Hmmmm - I've never had a problem with this plant from cuttings. I've started many for friends in perlite or the gritty mix, and I really can't remember a failure ...... but always err on the side of caution if you've had any kind of poor luck with cuttings in the past. I paint the fresh wounds of almost all plants in containers, but not those in the landscape, and especially those of succulents. If you don't, you can count on the wound drying out & shriveling, affecting the appearance and location of the new sprouts. If I hadn't sealed the wound on this Aeonium, chopped just above the soil line, I wouldn't have been able to get the even distribution of new shoots to come from the cambium AT the wound site. The top of the plant (at the truncation) would have collapsed on itself due to dessication, and an ugly scar would have resulted - + the shoots would have originated much more randomly on the stem stub. I understand & agree with the fact that sealing wounds on woody material in the landscape is useless at best, and counterproductive at worst, but small plants in containers close wounds much faster if you paint them with waterproof wood glue or wait just until they dry and smear petroleum jelly (Vaseline) or Preparation-H on the wound. There may be scoffers but let me say, please, that I've used this trick on so many plants and have seen the difference in so many wounds when I haven't used it, that I'm absolutely certain of its effectiveness. Al

Are your pendant lights line voltage or low voltage. If they are low voltage then they need a transformer. The transformer can be put in the electric box in the ceiling if there is enough room- then you could use a flat canopy. If there is not enough room in the electric box in the ceiling then you would need the dome canopy to house the transformer. My pendant lights are low voltage and the transformer is in the 4 inch electric box in the ceiling. I don't remember if they are 12v or 24 volt. The spec sheets for the lights should tell you the voltage the lights use.

Faron  Are you Scroogey?! I think I take after my Grandma, she goes all out and gets really excited for holidays. My Mom used to when we were younger but sheÂs "cleaning out" and hardly puts anything up anymore. I tell her sheÂs scroogey. Ha she doesnÂt like it much! This is my first Thanksgiving, Christmas..all the holidays in my own house and I donÂt really have anything so it appears that IÂm going overboard. Ahh man! The high hiding white is grayish/brownish!?? Then I want nothing to do with that paint. Ultra white sounded so BRIGHT. Serves me right for asking the nice guy who didnÂt appear to know too much. Can I exchange that? IÂd imagine it would be fine. That really bites that IÂm going to have to drive back over there. ItÂs almost an hour drive from my house. I could go after work I suppose, but I need to prep Monday. Grr. Thank you for the heads up though because I wouldnÂt have looked and I would have been repainting. When you say for ceilings the "wall white" is fine are you talking about the base (remember I know nothing about paint) because I had them mix the Light Navajo for the ceiling. I will post before and afters. IÂm sure IÂll be in paint shock when I get home Tuesday. Hopefully not too bad.

Each uber brand has its own color sense about it and it all really depends on who ya ask. I can explain. The final finish of paint matters because we *see* color on many levels. Our eyes see and brain registers color in an order: hue, chroma, lightness. When we sum up an environment as a whole, it's the lightness:darkness contrast that impacts our visual system first. All that means something to how one wishes to color a human environment -- to what degree is entirely a matter of choice. And it's in that choice that one needs to decide what they want, expect, and can tolerate from color. There is no doubt that FPE, F&B, EK, C2, DK, etc. each bring something different to the table. Because of the differing finishes, and because of the differing colorants, and because of the specialized color processes they each have a special quality of nuance to offer. Nuance is where the rubber meets the road with color. That's where all the magic is. That's where it's decide how the spectral curves and ups & downs and ins & outs of a color will play with the inevitably varied and imbalanced unique combination of wavelengths of light in a room. Nuance comes from within color and the components used to create and build that factor each matter -- a lot. The quality of the base in general will matter as will it's whiteness. So the better a can of paint starts out, the better quality of color it's able to deliver. It's the combination of quality base material, caliber of colorant, and art of literal color design, and its final finish or *visual hand* that add up to what we are able to debate, discuss and compare as complexity (or quality of color) and depth of one paint's color attributes to another. Each brand of paint has the potential *to be the best*. It's simply a case of when they are the right fit for human and project. It's kinda difficult to directly compare FPE to F&B in terms of color quality and depth. I can give you a few examples. We've all read differing comments about various brand's: EK colors are muddy, F&B has an odd collection of colors, DK's colors are washed out nothingness, FPE has an array of colors that strike the eye harshly, and on and on... All those comments are true.... according to someone! :~D Color is intensely personal and the huge buffet of paint/color choices available to us means that now, unlike ever before, every paint job is a very custom paint job. Even if the choice is as simple as Home Depot or Lowe's. So we can deconstruct FPE and F&B if we want to. I can see and agree with whatever characteristics someone else is seeing in those color palettes. Essentially, when it comes to color we are all correct about what we see. I hope I answered you fly -- and that I made some sense! I'm feeling I may have rambled on like a crazy lady but I wanted to really answer you with good thoughts and not just bunch adjectives together and call it a color review FPE vs....