Pumpkins and a farm

I love Pennsylvania. There are so many things here to do and take part in. We found a farm nearby that has all kinds of stuff to do and to eat. There are cheese making classes, farm stay opportunities, volunteering opportunities, a pumpkin patch, baby animals of all kind, and best of all (in my weird opinion) RAW milk! I had such a hard time finding raw milk in Alabama, and here it is about 10 minutes away. Plus there is fresh goat milk, homemade kefir and yogurt and cheese, fresh eggs, duck eggs, and all kinds of other stuff. It's awesome. Makes my mouth and tummy happy.

So anyway, after Kevin got off work one day, we went there and got pumpkins and went exploring.



The girls had a blast searching for pumpkins. We inspected all the pumpkins for "boo-boos" and imperfections.



After finding our perfect pumpkins, we walked back to watch cows being milked.





We had such a great time. It was nice to go out and enjoy where we live and take a break from home improvement projects. I'm looking forward to next year when we can do that full time and not worry about having unfinished bathrooms or kitchens or fences or any of the other 200 projects on our list.

Happy early Halloween!

Kitchen is getting there

So we took the plunge and decided to redo the whole kitchen.

I'm super excited to have a nice new kitchen, but I am not excited about dealing without a kitchen. I crave baking, sautéing, mixing, chopping, blending, grinding, roasting, and having things in cabinets instead of boxes.

But we made a lot of headway this weekend. I assembled all the cabinets from Ikea and my dad and Kevin got most of them installed, as well as prepped the floor for tile. Next steps are securing the lower cabinets to the walls, installing the counter tops, and installing the sink.

Oh, how I miss having a kitchen sink.

Doing dishes in the bathtub = :(

I can't figure out how to get the photos from my phone onto my blog without lots of work, so just imagine a dirty, gross kitchen transformed to an empty kitchen with cruddy walls with unpainted sheetrock and old backsplash removed then transformed to the same space with about 2/3 of new cabinet frames installed.

Sink, oh sink. How I miss you.

Sorry for the lamenting.

That's our kitchen tale so far.