Well, if all goes well, today is the last day of painting. Right now the “wrong side” of the last few upper cabinet doors are drying, and the “right side” will get painted tonight, and dry overnight. Tomorrow will be finishing installing, and maybe a bit of touch up as needed. I’ll likely post “after” pictures next week once a I have a few things put together.
I am so ready to have my kitchen back.
I’m so excited to do some baking. I’m just sitting here at my laptop in the kitchen, smiling. I love how it looks. Oh, I’m so glad I did this. I feel so refreshed. I have a few decorations put back on top of the cupboards, but they’re not all there yet. The red window still needs a spot. I’m moving my little buffet to a different part of the kitchen. We’re thinking of utilizing yet another one of the old, long, slate boards salvaged from a one-room school house when it closed that is stored in our summer kitchen.
I’m trying to think of a better storage place for my apron collection. I think I’m going to finally finish the curtains. They’ve been up in one window for about a year, and I haven’t put them up in the other window yet because I needed to trim about 6 inches off of the bottoms. It shouldn’t take long, and it will get done easily. I just need to do it.
The bottom part of the kitchen is completely back, and Knut just loved having things where they should be back in the drawers. A bit of sanity has returned in that area.
We got a bit of snow yesterday, but it’s nearly gone already. I’ve grown used to the fact that spring is a constant disappointment. You think winter is over, but it isn’t. I’ve learned to not look for the absence of snow in the spring, but the signs of “fight” in the land. It’s fighting to wake everything up, despite the random snowfalls and cold temps.
I love seeing the little tulips come up, shaking their fist at the clouds and saying, “See? You don’t scare us!!” Maybe that’s not what everyone thinks when they see tulips. I see something that overcame winter. They made it.
Now that the kitchen is near completion, I’m just aching to get out and clean up the strawberry patch, trim up the raspberry bushes, and asparagus patch, and take all the skeletons of last year’s flowers all out to the compost (as it probably should have been done last fall). Oh, and Missy and I need some serious quality time together. We have lots of “training” in store. Wow, she’s a sweetheart.
Things will change around here in a hurry.
The tulips told me so.
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