Stop and Start
Where we’re stopped. Think dark granite counters and backsplash, crown molding, new paint, ambient lighting ….
The kitchen remodel continues … and doesn’t. (Okay, kids, you may not care but I do and if you check back in two days, I have something really FUN-FUN-FUN to show you.)
Things were rolling along and it looked as if we’d meet our deadline of finishing before our trip to the UK for World Book Day. But there was the inevitable glitch, so we will finish when we get back.
There are lots of workers coming and going (Desi loves them all) … but they’ve learned to stay off limits from my little office in the backyard as much as possible, because I’ve been finishing the revisions on ADVENTURE ACCORDING TO HUMPHREY, the ‘09 Humphrey book in the US. They’ve really been nice about it, actually, but there are unavoidable interruptions to talk about subjects like … grout? I never thought about grout in my life and have now picked out three different grouts.
Just spent time with our granite guy (very cute guy, a real artist). Our granite comes from Brazil. With all the granite people are now using in their kitchens, will they eventually run out? I would think so. It’s like oil. But unlike oil, something else will be in vogue. (Speaking of petroleum, my Prius had a checkup today and passed with flying colors.)
We had brunch on Sunday with Linda and Glen Short, friends from Providence - what fun! They were describing a very artistic and expensive GLASS counter they saw in NY. (I think $40,000 is a little out of my range.) I can’t imagine myself taking my meat-pounding mallet and letting loose on a glass counter.
On Sunday night, met with friends for Cynthia Friedlob’s annual Chinese New Year Event. Cynthia goes to a lot of trouble to chart our coming year. It’s the Year of the Rat, in case you didn’t know. But secretly, I think it’s the Year of the Hamster.
Off to Riverside, CA tomorrow for two Jurupa Reads events. More about that to come!
P.S. When we get back, my little office will get a beautiful new door and I can’t wait.