1) Liriope 2) Daffodil (Narcissus) 3) Lamium purpureum, Purple Dead Nettle 4) Could be Grape Hyacinth. Here in NJ it will be another month or six weeks before they flower. 5) Wintercreeper, Euonymus fortunei 6) Vinca Minor, Periwinkle 7) Probably also Vinca, maybe a little wild Violet? I think your shrub might be some kind of Honeysuckle bush, Lonicera morrowii or something like that. There are a bunch of Euonymus species, most of them are shrubs but E. fortunei is a vine. It also climbs up trees and acts shrubby sometimes. Garden centers sell all kinds of variegated varieties. The original green one has turned into a bad invasive in the woods in the northeast - it pretty much smothers out whatever is around it. On the other hand it has made a nice thick groundcover in the dry shade right behind my house where nothing else grows. You just have to prune it ruthlessly to keep it where you want it. Purple Dead Nettle is a problem if you want a pristine lawn; not sure how you'd get rid of it, though. Probably whatever 'weed and feed' stuff that kills other broadleaf weeds would also get rid of it. It doesn't get very tall, you can just mow it along with the grass. WW Here is a link that might be useful: Wintercreeper, Euonymus fortunei

We are putting in a new island with a toe kick all the way around, so I plan to put feet on the corners. I planned to buy premade feet from a hardware store woodwork section and stain it to match, but haven't found them so may have the local woodworking shop make 4 feet for me. I had planned on round feet, notched to fit on the corners. Now that I'm thinking of cleaning, I think I'd prefer a rounded corner foot, but square on the sides to avoid a hidden curve area to collect dust. I'm glad this post made me consider it. I don't think I'll have feet on the room perimeter cabinets. If I did, it would just be on the end cabinets, not at each appliance. That makes it look a little overdone in my opinion... though I prefer simpler rooms in general.

Yes, Woodnymph, I had a circle pin after I was married and got quite a few comments about it. I paid $1.00 for my old book, The Shepherd of the Hills by Harold Bell Wright with illustrations by F. Graham Cootes, at a family estate sale. It gives a copyright date of 1907 in the front and says "Published September, 1907." I thought I had made a clever buy but found that there are a zillion copies available. It is in very good condition, and the bookshop owner who looked at it for me said it might bring $10. In it, though, were two postcards with postmarks that I can't make out. They have 1 cent stamps on them and very pretty handwriting. One has a picture of a young couple rowing on a lake and the other of the Masonic Temple in Bloomington, Illinois. That one says the writer is not going to school that summer but is saving herself for San Francisco in 1915. I don't know who either of the senders was but did know the recipient who was the aunt of my aunt-by-marriage. When my daughter was young, we did manage to acquire a complete set of The Little Colonel series, some of them from a private owner who lived in Peewee Valley, the setting of the books. The books themselves are not all of the same set, but some of them are the oldest edition. They are not in good shape, but she is proud of them and keeps them carefully on her bookshelves. I feel like Methuselah on this forum. My mother was a primary school teacher in one-room schools at the beginning of her career. In them, classes ran Grades 1, 2, 3, and 4 every year with 5 and 7 offered one year and 6 and 8 offered in the alternate years. If you started at age 6, you went straight through, but if you started at 5 or 7, you either had to repeat, go ahead and drop back to pick up the year you missed, or skip it and go ahead. Since I was the oldest child, my mother taught me to read at 4 and took me with her to attend first grade at 5, meaning I had to either repeat 4th grade or go to 6th. I did go on and never had 5th grade, which may explain why math was always my poorest subject since that was the year that long division and common fractions were introduced. At any rate, that meant that since my birthday is in July, I graduated from high school at 15, starting college in the fall of 1952. We had the suite-type dorm mentioned above, and my roommate was my best friend from high school (and still is). We had the rules about signing in and out, curfews with later nights on weekends, no one smoked, boys couldn't step foot outside the living room of the dorm. We did our personal laundry in the bathroom sink, but there were ironing facilities in the basement. Housekeeping gave out one clean sheet every week, and you were to put your top sheet on the bottom and the clean sheet on the top each time, taking the other one back to be laundered. We wore stockings and hats and gloves to church and formals to the dances held in the gym. It was certainly another world to...

I'm laughing because my "editor genes" haven't left me since I retired; they've just slowed down. I woke up this morning with the realization that I may have typed "reign" instead of "rein" in a post I wrote two days ago. It's a common mistake that always jumps out at me when other people do it, but then I went and did it myself. Correction made. Not to worry, Nutsaboutplants--I'm still absorbed in the book. I did move it downstairs, and I actually want to finish it quickly. I'm interested enough to want to know how it ends, but I find it disturbing. It's an unsettling book.