Joe and I need this....

I will fill mine with Coke....

The End

Joe and I spent this past weekend in Montauk, Long Island. Beautiful weather and no agenda made for an amazing weekend. The surf was awesome and we spent most of the weekend boogie boarding. We definitely wrecked a few times...the ocean tried to take my arm away, but I did not let it. As a result, I got leash rash on my arm which not only looks worse in real life, but stings like a bee. It's better by today, but itches, and my brain can't comprehend that I should not scratch it because when I do, it HURTS. Stupid brain.



We went out to see the Montauk lighthouse, but only from afar since it's a working lighthouse and you have to pay for tours. These binocular things were on the parking lot and I always think they are really cool looking. Too bad most people skip right to looking THROUGH them, and don't take the time to look AT them.



Here's the lighthouse.



We took a path near the lighthouse down to the water and on the way we saw a bunny! He was super cute and let me get really close.



Here's the lighthouse again, this time from beach level.



The rocks on the shore.



These were the rocks on the small beach. There's a treasure camouflaged in the center!



On Saturday night, Joe and I went to Gin Beach to watch the sunset. Here are a few of my favorites from the 652 million pictures I took.










What a perfect weekend!

Many thanks to Miss Annie for making it possible.

Uncle Tom's Wedding

Joe's uncle Tom got married this past weekend. As a surprise, his brother and sister-in-law rewrote the words to pinball wizard to tell the (fictional) story of Tom's search for love.

A bunch of us got dolled up in funny sunglasses and hats that looked like fish.

Joe rocked the ukulele, and away we went...

Supervisor Boxer Shorts

Supervisor Boxer Shorts couldn't cut it.

(This is where you picture me grinning like an idiot.)

According to our manager, Supervisor Boxer Shorts' first love is being a bench jeweler, so the company accommodated him.

I call b*llsh*t. So does everyone else. First of all, he was completely under-prepared to supervise a dozen jewelers and was overwhelmed by his own shadow. Secondly, the "company" doesn't tend to "accommodate" anyone. So he resigned as supervisor and took a bench.

Good for me.

And just so you know, he has replaced his tiny little boxer shorts with super long basketball/soccer shorts. They go past his knees. And he tucks his polo shirts into them.

Have I mentioned that he's in his mid sixties?

What a sad, strange little man.

We finally got to open all of those boxes...

The cabinets were finally freed from the boxes, and let loose from the dining room they had called home since November.

I don't have any pictures of them actually being hung, but here are the results...

The two cabinets to the far left of this photo were the first ones we hung.

And then rehung, since we mildly screwed up the filler that we put between the cabinets and the wall. :) Once we got that situated, we did the entire wall to the right. By the time we finished that night, nothing was quite straight or flush, so the next night was dedicated to minor adjustments ensuring all of the faces of the cabinets shared the same plane, and all were plumb and level. See that four foot level waaay above the fridge??? It got a LOT of use. The old busted fridge that came with the house looks so tiny and pathetic in the space allotted for the new fridge!



This is the view as you walk into the kitchen from the dining room. That cabinet you see all the way on the bottom left is a mixer stand cabinet. That means my kitchenaid mixer gets to live in that cabinet, and will stay plugged into an outlet built into the wall behind it. When the cabinet is open, the shelf the mixer is on swings out and up and locks into place. Woo hoo! This is my favorite cabinet in the whole kitchen! I can't wait to use my mixer!



This is the view as you walk into the kitchen from the foyer. (Again, to the bottom left is the mixer stand cabinet.) Those giant spaces on the bottom are where our oven and dishwasher will be. That's right, I said dishwasher. Since Joe and I have lived together, he has been the dishwasher. I promised him a long time ago that when we bought a house, I would buy him a brand new shiny dishwasher. I kept my word, and the dishwasher is in the dining room, waiting to be installed. Joe, say goodbye to dish pan hands!



Here's Joe, standing by our sink cabinet. The top of the front should have a little door that opens out with trays inside to hold sponges and stuff. Unfortunately, the screws holding it on weren't doing their jobs and we had to take that piece off so we can fix the holes that screws have to fit into.



I wish those loose screws were our biggest setback...

What you should see to Joe's left, I have cleverly cropped out. That's because there are no cabinets there. There was a measuring snafu between us and Home Depot and the cabinets we had for that space did not fit. Long story short, we have to reframe, re-sheetrock, re-prime, and re-paint the wall around the door that leads to the basement so it will add 3 inches to the wall that somehow became too short for the cabinets we already have.

Sigh. The adventures you face when remodeling your own house.

Setbacks and snafus aside, the kitchen is finally coming together. There is still molding to be installed, not to mention many shiny handles. Then we have to get the countertop installed. We have ordered a sparkly blue Silestone countertop and included in the price is installation. A break for us. :)

Somewhere in there we also have to tile the floor and purchase new appliances.

But we'll get there. And I'll post pictures!