Lucille, I'm thinking this may work quite well. The fan is an excellent idea. My biggest concern is that you can get the shelves far enough apart for the plants. And. if it gets too hot inside, can you take out some of the glass on the door or sides? Can you post a picture of it? By the way, thanks for doing a new posting when you have a new question. And asking questions is one of the best ways to learn. Barbara

i lost my senior great dane girl 5 weeks ago to bone cancer. it was sudden and shocking and i still look for her. my remaining dane girl and eden were joined at the hip, pip took the loss very hard and had been grieving so much, it broke my heart. i contacted pip's breeder and one of her former co-owners and asked that they keep an eye out for any adults that any breeder friends might be considering a new home for (retired show dogs, etc.). the co-owner gave me the contact information for one of her people who had a dane boy she had been looking for just the right home for and the rest is history. meet "flighty foto my way", call name "frank". frank will be 4 years old on 5/31. he is a very sweet boy and he and pippin hit it off immediately at our meet 'n' greet friday. they do zoomies numerous times a day, sleep curled up together and are just a perfect pair. pippin is so much happier and that makes me happier. even though i miss eden terribly, i am beginning to heal now that pip is feeling better. frank is a bit on the thin side because he lived the last 4 weeks with a female dane who was going through a heat cycle and when that's going on, intact males ignore food, do a lot of pacing and fretting and routinely lose weight. he's eating like a horse so i'm confident he will gain and be back to his normal weight soon. i'm giving him a few weeks to settle in and then i'll make an appointment to have him neutered.

The tiles are charming. Though I am a flower person, I'm not an accent-tile person, so please ignore if this isn't helpful. My concern is that with such highly visible tiles (as opposed to something that blends or is more subtle), the placement in the photo above may not look cohesive, for lack of a better word. It might look like you slapped one tile here, another one there, etc. If using these tiles, I'd be tempted to assemble them in a single group, probably two rows of three (three rows of three would be even better). You could use neutral smaller square tiles (1- or 2-inch) the same color as your field tile between them if you wanted a little space, and outline your rectangle with them as well. Call it the bouquet plan, as opposed to single stems :) Just my two cents!

I won't even begin to list how many cleaning products are in my house. It's. Absolutely. Terrifying. That being said, I'm working on getting rid of much of it and using more natural/earth friendly methods. One thing that I am having a tough time giving up is my toilet bowl cleaner with bleach. I just haven't found anything that makes me feel like the toilet is as clean as when I use some bleach based product. Just mixed up a batch of baking soda, essential oils (eucalyptus and peppermint), a little bit of Dawn dishwashing liquid, and enough water to make a paste. This was used to scrub the tub which gets absolutely horrible because it's an old porcelain tub (but the finish was messed up from the previous owners)...it got it as clean as the harsher cleansers I've used with about the same amount of effort. Bonus is that it smelled lovely, way better than most cleaning products you can buy in the store. Looking forward to hearing more about some of the alternate cleaning products that people use.