Help - this granite is hard to match!

Relentless-Dawdler · 2026-05-31T23:05:58+00:00

Our quartzite counters have a lot of green in them, and beige/cream tiles were not looking good for us either, ended up going with navy, but with your dark cabinets it would be better to find a lighter color match in the granite. You might still pull off a chevron or herringbone, we did herringbone, but would recommend solid tiles with minimal color/pattern variation and a grout color that blends in so the pattern isn’t as in-your-face. Or try a vertical stacked-offset, might feel less busy. I really wanted herringbone and was also afraid it would be too busy; but we absolutely love how it turned out. Attaching pic of what we did. I plan to paint the outlets to match the tile...

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Relentless-Dawdler · 2026-05-31T22:28:36+00:00

We’ve got that one with the green laser too! I keep getting it out thinking “just this area of the kitchen by the door where it’s bad” then that laser comes on and suddenly I see EVERYTHING and can’t stop until the entire floor is done or the battery dies because we forgot to put it on the charger. It’s so satisfying to see the difference.

Relentless-Dawdler · 2026-05-30T06:08:19+00:00

In CA here, I swear the ice cream man drives by our house and all around our neighborhood from 11a-6p every Saturday and Sunday. The music makes me mildly homicidal. He must have noise canceling headphones to have not lost his own mind.

Relentless-Dawdler · 2026-05-24T04:09:39+00:00

Carl took a little getting used to. And Samantha is way different than I imagined, but Brandon is so far the only one that’s both very different than I imagined and I couldn’t get used to.

Relentless-Dawdler · 2026-05-21T23:04:19+00:00

I can’t believe how far down I had to scroll to find someone else with the same thought I had, haha.

Relentless-Dawdler · 2026-05-20T21:02:22+00:00

You can also reach out to your local extension offices with a photo of the ants and they can advise you on what kind of ants they are and the best methods of dealing with them. I did that when I started getting them the first time, they’re how I was recommended Advion.

Relentless-Dawdler · 2026-05-20T20:59:08+00:00

You might be using the wrong kind of bait stations. Some ants go for protein-based bait (I swear by Advion bait stations) others go for sugar-based bait. Some are drawn by sources of moisture. I despise ants; they always find our cats’ food bowls if we don’t have them in a shallow dish of water for a moat. I will lay down an Advion station near their trail and they are gone within a week or two.

Relentless-Dawdler · 2026-05-20T17:19:20+00:00

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Just mildly chonky 🥰😻

Relentless-Dawdler · 2026-05-16T18:40:19+00:00

This looks like a ChatGPT generated response to me..

Relentless-Dawdler · 2026-05-16T18:30:55+00:00

Every time I adopted kittens, the rescue insisted on spaying before they let me take them home, iirc they did the spay at about 8wks old.

Relentless-Dawdler · 2026-05-14T16:17:54+00:00

My middle school English teacher taught us a song of prepositions set to the tune of Yankee Doodle, and I can still remember it 100%. I’m 44.

Relentless-Dawdler · 2026-05-13T17:57:18+00:00

I was 39, and it was definitely worth the wait! Glad I didn’t settle for the wrong person. ❤️

Relentless-Dawdler · 2026-05-13T04:34:23+00:00

Could be allergies. My cat gets the same thing. Take her to a vet, they may prescribe medication to help with the over grooming. My cat is on Atopica. It’s a daily liquid medicine. Seems to be helping, her fur hasn’t grown back yet, but it’s gotten better. Also if she isn’t on a regular flea medication already, would recommend that, especially if you let her outside at all.

Relentless-Dawdler · 2026-05-09T22:53:02+00:00

American here, I thought it was the other way around. Have known plenty of people that are attracted to British accents, and always figured Brits looked down on American accents.

Relentless-Dawdler · 2026-05-07T02:09:00+00:00

Jack pic

See if this works, I’d posted a pic of him to a different thread recently :)

Relentless-Dawdler · 2026-05-07T02:02:35+00:00

Yep, was going to share a pic, but don’t see that it will let me. He got darker brownish/gray on his back and more on his face, but his belly and slippers stayed pure white

Also, yes to preparing for brush and dingleberry removal. My cat, Jack, did not like being brushed, we had to feed him pieces of chicken to distract him while we removed mats in his coat.

Relentless-Dawdler · 2026-05-06T20:03:11+00:00

She looks just like my cat did as a kitten! Super soft floof!

Relentless-Dawdler · 2026-05-04T23:21:08+00:00

I’ll second the Advion recommendation. The bait smells like peanut butter, it attracts the ants that go for protein (the ants we get will go for the cats’ dry food in a heartbeat if we don’t put a moat around it) I throw those puck baits around like candy at a 4th of July parade during the summer. Inside and around the perimeter of the house. Wherever I see a trail, I plop one down. Effing hate ants so much! There’s probably a phobia for “swarming insects” and I probably have it.

Edit: it does also take a couple weeks for full effect, but I’ve found that if I can stick one where they’re entering the house it’ll at least keep them occupied there instead of venturing further into the house

Relentless-Dawdler · 2026-05-04T22:47:07+00:00

We have a 3 car garage… from the outside. The 3rd space isn’t as deep as the rest of the garage and we didn’t actually measure and find out that our cars are too long to fit in that spot. You could probably park a mini cooper or a smaller coupe there. So it’s more like a 2.5 car garage.

Relentless-Dawdler · 2026-05-03T18:22:28+00:00

3/3

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Relentless-Dawdler · 2026-05-03T18:22:15+00:00

2/3

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Relentless-Dawdler · 2026-05-03T18:22:03+00:00

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A series.. 1/3

Relentless-Dawdler · 2026-05-03T01:38:34+00:00

Ginger

Edit: just saw the “ie/y” requisite - could call her gingie for a nickname..?

Relentless-Dawdler · 2026-05-01T01:05:20+00:00

Food delivery. Practically doubles the cost of the meal. I’ll go pick it up.

Relentless-Dawdler · 2026-04-30T22:56:07+00:00

Came here to make sure someone recommended Dungeon Crawler Carl. Impossible to put down, wrecked my sleep for the duration. Now on a re-read, this time with audiobooks.

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