Thanks to everyone who tried to help solve the AV mystery! Actually, Fred, it's my poor photography that makes it look like it's the wrong size pot for my AV... and while it may be a taller pot than required, it's got a nice reservoir at the bottom and a slot for bottom watering, which works out perfectly. If you could see the plant in person, you'd realize that the plant is not sitting center in the pot, thus making the shot I took seem like the plant is swimming in that pot! Thanks, though... every little bit of info helps. :-) The flowers on my AV are not a pink, but rather a violet with darker purple edges and tiny spot-like things on the petals. Exactly like the one Elaine posted, but more purple than pink. It's quite pretty, really. The leaves are a medium green. There are a couple of older leaves toward the bottom that are a bit yellowed, from age, I presume. I should cut them off. This is the first AV I've had that has actually bloomed for me beyond the blooms that it came from the store with! I've had a few others, but they never repeated the flowers that they came with. I'd get them home, and they'd drop every flower and bud, and just be green. Green's not bad, but I think they're known more for their beautiful blooms! Not sure what I'm doing different this time, but whatever it is, it's working. I keep it in an east window next to my amaryllis collection, feed it with dilute fish emulsion fertilizer, and water it from the bottom. I keep it rather moist, or I should say, I fill the pot's reservoir when it empties. I also remove the spent blooms and any leaves that die. I do have a question for all you AV Experts... when the central stem becomes leggy and tall, what do you do? I never have any luck starting new babies from leaves, so that's not an option to obtain a new plant. I'd like to keep the original plant, but I don't know how to cure it's too tall stem. How do you guys handle them when they get leggy?

At first I did the novice move and just put it in direct sunlight thinking oh hey its a cactus type it likes the sun. NOPE! It burned so I brought it inside for it to heal and once it did I did more research. Found out it likes mostly shady so I tried partial day shade burned still, so I tried full shade under its own umbrella to make sure it would remain under the shade. It still burned. It's just this one little plant. The other aloes do perfectly fine, but when I put this one with them it gets upset. I think of it as the special child of the group. Now it stays inside by the window and it does well but it is not as bright green as its mom or siblings. It receives full sun as long as the shades are open. It seems to want to stay inside. So until I can figure out a way to put it out it will stay inside. I am going to continue to try and move it outside just need to think of a way/place to put it where it will be happy. AND!!!!!!! I apologize that the pictures are sideways. On my phone they were in the correct position. Now that I got on the computer i see that they are sideways. It is my first day on this site and I am not use to it yet.

I'm not knowledgable, but it reminds me of an Orrefors vase I got in Sweden, where the Orrefors craftsmen will take vases that have an imperfection and etch a design to eliminate, incorporate, or otherwise hide the flaw. I'm sure I bought mine at the factory store, but it does not say Orrefors on the bottom. Yours is simply lovely, I'm sure you enjoy it!

1) Maybe…if the door hinge is not shutting it, you can replace hinges without too much trouble. That being said, depends if heat is escaping. If it isn't escaping, it doesnt matter 2)Nope. Entirely different hinge system. That older hinge was a direct descendant of the commercial one. Not the smoothest operator…but will probably last you until the end of time. I would agree with cookncarpenter. The old wolf gas ranges were extremely well built. The new ones aren't bad but the one you are looking at is as close to the original commercial pieces as you can get anymore