My spinach has been growing gangbusters.
Fearing that the warmer weather might cause my spinach crop to bolt…
…like my arugula did.
I decided I better go ahead and harvest most of it and see if I could figure out how to ‘put it up’.
I collected enough spinach to fill a tall kitchen trash bag.
I set the bag [...]
Kitchen Hutch – (from before the house was completely finished)
This is what the hutch now looks like with two coats of “Cottage Cream” paint from Sherwin Williams.
Yes, I went with cream.
Yes, I realize that cream was not really an option before.
Yes, I seriously considered many of the suggestions that were offered in the [...]
I have mentioned before, that we ordered about half of all the cabinets in our house in “paint grade poplar” meaning the cabinets were delivered and installed unpainted in order to save a few shekels. I really enjoy painting and thought it would be no trouble at all to paint twenty odd cabinets myself.
Har [...]
I have narrowed our countertop choices down from five billion to three. I have crossed out granite, marble, stainless steel, tile, concrete, laminate, wood, stone, quartz, paper, cotton, fingernail clippings, congealed pig blood, fossilized dog bones, fish scales, moss, wheat berries, cracker crumbs, crushed taco shells, and my favorite – texturized horse dung. [...]
This is my lowered baking center.
Because I am such a baker.
So it is a very very good thing that I went to all the trouble of devoting about one fourth of my counter space to a lowered baking center.
This is my foot pointing out some spilled flour on the floor.
When the Country Doctor saw [...]
We have a kitchen sink…in our kitchen…installed…
and you can turn it on and water comes out!
Right here in our kitchen!
And we can also wash our hands at the sink and fill up the coffee pot and wash fruits and veggies, and wash dishes, and get wet wash cloths and wipe the table and the [...]
I have a thing for old sinks. I have tried all sorts of new age therapies, homemade herbal remedies and straight up chemical detox and I still have a thing for old sinks. I just think they are soooooo beautiful. Why did they stop making them?
Oh! Maybe because they weight 17 [...]