Thursday

Yet another picture of our snowy backyard.

The first thing I do each morning  is to look out the window. I am usually rewarded with a show of either stars or a colorful sunrise. This morning, I got a surprise - fresh snow. We have snow and wintery mix in the forecast for several days but last night was only supposed to be flurries. I was immediately like a kid in school again hoping for a snow day. It doesn't take much snow to shut things down here, so my hopes were high. I quickly called the weatherline for work to see the status of things. What a disappointment. Everything for my county was Code Green--meaning all systems were a go on a regular schedule. But here's the problem. We have four inches and it's still snowing at my house, but in the part of the county where they make the decisions, they only had 1/2 inch. It has been a long time problem because the county has different weather zones. But it is what it is. I will have to get ready for work soon. 

Our kitchen still has the 600 watt,
1989 microwave. This will change.

Otherwise, I've been busy with things I don't think you'd be too interested in (colonoscopies, allergies, and various other assorted things that have me going from appointment to appointment.) What's more exciting is that we are going to redo the kitchen. We have talked about it since we moved in, but the kitchen remodel has finally made it to the top of the list. So far, the only formal thing we have done is to find a kitchen designer but my mind has been very busy with various details. I have been thinking about how we will rearrange things so that we can continue with our daily lives for the months the construction will be going on. I think it's doable, but will take some effort. And all of the decisions to be made about materials, appliances, layout, etc. Much of this seems overwhelming, so I did something I know how to do. I went through all of the kitchen cabinets and drawers and got rid of anything we weren't using. Now we can understand exactly what we need to store.

Well, times up here. Gotta go.

Until next time...

Thankful Sunday, January 22, 2017

I am thankful for my microwave.

Our new house has a microwave installed over the stove. While it works, it is original to the house and was built in 1989. It has no turntable and only 600 watts--not very powerful by today's standards.

We had not moved the microwave from the old house because I used it in staging to show how it would fit in one of the cabinets and not take up any counter space. Yesterday we moved it and I had my first decent bag of popcorn since we moved. It turns out that 600 watts only pops about half of the kernels no matter how long you cook them. Someday, we will replace the one over the stove. In the meantime, we have our more powerful one, and for that I am thankful.