and I painted and filled.  I just love my new pantry! (I'm sorry for the blurry picture, I apparently did something wrong)  I already had a hallway closet for pantry use, but with this new one I have more than doubled my pantry space. You can see our colour choices for down stairs: light yellow and burgundy. It's been a long week, all the redecorating took longer than we anticipated, but we're almost there, finishing up some last jobs and waiting for the new kitchen, which will be installed on Tuesday and Wednesday. Frank and our son Wesley dismantled the kitchen yesterday, so now we're left with just the movable part with the electric hub and the fridge situated in the living room. Luckily I'm not totally without appliances, but it feels like camping in our own house.

The weather has been strange, first we had a lot of rain (really a lot) and it was quite cold, the last couple of days it's been hot (and I don't like hot ) and yesterday we had a monsoon (lots of people in our little town had water in their basements and houses, but we didn't have any problems, only the rainbarrel had trouble coping). But it's good growing weather, the garden it doing great. I was worried about the tomatoes with all the rain, but they're hanging in there. I took my first pumpkin home, I'm a little confused, because I had sowed orange Hokkaido pumpkins, which should be quite small (6 inches), but mine is big and still green. It's outside on the garden table, we'll see if it turns orange. There are at least 6 more on the vines. The other pumpkins are growing fine as well, they're supposed to be really big ones and they're yellow. The French beans are almost ready for picking, and the runner beans are growing very well. With all the rain last week and the redecorating at home I didn't go to the allotment for a week and found some monster zucchinis when I went. I'm not sure what to do with them, maybe make soup out of them, but I'll definitely dry some of the smaller ones this weekend.

blessings, Ellen

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Posted by Anonymous

Hi Ellen!

This is your friend Yvonne from Freedom Gardeners. I only would like to say hello and say that this pantry is really nice. See you on Freedom Gardeners!
yvonnes

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Posted by gabbie427

Love the cabinet and your color choices.

God's Blessings,
Amy Jo

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Posted by Cathy

Ellen,
Frank did a GREAT job on this. Proud of him.
Thinking of you my dear friend.

Blessings,
Cathy

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Posted by Amanda

What a beautiful pantry! I bet it makes you smile everytime you go to open it. Great blog!

Amanda <><
II Corinthians 5:7

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