This is Twyla. She is amazing. http://colorviewconsulting.com/ When I was doing consultations full time, I did the same prep for online consultations as I did for onsite. Had to get most of the work done in advance because it's too much to do at appointment time. There's a max of 2 hrs on site and about 1 hr on line. At the 1 or 2 hr mark you start losing people because it's a lot of work. Even tho I managed the overwhelm and got all chaos under control before hand, there's still a lot of work to do. If I didn't do prep in advance, then I'd use up too much time assessing the scope of work, going over where they've been, what they've tried, and where they want to go. In other words, with every client there's a mental bandwidth budget and I had to spend our time together wisely. Appointment time had to be about ideation and actionable items and it didn't matter if I was physically in your kitchen or if you were in your kitchen online Skyping with me. Your smartphone, monitor, laptop, tablet, all use a VERY small color space called sRGB to display colors. What that means is the number of colors a device is physically able to display is a SUPER tiny fraction of the number of colors we can see in real life. Therefore, when people claim that they are able to see "undertones", extraordinary color details and nuances, it is pure hyperbole. Fact of the matter is, it is impossible for average devices to display a wide gamut of color. A wide range of colors, alleged undertones, and detailed color aspects are just not there see. They’re not there for ANYBODY to see – experienced designer, gifted eye, trained eye, or whatever. Photos are good for getting a sense of light/dark value balance in a space, contents in the room, volume of space, and fenestration. When you use spectral data like Twyla does, you look at the room, light, and contents from a different perspective. Every space will offer up clues about the quality of light you have to work with. Because it's color DNA, the process for interpreting those clues is the same whether you're on site or working virtually -- the process, the system for developing custom color strategies is the same. Ultimately, the final color decisions have to be made by the homeowner. If I did my job defining and explaining the best options, then I didn't need to be standing in the same room in order for them to make them. Hope that helps.

Now that I have a bit more time, I wanted to add some more detail to this. I started off looking at online plans. I must have saved 50 of them to my Pinterest board. I also perused this forum, and read every thread I could that said "Has anyone built the (fill in the blank) plan?". I must have said "This is it! This is THE plan!" about 7 or 8 times. Each time, the more I looked at the plan in greater detail, the more I realized it wouldn't work for our family for some reason or another. The last IT plan I found, I posted here. Got a lot of really good feedback about why it really wasn't a very good plan. Got a private message from a very helpful member with awesome information, including contact information for an architect on this board that would be very helpful. So, not having anything to lose and lots to gain, I reached out to said architect, who was indeed very helpful with tons of information about design, links to threads, links to homes he'd designed remotely, etc. And thus, my dream home concept was born. The way I look at it is this: I *could*, in theory, order a home plan online. And work with the online architect firm to fiddle with the plan to make it work better for our family (at a not insignificant cost). And there may be 50 or 60 of those same homes built across the US every year, and that may work just fine for lots of people. But I didn't want "just fine". I wanted my perfect home. So I'm working with an awesome architect who is creating something custom, and beautiful, and fits my family's needs perfectly, and fits the land we're building on, and looks like it belongs, and is truly one-of-a-kind. So...that's a novel, but gives a bit more information on my journey from online stock plan to architect awesomeness :) :) :)

I wish all of you had access to the best compost I've ever found--it's certainly not clumpy, nasty or hard to use. It's rocket fuel for my roses and works gently over time (a gentle rocket fuel). It's called Nu Life Organic Compost with mycorrhizae (in 1.5 cu ft bags).. It also has some chicken manure and other good stuff in it. But I think it's only available in the Northwest. This company makes the best potting soil, too. I use the compost on all my roses in November as the start of my feeding regimen. I use it as a mulch, too. Diane PS--I'd hate to have a product up for your endorsement, Ben.

Both of us here have been using and liking very much Sombra Cool Therapy Gel. Have been using it for over two years--long enough to have gone thru a 4 oz container. Replaced with the 8 oz size and are over half way thru the 8 oz one. Still happy with it. Also comes in a 3 oz roll-on. Haven't tried the roll on yet but intend to. The roll on more travel friendly. Sombra also has a 'warm therapy' version which we have not tried--because we've been well satisfied with the cool version. Around $16 for 8 oz (that will last a long time) so it is economical as well as effective. IME, Voltaren is only so-so and any relief is short-lived. Sombra definitely gives better & longer relief for what the two of have used it for.