thanks everyone. I'm working on those changes. I've rid myself all all the junk in my house to make this start easier.

brdgrl- I'm from NC,and love it's history, but I've been displaced. DH is in the air force so we've been away from home for almost 9 yrs. When we got a puppy a couple of yrs ago, I named him Sir Walter Raleigh in a homesick moment. I decided to borrow his name for here