It Feels Like Spring---Kitchen Refresh.

 

We are in the midst of our fake spring. The flowers are starting to bloom, the dove are trying to build their little sad nests of six sticks and lining them with tumbleweed stems. I have a hawk lurking around and picking the unsuspecting dove off like candy. I just get so upset when I see that little empty pile of feathers out in the yard. Knowing the doves mate for life, it means there will be poor little dove widows and widowers. But, I regress, if I don't stop I will be too sad to write a post and I am not sad.

 

Last weekend the kitchen looked like this. It was like jumping through hoops Monday and Tuesday morning trying to fix Ron's lunch in the morning. But when it was finished, its so pretty. Cooking is once again a joy and a breeze.

 Ron put in new under the counter LED lights. They are such a nice upgrade. I have really not had a minute since to play in the kitchen. I put the kitchen back together on Tuesday afternoon. When Ron and the boys got home that evening they had to move the heavy stuff like the fridge and then he put in the lights.

 Wednesday I started packing up the office so that Ron and the boys could start taking out the carpet and padding and putting in the wood floors. We picked up the wood, Ron and I on Wednesday afternoon.

That is the guest bathroom which has turned into the work area, to charge tools and put everything so its out of the way. My computer now is in my closet and that is where I am now. I am back in the closet.

There was so much preparation to do on Saturday. Well moving the computer desks, taking out the carpet and the padding, taking out the tack strips and patching cement then sanding all before they could start the flooring. I imagine they Ron and the boys, not me, I am just the cook. Will finish today.

Then next weekend will be the living room. I will be packing that all up this next week, while trying to keep the house sort of running and cleaning as I go. We are about six weeks away from listing. It feels like panic mode just a little.

Since we started this on July 7, 2019 we go from tired to more tired, and then you hit a wall and you are tired when you go to bed and when you wake up and it just becomes a state of mind. Ron says, "someday he won't go to work on Monday morning so tired and sore, but it is not that time now."

We think that we are soon to be Lowe's number one customer. With Ben and Megan in North Carolina, I think they must be Lowe's number one customer there. Ron has bought some great tools though. I think that tools are the best things in the world. I love it when he gets new tools.

 

My nephew Garrett, is doing well. Thank you so much for your prayers and your kind thoughts.
Its a new week, and we should have warm days this next week. I really need to get outside and work in my flowerbeds. I just crave sunshine.

I wish you the best kind of week,
~Kim~

“I hear the Wind Woman running with soft, soft footsteps over the hill. I shall always think of the wind as a personality. She is a shrew when she blows from the north -- a lonely seeker when she blows from the east -- a laughing girl when she comes from the west -- and tonight from the south a little grey fairy.”
― L.M. Montgomery

February Notes

 

Hello February!

 What a couple of months it has been. I wanted to thank you for you who said a prayer or thoughts for my nephew, Garret. He had his second brain surgery on Thursday, Feb. 6th. They were able to get 97 percent of it. It is still cancer so there is a lot of other stuff going on and hard decisions to make. So thank you very much for those prayers.

I wanted to share our kitchen. We had painters come in to do the kitchen. I am so glad we did. They are so much better than I think I would be, it was and is such a huge job.

Here is the morning before he started. It was early so I didn't take very good pictures.

Here is another angle. All of the brown in my kitchen.

Its been a little, well maybe a lot like camping. We have the microwave in the dining room the refrigerator in front of the window in the breakfast area. I have been using my laundry room to wash dishes and my Hoosier cabinet to keep the silverware close. 

Ron has been cooking outside. We have had our coffee out here. Its been fun and it makes me remember how much I do love camping.

The color we picked is called Alabaster. the kitchen should be all back together by Wednesday. I will show you then the after pictures. Next week Ron is going to take out the carpet and start putting in wood floors.  It is going to be so pretty. I wonder why we just didn't do this sooner.

I will take more pictures of the upstairs bathroom we redid last weekend. Its really pretty too. I will be up there tomorrow. The light isn't really bright up there this time of day.

I have packed most of my rug hooking stuff away. That hurts let me tell you. I have kept out this one project to work on for now. I have really enjoyed the days when I get to stitch a bit. This is my project from Stacy Nash. Its called Miss Baxter's House.

I love the colors I used. I wanted darker reds than the pattern called for. I hope that when we move I can have a place for just samplers. I plan on having a room with just all of my sewing things together.

Its all bittersweet right now. I am thankful though for the the continued strength that only the Lord can give.
Have a wonderful week.
~Kim~

"We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about the hardships we suffered in the province of Asia. We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired even of life. Indeed, in our hearts we felt like the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God." ( 2 Corinthians 1:8-9)
"If we open our hands when the disconcerting experiences come, our darkness will reveal many treasures---and draw us closer to our Father's heart." (In His Everlasting Arms, Gail MacDonald)