They also love to eat Rue, an old medicinal type herb, with lovely blue-green, lacy foliage. Precure Nursery sells it, as well as very nice Fennel and Dill plants. I know they don't spray the Dill and Fennel because they are considered food plants, but they may spray the Rue on occasion. If the Rue is sitting on the tables with the Fennel and Dill, it is relatively safe to say it has not been sprayed. If, however, it is located on a table some distance from the Dill and Fennel, it has been sprayed. I know one summer they had a problem with mealy bugs on the Rue, so they moved it to the Perennial plant section and sprayed them. Someone purchased the Rue plants unsuspectingly, and when the cats consumed the Rue, they died. That said, I highly recommend Precure because they sell a lot of butterfly host and nectar plants. I have purchased other host plants such as Blue Crown Passion Vine (for the Gulf Fritillarys), Pussytoes (Antennaria, for the American Ladies), Pearly Everlasting (American Ladies), and other things. Their herb plants are usually pretty good sized. I have to go there today to get more Rue and Fennel, so I can let you know the status of their Rue if you would like. The thing I like about Rue is that it is also the food plant for the Giant Swallowtails, so you would have 2 different butterflies using them for larval food. The Black Swallowtail is Oklahoma's state butterfly, too! If you want to, you could hand-raise a couple of the caterpillars so your daughter can see the life cycle up close. Just use a plastic container, with airholes punched in the lid, small enough the larvae cannot get thru them. I put a paper towel in the bottom (change daily cuz caterpillars poop a lot), and add fresh Dill leaves in the morning and evening, removing whatever is left of the old. I use the plastic containers and cut out the inside portion of the top, put a paper towel over the container and put the lid back on (you will have just the rim of the lid left) or you can cover the entire container with a paper towel secured with a rubber band. When they reach the last instar of growth, they will began to wander around the container and empty their guts. If your container is tall enough, you can put some sticks or something wooden, stand them up or lean them against the sides, and they will pupate either on these or on the sides, top of container. When the cat has found a place to pupate, it will spin a "harness" and position itself securely against the stick or side of the container where it will remain motionless. Eventually, they shed their skin for the last time and in its place is a chrysalis, either brown or green. Inside its interior is turning to liquid and then reconstituting as a butterfly. In about 7-10 days, you will see the chrysalis begin to darken. Within a day or so, the butterfly will slide out of the chrysalis and hang to dry. The wings are all crumpled up and damp looking. Don't disturb it. The butterfly will begin to pump fluid into the wings, the wings will extend and dry. After a few hours, the butterfly will be ready to fly. This may sound difficult, but it is not at all. I have used containers like large, plastic pretzel containers from Sam's Club, mesh cages purchased from Educational Science online, butter/margarine containers, etc. I cover them with paper towels held in place with rubber bands. The most important things are keeping the containers clean, and providing fresh food daily, twice daily when they get big. You will notice them growing and eating more and more. Congrats on your big, beautiful caterpillars! Susan Here is a link that might be useful: Black Swallowtail Life Cycle

My mom just got TB with her medium dark cherry cabinets and it is the most beautiful thing you ever saw!!! Here in GA they are so bad with lots of rust stains and big splotches of weird colors. It is nothing like what my mom has in Kentucky. Her's is more like the slabs you and others are posting, the beautiful ones with the more all over pattern. Someone said it has changed recently so you are fortunate to find the beautiful TB slabs while you can. You did the right thing with TB it is great with cherry cabs and is fun to decorate around/with. You will not have any trouble finding things to go with it. We think the Danville Tan BM goes well with it. Someone also recommended Macadamia either BM or SW not sure. My mom has a stainless sink with an ORB faucet and it looks great. I think you can just about use anything with SS. You are doing great with your choices. I have a Grohe Bridgeford faucet in chrome and I love it. You will have to sort of twist it back in after spray use but that is the only thing I have noticed about it and it is no big deal.

I just painted a sample of repose grey on the wall and I’m seeing the same thing. Very blue. Living room faces south. I googled pics of repose grey and I see pictures that don’t look anything like each other- “I like that repose grey... oooo not THAT repose Grey.” The first pic is a no go... the second pic is what I love. I’m no designer but I’m seeing a warmer color with more green undertones in the pic I like. I guess repose is just not for me. 😓

A closeup pic of the counter would help. What's the darkest tone there? Broadly speaking, you have white, light grey, and whitish-greyish countertops. Please not more white!! Aside from whites being slightly yet vastly different from each other and without a kitchen designer, looking just 'off' very often, it is bland, has no depth, interest, focal point, just no. Grey, you could. But be careful, not to go too light. I am not anti-grey, I think it's a brilliant colour a lot of times, but not always. It would be far better than white, but if you do grey, choose a darker, warm, deep one. How about colour? Not everyone's go-to, particularly for a splash, but it could give your space some more interest.