I haven't been to see him. He hasn't wanted any visitors for some time. Another one of my neices went to see him anyway today and she said he got in a wheelchair and they got him outside for the first time in a month and a half. He had a beer and a cigarette! I guess he wants to go out enjoying what he enjoys! I was really surprised to hear that he got up at all. My sister had sent me the wedding pictures and it really bothered me to see them, but I was glad to have them at the same time. It just disturbed me to see him so lifeless in bed like that. Ihad such mixed emnotions about the pictures...but happy to have them. She didn't think he'd last through that first week home. He is very strong willed, always has been. Maybe this is his last fight and he is going to give it all he's got.

I have "filler" pullouts in 6" spaces flanking my cooktop - full-height. It breaks up the look a bit. At first I was disappointed that I could not get the same look I have with my doors (b/c the space was too narrow to have 3" frame on the door, but once they were in I liked the look. (Filler pullouts utilize the entire width of the space with no cabinet walls. They are attached to the walls of the adjacent cabinets. They must be installed when the other cabinets are installed before the counters go in, not later.) They have one glide on top and one on the bottom (but, they're for a 6" space, not 9"). The shelves in my pullouts are not adjustable...I recommend getting ones that are adjustable. I store all kinds of things in mine...I just put the items I seldom use on the bottom shelf b/c you do have lean over to see into that shelf a bit, but you certainly do not have to get on your knees! Since it's open on both sides it's pretty easy to see everything by just taking a step back and looking down. In case you or anyone else is interested, I've linked to Rev-A-Shelf's base filler pullouts below. There are a variety of configurations...shelves, pegboards, etc. and come in 3", 6", and 9" widths. Open: Closed: A bit dark... brighter closeup (but lousy picture!) Here is a link that might be useful: Rev-A-Shelf Base Filler Pullouts

I would love to go to a lecture on color where the information came from real knowledge & experience, but, sadly, most of the ones that I've had the misfortune to have to sit through have been Crying-Baby-Yellow level: that is, not only was the info basic but much of it was worthlessly anecdotal. The good news about that is that it means that anything above that is a step in the right direction--even if it's a baby step. So my suggestion is not about your subject, since I'm no expert on using color--merely its historical usage--but about how to present material that your audience should know but may not know, without, of course, revealing that you know they don't know it. It gets tricky. No one gets as huffy at the subtle implication that he doesn't know what he's talking about as the guy who really doesn't know what he's talking about. The hyperventilating indignation is always the clue to the poseur. Like Shakespeare says, "The lady doth protest too much." Anyway, if you present your material not as knowledge per se aimed at them, but as an approach that they themselves can use to present it to their clients, things will go fine. That is, you talk as though they already know everything you have to say--and that you know they know (even though they may not)--and that the only thing that your audience lacks--because they're visual, not verbal experts--is the ability to explain important (and sometimes complicated) color concepts & theories in such a simple way that even non-professionals can understand them. It's the decorating version of the old "Doctor-a-friend-of-mine-has-a-problem" approach, except you'll be playing the part of the dcotor, and you'll tell them how to explain color things to their "friends." It's silly but it lets everyone keep his self-respect. I've never had to perform this little charade in regards to color, but I frequently have to do it with groups of architectural students & their professors, who, amazingly enough, often know almost nothing of architectural history. It's actually pretty shocking. Anyway, when I do, I preface the whole thing--and my spiel can be pretty heavy-duty: I once transcribed it and then annotated it with my sources and when I got done it had almost 200 footnotes for an hour talk. I don't dumb it down for anybody--with "for those of you who already know all this"--and here's where I give the profs a smile of affirmation that they are, indeed, much more knowledgeable than I am--"please be patient, since I want to make sure the first-year people have the background here, too." Then I sprinkle what I say with plenty of asides: "You already know that Chicago is built on marshland..." & "Think of the Guggenheim Museum's entry sequence..." & "Now, you probably remember know that Louis Sullivan went to school in Paris..." which, things, unfortunmately, many of them don't know, but they don't want to admit it. This way, however, I provide the information they need to understand what they're seeing, but only on the basis that they're merely being "reminded" of what they already know, not that they're being told something for the first time. And there's another benefit of verbally expressing your assurance that most of your audience already knows your material--even when they don't--it eliminates all the head-bobbing that comes when I mention something that they do know, and they want to make sure everyone in the audience KNOWS that they know it. That drives me crazy. It's like hollerin out "Amen"s in church. At any rate, if you can package your info--whatever it is, and good luck on that--into a format which makes it easy for your audience to pass it along to their clients & employees, then you know they're bound to absorb a lot of it themselves, without ever having to admit that it's the first time that they themselves understood it. Best of all, in the future, they'll look to you as an authority. Ah, the games we're forced to play to avoid damaging anyone's precious self-esteem... Regards, MAGNAVERDE.

Yes. It was legal. Once the initial title search was done, which would reveal easements and clouds on the title, it would be repeated a day or so before closing. The second search would cover only the time between the last search and closing. It would only take a few moments to perform a final search by a title researcher. I had something like this happen to me once. We were selling our home. We were going to the closing that morning when we got a phone call from the closing attorney. It seemed that the neighbor behind us, an attorney, filed a lawsuit against us over a fence the day before we were scheduled to close. The title researcher found it on their last minute title check. We hadn't even been served. It took six months to straighten it out. I got the call while the moving company was loading the truck. Luckily for us, the buyers were willing to rent the house until we could get it resolved.