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{Pretty}
It's high time I shared pictures of my kitchen. The kitchen, living room, and dining room are all one big space. (Remember when I
showed you those?) It's not a big, luxury kitchen~ that would have been entirely against my in-laws' principles and way of life~ but it does have some nice features such as two full-sized sinks, a double oven, and plenty of cabinet space. Plus, there is a good-sized pantry just a step away.
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| You can see how it connects to the dining area, which is the blue space on the left. |
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| The gargoyle sees all . . . |
Yes, the walls are really the intense red-orange you see in the pictures. The camera did not exaggerate one tiny bit! The color works here, I think, because there is not very much wall space and it is an open area. On the other hand, the master bath is this same color, and let me tell you, it is very . . . shall we say?. . . exuberant in that small, enclosed space. My in-laws liked color; what can I say?
I love the big open expanse of countertop that divides the kitchen from the dining area; I love it
if I can manage to keep it cleared. It does insist on becoming a catch-all, but it is being trained out of that Very Bad Habit. I don't love the white appliances, but they are all good and serviceable, so they are here to stay. The floor is a hard, stone-like tile which is pretty but unforgiving to anything that is dropped. So far, nothing of consequence has been broken.
Remember when Leila did "pretty over the kitchen sink"? Here's my sink area now:
From the picture, it looks like the truck dominates the view, but in reality, it is easily overlooked for the wooded hills and sunsets.
If you stand in the middle of the kitchen and turn around, this is what you see:
So you can see that the three areas~ kitchen, living room, and dining room~ are really all one big, open space. This arrangement requires that the kitchen stay picked up, but since I don't like an untidy kitchen anyway, it doesn't really bother me.
{Happy}
Man of the House and I attended a symposium on bioethics at Concordia Seminary in St. Louis yesterday. During the lunch break, we headed over to the library to look at this:
It is J.S. Bach's personal Bible! With margin notes in his own hand!
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| A close-up of said margin notes |
This Bible has a surprising history. It was listed on an inventory Bach had made of his books, but no one knew where it was or even what it was as it was listed by the last name of the author whose commentary is included as part of the three-volume set. All three volumes turned up in an attic of a Michigan farmhouse in 1934! Mystery solved! And now I have seen it. *happy sigh*
{Funny}
When my girls were babies, parents did not usually dress their infants up for Halloween, but the times, they are a-changin', and my newest little granddaughter went as a bag of popcorn. Attached to her baby carrier was a red and white felt popcorn "bag," and she wore the hat you see below. Very clever! She, however, was unimpressed by her cuteness and cleverness, as you can see~
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