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It's been over a week since my last post, longer than I anticipated, but lots has happened. First I passed my last exam On Friday Frank and I started to take down our kitchen and the floor in kitchen and hallway, because a new kitchen will be placed after the wall between the kitchen and the living room has been removed. The wall and new kitchen were supposed to happen this week on Monday and Tuesday, but the builder called last week to tell me the kitchen was going to be delivered later than agreed (not his fault by the way, he was just the messenger). Grrrrrrrrrr, when we ordered the kitchen, month ago, everybody kept telling us how early we were with ordering, but still the kitchen isn't here on time. The garden is doing great! I expect to harvest zucchini, kohlrabi, lettuce and endive (chicory) this week, that is if the thunderstorms predicted for today don't bring too much hail. It has been hot the last couple of days, especially today 86F/30C, and in over here that usually means thunderstorms and back to unsteady weather and 68F/20C. Talk to you later! blessings, Ellen |
, which I never expected, but I'm not complaining! And now I have vacation, 
9 whole weeks! I have so many things I want to do, but first I always read, read, read (in between chores, remodelling). I've managed to read the latest novel in the Elm Creek Quilt series by Jennifer Chiaverini, the Winding Ways Quilt, the second part of the Courtship of Nellie Fisher by Beverly Lewis and Living the Good Life by Linda Cockburn about tried and tested strategies for sustainable living. Great reads!
The big problem is that our builder is going on vacation next week, so they wanted us to delay the whole thing. We weren't happy with this, because we have to paint, wallpaper and put in a new floor afterwards. I don't want to have to do these things just before I start classes again. So Frank proposed to have the wall taken down (and with it half our kitchen) now and put in the kitchen after the builder's vacation. Frank cut out the electric hob with the cabinets underneath and we put that under the new window, so I can cook. On Monday the builder took out the wall and put in a steel beam, which causes lots of dust, but I had taken precautions and covered everything up. So the clean up was less work, but still considerable. Yesterday he covered the steel beam, but the rest is left like it was and now it looks like we live on a building site. 
But we'll manage, it's only for four weeks and after that I will have a beautiful kitchen. It already feels and looks a lot roomier. I have taken some pictures, also of the french doors, but I don't know how to get them from the camera into the computer. 
Frank will show me tonight, so I'll post the pictures later today.Comments
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