because I love plants and love to grow things.

cheap, trashy garbage. And the color you chose looks like you stained it with mint-flavored Kaeopectate. Yick!

like these are ugly. I don't understand why everyone goes for these dark kitchens today. Dark appliances, dark countertops, dark cupboards. I like light-colored, bright countertops in a nice light kitchen.

would look good as window trim on the outside of a nice bright yellow house, and maybe on some lawn furniture, or a bed quilt. Or even a backyard children's playhouse. But this is too much of this shade of green inside the house. Too overwhelming. Maybe if it were a different green, a pale green, or even a sage green. While this IS a lovely bright shade of green, I feel that this is the wrong use for it. My favorite color for a kitchen is light yellow. That nice pale shade of yellow that looks like lemon pudding (not that lemon curd or lemon cheese for meringue pies, but pale, creamy, lemon pudding.) I guess pale yellow was a popular color for kitchens in those old, turn-of-the century homes, and that is the color yellow I like for a kitchen. And light blue in a bedroom. But some of today's bright, glowing, neon colors make me nauseous. Ewww!

soda, except mineral water, about 2 years ago. I got tired of all the sugar keeping me awake at night, and having major sugar crashes around mid-afternoon during the day. Now I like mineral water, iced-tea, milk, O.J., and lemonade. But I have heard of using it on car battery terminals, my brother used to do that. And I saw on MSN online about using it to clean the toilet.