Thanks everyone! I already have 5 in the ground and they are getting really big, but they are regular white and the fundzui- the one that blooms all sumer, by the way, he had that too. I really wanted an evergreen bush to provide a little privacy onn my driveway, which is stoned, but is visible to the street. When I saw this red sweet olive, or what most people call tea olive, I thought it would be nice to use that, it is evergreen, and I can move it if I want. So, as it grows, it will be my privacy shrub. (I really should get something else too, the drive is wide). Lou, I totally hear you on taking your shrubs with you, I would do the same thing! The grower hasn't seen it bloom yet. They have a big one,and they grow them from cuttings, but their red hasn't bloomed yet. So, the challenge will be to see when it blooms. it may take a while, but I will wait. The white bloom young, you never know, I may get lucky and it may bloom next year. You never know.... I will post a pic here, you can count on that.

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We will try the 43” but last night, watching the kitchen 18” and thinking about that 43,” I’m suspecting that the 55” might be best. I want to be able to easily read the CC. I watch beyond headlines news, PBS, history, some cooking/travel, science, docus, mostly non-fiction. Rarely movies but I would watch good ones. I never watch things like survivor, batchelor, sit-coms. Boring. I wouldn’t mind great images of bees, lichens, marine life, flowers, weather, chemical-science-natuaral history, taking up real estate. I was trying to set the SLEEP feature on the LG TV that I put in the bedroom (master bedroom TV bit the dust). It is an LG ”smart TV” so maybe I am just outsmarted. I usually have good technical and mechanical intuition and am not afraid of trial and error clicking and exploring. To me, the sleep-TV off is a feature I don’t wish to have to wade through menus to engage. With that LG menu system, it feels like the equivalent of having to go the the International Space Station for something as frequently needed as a glass of cold water.

As you know from the build thread, I've agonized over some of my choices--most recently kitchen backsplash--and I have also suggested to people they hire help. My frugal DH would balk at this for us, so I understand your hesitancy.. But there are many talented folks, still in school, just starting out, dabbling on the side, who can offer advice for less than average.. But even so, you have to know what you like, and I don't mean elements. I mean overall look of a room. There are tiles I LOVE that would not work with my overall kitchen design. That's one of the bigger errors I see on some of these DIY renovations, etc. They put everything they love in one blob and it ends up like a beef, peppermint patty, blueberry pie. Most of my decisions I am in love with, and much of what I did I learned how here (that and I am creative.) But how I did it was I looked and looked at inspo pictures to see what I loved, and to learn how everything worked together. I looked at things I didn't like either, and tried to figure out why not. Then I started inspo/mood boards. Even so, there are rooms/ choices I designed that others might not love. It's when I have chosen an element without the whole in mind that I have been unhappy--my DH and I fell in love with a chandelier (which is always great when we both go, oh, yes! That it's.) We bought it 18 months ago when we thought the house would be done LAST fall. Now that it's up, it is really wrong. I think we loved it in the shop when it was way above us, and all lit up and glittery, LOL. Even when my DH hung it and sent me pictures, I liked it. BUT in person, it's too big, too bleah, not right. What I lack in design is sizing vision, that knowledge of how big/small something should be, or how busy or calm. A designer often knows that easily. Still, funny story, an acquaintance of mine with money to burn and zero wish to even think about these things, hired a designer well-known in town. The look she ended up with in her formal home was absolutely atrocious, like something someone thought Scarlet O-Hara and Suzanne Sugarbaker would want with black and white and red and green vomit. LOADS of layered chintz and heavy brocade. She kept it all for a year, probably because she was suffering a sort of mental "The Emperor has no Clothes" about the designer. All that stuff is now languishing in a local high end consignment shop...as she starts over with a different designer. So Jennifer Hogan's comments are not wrong. The best thing you can do is collect every image you love and try to channel those, but make sure the plans blend from room to room. My look was old cottage with transoms, wood floors, old doors. I couldn't suddenly put in a super MCM plastic kitchen.