Spent the later part of the morning finishing the kitchen with the help of my husband. We had a corner where we had stacked all the canned products...over 70 quarts of tomatoes, a BIG bucket (think feed trough size) of squash (winter) and 24 or so pints of dilly green beans. Anyway, we have a large walk in pantry where those are stored for winter use so he helped to move the heavy cases of filled jars. I climbed up on a chair and cleaned the ceiling fan, the tops of cupboards, washed down some beams, scrubbed the top of the woodstove, swept up random dust around the back of the woodstove, scrubbed the floor where the cases of veggies had been, ran some new rubbermaid through the dishwasher by itself, did some other dishes, through out our breadmaker which finally gave out after years of use, deconstructed a bouncy seat (saved the box so I packed it back up in the box) that I will either send on to Veronica if she can use it or add it to the yard sale pile for the spring and then Jeremiah woke up. At the moment, he's happily playing in his activity center and I am taking a break! There's a full size closet in my kitchen that is full of shelving. I'm going to get in that corner before the day is over and give it a good dusting over and perhaps make a curtain if time allows. If not, that's ok too. It's looking fantastic in here! While I was taking care of our son, Pete made lunch...grilled chicken breast, tomato slices from our garden, dilly green beans (that I made), bread that he made this morning and some cottage cheese...it was SO good! Thanks Love!!!!!!!!!!
   So....it's back to puttering for me. It's dark and cool out today...perfect for doing stuff around the house at a leisurely pace.

Michelle