If you are considering built-in refrigeration, look at Thermador as well as SubZero. I have the columns and have loved them. Thermador was the only fully integrated when I got them and they now are now the maker behind a number of other names while SuZero also has a fully integrated look now too. I think they are the best looking and best quality -- though I have heard of issues with SubZero service from time to time. You also hear about 20 year old fridges that are still working, so I'm sure that runs both ways for SZ. I had the first ":Freedom Series" columns installed in this area and I think they are now over 7 years. If you have any interest in undercounter drawers (or stand up units), fridge or freezer, look at Perlick. Outstanding commercial quality in a home unit. I have fridge drawers in a breakfast room hutch and love them. I think they work best for specific uses in a certain spot rather than as a general fridge or freezer trying to accommodate all purposes. BTW, as to your original question, I like white and grey houses, and the sable looks great on that house, but so does the clay. You don't need to have the added expense for your house to look great -- can't give any input on the neighborhood issue. Different colors, materials, elevations, and landscaping call all help avoid the cookie cutter feeling -- but I don't see you house looking like a cookie cutter type to begin with. If it is just similar colors being used frequently, it may be because they fit the area and keep that calm, wooded serenity that appeals to everyone. Maybe it's not a bad thing. I've seen the same few colors on a majority of houses in some of the highest priced neighborhoods -- never thought it was a problem.

Thank you all! I hope you enjoy your peaches and garden goodies. I had some extra cut up peaches that wouldn't fit into the baking dishes, so I let them 'juice up' as my grandmother used to say, and after supper (and grass mowing because it didn't rain again today!) I made 3 pints of chunky peach butter. I love to hear that popping sound when the jars seal.

I don't know if I have ever tasted a New Jersey tomato or their sweet corn, I am sure they are very good. However here in Indiana we grow tomatoes and sweet corn that are pretty tasty. There is a field planted with sweet corn a half mile from me and lots of tomato fields. The headquarters for Red Gold Tomatoes is not far from me either. I have my own tomatoes in my garden but did not plant sweet corn. Nasty raccoons don't know what is mine and what is theirs. Sue in Central Indiana

Ida, sadly, he (original owner) passed from cancer just a few months after they moved in. You probably have heard of his company — they sold O&G equipment. They also had a 13,000 sq ft vacation ranch/home west of me. We went to their huge housewarming gala, women in ball gowns ... and I accidentally got stuck in the “hers” pool bathroom. I was banging on the door, but everyone was listening to the live band around the pool. Finally Mr Jinx came looking for me and they got the door open. The knob was broken. 😂 Bathroom I was stuck in for what seemed like days: