WOW!!!! At least you get the alerts. I have signed up for those months ago and I am still waiting for a notification! Just by chance I went yesterday and got 4 violets that were looking good, had flowers but very dry. They even had LABELS! WHOOPEEEEEEE!!!!!! AND I didn't have any of them! I got Optimara Evelyn and Optimara Monique!!!!!! And two more with no names but I liked the flowers! Lucky me! (for a change). But on the clearance rack were the ones they have had for several weeks for $1.49 (poor things, I almost bought them cause I felt sorry for them). I was beginning to think they would never get more in. Whew! I think I mentioned before that our Home Depot (about 20 miles away) stopped carrying indoor house plants a few years ago. They are no longer an option. All I have is Lowe's and Meijer's. Rosie

Thanks for the tips everyone - unfortunately, I took them out and I think I left them out for too long and the leaves are looking sort of transparent/white-ish now. I'll take a picture later, but it's weird - they look like they are overwatered but they've been in the sun so I don't know why they would look like that? In other news, I just got some new little succulents for my classroom! I'll post tomorrow.

They don't usually have MUCH of a porch, not any porch. I meant the area with an overhang! Otherwise, it's a patio or a stoop. If my head is wet, it ain't a porch. The "big stoop, tiny overhang" confuses me every time. True. They were technically extended stoops. Levitt also built a LOT of slab on grade in areas where basements are the norm. Raised ranches, split levels, and split entries evolved off the ranch, and all the ranches in my own neighborhood have basements...but basements are remarkably less common in ranch houses than in other types in places we're both were feasible. One difference may be that our neighborhood was all custom houses. Of course, there are areas where no one at all has a basement!!! You originally said, "The foundation is usually slab on grade or pier and beam." No they weren't necessarily slab on grade. Please don't make generalized statements. I totally forgot how old Formica is. You're quite right that it was used, but in all the places I've lived, tile has been the more popular counter. I guess I've just never seen a Formica counter in a house intact from the 50s or 60s. I associated it mentally only with diners! Lol. Then again, ive only seen the metal cabinets moved to garages or given away. I've seen lots and lots of 4x4 glossy tiles intact in old ranch houses, though. Well considering formica was introduced in 1912, it was around even a lot longer than you're insinuating. And just because you only see tile counters, I can tell you that was not what was popular when most of the houses were built in the 50's and 60's. Formica was pretty much the most modern material for counters and it was put in almost every house. It usually had a metal edge around it. By the later 60's Corian was introduced as a high end new material and most counters no longer had the metal edging. If you're seeing tile on counters, it's because they were redone in the 70's and 80's when tile counters became popular again. There are Colonial houses that are one story: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/eb/95/31/eb9531cf0a64ea9eb9c751188a4221c2.jpg Sorry, but that is NOT a colonial house. That is more of a cape cod style house. What we call a colonial house will always have 2 full stories. Might I suggest you brush up with the book, A Field Guide to American Houses Hall-and-parlor and I (letter eye) center halls are colonial one-story designs. But they were usually tiny (2-3 rooms) and still usually had sleeping lofts. If you're talking about a home built in the Colonial period, then you are correct that there were one story designs. However, if you're referring to what we like to call a colonial, then they are not one story. I have seen a colonial revival house that is single story that worked. The center of the house had 12' ceilings with 8' ceilings on the wings. The effect, with colonial trimmings, was colonial like. I've seen successful colonial inspired ranch houses, but they just looked colonial inspired. This is an example: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/46/bf/2f/46bf2f79ef3e21b5447f2d1590dee619.jpg Sorry but this too would be considered a cape cod style home. This would be considered colonial revival:Colonial revivals had the following that distinguished it: Symmetrical façade, Rectangular, 2 to 3 stories, Brick or wood siding, Simple, classical detailing, Gable roof, Pillars and columns, Multi-pane, double-hung windows with shutters, Dormers, Temple-like entrance: porticos topped by pediment, Paneled doors with sidelights and topped with rectangular transoms or fanlights, Center entry-hall floor plan, Living areas on the first floor and bedrooms on the upper floors

I am another one whose taste has not changed, at all. I have spent the past few days since this query was put up wondering if I was being honest with myself. Surely something has changed over the years, but it hasn't. My horizons may have broadened, I may have seen more things, but the style I like is capacious and has always accommodated that kind of eclecticism. I have not pared down my aesthetic as many have. I was brought up in a family with very strict feelings about overcrowding surfaces and the need for space around beloved objects- my grandmother was more sparse than my mother, but neither could abide jumbles of things. I still have the art I bought as a young teenager at small exhibit at Rizzoli in NYC. I was very proud of my purchase. I love him as much now as I did then, maybe more for all the time he and I (it's a small portrait) have spent together. There are fashion items that enter my house and then leave eventually, I suppose. I had some very pastel/Miami Vice colored cereal bowls from Williams-Sonoma in grad school. I would not have those today- they are very late 80s early 90s and not in a Memphis kind of way. I could imagine picking something like those up again, but according to today's whims, like the ubiquitous bamboo handled cutlery I see on everyone's IG (turns out that flatware costs way more than I would spend on a fashion item, for me, but if it were cheaper, I might have gotten some.)