What a nice selection of "stuff" you got from the TS! I think the yellow "thing" would make a great centerpiece for a table with seasonal decorations and a candle or you could put a birdnest inside with colorful eggs. The wooden posts would be great as holders for teacup and saucer feeders or small decorative birdhouses. The metal type black stakes could be painted bright colors and put in pots as decorative accents (butterflies) and the two with squiggly wire were probably meant to hold votives. Let us see what you do with them!!

Hey Westelle, thought I heard my name in the wind, must have been you. But thanks for thinking of me, will catch you next time for sure. Brenda, not all the 99cent/dollar stores have produce. The only one I know of is the 99 cent store up there in the K-Mart center. I love carrot salad and the deli at the market where I shop doesn't make it anymore. At the $ store they have packages of shredded carrot, probably a good pound in a package, makes a lot of carrot salad! Pat

Fitz & Floyd discontinued china from the 80s that is now absolutely my color: Cinnabar. I'm just rebuilding, so most of my Ah ha! moments are distant memories. I have decided, though, since I can't reach my upper shelves, that I won't put anything on them. I have decluttered to the point of bare necessities, even though I look like a cabinet retailer these days. As a matter of fact, I just now finished packing a 12 place setting set of dishes for my STBX to give to his sister. YEAH! Big, chunky dishes. Anyway, if I can't see it up there, I'll never use it. They say the same thing about home file cabinets: Anything in them is reviewed on an average of ever 7 years. I've replaced my bases with drawers, so there'll be nothing hidden wayyyyy in the back. I'm trying to be logical. I envy you your machine, though! My machine is over 25 years old. Broken handle [LOL], broken top on the carafe -- love the duct tape! -- but still steaming along. :) I gotta look up the spindle for my Cuisinart. It became brittle and splintered once while in use. Not good. Thanks for the idea! Similar to the 'Broken Teeth' thread. Very useful.

My plant does not seem to have any of the subtle striations of the image I posted from the internet, but that could very well be due to a lack of sufficient light while in the Big Box store. It had no access to decent light on the second shelf of a shelving unit. It seems solid green on the leaves. Now that I am looking at images of S. ehrenbergii samurai, I am astonished. Never knew of that variety. Mine could very well be that instead of pinguicula. Is the culture of S. ehrenbergii the same as S. pinguicula? I have it on a table about 2' from a can light aimed at it on one side and an eastern window about 5' away on the other side. Other sansevierias on the same table seem to be doing well, such as a golden hahnii and S. francissii.