You all will be very proud of us… we finally called a plumber, actually two, to help us with our plumbing procrastinations. Many of you had seen masking tape on our kitchen faucet so we now have modern taps that don’t come off in your hands or drip when you use them, handles that move effortlessly, and full flowing water, yes even hot water and a new stainless steel sink. Continue reading
Houston, “we have new kitchen taps”. Yesterday a tradesman came to install my new Canadian Tire tap set for the kitchen sink. While he had his nose under the cupboards he also installed 3 new shutoff valves for me. Our plumbing is ancient and we needed the upgrade. Repairmen don’t come cheap, $250 (cash) later the job was done and I’m a happy camper now.
Enter my kitchen and you will see a shiny new fridge. Stainless steel I’m not sure is the route to go as I’m already eyeing the finger smudges. This is all forgotten when I open the LG french door style fridge and I can see everything clearly. No more rummaging and rearranging jars and the like to get something out of the fridge. Milk, juice, water anyone? Get it yourself, it’s on the door!
Today we are practicing to be empty nesters. All three boys are away for the entire month of July. We stayed up late last night drinking wine out on the deck. What a beautiful steamy hot humid night. Then we slept in late and woke up to an empty house. We are out side painting our pool to take advantage of this sunny holiday Monday.
This weekend we are experiencing a heat wave in Chatham-Kent. The temperatures brought out the shorts, tank tops and summer sandals. On Saturday, Tom, Laura and I went downtown and strolled along King Street to take in the vintage and old muscle cars. It is Retro Fest and the city is a party town of 50’s music, dirty dancing, poodle skirts and cruising the drag. There were over 6oo cars, a Creedence Clearwater revival band and a foam party in Tecumseh park. We checked out a watering hole called River Rock which is the old Centre movie theatre for a brew. This is where Laura’s graduation prom is going to be held. Continue reading
We are all snug in our new beds. Nick and I got a new pillow top KING size bed. The thing was so big that it was near impossible to get it up the staircase. We had to almost bend it in half and shove like there was no tomorrow to get it up the stairs. Peter got our Queen and Brian got Peter’s Double. Steve hates change so he was content to keep his ol’faithful. Big is beautiful.
