It has been raining for the last two days, mostly just for an hour or two then stopping for a bit, but apparently it rained all night long. I should have taken my camera with me when I drove honey to work. There were lawns flooded, roads that looked like rivers, and ever drainage ditch on the side of the road had been transformed into a rushing rapids. These are a couple of pictures showing the rain outside my front window. The middle one shows where even under my birch tree, the water is pooling on the surface.
I've been cleaning my kitchen .. encouraged by a dear friend's own post elsewhere about her cleaning spree and subsequent pictures. Here's mine.
The first is proof that my knitted dishcloths -do- get used. I love them! The other two show the bar we use as a catch all and the counter to the right of the sink, above my dishwasher. The first one is before I straightened the bar just today, the second is after. (Duh!)
The first one here shows my clean sink, complete with dishcloths. Note the messy bar .. obviously, taken before I striaghtened that today. The next is the right side of the stove, where I keep the coffeepot and the toaster, and where my aloe plant continues to live, even after repotting it. Ignore the wine bottles. We're really not alcoholics. (You should have seen it a few weeks ago .. we had 8 bottles up there!) The next picture is the left side of the stove .. note the -immense- amount of counter space we have! This is where the rest of the appliances live .. can opener, Kitchen Aid mixer, coffee grinder, iced-tea maker and crock pot, as well as the knife block and the spinning storage container thingy. On the stove you can see my honey's cast iron grill/griddle. Which we LOVE! And last but not least is a picture of my china cabinet, where you can see my beautiful Blue Garland china. *purrs* I love my china.
A bonus picture .. B and Isis sleeping on the couch. It's been rainy, and they got all snuggly-warm, and this is the result. Note Gracie Hart on TV .. they were watching Miss Congeniality 2: Armed & Fabulous. Ignore the mess in the background. I've not messed with the living room yet.
