Wearing astigmatic correction glasses has helped a lot. Been gardening—time for the iris to be whacked down to 6″, so we can see other nice things in the gardens, and I pretty well filled the big green recycling bin all by myself. Jane’s been shoveling gravel and using it to fill the under-fence and under-gate gaps so that we can let the kittehs outside. Shu got his first harness-free tour of the new arrangement today and had a good time. Sei is more timid, but we’ll see if he can enjoy the sun too.
We’re getting our first day in the mid to high seventies, so the pond water will warm, and hopefully the fishes will really wake up, get to know us, and quit spooking.
I’m feeling well enough I’m actually going to drive myself to the store solo. I was able to demolish another huge iris clump this morning, plus shovel a couple of wheelbarrow-fuls of gravel, and the stretch feels good.
Had my Logitech headphones die on me—online gaming just doesn’t work well without them; so we went out and got a set of another brand: Corsair, Void model. I’m kitted up so it looks like I’m ready for a fighter-jet, but, hey, it does deliver nice sound. And has a good review. I have had the old headset fail so often it’s been a real frustration, but we did well last night.
We are also calling in a carpenter to assess the long-promised kitchen redo. Our kitchen has been a frustration to me, and I want some pull-out pan shelves and lid racks, and a kitchen floor that’s not white and doesn’t have warped boards. All our cabinets are recessed a good 3″ from the cabinet tops, and that’s wasted. Whether we’ll give up the soffit space above (and our Russian plate display) in favor of more storage, I don’t know, but we’ll consider it: storage in this kitchen—well, the basement serves, and we do have a little pantry, but I cook, as in, really cook, and cooking in this kitchen is sort of like camping minus the conveniences…
What online games do you play?
Guild Wars 2.
There’s no reason you can’t have upper upper cabinets where you now have soffit space, use them for storing the things you don’t need very often, and hang your Palekh-style plates from the doors. I got fed up with the soffit space in my kitchen that did nothing but attract greasy dust and in The Great Reno got upper cabinets that went clear to the ceiling. Just one set of doors in this case though.
If you are doing a full reno I’d also recommend at least some full-extension drawers rather than lower cabinets. (Unless you really love crawling around on your knees with your head in a cupboard)
Chuck (CWG)is our technical guy, who pulled us out after the Great Site Crash. He’s just given us deeper threads and color distinction for thread titles. And is looking into the functionality of the shopping cart (which is busted) on closed-circle. That will be working soon. If you see comments by him, they’re usually tests of the system. 😉
If you decide to free yourselves of the soffits, you might consider doors that open upwards with enough clearance from the ceiling for the plates and attaching the plates semi permanently with something like the flanges used to hang mirrors. That would give you lower top cabinets pretty much as is and accessible storage where the soffits are. I do like the idea of pull out bottom shelves on the lower cabinets and turntable corner cabinets as well.
Jane is a rare gem– I just got the copy of Convergence Friday and handed it off to its intended recipient on Saturday. He couldn’t wait to get it home and start reading. I wasn’t going to make him wait 6 months for his Christmas present. Thanks Jane!