New house?

Here's what is probably going to be our new house in a couple of months:


It's just 100 yards from our current house! That's a Good Thing because we love the neighborhood. It's much bigger inside than it looks, and the best thing about it is that it's on a half acre with a huge back yard with a nice view of the cove. If we get it, be prepared for a long series of remodeling photos, because it needs one heck of a lot of work! We're still in negotiations, so it's nothing definite yet, but it's looking hopeful!

Kitchen improvements

Here's the new light we just had installed over the kitchen table on Friday. The walls behind it are freshly painted in a soft beige by yours truly. It's an improvement on the ugly-ass kitschy border that was up there since we bought the house.

What you can't tell from the photo is that the light is colossal in size - approximately 3 feet across and takes up most of the space in our modest kitchen. I bought it online and thought it was about a foot or 18 inches across. Nope. It looks like a small alien spacecraft is hovering in the airspace above our kitchen table.

But it's growing on me.

We also got a fan installed in the attic, some of the El Cheapo baseboard thermostats replaced, and three ceiling lights put up in the bedrooms that formerly had none.

That's enough home improving for one week.

Yum yum!

Hooray! I'm happy!

Now I truly adore the small town that we live in - an old shipbuilding town on a Chesapeake Bay tributary that is now full of great shops and restaurants and even a winery. But the one thing it always lacked was any kind of non-American cuisine. Well, except for one little French bistro, but that doesn't count as very "ethnic" with me.

Yay! A little shop advertising "Chinese Food" is opening in the strip mall along the highway about a mile from my house, right next to the local branch of our YMCA that is opening there this summer.

Woot! I can go over and lift weights and pick up some lo mein and General Tso chicken on the way home! Gawd, I sure hope they can actually COOK.

And then there's a new Italian ice place a couple blocks away in the other direction, too!

Simple pleasures. . . .

Creeping pox

Actually "Fort Hill Creeping Phlox". This is what else I did last weekend, set these guys in the ground. Just wanted to get a photo while they still survived.