. We'll all join you later. : ) Shauna

I posted my $2600 1970 kitchen remodel on RMS a few days ago. I kept the same cabinets, added mouldings, painted and glazed them. They now look like more expensive maple or birch cabinets. Last Fall, I asked for suggestions of what I should do with it. I thought I would post it and show what I ended up doing. I hoped people would like it, but I also really wanted to help other people and show that you can use what you already have and have a nice looking kitchen. Many of the kitchens are gorgeous but we don't all have the funds nor the home sizes for kitchens like those. It is nice to dream though! If you care to, please check out my kitchen. My HGTV name is lwellen Here is a link that might be useful: Budget DIY remodel of 1970 kitchen for $2600 - AFTER

Here are some bisque / biscuit colors that I'm diggin. The Kenmore Bisque does not show well in this picture but is more of stately Bisque with grey in it (I think it's pretty). It seems Kenmore may have more than one shade of bisque though. I did not show Maytag or Whirlpool because to me they are much more reminiscent of undesirable yellowy beige bisque, but that is my personal opinion. Of course the handles could be a problem showing gunk. Since I'm looking at investment properties where some idiots that could not afford their property took it out on the lender and ripped part of the kitchens out, well it just got me to thinking of how nice bisque/biscuit can be. Maybe by the time I resale in a few years Bisque/Biscuit will be all the rage lol. *GE Bisque (looks lighter in person) http://s1004.photobucket.com/albums/af170/jterrilynn/?action=viewät=ge.jpg" target="_blank"> *Stately Bisque Kenmore http://s1004.photobucket.com/albums/af170/jterrilynn/?action=viewät=kenmore.jpg" target="_blank"> *Amana Creamy http://s1004.photobucket.com/albums/af170/jterrilynn/?action=viewät=amana.jpg" target="_blank"> *Frigidaire easy to get along with http://s1004.photobucket.com/albums/af170/jterrilynn/?action=viewät=frigid400.jpg" target="_blank">

Thank you for you wonderfully kind thoughts. Good idea, Tina, to try and get back once more and by myself. I'll definitely think seriously about that. Although we had a wonderful 10 day visit with my parents and family, both the flights there and back were absolute nightmares. Outbound, baggage was so unusually incredibly slow that, despite getting there at the recommended time, we missed our flight. So instead of departing at 6:30AM and arriving in Detroit at (approx.) 3:20PM with a stopover in Denver, we had a 3 hour delay in Albuquerque, then a flight to Las Vegas. A 4-hour wait there before a flight to Atlanta. Another wait there and then a flight to Detroit. We arrived around 12:30AM and after picking up our rental car and baggage, arrived at my sister's home at 2:20AM. Ugh!!! On the flight back, we were so paranoid about baggage check-in, we arrived 3 hours early . . . only to be told that our flight had just been cancelled! DH had a full schedule of patients booked the next day and was able to get the last seat on a flight that got him home here around 12:30AM the next day. The airlines sent DD & I to a hotel for the night and we were booked on the 6:35AM flight out that next morning. The hotel shuttle picked us up and delivered us to the worst hotel I've ever been in in my entire life. It looked perfectly fine from the outside, although more like a souped up motel with a big, new entrance.Three guys lounging in the lobby looked like pimps. They were obviously not guests. The room was dark, dirty and dank. My daughter's bed looked like it had a large area of dried urine on the top sheet. The table and nightstands were greasy. And one entire wall of the room was a plate glass window that looked out onto the deserted hallway. There was a heavy, dark, dusty, rubber-backed curtain across the wall, but would not close all the way. That was the only window in the room. The door locks did not work properly and we could easily hear the tv in the next room. We were out of there quickly, with me in tears by then, calling a nearby hotel and begging them to come and rescue us. They did and had their shuttle there within 5 minutes (bless them!). As our new shuttle driver was loading up our baggage, 3 very emaciated, disheveled young persons (early twenties), 2 of which had the black front teeth of major drug users and were obviously on some kind of drugs then, were holding on to each other , weaving into the hotel as we sat in the van watching them! Our driver just shook his head and said that "they should shut this place down"! I am not going to mention the airlines or the "hotel", as I'm already in discussions with the airlines CEO about it. As for the "hotel", his people are looking into that as well. I had nightmares for 5 days straight about that place! Soooo, that's my long, and hopefully somewhat entertaining saga about our trip last month. I'm still thinking about flying back again later this Summer . . . but probably on tranquilizers! (Edited for typos and to add:) And when we finally arrived back home here, I found a couple live bedbugs in the outside pocket of my suitcase! That was an additional nightmare I had to deal with for days after.