Thanks for sharing my excitement. It's amazing how gardeners go gaga over a good deal. Yes, they are stained a light green, a nice "blending" color. Dani, I love your post on the different colors every year. I had already thought that maybe I will paint them each different colors (like my ladders) but wonder if that will be too crazy looking. I probably will after the first two years when they need a refresher. Iris9 - yup, the same one from Lowe's. I like your idea of clematis, and at least one will have a clematis winding through it. I'm thinking half will be flowers, half veggies - scarlet runner beans, sweet peas, cucumbers, etc. The fun is that I get to change it every year. The Black-eyed susans are doing great this year and are HUGE! It's all the rain that they love. And yes I will post photos :-) Been too busy this summer to post much, but winter's coming, when I have more time to garden daydream.

thanks for the suggestions on photoshop. I did add the shutters in paint but we're still not decided if we need shutters for all or center or no windows. Enclosing pictures with shutters on all of them and shutters on center block. Also, we're thinking of matching the door color with the color of the shutter. Any opnions? As for adding picture to the post, I uploaded the picture to tinypic.com and pasted the html link.

I love those pictures with the beautiful curtains. But looking closely at my room, I'm not sure I have room for sheers to the side of the windows. The space between the window trim and room corners is not very big. If I do do curtains, would I only do them over the window behind the love seat? Not around the two windows on the wall with the bed next to the night stands right? I am definitely going to move the art. Building for the CATS, that bedding is very pretty! The lamps are also very nice... but would I have to get an electrician? I'm not sure I want to get into that... I had an electrician come last year and move a plug 12 inches in my media room and it was very difficult, time consuming, and costly b/c of the way our attic is constructed. nosoccermom, I do like the glass table, some of those overstock ones look nice. They might pick up the color of the little birds in my other table. I really like the idea of the ceramic garden stool too and I'm looking for one that would pick up the sofa colors... ingrid, not too critical at all. I do like a cozy bedroom :) k9arlene I will look for lamps... maybe blue ceramic from the prior suggestion. Thanks so much for all the suggestions. I am on the hunt for bedding now!

first ... you ALWAYS remove dead parts .. and you remove it surgically ... not chop it.. especially if you need to be on a ladder to chop it .. lol ... but the dead parts are the least of the problems with that tree .. pull back the rocks.. and show us the root flare... if its not there .. pull back the soil until you find us.. and snap a pic ... what is your native soil .. does it drain ... how did you plan tit ... did you bare root it.. to find out if roots were proper?? ... did you amend the planting hole ...??? drip irrigation is rarely proper for a tree.. you water deeply and let near dry .. before you water again .. on new transplants in my MI ... i water about once a month if there was no rain ... there is no tree that needs watering every third day or so ... is there landscape cloth under the rocks.. if so.. remove at least a 6 foot circle around the tree to allow proper movement of AIR and water in the soil ... once you do that.. you can dig 3 to 6 inch holes around the tree to FIND out about moisture at root depth ... i might also wonder about how much day heat the rock retains.. deep into the night .. when most plants get a recovery period .... again.. the dead part is the least of the trees problems ... it is incredibly stressed... it is not hungry.. fert is not a response at this time ... ken