THE SWAN

In my kitchen there is one thing that has got to go soon. It is our kitchen faucet. We call it the swan. It is huge. It blocks the view to the outside. When you turn the water on, it turns itself off. But people must like it because when we were looking at houses it was in half of the houses we looked at.

This the kitchen, where of course I do alot of work. It is not like my old kitchen which was my dream kitchen. But I will be putting new appliances in this one. I will probably put new counter tops and back splashes and new floors in one of these days. I won't change the cupboards because these are good oak cupboards.

The closets on the right side of kitchen are pantries. So I have 2 large pantries in the kitchen and another double closet in the laundry right off the kitchen that Eric put shelves in for me to put my cookbooks and baking pans and crock pots in. It has an outlet in it so my wheat grinder is also in the closet.

THE NEW HOUSE

Here is one of the new roses I planted in our garden. It is called "golden dejon". I have managed to relandscaped the yard already. It has been fun. There will be more pictures. I promise not to leave a 5month gap next time.

The dining room is still our largest room in the house. I can't wait to get rid of the wall paper. It will happen when I have a plan. Right now it is livable.

We put mom's hope chest in the entry way. We hoped it would fit and it did.