May 14, 2009
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Things are progressing, albeit slowly.
Kenny was expecting to be able to put the wallpaper up today after almost finishing the painting, but reckoned without 30 year old wallpaper’s tendency to suck up paste. Not to mention the “prepasted” paper wasn’t, especially. Of course, I’ve had it for a few years.
Anyway, he’s going to finish up tomorrow in the kitchen, starting the patio on Monday. Here are a couple of photos, one of the painted part and one with half old, half new wallpaper….quite a difference, eh?
And look what a fabulous job the flooring people did! Remember the hole?
All gone! It’s the same color….that’s just the flash that’s washed it out in the forefront.
Speaking of the patio, last evening I found the set I want at Wal-Mart, so this morning Joe obligingly drove out there to haul the box home (naturally, it needs assembly); here’s the photo from the website:
All the furniture pieces are included, but not the rug. I do want one of those outdoor rugs, though. It’s very comfortable, and was the most inexpensive set I found, to boot!
Magellan is playing up a storm and always underfoot, or trying to climb up the chair into my lap:
This makes him look big, but he’s really quite small.
Today I decided to spend some of the American Express Reward Points I’ve been collecting for ages and ordered myself a netbook! Took fewer than half my points. Really looking forward to sitting on my screened-in patio, sipping coffee, and surfing on my netbook.
Comments (9)
The kitchen looks great! kitten is adorable! And I am SO jealous of the patio furniture and the netbook.
Wow, it looks so good and the new wall paper makes the old looks so dark and needing to go!! And the floor is fine, no trace of holes dug! Can’t wait to see finished product. Oh and the furniture is great! Wow. Good for you!!
The wisteria makes me think of this lovely poem by Billy Collins:
Field Guide
No one I ask knows the name of the flower
we pulled the car to the side of the road to pick
and that I point to dangling purple from my lapel.
I am passing through the needle of spring
in North Carolina, as ignorant of the flowers of the south
as the woman at the barbecue stand who laughs
and the man who gives me a look as he pumps the gas
and everyone else I ask on the way to the airport
to return to where this purple madness is not seen
blazing against the sober pines and rioting along the roadside.
On the plane, the stewardess is afraid she cannot answer
my question, now insistent with the fear that I will leave
the province of this flower without its sound in my ear.
Then, as if he were giving me the time of day, a passenger
looks up from his magazine and says wisteria.
I love your new kitchen. I can’t wait to see it in person.
What is a netbook?
A netbook is a small laptop without a CD/DVD drive. It has USB ports, of course, so one may attach one if one desires, but it’s meant to be very portable. Weighs about two pounds.
Wow – everything looks Great! So happy you have new paint & wallpaper. I never noticed the hole in the floor! How cheerful!
Well, you wouldn’t have noticed it as it was cut out and dug just to fix the pipe underneath. ;^)
your wisteria is beautiful. An old lady who lived up the street from us growing up had wisteria. Now I settle for lilac.
Keep in mind I don’t have any actual, live wisteria. They don’t bloom for long and draw bees when they do. Love to see them, of course! ;^)