We eat tons of avocados, it's kind of a basic ingredient in our house. My husband spreads them on toast instead of butter, for breakfast or lunch. He'll often add cheese, luncheon meat, smoked fish, whatever's around. You know how some people salt their food? He'll slice avocado on it. Pretty much no matter what I cook he'll add either tomatoes or avocado (or both) to it! I'll put it in just about any sandwich, especially egg salad, turkey, or tuna, and it's good with mild green chilis and cheddar on a hamburger or in an omelette. Just wrapping slices with thin-sliced smoked turkey is a tasty snack too. You can add it to almost any salad, but my favorite is lettuce, avo, jicama, corn, tomato, black beans, shredded cheese, chicken, ranch dressing with a little fresh basil. We both go into withdrawal when there are no ripe avos in the house!

I give away alot of my apricot jalapeno jelly. I prefer it with 5 different types of peppers, jalapeno, habanero, tobasco, pequin and serano, or whatever I have growing. Wild plum jelly is another favorite, if I can find wild plums (which I couldn't this year.) I made sour cherry, apricot and peach! Cherry is DGS#1 favorite, apricot is DH favorite and peach is DGS#2 favorite. I also gift squash/zuchinni relish. The last couple of years I haven't canned salsa, which I did for years. I have been making it fresh, even with grocery store tomatoes, which IMOP is better than processed salsa. I just don't care for the vinegar taste.

Well, mine turned out not to have a large taproot But I'm glad I repotted it. The mix it was in had a lot of small particles which had settled in the bottom half of the pot where there were no roots at all. I didn't have an azalea pot the right size so I repotted it in a pot that was a bit wider at the top (will make it easier to water) and about the same height, but it narrows at the bottom, so has less volume at the bottom. Hopefully it will be o.k.

Yeah for scoring such a great deal on the tile. Woot! As someone said, you may want to consider how the flooring looks transitioning from the next room. FWIW, you can always use a couple of colors. I’ve seen pics of bungalows w/ old Lino where they use one color for the body of the floor and a diff color around the edges. FWIW-2, when I redid the guest bath 10 years ago, I chose a handmolded tile around the tub that I LOVED. (It was buttercup yellow). Loved it. Painted the walls beige. Now, I‘ve fallen out of love with the tile color and wish I’d used something neutral and painted the walls a color—an easy and much cheaper thing to change. So for my new kitchen, I’m going neutral and will use accents (window covering, decor) to add a pop of color and ....that will be stuff I can easily change out all the time. So maybe colorful backsplash, neutral floor and fun decorative things?