When I said we had Lazy Susans, I don’t think I clarified the number we have. In our primary kitchen, the corner cabinet has two Lazy Susans. In our bakery each corner has two Lazy Susans; then in the upper cabinet corner there are two smaller Lazy Susans. So all told, we have eight Lazy…

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We have a little teapot, short and stout.Here is its handle… here is its spout… We found this darling little handmade teapot that has the classic style perfect for our Victorian cottage and is now sitting in its permanent place on the cooktop of our primary kitchen. Remember the backsplash we discovered for our primary…

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In my book, vertigo is a curse word! I have been devoid of posting anything for the last week, because vertigo attacked my system for the first time in almost twenty years. I am still dealing with mild vertigo, but compared to the last week… it’s virtually nothing. Update on our activities… Sorting of our…

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Once again, we can report a ‘teeny’ bit of progress. The drywall behind the cooktop has been reinstalled. Yay! And though we did not mention it to you, we are putting a mural behind the cooktop. The tiles have arrived and this is what the mural will look like. Also, my chalkboard labels arrived so…

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After fifty some odd years we are experiencing the shift to daylight savings time for the first time. But, we are retired! We do not have to succumb to this barbaric change of time! We just sleep an hour later, shifting our routine activities to an hour later. Watched a movie this weekend… “The Sleeping…

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Snow is blanketing our area again! Yay! Winter storm Quinn has moved into our area. Yes, Q comes before R… but Riley was a fast-moving storm and Quinn just dawdled her way over to our area. Therefore, we have winter storms out of alphabetical order on the East Coast. Once again the coastline is being…

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Well, we have a little headway to report! The tile for bakery backsplash arrived. It is more enchanting than we thought it would be (and we thought it would be quite enchanting). Because of the way the tile is created, we will be using black grout to accentuate its lines. This means a trip to…

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Yay! We have another snow storm! My caveat is… this is a violent storm for many people. Apparently the polar vortex split and that met with a storm coming from the south and it’s caused another one of those Bombogenesis situations. Our thoughts and prayers are with those that are in areas being hit with…

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