Mike's New Kitchen Cabinets

Here are the latest photos -- the cabinets are about 99% installed. It's moving along -- yay!

If you remember the old kitchen, this is the spot where that chimney used to be. It proved to be too difficult to remove, so now it's got some fresh drywall and will get some backsplash.

That Damned Green Room

Mike had quite a bit of patching work to do in the green room, which had all kinds of cracks in the ceiling and the walls. When I got there, we were able to finally paint the ceiling, the walls, and start on the trim. The trim proved trickier than we thought, as the dark green paint underneath kept showing through.
Mike did an AMAZING job on the ceiling. It was a lot of hard work and a bit of a learning curve, but the end result was really great!

Even with the painting tape still up, I think these windows look so much better with clean, white paint rather than that dark green.

Exhaustion, satisfaction, and crazy poodle-like hair, all at the same time! :-)

Summer is Kitty Window Time

I was working at my desk recently, and heard a strange noise that wasn't coming from Katya and Anya. I looked out the window, and there was a squirrel, sitting on the corner of the back yard fence, taunting the kitties with strange noises. They were on high alert, tails a-wagging and ears a-flittering. It was all very cute.

Now that the den windows are open, there are so many interesting things to see in the back yard.

Of course, it's better if you can have the window sill all to yourself. :-)

Last summer, I changed out the curtains in the kitchen, which awoke Katya to a whole new world of window watching. It's now difficult to prevent her from getting up in the kitchen window over the sink.

BUSTED!

This was taken last summer; Anya was keeping an eye out for the painter.