Wordless Wednesday - New Lens Edition

Fisheye 10.5mm



 * Please ignore the dishes in the sink.

Ten on Tuesday - Ten Things I Did this Weekend

The topic today is stuff we did this weekend.  What a great topic for the end of a weekend that was extra long.  For me, it was extra full too.

1. Voted - I'll be out of town on Election Day so I cast my absentee ballot since every vote counts in a battleground state.
2. Said Kaddish for my dad - it's unbelievable that it's been 5 years since my dad's untimely passing.
3. Watched Stinkerbelle play softball - they lost more games than they won but its a young team and they'll get better.  
4. Trim my shrubs - long, long, overdue.
5. Took Stinkette and her friend out to dinner (along with her friend's parents) to celebrate an unexpected win for their softball team.
6. Shopped - groceries, clothes and a new lens for my camera. Yay!
7. Went out for an impromptu dinner with good friends - why is it so much easier to do stuff at the last minute?
8. Went to the dentist - no cavities for me or Stinkette.  Yay! DQ was less fortunate.
9. Went back to the grocery store to get Pumpkin Pie yogurt -it was sold out when we went the day before.  That stuff is soooooo good.
10. Knit!

Here is a picture of DQ and Miss M at the government center on Saturday where we ran into our congressman on the way out of the building.

So what were the highlights of your weekend?

Finally... a kitchen

It wasn't my intent to share the kitchen quite yet.  I was waiting for the backsplash to be up, which it will be in the next week or 2.  However, some of you noticed it and commented on it in my ToT post so here is the reveal.  Come on in.  It's right through our new front door.



Here's a reminder of what my old kitchen looked like.  Accent on old.  Like as in originally built with the house back in the '60's.  On second thought, lets forget it ever existed.  It was really sad and you can't even see the spots where the flooring was held down by duct tape.  Yup - it was super bad.



So clearly we lost a few walls along the way. Now there is just one big room that encompasses the kitchen, dining room and living room.  It is fabulous for entertaining.



Here is the reverse view.  Most of it is pretty standard.  Double ovens, cooktop, granite countertops.  I do love the drawers and cabinets doors that auto close. The floors are cork which is nice and soft and warm underfoot.



And, if I have to choose my favorite part of the new kitchen, it's probably this, my humongous, apron front sink.

 

I added my collection of blue glass bottles.  It doesn't make a whole lot of sense now but it will.  As finished as it looks, I see this kitchen, and the house itself, as a work in progress.  It's got much improved bones but now it needs the little things that make it mine.  Stuff like blue glass bottles and funky light fixtures.