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Have been busy trying to set up the new house. The kitchen floors are never clean.. product of the 3 dogs, 3 kids and life in the country.
Since the kitchen is clean now.. time to bake!
Cookies in the oven, about to start on the NY Style cheesecake.
btw: Lots of folks said "barrier island".. I totally get it.. but MAN have we enjoyed it. Yea, there are times you go "ung.. forgot to get 'x'.." but having tons of folks standing around it drinking wine and eating while we cook, totally worth it.
LOVE LOVE LOVE The Culinarian 48" stove!!
Trevor was awesome.. got me taken care of.. it cooks like a dream AND the "fan thing".. bah.. does not bother me in the slightest.
We added all the knobs etc ourselves.
OH! Go to http://www.crock-pot.com .. We have a 13yr old crock pot. The handle on the lid just fell off.. but 13 years.. ? right. I went online to find a new lid and they go, "how about we send you out a free crock pot? I told them they did not have to, but they did anyway.
SO.. I took my old lid and had a spare kitchen knob.. now I have THREE crock pots ;) (we had another small one too).
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7 years agoI have been mostly down from foot / ankle surgery in September, so every moment I get to move or do anything has been spent on the house. Now, I am finally getting to relax a little.. before the NEXT phase ;)
I could. The house stays dirty. I was waiting till after the next stage, which should be about a month or two. We are adding the barn, fence, and deck. Once the deck goes in, a lot of the dirt should stop.
It took a lot to get here and we did some stuff ourselves vs fighting with the person that made mistakes. Fortunately, the folks that built the house really did take care of us and were "johnny on the spot" to make sure we were taken care of and happy.
We made allowances on a few things, it helped us to get the next phase early. My mentality was, "I do not care if you fix it...but you have to change our thinking whenever we see it".. so, now.. or when the deck goes in, we will see it and go, "yea.. but look what we got for that..."
Funny thing was, the mess up was really not a huge deal and was in our favor, really.
The took 6" off the house. We kept trying to prove it to them, but it did not become obvious where it went till they got the last stages and found our "standard" stairs we actually custom, because they were framed up 6" too wide.. lol
Here is a picture of them:
Let me see what pictures I have. The house is still not "put together yet..we have wall speakers to install, etc.. but I am walking now (had surgery in September) so it is going faster AND we had a major amount of help from her parents.. great people.
I'll do a reveal in an hour or so, when the cheesecake gets turned off. Can't show ya that till tomorrow ;)
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