Saturday, February 18, 2012

making our guests happy...

It took at least 12 trips to Lowe's before I was satisfied with the layout of the new kitchen and what cabinets we were purchasing and where they would go and what I would use them for and how many drawers I wanted...and then at the very end...I talked to the designer over the phone and changed one cabinet around and lost the cabinet I really needed... 

There is no where to set a trash can in the kitchen.  There are no niches, no end of the cabinet available, no pantry closet to stick it in...  Since October I have put a plastic bag in the kitchen sink for all the trash acquired during cooking and then just tied it up and tossed it into the trash can...which sat in the laundry room...behind an always closed door...   It drove my girls crazy...it drove my sister crazy....it drove everyone (but me) crazy...

 TA DA!!!


This morning before I got up Rich put together two more chairs for the dining room...

we retired the bench that sat on the other side..

And today is Spaghetti Sauce day....

with meat

without meat
And the meatballs are ready to fry...  so that's all for today...

Did you notice the new blog header?  We are on the Missouri flyway for Canada Geese and every few days we get a flock of them landing in the pond...

Nancy

5 comments:

Carolyn said...

Can't wait to use it!! Such a pain when it was in the laundry room!

Carolyn
Aka: sister

Osage Bluff Quilter said...

Did you buy the black chairs individually? If so where. my son is moving and they bought a table with 4 black chairs, but are looking for two chairs for the end of the table, maybe even captain chairs.
Love your kitchen and that trash can bin is cool.

Pat said...

Love the new picture! We have our trash can in the kitchen in the same kind of pull-out gadget....love it that way!

Sillygrammy said...

I love the new picture and your great kitchen design. The thing about trash cupboards, they get splattered even by the most meticulous cooks. I love the retractable slide on this set-up.
Silly Grammy

Jean C. said...

To bad about losing what you wanted the cabinet for... I suppose you could always just forgo a garbage can? Just don't have any garbage! LoL... don't look at me like that...
just think, you would be totally green... and everyone would be envious! Yeah right... o.k.... on to the geese! So nice that they have a nice landing zone in your pond. How come it doesn't have any ice on it? You guys must be having a heat wave... hmmm?
My folks had a pond at their place years ago... and a duck took up residence there... each year it would come back to visit. They would feed it wheat from their food storage.... they called her W.D. duck.... ahem....(wellfare duck!) since she wasn't having to work for her meals.