The convection oven!!!

Finally! After 4 months in a box on the dining room floor the convection oven is finally installed above the range where it belongs. Yay! We hired a contractor to start doing some jobs...this being one of them. We joined Angie's List to find contractors after our first one was a bomb. So far, we have been very pleased. This one is a general contractor, Hire Her, Inc. The wall cabinets aren't as deep as newer ones...so the oven sticks out a little. He did a great job and then Gina got to reorganize the spices! (our cabinets are not this green looking!)

Sealing up the windows

Well until we get new windows, we need to seal up the drafty windows. We used Scotch window insulator kits. They are the plastic shrink material so there are really no wrinkles.  We used the outdoor kits for the kitchen and bathroom windows -- where we have blinds. Didn't realize it was going to be a daylong project.

Lodi, Mr. Helpful, stood guard.

Coy-tins paht two!

Yay! The living room curtains are done. We are really happy with the color. We got our fabric from www.fabricguru.com.  Was a good price and their website was fairly easy to sort and look through tons of fabric.

Gina in her Andy Spano shirt... our former County Exec who lost his last election.

Lodi, ever helpful. Needs to color coordinate his bed.

We have double rods and have hung the thermal curtains behind the new curtains. We plan on hanging sheers in the summer. These windows face north, but do get a lot of light reflecting off of the neighbors houses.  Gina did a great job. I was busy too...making fire roasted tomantillo salsa from the last of our farm share produce.

Coyt-ins!

Winter's coming and we need to get windows sealed up. We ordered some lovely plastic and some lovelier material. The curtain project is just beginning.... we are starting with the living room windows. Good thing the basement is huge to spread out!

this is the material... it is more subdued really.