Bittersweet orange, a nice warm color that is close to like a mellower pumpkin orange is not good to use in the kitchen because it supposedly stimulates our appetite.

I just read an article about kitchen design features that can cause us to gain weight.

Here's the kitchen design elements they said would cause a person to gain weight: A TV in the kitchen, and worse, a little desk for it and the computer so you spend more time in there near the food, and mindless eating while distracted. Task lighting in the kitchen, a walk-in pantry, a small space between sink-stove-fridge, a breakfast bar or kitchen table with chairs. Open shelves displaying food, glass door on the refrigerator.

All of those things are what I consider to be trendy kitchen features, and if I saw that kitchen, I would think the owner was fashionable and slender and attractive, as well as wealthy. The only one my kitchen has is the small work triangle.

We've had very cold weather lately, but today is sunny and inching toward 50 degrees with warming winds. But tomorrow more snow is coming and Tuesday night's low temperature is supposed to be 7 below zero.

I'm going to plant my indoor seeds right now while today's spring-like weather has me in the mood.