Kitchen War... Hanging Around

It's been a busy couple of weekends on Pacific St.  Between graduation parties, volunteering at events and a little bit of gardening, not a whole lot has gotten done, including doing an update.

Weekend before last, after the Mason Jar light was hung up, I also got around to hanging up a couple of other things that'd been hidden away in various corners of the house.

First up, was a whimsical hanging light from Ikea which Robyn picked up last year.  Originally intended for a kid's bedroom, we just liked the feel it brought to the kitchen.

It doesn't put out a lot of light but with the other 2 lights in the kitchen we have plenty.

All of our cooking pots and pans were either hanging on nails in the basement stairwell or buried in the back of a bottom cabinet.  With the countertop in place, and before we put wallpaper up, I hung up our new pot rack.

Unfortunately, once we put the pots on it, we found out that they hang in our way when we work on the countertop.



It will get moved a bit back closer to the wall.  We also started painting the pine wood on the walls.  It just did not clean up well.  You can see the first part in the background of the picture.  We also started painting the plyboard on the back part of the counter extension.

We also pulled the doors off the new cabinets.  While Robyn was painting those outside, I installed our new tray / lid sliding rack in the cabinet between the stove and refrigerator.

... and painted the edge of the cabinets.



Later in the week, I was finally able to finish up the last little bit of countertop tile.

Now we need another trip to Ikea to pick up the rest of the knobs for the new pantry and cabinets.  This pretty much finishes up the kitchen except for under the sink, a little bit of painting and some wall paper on the ceiling.  I'll be starting on the new breakfast nook shortly.

Out in the garden, we harvested some bok choy

...and some turnip greens.

And had grilled pork chops with curried mustard greens with kidney beans.



We have a good mess of collard greens that need to be picked very soon and we're exploring some creative recipes for them as well.

Sunday afternoon, we cut grass and I finally got tired of ducking tree limbs.  I started off pruning a few hanging limbs but soon broke out the saw and ended up with a truckload to haul to the compost site down the road a bit.

Robyn says that now that people can see the front of the house...

I'm gonna have to clean the construction materials and debris off the front porch.