First off I want to thank all of you for the info and thank you galina, I have checked into that. Cottage Garden, thank you for offering, when you get what you are looking for let me know, as I'm interested in what he might bring you, and will be glad to do some trading, I have a nice interesting garden pea that has red flowers and the seeds look like they have a red coloration to the seeds, which is interesting at least to me, along with some others. I will be busy this and next month working and getting the raised beds ready, but will keep looking in to see if there are any new post or you can PM me if you like. I haven't updated my page which I really need to. In the past I grew a lot of hot peppers, and still grow a few rare ones, although because of the medication I take I can't eat them now, So I grow a lot of other vegetables like peas which are fast becoming my favorites over heirloom beans which I grow a few of. My garden is a result of my love for my grand daughters, which I try hard to show them how to grow their own food, so that when they grow up they will never go hungry so long as thy can grow some vegetables, even if they have to use containers. I pray that they don't go through the hard times like I did when I was just a boy. If it wasn't for my father when he was alive I would have gone hungry at times, had I not known how to garden, and I want to pass that along to my grand daughters. At the rate that many heirloom seeds are being lost to the new hybrids that are being developed, I fear that soon we may all have to buy seeds that have been hybridized, by companies that only care about the money they can make, and not about the true quality of flavor that heirloom vegetables have. So many hybrids are made for ease of shipment and harvisting over taste. Store bought tomatoes are just one of the great losses, as they no longer taste like a tomato and if you look for fresh peas, well your lucky to find a few snow peas and at a high cost, even the best canned peas ar a meer shadow of what they use to taste like even though the canning process has improved a 100 precent over the last 50 years, and we have flash freezing, the peas and beans have little flavor of what they use to taste like. I'm thankful that we still have a few heirlooms that we can grow and save seeds of. This might all change over night if Monsanto has its way. Right now its trying to get a bill passed right under our noses that will allow it to grow GM plants that might ruin many OP varieties and heirloom seeds not to mention hybrids, because of crossing with their GM varieties. All this of course is just my two cents, But take a good look around and see what is going by the wayside. George W. Z5-6 MO.

I wouldn't worry about it if it were me. If you want, you can shoot some expanding foam through the hole to anchor the wire and plug the hole. Don't let much, if any, foam get into the box to hinder future repairs.

I may be in the minority, but I think that kitchen is too trendy. I prefer to keep the permanent and/or big ticket items like the floor, cabinets, backsplash and countertops classic and neutral. I like to use paint color and accessories to add personality. They are easy and cheaply changed. Fashions and color preferences change too often for me. Just look back at photos from when you were a kid in your mom's kitchen--still love it? This is my opinion, born of experience and too many "what was I thinking?" reflections when looking through the photo albums. Of course, if money is no option and YOUR definition of classic runs to more interesting choices, then by all means--do and have what you love.

Oooooooo...tough question. As beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I love them all for different reasons. I have a blue one with a light/dark green variegation (I can't find a photo online similar to it in order to ID it). But blue is my favorite color. I've recently gotten into minis with a pink/purple variegation in the flowers or any variegated blooms. I've always had the mono-toned ones so these are a great change. Of course, there's my old single colored ones with their large bight colors. I'm proud of my variety and, like a child to a parent, they're all beautiful in their own way.