Dang. Found this thread while researching maples in a retooling of a rose garden. The beauty is breathtaking, BUT, none of you guys/gals LABELED your trees! I can't say, 'Oooh, that's the one I want to investigate further!' Wish there was a way to go back and revise with titles. Sometimes I wonder if Garden Web forum members (of which I'm one) realize how often their remarkably useful threads come up for those of us planning and researching new and changing gardens ;~) Karen

Another GREAT Room! I'm struggling with paint color and have test paint BM Kingsport Grey and a Brown HC19 that I'm not as fond of. I was in the egg and i last week and their yellow top and black beadboard was very nice and got me thinking that might be good downstairs. Not sure. I was able to upload some pics onto picasa web -- I'll try to upload. Please excuse dog beds.

natal yep he uses the bakers ammonium...got it at his chemistry dept :) It makes the very crisp finish. Also he double bakes like a true biscotto. We have decided that the label on the original Brocato's is " wrong". They leave out eggs, but there is no way to make Regina cookies w/o eggs. Not sure how they get it past all the laws but we think they are withholding the true ingredients to preserve the recipe. No matter we are really happy with these. After over 45 yrs of eating them I think we have got a winner. Haha...I went out and checked my Hello Yellow and guess what...it is the asclplepsia ...milkweed ! yeah...I got it at the plant sale. Now have 2 of them. Look out Monarchs. I am so excited. Wish I could grow some of the others like cuphea...not in this zone...dies in winter. Let me know if you want the crunchy form of the cookies. c

Angelclub, Now that I redid my 5" wide floors with the long boards (BR-111 Brazilian Cherry Engineered) since I had water damage in my home with Triangulo 3.25" wide boards that were all so short, I am disappointed in how the installers installed the floors in certain very noticeable areas with seams lined up and patterns instead of random and stacking similar colors to make long boards look longer. I did not know what you meant when you mentioned you like to be involved as you like floors to be random and now I totally see what you mean. I wish I could redo a section of my new floors. I also now wish I went with the wider boards only because they were longer. This post popped up in my email box as someone like a comment I made so I was happy to reread the comments.