I haven't seen any tin ones but have some of aluminum ones with star pattern. I bring in apples, oranges & strawberries in them, green beans most years but not this year. The stars are different on different ones. Also some have the 3 feet & few do not. Holes are different sizes also. Handles are either squared U shape & round like wire or about 3/8 in wide & stick out on sides. Aluminum would be easy to paint & patterns are very nice. If your TS has an aluminum & pots & pans section that might be where they are. I think they are up to $1.99 now! I think they would make very cool lights, especially if you have large yard.Jan

Well, I think we all figured it out?? Yes, indeed. Motion picture decency standards in the 1960 didn't allow for things like nude women being stabbed to death in showers. Consequently, Hitchcock was forced to create the impression of nudity and violence without actually showing a breast, a buttock, or a knife puncturing skin. The result is a terrifying masterpiece of a montage. And even though it's probably the most analyzed (and parodied) 45 seconds in film history, we're willing to bet the following tidbits slipped past you. Forget the bloody corpse in the bathtub: what really got "Psycho" censors worked up was the toilet. Just before stepping into that fateful shower, Marion tears up an incriminating note and flushes it. Hitchcock's close-up of the swirling commode water was the first ever allowed in an American film. What looks like blood funneling down the drain is actually Bosco chocolate syrup. Hitchcock thought it looked more real in black-and-white than the fake stuff. Tastier, too. The scene is composed of more than 90 shots seen in 70 different camera angles. It took Hitchcock and his crew an entire week to film it. To put that into perspective: The entire film took only six weeks. The woman who played Janet Leigh's body double in about half of the shower-scene shots was named Myra Jones. In a sad case of life imitating art, Jones was stabbed to death in 1988. Her killer? A mentally disturbed handyman who targeted older women. He'd murdered at least one other before her - that police know about. The film, btw, was made in 1960. On a lighter note, after the release of "Psycho," Hitchcock received an irate letter from a man whose daughter had refused to take baths after seeing the French thriller "Les Diaboliques" (in which a man is drowned in a tub). After seeing "Psycho," she refused to take showers as well. Hitchcock's reply? "Send her to the dry cleaners." Although popular with most audiences, "Psycho" was reviled by ophthalmologists. Eye doctors everywhere pointed out that a corpse's pupil dilate, yet - in a stark close-up of her face after her supposedly deadly shower - Janet Leigh's eyes remain contracted. Ever the obsessed technician, Hitchcock listened, using dilating eyedrops for stiffs in all future films. Probably more than you ever wanted to know!! So, for Cyn, Bobbie, Annette and Laura: Thanks again for playing. Come back next week to see where my mind has wandered!! Nancy.

I saw this on a calendar and thought someone might be interestede- Apr 28 : Annual Spring Plant Sale (Montgomery Park, 2701 NW Vaughn St., Portland.) The Berry Botanic Garden annual Spring Plant Sale, Saturday, April 28, at Montgomery Park, 2701 NW Vaughn St., Portland. Hours: 10 a.m.-11 a.m. (Garden members) 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. (general public) MasterCard and Visa, personal checks accepted. Free admission and parking. Members receive a 10% discount on purchases. More than 20 specialty vendors are expected, offering thousands of unusual plants for the avid plant collector and the casual gardener. The event will showcase plants native to the Pacific Northwest, specialty alpine plants, dwarf conifers and bonsai, and perennials. The Berry Botanic Garden is celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2007. It continues the legacy of Rae Selling Berry, who created a species garden of international reputation. The GardenÂs mission today is to promote northwest native plants, maintain special plant collections, conserve native endangered plants, and offer related educational opportunities. It is located at 11505 SW Summerville Avenue, Portland, Oregon 97219. For more information, including a list of plant sale vendors, call 503-636-4112 x102 or visit http://berrybot.org/events/plant_sales.html

So the LR isn't 100% finished, but it's much closer, and next weekend is filling nail holes, sanding and painting the rest of the trim. In the spring we'll yank out all the cheesy builder grade baseboard (not what we spec'd, but not the hill we wanted to die on with the builder) and replace it with some cedar 2 x 6 boards we're going to rip down to 1" and then rout out some sort of decorative edge. The BM Pine Grove and White Marigold turned out well and the Aura paint is really nice, goes on well and dries very evenly. Our decorating style is, well, kinda funky/crazy my cousin calls it Mary Engerbart on acid, but since I don't really know who Mary Engerbart is, I can't comment. Any more progress to report? sandyponder Not sure if you can see the brass ibis on the mantel and duck on the hearth, they are recent junk shop find (yes, I love brass, but I also love chrome, wrought iron, ORB, BN, I'm a hardware ho): Doorway to the pool room (room formerly known as the DR) is done, the doorway into the kitchen not done yet (sigh): The wall o' original art, done by me, my DD, real artists or friends: Opening to kitchen (with the trim I need to finish): Facing the lake, very hard to photograph, the snow and ice are so bright white: