Music and Cats

I apologize. I’ve been remiss in posting about the kitchen. I’ve spent so much time thinking about the kitchen, and talking about the kitchen, and working in the kitchen, that when I’ve sat down at my computer, I haven’t wanted to write about the kitchen. In under a month, however, the kitchen remodel will be […]

Yesterday morning, our kitchen walls were the cool blue-white of fresh drywall primer. This morning, they have one coat of sandy yellow paint. By tomorrow morning, they will have two. Now you know how we’re spending our weekend.
On the floor is a sample of our linoleum, which is scheduled for installation tomorrow and Tuesday. In […]

You (and almost everyone else) know him as Sergei, but Chez McKitten, we call him Z. Sometimes it’s Mr. Z. The story of Sergei’s nickname involves a modern variant of an old English Morris dance, a rapid forward movement in said dance described by Dave as “surging,” the misunderstanding of “surging” by Sarah, who heard […]

…in our back yard.

As we are currently without a kitchen, we (by which I mean Paul) occasionally fire(s) up the charcoal grill in our back yard for a real home-cooked meal. (In our family, grilling and coffee-making are man’s work. Of course I could do either of them, but why?) What you can’t see in […]

We were happy to see almost all of our old kitchen go. The shoddy cabinets, the disfunctional appliances, the dropped ceiling; good riddance to every bit of that. One of the last steps in the demolition was removing the flooring. The old, brick-patterned sheet vinyl was long past being “no-wax;” it had become unwaxable. (We […]