Oh! Oh! I also like Edward Norton!

Got it Jayme, thanks! Didn't see the movie (I was there, but I was snoring!)

Dean Cain looks just like Scott Peterson, played him in a t.v. show..I followed that trial.....Ray had piercing blue eyes.

Loved Lord of the Rings

Joaquin Phoenix (odd looking) piercing blue eyes too

Ok, back to class and enjoy this ladies.

Ok, getting back to Houzz and home, would you like this napkin ring?

No complaints coming from me Angela!

That's cute Bobbi

Jayme, would you actually touch it? I don't think I could!

Denzel Washington – Classically Sexy..... :-)

Hi... just taking a work break... And here I find you ladies looking at men...

i like it!

And we must not forget "The Boss"...

Has anyone here ever made Roman shades?

well ladies i'm just catcxhing up on todays design discussion.
if i were designing a man he would have all of the very best qualities of :
paul newman, robert redford, sidney portier, clint eastwood, johnny carson, mel brooks, jimmy buffet, richard branson and...
ooh better stop myself now!
so many great men and none of them mine. no worries. life is good.

Jimmy Buffet is just so fun!....

Happy with what I have...for sure!

I am not really a Parrot Head, but DH is... That's about all the music he will listen to... I always have to go and take out most of the CD's and put something else in...

Well, you certainly got lucky with that one Jayme... :-)

Check out this cool idea for what to do with your summer fireplace, from This Old House Magazine, July:

This is my fav country song... :-)

Morning all, another chatfest today. We have Brad Pitt visiting us here at the moment but very little media attention. Don't know if that means he is ho-hum or he is laying low. Has Pax with him.

Bobbi - of concern to me with those motion sprinklers is that they would get you more than Rocky. I certainly would be the worst at forgetting about them. I wonder just how sensitive they are though, I'm thinking of the sensor security lighting that a gust of wind will set off.

I'm just wondering with Rocky too, if his breed (or both of them) are supposed to be very active dogs and he sleeps all day, is he deficient in some vitamins, minerals or nutrients. Have you ever raised this with the vet?

Angela - congratulations on passing your test - see it wasn't that hard was it. If you want to delete something hover your cursor around the top right hand corner of your comment and an "edit" and "delete" option will come up.

Patty, sorry I haven't had the energy to make Roman Shades but I know we can buy kits to make them. Check around DIY furnishing stores.

Looks like it is going to pour rain today and it is down to 12 deg so much cooler. It actually reached 21 yesterday which was very balmy for winter. Off to do more staining - catch you up tonight.

Patty - that song is sooooo true it is scary. LOVE Kenny Chesney. Country has to be my favourite music.

Wow... I must have been under a rock or something... Didn't know he did country... And this is from 2009

Roo... I really like all kinds of music... Except rap...

I've only heard him do country - maybe because that is what I mostly listen to. Rap doesn't turn me on either although it is very clever but jazz is the one style I can't stand. Anything else I love ........... oh except for Chinese Opera too. Holy moly, that went ALL day yesterday with a table tennis backdrop!!! I'll catch Darius later, must away.

This is what I remember of him... Guess I have been under a rock...

Roo, thanks so much for your concern about Rocky. The vet says he's fine, the perfect weight for his size and breed. He's just really, really manipulative and he MUST have his way. I'm not manipulative but I must have my way too!

STK, David, Linda, can anyone help this poster? https://www.houzz.com/discussions/haisa-light-disaster-dsvw-vd~514040

I know how to delete, just was not sure if the Adam Levine pic was appropriate.

No bobbi, you are not manipulative - you are 100% PURE WOMAN!!!!

Another lot of stain on the beds as far as I can go and they are coming up great. Should be able to do 2nd coat this afternoon, it is pretty quick drying. Absolutely pouring here now and BH not in the mood to get wet doing any more. He finds the only way to really get all the paint stripper goop off is to hit it with the gurney but I'm worried it will take too long to dry and the timber might warp. Of course he would look a right proper goose standing in the pouring rain hosing too. He just NEVER factors weather in when he plans things!!!

Oh... Angela... I dunno... I missed the pic... Hummm can you send me the link? LoL...
Just kidding... Any guy that can be the same age as my oldest is pretty much weird to me... Guess I wouldn't be a good cougar... In more ways than one... Ha... WSU Cougars... University of WA Husky's... Take the Dawgs any time! :-)

patty it is up top below the john astin pic

Well Roo... that is why I haven't taken on the bamboo or rattan furniture I have... The weather is just not right since I have to do it outside... Guess July 4th is just around the corner... That is when our summer really begins..
*sigh*

Nope... don't see it do you?

Our weather is so all over the place, which is quite normal but what makes it even harder is that the forecasts are frequently soooooo out. Today the rain was only supposed to have been out west and the base of the mountains, not on the coast.

Just catching up a bit too.

Busy - thanks for the photos. Place looks gorgeous. Glad you have having a great time. Have a wine for me ......Cheers!!!

kd - your powder room looks great, very smart actually. I was so busy admiring your lights I didn't realise you didn't have a mirror. What is with the coloured toilet paper?? Oh and I love the towel stand too, that is very classy.

Morning tea over - back to work.

So Roo... Do you drink green tea?

Yes Patty, green during the day and camomile at night. Can't even stand the smell of black tea, it always made me ill. My mother was a huge tea drinker and I reckon she poisoned me during her pregnancy. :) I only drink decaf coffee too.

Ms Roo -- the colored toilet paper: I just wrapped the paper rolls in tissue paper. It was an idea someone posted here recently and it just looks better than all these white rolls in the basket... plus, you could change it out for the holidays (christmas theme, or whatever). Thought it was a cool idea.

I love green tea... But coffee is what I drink... Kind of a coffee snob... It's gotta be the good stuff...
But Green tea is so good for you.... just doesn't give me the jolt I need...

I like green tea also. And black tea. And coffee. Must. Have. Coffee.

I think this is awesome...

"It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced--or seemed to face--the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrate on you with irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey." --The Great Gatsby

I saw that too Kimdee... just need to get out my stash of tissue... and find a basket or something to put it in...
I thought it was such a good idea...

Nigh-Nigh....

After I had my second joey I found I was drinking coffee more and more for a kick that I never really got till I was slurping through about 10 cups a day. One night I was lying in bed and my whole body started twitching and kicking and I complained to BH that I just wish I could hurry up and have the baby .............. oops I had it 6 months earlier. The next day I found out I had actually had heart palpitations and that really scared me. I raced out and got a jar of decaf and hit into that but found I was getting so many headaches it was unbearable with a baby and and toddler. I started each morning with decaf and went as long as I could stand the headache before I had a normal coffee and repeated that through the day. It took me 3 weeks to "dry out" so to speak and that really put the wind up me and I never went back to normal coffee again. Probably because of it I am not a coffee snob at all, instant does me fine but I buy the best brand for flavour. I rarely drink coffee in summer now and only have one, maybe two a day in winter, I find it more warming than tea. In summer with our heat and humidity, I often make up a jug of tea and keep it in the fridge, it is much more refreshing cold.

Nice idea with the toilet paper but I just couldn't be bothered. The ensuite has the vanity right beside the loo with a stash inside and I like a covered container for the main loo.

Sleep tight all, going to check this stain is dry enough to do another coat.

My powder room rarely gets used (by me, anyhow), but there's no place to store anything in there. I imagine that stash of tp will be there for a long time before anyone needs it, unless I run out in the other bathrooms!

trying to psyche myself up to get rid of alot today. clothes,books, papers,books,holiday,books, seasonal decorative pcs. and oh yah, more books. hate to get rid of my books but they take up so much space.
way too much stuff in this house even after donation trips to goodwill and the library last month.
need to remember this each time temptation to buy more starts calling.
as if !

Mo, when my in-laws where here from Mexico City a few years back, I threw away a paperback book. I was done with it, it wasn't good and I had no one to pass it on to. They were horrified! NOTHING gets thrown away in Mexico!