All this talk of painting floors worries me. Next thing you know Liz will be moping, waxing, dusting, polishing and buffing. Liz, just because you aren't doing a lot of gardening this season is absolutely NO excuse to start cleaning the house <shudder>. If you clean now, you won't have any fruit flies to add that certain extra somwthing to the Thanksgiving Dinner ambiance.... Catharine, the housekeeping-challeneged.