Good luck and God speed for America and her rebuilding of the storm damaged states and their peoples. Its going to be a real challenge but I'm sure they will succeed.
Here in the United Kingdom we've had a wet and very windy autumn day and I bet it was cold and damp for those who insisted on tricking and treating for Halloween.
Yesterday was glorious, a bright and sunny, breezy lovely day, let's hope we get more like that before our winter sets in.
Our property rebuilding work is coming along and the kitchen is almost done. Apart from the little things that is, of course, and I've been amazed at the amount of too-ing and fro-ing we've needed to do, to get matters sorted. I think I've already told you about the tiles, the paste that sticks them to the walls, the anti-porous wash needed to be applied once they are in place; then the silicone which needs to be put in place between the tile and the work top. Well, so far so good! Then we bought the tiles, and we thought the colour good, well that is, until, I saw them up on the walls when I arrived at the property later in the morning.
"Oh gosh, I railed at Him", the dear SO (for clarification, I mean my Significant Other!) "they look awful!" And they did, because the colour jarred with the cream of the cupboards and the pine work top. But, then on Tuesday, He applied the Vanilla coloured silicone and, hey presto, the tiles looked incredibly better. Now who would have thought that with just a little squeeze of the tube, one could transform a dull, rather unlovely looking coloured tile, into an almost perfect foil for the main coloured contenders for our new kitchen? I was almost speechless and, let me tell you, He, who must be nameless and who often begs me to stop talking...because he's thinking, or reading or involved with a piece of technology he's trying to sort out for me, was delighted, because he'd known all along how it would be. But then, he's been designing and building kitchens for a long time now, so He just knew it would all be OK once the silicone had been added.
I wanted cafe curtains for the kitchen window, and not net as most of our new neighbours to be have, and gingham curtains to boot, in a dramatic shade of scarlett. We've got these sorted but to buy a good looking pole to support my curtains has been rather a drama, which is still not sorted out. Apparently, wooden poles
are not readily available for our purpose and we may end up with wooden dowling if we're not very clever! I'll keep you posted.
Now it's going to take about a fortnight for my curtains to be made and because I don't want an unadorned window for that length of time, today I bought several brightly coloured pink and red winter cyclamen plants
and two ruby-hued heathers,to sit in nice planters on our window-sill. And they look very good indeed, and with the roller blind pulled down a little lower, we are just fine and dandy.
But, I must tell you, I'm really enjoying the whole process of making our new property look good and fit for purpose. It's taking much longer than I'd supposed, and much more time consuming, but, oh the joy and fun of making sure each separate entity fit in well with its neighbour.
Bring on the next project, please!!
Well, goodnight everybody, wherever you are, and be safe.
Daisy
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