From the daily archives:

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Kitchen remodeling

by Frank Paynter on October 14, 2009

We have a new kitchen floor. Maple. It’s a nice replacement for the gray asphalt tile that we put down when we added the new kitchen almost twenty years ago. The new floor extends down the hall into the laundry room. All the old gray tile is gone. We laid ceramic tile in the bathroom and the rear entryway where they butt up against the new maple.

The new floor mandated major refurbishment and appliance upgrades. We had the granite versus Corian debate about new kitchen counters. Corian won. I’ve already scratched it, but the finish was easy to restore.

Today I have to call Casablanca about the new ceiling fan qua light fixture. It’s a beautiful fan but somehow they left the blades out of the box when they shipped it.

The work remaining for me involves washing and painting the woodwork and refinishing the cabinet doors. I’m waiting for the saw dust to settle.

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Corny

by Frank Paynter on October 14, 2009

Drizzly morning and I left a wheelbarrow load of popcorn out last night. I better shuck it today and get the ears under cover or it will get moldy. I would have preferred to leave it in situ in the garden a little longer before picking but I was in a race with the deer to harvest it. The crows and raccoons were also in the competition.

If I’d left it under cover in the shed, then I wouldn’t have to shuck it right away. But I didn’t, and so it goes.

(Here’s a good link about harvesting popcorn: http://www.ipm.iastate.edu/ipm/hortnews/node/1416

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