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Yup! Our bathroom was an awful slate gray (and it was a flat paint in a room with no windows, so a color that could have been moody was instead just plain dirty and depressing) and one of the bedrooms was purple. Repainted them an airy green and a medium gray, respectively, and I would bet our landlord won't even notice when we move out at the end of the month.

Unfortunately, no. They're giving you the pricing per bottle if you order within that range. (That is, if you order 100 bottles, it'll cot $3.04 per bottle; if you order 200 bottles, it'll cost $2.24 per bottle; if you order 1000 bottles, it'll cost $1.82 per bottle.)

I agree that it's kind of confusing that they indicate the case size with the pricing, but you can order exactly as many as you need without worrying about how many come in a case.

I don't know if they ship to Canada, but I've bought various types of bottles from Specialty Bottle and have been happy with their service and even happier with their prices. These look like they would work: http://www.specialtybottle.com/swingtopbottlesmi.aspx

My parents live in an old Victorian in San Francisco and one of the biggest problems they had was getting hot water from the traditional tank water heater up to the bathroom on the top floor, three stories up (it could take upwards of 10 minutes for the water to heat up from when you turned the faucet on). Their solution, when they remodeled the third floor, was to have a tankless water heater installed for that bathroom only and to run the laundry, other baths, and kitchen on the traditional water heater from the basement. It has been an ideal solution for them, as the traditional wasn't sufficient for the third floor but a tankless wouldn't be enough for the whole house.

I bought a tomato plant (heirloom) from my local nursery and it grew like a weed (probably 5 or 6 feet in one month) and it flowered, so we were hopeful... But then it never produced fruit. It was so frustrating and ugly that we just got rid of it this past weekend. I assume it was just bad genetics since my other tomato plant (cherry tomatoes) grew and fruited fine (though the tomatoes did split, which I now know is my fault... oops).

As for the passata maker, I made this pasta sauce with whole cherry tomatoes and it was delicious. No need to peel or seed anything, *and* I didn't have to buy a $50 kitchen gadget that I have no room for!

Oh please, please, please expand this to the DC area! My rental apartment is almost all "antique white" by Duron and, while the landlord is willing to let us paint, I don't know where to start because *everywhere* could use help.

Please!!

The carbonara recipe from America's Test Kitchen's "New Best Recipe" book is AMAZING. (And I grew up eating a *lot* of carbonara. I agree that both cream and peas have no place in a traditional carbonara.) You cook the pork product until it's crisp and brown, add some white wine and let the alcohol smell cook down, and then you add that to the pasta with a mixture of eggs/pecorino/parmesan and tons of black pepper. It is so, so, so good. I might have to make it for dinner tonight.

I made this cobbler over the weekend and it was *delicious* and strawberry-free (and very easy). My boyfriend also sent me this recipe yesterday, which I haven't tried yet but it looks tasty and versatile.

For a post about not using bumpers, there sure are a lot of bumpers in those pictures!

cupcakes!!

ice cream!