The most exciting thing Reagan's gotten to do in a long time is unpack the kitchen. After a year of home-ownership. After over a year of the kitchen being boxed up. Finally...we get to use real plates, sauce pots, and mugs. Our cabinets have drawers and doors (most of them), as well as handles to open them. And Adam has even built the support for the peninsula extension. All we have left is to get some counters (small detail).
View from the dining room.
Those upper cabinets are now full of bowls and platters that we won't need to get to very often...especially if the fan is on.
Because the cabinet doors haven't been in stock at Ikea, it makes for easy access for our dishes and glasses thus far.
The plywood support for the "breakfast bar" area of our peninsula.
Also, we have a functioning disposal, and soon our dishwasher will be hooked up. These small conveniences sure are nice conveniences.
We also bought some stones for our front walkway. Nice 2x3 foot blue flagstone for the front walkway, and "Pennsylvania fieldstone" for the side pathways. It took 2 trucks to deliver it - one with the stones, the other for the bobcat that took the stones from the truck and onto our driveway.
The crate of stones was so heavy that it needed to be counter-balanced by two extra people...
Reagan picked out this pack of stones in particular. They seem like a nice size.
A yard of stone-dust is necessary to put underneath the stones.
We spent the morning weeding what had become of the pathway from the driveway to the front steps and then dug out a little trench.
Adam then filled in the trench with the stone dust and then spent a long time tamping (and tramping and camping*) it down.
Our front walkway! Better than the muddy weed farm that it had become. Pretty handsome, no? Those flat stones that Adam used to build the little step will be stepping stones on the rest of the paths.
We're getting there!
*Inside joke with Laura Ruedig
