Wednesday, June 29, 2011

July Here I Come!!!

Don't know about you but personally, I am SO ready for July!  June has been crazy and I'm hoping the first part of July will be a wee bit more quiet.

I have so much facing me on the home front that I wish I could take a couple of months off work just to get caught up. 

I do hope that all I know has a very safe and wonderful July 4th.  I will be (hopefully) working on my house in some capacity but if that doesn't work out, I will be over at my mother's mowing her lawn.

Be blessed!
Puddles

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Skinny Latte

Yes, I said skinny latte.

That is the color of my kitchen.  Well, part of it is anyways.  For the past couple of weeks the hubs and yours truly have been working (FINALLY) to get the kitchen cabinets put in.  We were blessed by a co-worker of mine (love you Philie and Janie!) who gave his wife a new custom kitchen from the husband of another co-worker that builds custom kitchens and when Barbara ask Phil "what are you doing with your old cabinets" I was on the receiving end!  (THANK YOU BARBARA!). 

This August will make 2 years that we've had them but didn't have them in.  The only crinkle in this blessing was the colour of the countertops...turquoise.  They were really in great shape but I'm not much of a turquoise fan so I enlisted the help of a very dear friend of mine that is great with colors.  I sent her a couple of photos of the cabinets and countertops right away and when we finally had a chance to discuss it, decided a creamy coffee tan/beige color would work. 

So tonight on the way home (had to pick up my hubby who was stranded...truck in shop for repairs) I shanghaied (sp?) him to Lowes.  I initially was going to get primer but by the time the very dear lady at the paint department got finished with poor Ron, my $12 gallon bucket of primer had turned into a 5 gallon bucket of paint WITH the primer included (1 less round of painting) and tinted "Skinny Latte" and cost over $100! 

I was so darn excited (this has been 5 years in the making people!) that I flew home, fed Ron, and set about sanding between the upper and lower cabinets like a mad woman!  Even Ron was impressed at how nicely the dry wall sanded down for me.  Then as it was getting darker and darker (we still have no lights in the kitchen...I know I KNOW!) I finished the paint job and called for Ron's inspection.  "Looks good hon" was my prize!  (YAY!!!)  Now I know that its prolly going to look rather pathetic tomorrow but right now...that Skinny Latte looks pretty darn wonderful to these baby browns!

Just think of me as one happy little puddle right now...think I'll go make me a cup of "skinny latte" errr decaf w/cream...

Friday, June 3, 2011

June...ALREADY?!?!?!?

I'm 3 days into June and just realized that it's June already...what happened to April and May?  Oh that's right, we had winter/spring, sleet, hail, LOTS of rain, MORE rain and some really wild thunderstorms...then it just turned HOT.  Seriously, we went from a daily high of 60 degrees to 90 in less than 24 hours it seemed.  Folks round here were scrambling around to get their air conditioners put in like crazy. And just in this last week have folks been about to kills themselves to get their gardens planted. 

I just know that the next time I remember to blog, it will prolly be blowing snow again...sigh...and I will be lamenting where my summer of 2011 went...