Northeast Gardening: Spending spree #8, 1 by bbrookrd

bbrookrd wrote:
Wha, When did I not love everything you choose? Nor when did I ever not like any type of a daffodil?

Now just to plant all my bulbs next week. I had planned on last week for the big push, but I had a bum knee and there was too much rain. The knee is better now and maybe I will get lucky with the weather when I get back on Sunday from time now being spent at the pottery studio in Boston playing in the clay. I loaded a kiln yesterday so tonight will be like Xmas when I open it or a nightmare. Opening for some good results, but always a crap shoot.

Still not looking at DL's, being strong and except for bulbs, I am going to have to be very fugal for the next few years as we are rebuilding the back half our Vt house. It had rotted away. The Project has finally started. Not pretty, yet. I will eventually end up with a kitchen that has the refrigerator actually in the space. I have designed what I think will be a wonderful improvement, but working within the confines of existing footprint has made some of it difficult. But all will be so much better than our old kitchen which was yea Ol' knotty pine, with no insulation, 7' ceilings, cracked plumbing, virtually no heat, multiply levels that where not level and virtually no windows so it was dark, dank and dreary. This was a spending spree that has turned out more than planned as nothing could be saved. Yikes, painful. Trying to help the economy, but actually it was about to fall down. I will keep you posted. Here is the first part of the tear down with the old outhouse gone as is the laundry, pantry and bathroom, but the old kitchen on the far side is still hanging on for a few more days. A new foundations is the first priority as there really wasn't one. Patti