Back when Hubs still worked and the kids were either at school or grown and out on their own, I loved to put on my fav music nice and loud and clean up a storm with a few boogie moves in between jobs. Awwww to be young and frisky again, LOL Sandy, I say dance now, clean some other time. Dottie

I'm coming up on the 29th. I have to check out some tile for someone else on line so I'll look at the marble, too. It might have been ok for my kitchen but I already have counters and to add it to the baking/mixing area would make that counter even higher. It's too high now! If only it would have been available a couple of months earlier, it would be in my bathroom. I had bought a marble topped antique with the intention of doing an unfitted kitchen. I used it during the remodel. don't want to take care of marble. Maybe that piece just needs a sealer. It's in the L.R. now.

Right now, I like them both a lot. They're complimentary but different. I think after a year or two, when AL matures I can give a fairer comparison, but so far, PJ is the better bloomer. It's incredible how much this rose blooms in just its second year. As to fragrance, PJ has a strong wafting fragrance which is lovely, where as AL has a more concentrated individual fragrance in each individual bloom--if you were comparing just one bloom to the other, AL is more fragrant, but.... In the garden, it just takes a few PJ blooming at once to make it very fragrant and plonks of PJ inside the house will have a noticeable, nice fragrance in any room.

@jojoco - LOL on the belly rub attack - we have one of those too. As to babies I'm not so sure, she seems to like to fuzz more with stuffed animals than dolls, but that is a good suggestion and I'll ask her care givers when we talk on Thursday. @S R - thank you for chiming in with your experience and I'm sorry for the loss of your mom. I think you've cemented that I should go for the cat. My mom pets and talks to the stuffed animals she has now, but she really seems taken with the interactive part of the dogs they have on the unit. I'm not sure the cat would ever get the switch turned to off as I don't want to put that on the personnel to worry about. I don't want to give them more things to have to do, but rather help my mom and also the other residents to get more time with the other animals as well. I don't think that is embarrassing at all and love that you shared the calming effect aspect. I think I may get several of these and donate some to the unit as well if they allow it. Seems like they are really helpful.